NEW DELHI ,24 April 2026 : Iran has mocked US President Donald Trump after he shared a social media post referring to India and China as “hellholes” while calling for changes in America’s birth right citizenship laws.
Taking to X, Iran’s Consulate General in Mumbai shared a video documenting Maharashtra’s rich cultural and geographical heritage and claimed a trip to the state could be a ‘cultural detox’ for the US leader.
“Maybe someone should book a one-way cultural detox for Mr Trump, it might just reduce the random bakwaas,” the consulate wrote in the post.
“Kabhi India aa ke dekho, phir bolna,” it added.
The controversy erupted after Trump reposted American political commentator and radio host Michael Savage’s podcast, where he referred to India, China and other nations as “hell-holes”. In his racist rant calling for changes in the United States’ birthright citizenship law, Savage alleged that people from the two Asian nations come to the US to “drop a baby in the ninth month”, and the law turns them into “instant” US citizens.
The conservative leader described Indian and Chinese immigrants as “gangsters with laptops” who have “stepped on our flag”.
Trump’s reporting of the remarks was seen as his endorsement of Savage’s derogatory remarks.
India’s Reaction
India condemned the remarks, calling them “uninformed, inappropriate and in poor taste”. Without directly mentioning Trump, the Ministry of External Affairs (MEA) in a statement said the remarks “certainly do not reflect the reality of the India-US relationship, which has long been based on mutual respect and shared interests.”
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