Former President Donald Trump on Tuesday went after Nikki Haley while referring to her by her first name, Nimarata, in the latest example of Trump using racist dog whistles to attack his GOP presidential rival.
Haley is the daughter of Indian immigrants and was born Nimarata Nikki Randhawa. She took her husband Michael Haley’s last name after they married.
Trump misspelled Nimarata as “Nimrada” as he attacked her in a new post on his social media platform Truth Social.
Daughter of immigrants running on an anti immigration ticket.
She’s toast and I can’t wait. Love to see these death cultists eat each other.
What I can’t figure out is why half of her voters said that if she dropped out . They’d vote for Trump or Biden. Trump, I understand, but how Biden?
This is, in a sick and twisted way, the perfect response to her recent racism statement.
Well it worked with Ramaswamy. Saw an article yesterday of an Iowan voter who said he wouldn’t support him because he hasn’t forgiven them for 9/11.
CORRECTION: This story has been updated with the correct spelling of Nikki Haley’s first name.
Oh man, the CNN reporter just assumed Trump spelled it correctly and wrote the whole article while using a misspelled version of her name. As embarrassing as that should be for Trump, it’s almost on brand for him at this point. The reporter could have at least pulled up her Wikipedia article to double check the spelling, like come on.
The archive link with the original misspellings. It’s exactly as you said lol
He didn’t misspell her name, he was making a portmanteau with “Nimarata” and “Nimrod” because it’s always playground insults with this guy
Random little-known fact: “Nimrod” only became an insult due to a Daffy Duck cartoon. Nimrod was a mythical hunter. Daffy happens to sarcastically call Elmer “Nimrod” as just a reference. People started interpreting it as an insult, or word for someone stupid.
You know it’s funny, I was about to correct you and say Bugs made the joke, not Daffy, but I looked it up.
It’s widely reported that during a cartoon short titled “A Wild Hare,” a wise-cracking rabbit named Bugs Bunny called his nemesis Elmer Fudd a “poor little nimrod,” a sarcastic reference to Fudd’s skills as a hunter. Whether Bugs actually said it or it was Daffy Duck who called Fudd a “nimrod” is debatable. Bugs would get credit (it was after all a Bugs Bunny cartoon).
More reading on that for anyone interested.
it’s also my favourite green day album.
Ted Cruz’s first name is Rafael (but it didn’t stop him from going after the more Hispanic-sounding nickname of Beto).
Bobby Jindal’s first name is Piyush.
It’s almost like the racism in the GOP causes GOP politicians to anglicize themselves in order to fit in, but they still get mocked for doing so and/or mock others if they have a less “American” sounding nickname.
This shows that they don’t fit in, not really when it comes down to it. But they still stay in their horrible party and take it. And the fact that Haley is a woman is another strike against her in that club….yet she still considers herself a member of the club.
During and not long after WWI, some states banned languages other than English. Louisiana even amended their state constitution to ban French in public schools…even though it was a first language for many of the children. It was under the guise of patriotism, but let’s be honest.
Just shitty people all around.
Yes he’s racist, but I think he was going for nimrod this time, he’s also a child
This is an insult to children.
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Who was a mighty hunter until Daffy Duck made a biblical allusion which went over the heads of the children watching.
Most of the adults, too
Yeah! Thanks for sticking up for me, stranger.
You don’t see many people talking about how Trump has a duck’s name. He’s named like a duck, rapes like a duck, hasn’t ever officially gone on the record to say he isn’t a duck… Just something to think about.
He doesn’t like being called Donald. You can imagine how much it pissed him off when that’s the only way Hilary Clinton would refer to him.
I wouldn’t give him grapes from my lemonade stand.
And he waddles around shitting on everything.
His beak is pretty orange.
Can we throw stale bread at him?
“I’ll show you that the US is a racist country!”
From The Hill earlier this week:
Republican presidential candidate Nikki Haley said Tuesday that the United States has never been a “racist” country, rejecting a suggestion that she might have trouble becoming the GOP presidential nominee as a woman of color.
In an interview on “Fox & Friends,” co-host Brian Kilmeade asked Haley whether she thinks the GOP is a “racist party.”
“No. We’re not a racist country, Brian. We’ve never been a racist country,” Haley said in response.
. . . Drawing on her experience as “a brown girl that grew up in a small rural town in South Carolina,” Haley said she has experienced racism in the past but doesn’t want to raise her children to think they’re disadvantaged — a point she’s made before.
“I know, I faced racism when I was growing up. But I can tell you, today is a lot better than it was then,” Haley said.
Lol, okay. This is what it’s down to in US politics today:
White racist runs for office on openly racist platform, non-white racist (!!!) denies racism even exists so as to crack racist’s platform and gain an edge for herself after years of downplaying her own non-white ethnicity, white racist then triples down by attacking non-white racist via old-school racist method (deliberately calling someone by their “ethnic” name while being absolutely sure to get it wrong).
Jesus fucking christ. Like there was EVER any other way this was going to play out. And now that he’s started the audible dogwhistling and called open season on her, it will only get worse.
My guess is that she’ll drop out in under 60 days, probably in under 30, because he has now sicced his most rabid followers on her AND done so specifically by engaging their racism. The party she’s running to represent is now fully Trump’s own personality cult, which means she will get ZERO help from the GOP, and all the misogynists among them will be glad he’s clearing her out anyway.
If Tim Scott hadn’t dropped out he’d have gotten this as well. Good thing he’s got that girlfriend up in Canada to help him get through it, lol. And of course that other non-white racist, Vivek Ramaswamy: he would have been next up. (Whatever the GOP is, it is NOT the party of “Be yourself and shine,” lol.)
“the us has never been a racist country”, says woman who had to be pushed into taking down the confederate flag at her statehouse only after dylann roof murdered nine people at the oldest black church in south carolina
Good catch, I’d forgotten about that. She’s always been willing to turn a blind eye to it as long as she wasn’t on the receiving end.
I think Nimarata sounds like a pretty cool name.
It is. I wonder if she can imagine a world where 99% of people think so, too. It almost seems like she is hiding her heritage but who knows. Man if everyone was just named John and Jennifer that would be boring af. Why can’t we all appreciate differences instead of fearing and hating? Ugh.
Yet she’s ashamed of it and her roots, since she calls herself Nikki and pretend to be white
Never heard of a nimrod? Lmfao
Read up a bit about what makes this “nimrod” an insult to begin with. You may be surprised
That’s a different word.
Whatever, Donald Drumpf.
Just wait, checks notes ah yes. “I don’t think she is an American with that name and I need to see her birth certificate.” - Trump
Thanks Obama
I have been waiting for this to be used. Same trope that was used before
I’m not an American, didn’t even realize she wasn’t white, she seems to do everything possible to hide it
Which is weird, given that it’s totally not a racist country… /s
Boom!
It always makes me laugh that he constantly attacks everyone and calls everyone names, but when someone doesn’t do something he wants, that person is a “nasty person” and a “anti Trump”. He’s the meanest bully on this planet.
that person is a “nasty person”
Projection. Convicted Sex Offender Treason Trump is well aware that anybody could truthfully call him that.
