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Jilly_in_VA

(14,624 posts)
Fri Sep 5, 2025, 06:14 PM Sep 2025

MAGA world goes after Indian Americans again, attacking a key Trump voting bloc

Indians in the U.S. are in the crosshairs of Trump-loving extremists yet again amid the president’s falling-out with Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi.

Indian Americans were key to Donald Trump’s electoral victory last year, but the relationship between some conservative Indian Americans and MAGA proved tenuous earlier this year as extremists fueled a backlash over Indian immigrants coming to the U.S. on H-1B visas.

My colleague Steve Benen recently covered how Trump’s haphazard tariff war (which a federal court recently ruled illegal) has pushed Modi, a former Trump ally, and his country closer to China and Russia. And MAGA influencers have responded to this with unabashed xenophobia.

“Enough already. We’re full,” Trump whisperer Charlie Kirk posted to X, promoting Fox News host Laura Ingraham’s opposition to any trade deal that allows more immigration from India. Kirk’s post earned condemnation from various MAGA-adjacent Indian Americans on social media, though his comment was merely a sample of the movement’s increasingly anti-Indian invective online in recent weeks (other examples include right-wing activist Jack Posobiec and influencer Lilly Gaddis

https://www.msnbc.com/top-stories/latest/indian-americans-trump-narendra-modi-rcna229150

They do know Shady's wife is Indian, right? Oh, wait, they probably haven't seen her. Shady keeps her out of the picture.

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MAGA world goes after Indian Americans again, attacking a key Trump voting bloc (Original Post) Jilly_in_VA Sep 2025 OP
And they didn't think white Trumpmerica would turn on them paleotn Sep 2025 #1
How does the old saying go? Queso Delicioso Sep 2025 #2
Multitasking OC375 Sep 2025 #3

paleotn

(22,747 posts)
1. And they didn't think white Trumpmerica would turn on them
Fri Sep 5, 2025, 06:19 PM
Sep 2025

Last edited Fri Sep 5, 2025, 08:18 PM - Edit history (1)

at the drop of a hat? I’m not sure who are the bigger fools.

OC375

(1,107 posts)
3. Multitasking
Fri Sep 5, 2025, 06:36 PM
Sep 2025

It's possible to not hate Indian-Americans while also being opposed to the H1B visa program as it has been run. They seems to be able to get stuff wrong, eben when pointed in the right direction.

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