Trump mocks Nikki Haley's first name. It's his latest example of attacking rivals based on race
apnews.com
Donald Trump used his social media platform Friday to mock Nikki Haley ‘s birth name, the latest example of the former president keying on race and ethnicity to attack people of color, especially his political rivals.
In a post on his Truth Social account, Trump repeatedly referred to Haley, the daughter of immigrants from India, as “Nimbra.” Haley, the former South Carolina governor, was born in Bamberg, South Carolina, as Nimarata Nikki Randhawa. She has always gone by her middle name, “Nikki.” She took the surname “Haley” upon her marriage in 1996.
Trump, himself the son, grandson and twice the husband of immigrants, called Haley “Nimbra” three times in the post and said she “doesn’t have what it takes.”
That would be Nikki "The US has never been a racist country" Haley to you. Oh the irony.
Guy most popular with racists does something racist.
Says the guy named after a duck.
His name is slang for fart
That slang isn't well-known in America. I only know about it because he released a fragrance in the in UK around 2012 or so. So there was "trump means fart" as an explanation of why it didn't sell well.
Not that I doubt it, but it sounded like the chevy "nova" means "no go" and it didn't sell well in Mexico. That story is BS.
deleted by creator
Surely people haven't forgotten how he would (and still sometimes does) emphasize Barack Obama's middle name.
As a deranged Republican once said about Obama, "he's a Muslim...and an atheist".,
Nimbra? He really is stupid. Nimrod was right there... Nimrata "Nimrod" Haley. Would've probably had a whole news cycle devoted to it
I mean, Nimrat is even easier. I'm kinda surprised he didn't go with that and start comparing her face to a rat.
This guy likes to make fun of names but he married a Melania and named children Ivanka and Barron. They all sound foreign. He probably mocks their names their faces.
I've always thought of Barron like oil Baron.
Nah, those are white. He doesn't like brown people.
As he should.
I hope he goes full hog on attacking Indians and Hinduism, as that's a pretty important demographic for the GOP.
Be interesting to see how that would play out.
Indians and Hindus in the US are often Republicans?
They are not according to Pew (https://www.pewresearch.org/religion/religious-landscape-study/religious-tradition/hindu/#social-and-political-views). Also she is not Hindu.
Trump is constantly name calling his opponents. Why do they never call him names? Like call him Drumpf or senile or something? His followers love name-calling, so why not?
Donny diapers feelings would be hurt if he could read.
Are you talking about Donald Tiny Hands Trump?
Drumpf was never an effective insult. I can get behind bone spurs though.
Memorizing real arguments would be to strenous for his poor little brain. Racism comes to him naturally, though.
I said this in another thread the other day, but I'll reiterate it here...
All these idiot Republican presidential candidates who are twerking for Trump really don't get it. They think that they will win him over and curry his favor but fawning over him. But Trump already sees them as his enemies because they dared to enter the race in the first place. And if he gets into power they will be some if the first lined up against the proverbial wall.
This article is just more proof of that point.
Racism has been within Trump for a while now. What he did is no longer shocking.
Nimbra, LMAO
Get fucked Nikki. Eat shit and reap what you sow.
Nimbra is a funny sounding name tbh
Have we already forgotten Kimbra?!
People will become bored with the same old playbook, except for the cultists
Conservatives never get tired of jokes that punch down.
He can tell them the same joke over and over again. As long as the punchline demeans a vulnerable class in some way, they will cheer every time. That's just who conservatives are at their core.
This is the best summary I could come up with:
ATLANTA (AP) — Donald Trump used his social media platform Friday to mock Nikki Haley ‘s birth name, the latest example of the former president keying on race and ethnicity to attack people of color, especially his political rivals.
Trump’s post was an escalation of recent attacks in which he referenced Haley’s given first name — though he’s misspelled it “Nimrada” — and falsely asserted she is ineligible for the presidency because her parents were not U.S. citizens when she was born in 1972.
“I’ll let people decide what he means by his attacks,” Haley told reporters in New Hampshire on Friday when asked about Trump’s false assertions that her heritage disqualifies her from the Oval Office.
Pastor Darrell Scott, a Black man who has led a diversity coalition for Trump’s previous campaigns, defended the former president’s latest attacks as “slings and arrows” that come in election season.
Scott said Trump “has a compassionate side that most people don’t see” and defended his aggressive approach as a “goose-and-gander situation” for a public figure constantly “under attack for everything.”
“These are the rantings of an incredibly, almost pathetically insecure man who has demonstrated over his entire career his racism and bigotry,” said Setmayer, who is multiracial and calls herself a former Republican and now a conservative independent.
The original article contains 1,443 words, the summary contains 216 words. Saved 85%. I'm a bot and I'm open source!
This is lame. The only thing I enjoy about Trump is his weak ass attempts to come up with nicknames. You can’t just use someone’s real name.
To be clear, the nicknames themselves aren’t the funny part. Ron DeSanctimonious was so lame, I thought he’d lost his fastball. But then he came back with Meatball Ron and I was like, “Ah! Le mot juste!” They’re all so stupid that they’re unintentionally funny. “Low energy Jeb.” “Lying Ted.” “Sleepy Joe.” It’s like movies that are so bad, they become funny.
He actually got her name wrong, too. Or he can't spell Nimarata.
deleted by creator