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Botany

(75,724 posts)
Wed Oct 29, 2025, 10:01 AM Wednesday

Trump uses fake Indian accent to impersonate India's leader in rambling speech to Korean delegation

Take the keys from Granddad time.




President Donald Trump slipped into an impersonation of Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s accent on the latest leg of his week-long tour of Asia, as he praised the strongman leader for being “tough as hell.”

Speaking at the Asia-Pacific Economic Cooperation summit in Gyeongju, South Korea, on Wednesday, following on from his appearances in Malaysia and Japan, the president reflected on India exchanging fire with neighboring Pakistan earlier this year in a four-day conflict that threatened to spiral into full blown war between the two nuclear powers.

“I’ll tell you what, Prime Minister Modi is the nicest looking guy,” Trump said of his Indian counterpart: He’s… oh, you’d like to have your father like that.”

But, the president continued: “He’s a killer! He’s tough as hell!” He then launched into an insensitive imitation of Modi, declaring in a booming voice: “No, we will fight.

https://ca.news.yahoo.com/trump-uses-fake-indian-accent-120314059.html

I would post the clip but I won’t.



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Trump uses fake Indian accent to impersonate India's leader in rambling speech to Korean delegation (Original Post) Botany Wednesday OP
I read the article and Playingmantis Wednesday #1
And both the leaders of India and Pakistan said Trump had nothing to do with the cease fire. Botany Wednesday #3
And he's been trotting out offensive Korean and Japanese accents for some time. tanyev Wednesday #2
He was praising the leader of N. Korea Kim Jung Un in S. Korea? Botany Wednesday #5
He saved "millions and millions of lives" dalton99a Wednesday #4

Botany

(75,724 posts)
3. And both the leaders of India and Pakistan said Trump had nothing to do with the cease fire.
Wed Oct 29, 2025, 10:35 AM
Wednesday

His attacks on Joe Biden says more about him then Joe Biden.

tanyev

(48,187 posts)
2. And he's been trotting out offensive Korean and Japanese accents for some time.
Wed Oct 29, 2025, 10:31 AM
Wednesday
Trump cracks jokes about Equinox scandal, kamikaze pilots at Hamptons fundraiser
By Jennifer Gould and Emily Smith
Published Aug. 9, 2019
Updated Aug. 12, 2019, 10:44 a.m. ET

Talking about South Korea, Trump said it makes great TVs and has a thriving economy, “So why are we paying for their defense. They’ve got to pay.” He then mimicked the accent of the leader Moon Jae-in while describing how he caved in to Trump’s tough negotiations.

On his remarkable friendship with North Korean leader Kim Jong Un, “I just got a beautiful letter from him this week. We are friends. People say he only smiles when he sees me.

“If I hadn’t been elected president, we would be in a big, fat, juicy war with North Korea.“

Turning to Japan, Trump then put on a fake Japanese accent to recount his conversations with Shinzo Abe over their conversations over trade tariffs.

https://nypost.com/2019/08/09/trump-cracks-jokes-about-rent-control-kamikaze-pilots-at-hamptons-fundraiser/?utm_source=twitter_sitebuttons&utm_medium=site%20buttons&utm_campaign=site%20buttons

Botany

(75,724 posts)
5. He was praising the leader of N. Korea Kim Jung Un in S. Korea?
Wed Oct 29, 2025, 10:38 AM
Wednesday

Take the keys from gramp pops.

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