Indian-Origin Leader Vivek Ramaswamy Faces Hate For Celebrating July 4
Indian-origin Republican leader Vivek Ramaswamy has time and again faced racist and anti-immigrant comments on social media. His social media posts with family pictures have mostly faced attacks, with users frequently mocking his ethnicity and asking him to go back to India. A similar instance recently took place after the politician shared a family picture on X, extending his wishes on July 4, aka the US Independence Day. 'The little guys get bigger every year. Happy Fourth!" Ramaswami wrote in his caption.
The post drew strong reactions from online users, who asked him to go back to India and celebrate in Mumbai and Gujarat. A few others questioned what he had to do with the American Independence Day.
The little guys get bigger every year. Happy Fourth! pic.twitter.com/IyfVeLewjx — Vivek Ramaswamy (@VivekGRamaswamy) July 4, 2025
A user wrote, 'I wonder if any of your family or friends will get deported under Trump's regime? Maybe your wife will leave you if her family members get deported," while another added, 'The only Americans we can see are the kids sitting behind."
A user aimed a sharp response and wrote, 'You're NOT an Ethnic American. Go back to India," while one suggested, 'You should celebrate with your family in Gujarat or Mumbai."
The attacks didn't just end here, as similar comments flooded the post, with one of them reading, 'You are not American. Just perpetuating the replacement of Americans. It's also called Independence Day. Something you or your ancestors had absolutely nothing to do with."
The renewed heat towards the Indian-origin politician comes at a time when President Donald Trump has ended birthright citizenship in the country. While the US has given automatic citizenship to anyone born in the country, Trump intends to change the rule.
Earlier in June, Ramaswamy was bombarded with racist and anti-immigrant comments after posting a picture with his kids. A politician was closely aligned with the MAGA movement until Christmas 2024, when he criticised American culture, further reaffirming his support for the H-1B visa program. At that time, he was also serving as a co-chief of Elon Musk's Department of Government Efficiency.
Hashtags
Try Our AI Features
Explore what Daily8 AI can do for you:
Comments
No comments yet...
Related Articles
Economic Times
25 minutes ago
- Economic Times
Mass job cuts, layoffs soon in U.S? Check who will be fired?
Tired of too many ads? Remove Ads Tired of too many ads? Remove Ads Tired of too many ads? Remove Ads FAQs U.S. Supreme Court cleared the way on Tuesday for President Donald Trump's administration to resume carrying out mass job cuts and the restructuring of agencies, elements of his campaign to downsize and reshape the federal government. The justices lifted San Francisco-based U.S. District Judge Susan Illston's May 22 order that had blocked large-scale federal layoffs called "reductions in force" affecting potentially hundreds of thousands of jobs, while litigation in the case proceeds. Trump in February announced "a critical transformation of the federal bureaucracy" in an executive order directing agencies to prepare for a government overhaul aimed at significantly reducing the federal workforce and gutting offices and programs opposed by the administration. Workforce reductions were planned at the U.S. Departments of Agriculture, Commerce, Health and Human Services, State, Treasury, Veterans Affairs and more than a dozen other wrote in her ruling that Trump had exceeded his authority in ordering the downsizing, siding with a group of unions, non-profits and local governments that challenged the administration. "As history demonstrates, the president may broadly restructure federal agencies only when authorized by Congress," Illston judge blocked the agencies from carrying out mass layoffs and limited their ability to cut or overhaul federal programs. Illston also ordered the reinstatement of workers who had lost their jobs, though she delayed implementing this portion of her ruling while the appeals process plays ruling was the broadest of its kind against the government overhaul being pursued by Trump and the Department of Government Efficiency, a key player in the Republican president's drive to slash the federal spearheaded by billionaire Elon Musk, DOGE has sought to eliminate federal jobs, shrink and reshape the U.S. government and root out what they see as wasteful spending. Musk formally ended his government work on May 30 and subsequently had a public falling out with San Francisco-based 9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals in a 2-1 ruling on May 30 denied the administration's request to halt the judge's 9th Circuit said the administration had not shown that it would suffer an irreparable injury if the judge's order remained in place and that the plaintiffs were likely to prevail in their lawsuit."The executive order at issue here far exceeds the president's supervisory powers under the Constitution," the 9th Circuit wrote, calling the administration's actions "an unprecedented attempted restructuring of the federal government and its operations."The 9th Circuit's ruling prompted the Justice Department's June 2 emergency