India on Thursday criticised as inappropriate a post by Donald Trump in which he shared comments that called the South Asian country a “hellhole”.

The inflammatory post on Truth Social comes ahead of a planned visit next month to India by the US secretary of state, Marco Rubio, who is seeking to ease recent tensions between the normally friendly powers.

On Wednesday Trump posted a 4-page screed – apparently a transcription of remarks from conservative podcast host Michael Savage – that denounced the US constitutional right to citizenship of everyone born in the country.

Without evidence, the post accused Indian immigrants in the tech industry of not hiring white native-born Americans and inaccurately alleged that Indian immigrants lack English proficiency. Trump also posted a video of Savage delivering those comments to his podcast audience.

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    Allways remember that the USA was the only a place the top gear crew was physically assaulted and hunted

    Edit: i stand corrected

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    A hellhole is this goddamn country where my elderly parents have to drive for DoorDash, in a car I’ve ‘lent’ them, or face homelessness.

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    According to “Monkey see, monkey do”, turns out that USA is a hellhole. And yes, Donald Trump is a fucking monkey-brain.

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    Talk about calling the kettle black.

    India is a shitty country that has religious idiots, poor safety standards, garbage infrastructure, serious pollution problems, and overbearing leadership.

    America has religious idiots, garbage infrastructure, murderous police, and rights-stripping leadership trending toward fascist.

    There are differences, but both countries are shitholes in different ways.

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    Our leadership is so cucked they wont say a single word against trump himself

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    In all fairness, he calls all other countries “hellholes” or “shitholes”.

    But if you think everyone else is an asshole, then you’re the asshole.

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    It only cost the livelihood of 260 million people, but the ISI has successfully joined hands with Mossad to put Trump on their payroll. And only for the purpose of publicly demeaning India /s

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      Surprisingly, no payroll was even needed this time. All it took was either a look at the H1b program, or a visit to social media.

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    Trump has been on TikTok recently, then? Against the better wishes of his own cybersecurity analysts?

    Trump was never a man known for sharing hard truths, but in all fairness…

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        Both sides are abusing it. The American business owners are abusing it and harming everyone in the process. And immigrants are abusing it for the benefits it provides.

        It takes two to tango. If Indians weren’t so willing to abuse it then corpos wouldn’t have any to abuse and wouldn’t be able to take advantage of it. If corpos weren’t so keen on abusing it then Indians wouldn’t have it as in option in the first place.

        Life isn’t fair, but it’s also bullshit to dismiss one side because the other is worse. When both are problematic.

        Those who come here on the visas would get a pass if they were being forced to take them. But they arnt slaves. They willingly aid and assist the corpos.

        While I can respect it may be a massive improvement in their life quality. I still find zero reason to excuse someone for helping a shitty system that causes harm to everyone involved at the benefit to the ones causing the harm.