Washington.New Delhi, April 23 – After US President Donald Trump shared an anti-India rant on social media, calling India and China as “hell-holes”, the Ministry of External Affairs said it had “seen some reports”.
“We have seen some reports. That’s where I will leave it,” MEA spokesperson Randhir Jaiswal said.
Jaiswal’s response comes hours after Trump shared a letter posted by conservative commentator Michael Savage’s podcast Savage Nation. Slamming the automatic citizenship for children born in the US, he wrote in the letter: “A baby here becomes an instant citizen, and then they bring in their entire family from China, or India, or some other hell-hole on the planet.”
Hours later, Iran slammed Trump while caling India and China “cradles of civilisation”. “China and India are the cradles of civilisation. In fact, the hellhole is where its war-criminal president threatened to decimate civilisation in Iran,” the Iranian Embassy in Hyderabad wrote on X.
Earlier, former US ambassador to Japan and potential Democratic candidate for the 2028 presidential run, slammed the Trump administration for its treatment of India for “literally spitting on their face.”
“America has literally spit in India’s face under the Trump administration. Bringing India closer to the US has been a 30-year project for every US president. I would not do what Trump has done,” Rahm Emanuel said, while speaking at the Harvard Kennedy School.
Meanwhile, US ambassador to India, Sergio Gor, said he discussed “strong future of India-US ties” during a dinner with Trump. “Productive meeting with Secretary Howard Lutnick on the US-India commercial roadmap. We discussed a new MoU connecting India’s AI scale with the American AI ecosystem, strong Indian participation at the upcoming Select USA Summit, and growing Indian pharma investment in the United States to boost competition and strengthen supply chains,” he posted on social media.
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