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.
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!
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.
I wouldn’t give him grapes from my lemonade stand.
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.
And he waddles around shitting on everything.
His beak is pretty orange.
Can we throw stale bread at him?
Hey I’m not going to try to tell you how to live your life and what you can and can’t throw at former presidents of the USA who may or may not be ducks.
So she changed her first name? The wording is rather ambiguous
She did what lots of people do and used their middle name as their first. I would bet that it’s always been her main name, easier to use Nikki over Nimarata
This is the best summary I could come up with:
Haley is the daughter of Indian immigrants and was born Nimarata Nikki Randhawa.
“Anyone listening to Nikki ‘Nimrada’ Haley’s wacked out speech last night, would think that she won the Iowa Primary.
She didn’t, and she couldn’t even beat a very flawed Ron DeSanctimonious, who’s out of money, and out of hope,” Trump posted on Truth Social.
Trump also recently amplified a post that falsely claimed Haley was ineligible to run for president because her parents were not US citizens at the time of her birth.
Trump was a chief promoter of the racist lie that Obama was not born in the US and ineligible to be president.
Vivek Ramaswamy, who dropped out of the GOP presidential race on Monday and endorsed Trump, has also tried to attack Haley over her given name.
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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.
and to nimrod
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.
Not a surprise knowing Trump.
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?
Shocker: He’s a racist.
Right after Haley denied America was a racist country too. Womp-womp.
He’s obviously racist, but I don’t think this has anything to do with race. He is clearly making an elementary school level joke by working the word nimrod into her name, as they begin with the same syllable.
Conservatives seem to love doing this to people they dislike, seemingly because they aren’t smart enough to come up with actual attacks based on facts and logic.
That’s not what he’s doing. He’s trying to highlight the fact that she isn’t white to his audience, who would be less likely to support a non-white candidate. This may even force her to comment on the issue, and whichever way she answers would decrease her chances of being selected as front-runner even further.
Yeah it’s like the Desanctimonious thing.
Though you get it from the left too when you see people referring to Trump by his ancestral name Drumpf.
She gets what she deserves.
Damn that seems to be unusual lately.
Racists rarely seem to know what racism is. They think if you’re not owning slaves you can’t possibly be racist. I guess they think it is simply a fact that some groups of people are better than others. Makes me want to slap the everliving shit out of each and every one of them.
This is, in a sick and twisted way, the perfect response to her recent racism statement.
Whatever, Donald Drumpf.
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.
lol I knew this was coming - Trump was always gonna go there at some point. It was only ever a matter of when.
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.
When life becomes B roll for Idiocracy
“I’ll show you that the US is a racist country!”
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