request to the Supreme Court to halt Illston's the personnel of federal agencies "lies at the heartland" of the president's executive branch authority, the Justice Department said in its filing to the Supreme Court."The Constitution does not erect a presumption against presidential control of agency staffing, and the president does not need special permission from Congress to exercise core Article II powers," the filing said, referring to the constitution's section delineating presidential plaintiffs urged the Supreme Court to deny the Justice Department's request. Allowing the Trump administration to move forward with its "breakneck reorganization," they wrote, would mean that "programs, offices and functions across the federal government will be abolished, agencies will be radically downsized from what Congress authorized, critical government services will be lost and hundreds of thousands of federal employees will lose their jobs."The Supreme Court in recent months has sided with Trump in some major cases that were acted upon on an emergency basis since he returned to office in cleared the way for Trump's administration to resume deporting migrants to countries other than their own without offering them a chance to show the harms they could face. In two cases, it let the administration end temporary legal status previously granted on humanitarian grounds to hundreds of thousands of also allowed Trump to implement his ban on transgender people in the U.S. military, blocked a judge's order for the administration to rehire thousands of fired employees and twice sided with his Department of Government Efficiency.A1. The full form of DOGE is Department of Government Efficiency.A2. President of USA is Donald Trump.
News18
37 minutes ago
- News18
Doanld Trump Threatens 10% Tariffs on BRICS Countries: Dollar Defense & Iran Message News18
In a joint statement after the Brasil summit, BRICS leaders, including Prime Minister Narendra Modi, warned of "the rise of unilateral tariff and non-tariff measures which distort trade and are inconsistent with WTO rules".Round 2 of Donald Trump vs the BRICS bloc began this week after the United States President announced an additional 10 per cent tariff on countries aligning with the group's "Anti-American policies". "There will be no exceptions..." Trump said Sunday night on Truth President did not say what these 'anti-American policies' are or specify which of the group's policies he referring to, although six months ago he did threaten the group with 100 per cent tariffs if they attempted to replace the US dollar as the dominant currency for international trade. News18 Mobile App -
The Hindu
39 minutes ago
- The Hindu
U.S. Supreme Court clears way for Trump's plans to downsize federal workforce
The Supreme Court on Tuesday (July 8, 2025) cleared the way for President Donald Trump's plans to downsize the federal workforce despite warnings that critical government services will be lost and hundreds of thousands of federal employees will be out of their jobs. The Justices overrode lower court orders that temporarily froze the cuts, which have been led by the Department of Government Efficiency. The Court said in an unsigned order that no specific cuts were in front of the justices, only an executive order issued by Mr. Trump and an administration directive for agencies to undertake job reductions. Justice Ketanji Brown Jackson was the only dissenting vote, accusing her colleagues of a 'demonstrated enthusiasm for greenlighting this President's legally dubious actions in an emergency posture.' Mr. Trump has repeatedly said voters gave him a mandate to remake the federal government, and he tapped billionaire ally Elon Musk to lead the charge through DOGE. Mr. Musk recently left his role. Downsizing of federal workforce Tens of thousands of federal workers have been fired, have left their jobs via deferred resignation programs or have been placed on leave. There is no official figure for the job cuts, but at least 75,000 federal employees took deferred resignation and thousands of probationary workers have already been let go. In May, U.S. District Judge Susan Illston found that Trump's administration needs congressional approval to make sizable reductions to the federal workforce. By a 2-1 vote, a panel of the U.S. 9th Circuit Court of Appeals refused to block Illston's order, finding that the downsizing could have broader effects, including on the nation's food-safety system and health care for veterans. Illston directed numerous federal agencies to halt acting on the President's workforce executive order signed in February and a subsequent memo issued by DOGE and the Office of Personnel Management. Illston was nominated by former Democratic President Bill Clinton. The labor unions and nonprofit groups that sued over the downsizing offered the justices several examples of what would happen if it were allowed to take effect, including cuts of 40% to 50% at several agencies. Among the agencies affected by the order are the departments of Agriculture, Energy, Labour, the Interior, State, the Treasury and Veterans Affairs. It also applies to the National Science Foundation, Small Business Association, Social Security Administration and Environmental Protection Agency.
