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.

  • @doublejay1999@lemmy.world
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    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.

    • @Eldritch@lemmy.world
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      110 months ago

      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?

  • Flying Squid
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    Shocker: He’s a racist.

    Right after Haley denied America was a racist country too. Womp-womp.

    • @agent_flounder@lemmy.world
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      1910 months ago

      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.

    • @ji17br@lemmy.ml
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      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.

      • @jaybone@lemmy.world
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        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.

      • @dlpkl@lemmy.world
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        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.

  • BarrierWithAshes
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    5210 months ago

    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.

  • @birthday_attack@lemm.ee
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    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.

  • @usualsuspect191@lemmy.ca
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    He didn’t misspell her name, he was making a portmanteau with “Nimarata” and “Nimrod” because it’s always playground insults with this guy

    • @ripcord@lemmy.world
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      Random little-known fact: “Nimrod” only became an insult due to a Bugs Bunny cartoon. Nimrod was a hunter. Bugs happens to sarcastically call Elmer “Nimrod” as just a reference. People started interpreting it as an insult, or word for someone stupid.

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        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.

  • @PrincessLeiasCat@sh.itjust.works
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    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.

  • @Buddahriffic@lemmy.world
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    2110 months ago

    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.

    • katy ✨
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      “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

  • @Pacmanlives@lemmy.world
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    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

  • @Son_of_dad@lemmy.world
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    I’m not an American, didn’t even realize she wasn’t white, she seems to do everything possible to hide it