US President Donald Trump reposted a post on social media which has started a controversy in India. In the post, India, China and some other countries were called ‘hell-like places’, to which India has expressed strong objection. India has said that such things are inappropriate and vulgar.
Amid growing protests in India, the US Embassy on Thursday tried to handle the matter and said that the US President considers India a ‘great country’ which is led by his ‘very good friend’ (Prime Minister Narendra Modi) is in the hands of.
A US Embassy spokesperson said, ‘The President has said that India is a great country, whose leaders are my very good friends.’
What did Trump post that the embassy had to defend?
This statement from the American Embassy has come in response to the questions of the Indian media. The questions were asked about the controversy that arose after Trump reposted radio show host Michael Savage’s social media comments. Savage had called India, China and some other countries ‘hell-like places’.
However, the spokesperson did not clarify when and where Trump had made the comment calling India a great country.
Savage made this comment America This was in the context of a case challenging birthright citizenship in the Supreme Court.
Trump shared the statement of Michael Savage, which reads, ‘Here (in America), a child immediately becomes a citizen and then he brings an entire family from China or India or any other hell in the world. You don’t need to go very far to understand this, in fact, because of this, English is not even spoken in America anymore.
India’s strong reaction to Trump’s repost
When India’s Foreign Ministry spokesperson Randhir Jaiswal was questioned on this controversy, he said in the weekly press conference, ‘We have seen some reports. That’s all I will say.
After this, in a post on the social media platform X, he wrote, ‘We have seen those comments and have also seen the US Embassy’s reaction to it. These comments are clearly uninformed, inappropriate and vulgar. This is not the reality of India-US relations. Our relations have long been based on mutual respect and common interests.
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