No, I did not grow up eating rice with my hands: Brandon Gill's Indian-origin wife joins Zohran Mamdani row
Danielle D'Souza Gill, the Indian-origin wife of Congressman Brandon Gill, said she always used a fork to eat rice and never grew up eating rice with her hands. The statement follows an elaborate controversy that started with a video of New York mayoral candidate
Zohran Mamdani eating rice with his hand
.
The video was from the campaign period but it went viral Sunday, with social media users finding it nauseating that Mamdani eats rice with his hand. It was compared with Indian-origin Vivek Ramaswamy sitting barefoot for an interview -- and soon snowballed into an India-hatred spree.
Republican leader Brandon Gill also found Mamdani eating with his hand uncivilized as he said: "Civilized people in America don't eat like this.
If you refuse to adopt Western customs, go back to the Third World."
To this, Brandon was told that he married an India and his wife must have eaten rice like this all her life.
"I did not grow up eating rice with my hands and have always used a fork. I was born in America. I'm a Christian MAGA patriot. My father's extended family lives in India and they are also Christian and they use forks too. Thank you for your attention to this matter," the wife in question, Danielle D'Souza Gill, replied.
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Danielle's post also went viral with many X users questioning the need to issue a statement that belittled India. "You are bragging about something that stupid?" one wrote. Some users posted a photo of her father Dinesh D'Souza eating with his hand and called Danielle a liar.
30-year-old Danielle D'Souza Gill, daughter of right-wing commentator Dinesh D'Souza, is an author and commentator. Daniell got married to Brandon Gill in 2017. Recently, Brandon was criticized for denouncing mass migration as he compared a photo of California in 1960 with California today. At that time, too, he was reminded that his wife's family had migrated to the US.
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