{"id":77143,"date":"2026-04-24T09:36:23","date_gmt":"2026-04-24T00:36:23","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2026\/apr\/24\/india-trump-hellhole-post"},"modified":"2026-04-24T09:36:23","modified_gmt":"2026-04-24T00:36:23","slug":"india-voices-anger-after-trump-shares-comments-calling-it-a-hellhole","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/?p=77143","title":{"rendered":"India voices anger after Trump shares comments calling it a \u2018hellhole\u2019"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Foreign ministry says remarks of conservative podcast host Michael Savage that were shared by US president were \u2018obviously uninformed, inappropriate and in poor taste\u2019<\/p>\n<p>India on Thursday criticised as inappropriate a post by Donald Trump in which he shared comments that called the South Asian country a \u201chellhole\u201d.<\/p>\n<p>The inflammatory post on Truth Social comes ahead of a planned visit next month to <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/india\">India<\/a> by the US secretary of state, Marco Rubio, who is seeking to ease recent tensions between the normally friendly powers.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2026\/apr\/24\/india-trump-hellhole-post\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Foreign ministry says remarks of conservative podcast host Michael Savage that were shared by US president were \u2018obviously uninformed, inappropriate and in poor taste\u2019India on Thursday criticised as inappropriate a post by Donald Trump in which he shar&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":206,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"sns_share_botton_hide":"","vkExUnit_sns_title":"","_vk_print_noindex":"","sitemap_hide":"","_veu_custom_css":"","veu_display_promotion_alert":"","vkexunit_cta_each_option":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[415,62,1541,491,61,554],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-77143","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-donald-trump","category-india","category-marco-rubio","category-migration","category-south-and-central-asia","category-trump-administration"],"veu_head_title_object":{"title":"","add_site_title":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/77143","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/206"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=77143"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/77143\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":77154,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/77143\/revisions\/77154"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=77143"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=77143"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=77143"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}