WaPo: Trump Mimics Indian PM’s Accent When Discussing Afghan Policy

(L to R) India's Prime Minister Narendra Modi, US President Donald Trump and Indonesia's President Joko Widodo talk ahead the third working session "Partnership with Africa" on the second day of the G20 Summit in Ham... (L to R) India's Prime Minister Narendra Modi, US President Donald Trump and Indonesia's President Joko Widodo talk ahead the third working session "Partnership with Africa" on the second day of the G20 Summit in Hamburg, Germany, July 8, 2017. Leaders of the world's top economies gather from July 7 to 8, 2017 in Germany for likely the stormiest G20 summit in years, with disagreements ranging from wars to climate change and global trade. / AFP PHOTO / John MACDOUGALL (Photo credit should read JOHN MACDOUGALL/AFP/Getty Images) MORE LESS
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President Donald Trump mimics Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s accent when discussing the deployment of U.S. military resources in Afghanistan, the Washington Post reported on Sunday.

The Washington Post reported, citing unnamed senior administration officials, that Trump “has been known” to imitate an Indian accent and refer to Modi’s remark during a meeting last year that no country has ever “given so much away for so little in return” as the United States has with regard to Afghanistan.

The White House did not immediately respond to TPM’s questions about why Trump might feel the need to imitate Modi’s accent during discussions of unrelated policy.

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  1. Why does he do it? Unmitigated arrogance and the conviction that he is smarter than the rest of the world put together.

    Despite all evidence to the contrary.

  2. The White House did not immediately respond to TPM’s questions about why Trump might feel the need to imitate Modi’s accent during discussions of unrelated policy.

    
    I can recommend a good book that might lead them to some answers.
    
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  3. The White House did not immediately respond to TPM’s questions about why Trump might feel the need to imitate Modi’s accent during discussions of unrelated policy.

    Because he is a fucking idiot, that’s why.

  4. Every day. Every. single. day. It’s another humiliation, another bit of degradation in our international standing.

    Every day.

    And, of course, Rump’s band of merry degenerates will chortle and snicker about how their leader shows all lower life forms who’s who in this world.

    No, I don’t think this country will survive this. By the time we get to 2020, there wont be much that Dems can do to clean this up.

  5. The Washington Post reported, citing unnamed senior administration officials, that Trump “has been known” to imitate an Indian accent…

    Unsurprising But Insane - it should be on our money by now.

    Okay, I think Durbin had a decent tactical argument for leaking “shithole,” but why the fuck would someone in the Administration want to kick us in the nuts with India this way???

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