You like Trump... trampling on Nikki?
election politics, what stands between Donald Trump's Second Gig at the big white house with pillars in Washington and him opening skilling centres in Maga-rage is the last non-Don Republican standing: Nikki Haley. By the time you are reading this, New Hampshire will have conducted its first Republican primary to make its choice of whom to send as proto-Potus.
Haley is likely to not win (in Trumpspeak: LOSE!). But what should raise the eyebrows of those following the race here from India — especially those who have a thing for the muscular, spittle-flying art of The Trumpoline — is the way the former president has been attacking someone we have been following with extra attention from this side of the Potomac for being of Indian-origin.
Haley, of late, has been questioning Trump's mental fitness to be leader of the free world, accusing him of being buddies with autocrats, Vladimir P being such a specimen.
But Trump has gone guttural, not only wrongly questioning Haley's eligibility to run for president for not having parents who were US citizens when she was born — untrue — but also mocking her name Nimarata by misspelling and refusing to use her middle name that she prefers: Nikki. Hints of racism or tactical 'everything is allowed in politics'? You decide.
