US Secretary of State Marco Rubio was in India for the QUAD summit meeting.
At a press conference in New Delhi, a reporter asked him a question… The reporter asked what his comment was regarding the derogatory remarks made by Americans toward Indian people. Rubio, not knowing who had said what, asked the reporter back — who said what exactly? The reporter replied that it was a widely-known incident, and that the American side had endorsed those remarks.
The racial incident the reporter was referring to was Donald Trump’s recent social media post where he shared content calling India and China a “hellhole.”
Rubio, apparently unaware of this, responded: “Every country has stupid people saying dumb things. America has them too. We don’t take those comments seriously. We respect everyone…” and gave a general response.
Thanks to Rubio’s answer, Donald Trump — sitting back in Washington — was effectively crowned the resident “stupid person saying dumb things.”
“The Hellhole Diplomat”
NEW DELHI, May 2025 — In a moment that future diplomacy textbooks will study under the chapter “How to Accidentally Roast Your Own Boss on Foreign Soil,” US Secretary of State Marco Rubio delivered what analysts are calling the most spectacular act of self-sabotage since Judas asked for a receipt.
Rubio was in New Delhi for the QUAD Foreign Ministers’ meeting when WIO News reporter Sidhant Sibal asked him about “racist comments coming from the United States against Indians and Indian Americans.” Mediaite
Rubio blinked. Rubio frowned. Rubio apparently had not received the memo — which, to be fair, was his own boss’s Truth Social post.
The controversy stems from April, when Trump shared on Truth Social a transcript of conservative podcaster Michael Savage, who said: “A baby here becomes an instant citizen, and then they bring the entire family in from China or India or some other hellhole on the planet.” Mediaite
Yes. The President of the United States — who was simultaneously attempting to charm India into a trade deal — had just called India a hellhole. A diplomatic masterstroke, truly.
Back at the press conference, when informed that “we have all seen those comments, sir,” Rubio shrugged off the remarks as nothing more than chatter from “stupid people” — apparently forgetting that the person in question holds the nuclear launch codes and lives at 1600 Pennsylvania Avenue. The Daily Beast
The State Department, apparently realizing the catastrophic implication, deleted a social media post highlighting Rubio’s remarks. Nothing says “we respect India” quite like frantically hitting the delete button at 3am. India.com
The next morning, Rubio — en route to the Taj Mahal — walked back his comments, clarifying he didn’t “fully understand” who the question referred to, and pivoted to emphasising that “President Trump loves India.” Zee News
Ah yes. The classic Washington two-step: Step 1: Call someone’s country a hellhole. Step 2: Send your Secretary of State to say you love them. Bring flowers. Pose at the Taj Mahal.
India’s Ministry of External Affairs had previously responded that such comments did not reflect the reality of the India-US partnership, which is rooted in “mutual respect and shared interests.” Translation: “We noticed. We are not amused. Please buy more F-35s.” India Blooms
Meanwhile, back in Mar-a-Lago, Trump reportedly watched the whole episode on television and was heard muttering that Rubio had done “a fantastic job, maybe the best job, nobody does diplomacy like Marco.”
The lesson? When your Secretary of State travels halfway around the world to smooth over your diplomatic disasters — and accidentally confirms you are exactly the kind of stupid person he was describing — perhaps it’s time to reconsider your Truth Social posting habits.
Or, at the very minimum, learn the difference between a hellhole and an ally of 1.4 billion people you’re currently trying to court against China.
But then again — stable genius, folks. Stable genius.
Sources: Mediaite, The Daily Beast, Zee News, India.com — all reporting May 24–25, 2025.
Aye Thein
အမေရိကန် နိုင်ငံခြားရေးဝန်ကြီး Marco
Rubio က QUAD အဖွဲ့ အစည်းအဝေးအတွက်
အိန္ဒိယကို ရောက်နေတယ်။ နယူးဒေလီမှာ
သတင်းစာရှင်းလင်းပွဲလုပ်တော့ သတင်းထောက်
တစ်ယောက်က သူ့ကို မေးခွန်းတစ်ခုမေးတယ်….
သတင်းထောက်မေးတာက အမေရိကန်တွေ
အိန္ဒိယလူမျိုးတွေနဲ့ ပတ်သတ်ပြီး နှိမ့်ချဆက်ဆံ
ပြောခဲ့တာတွေအတွက် ဘယ်လိုမှတ်ချက်မျိုး
ပေးချင်လည်းလို့မေးတာ။ Rubio က ဘယ်သူ
ပြောခဲ့မှန်း မသိတာကြောင့် သတင်းထောက်ကို
ဘယ်သူက ဘာပြောခဲ့တာလည်း ဆိုတာကို
ပြန်မေးလိုက်တယ်….
သတင်းထောက်က အဲ့ဒါက လူပြောများခဲ့တဲ့
ကိစ္စဖြစ်ပြီး အမေရိကန်ဘက်က အဲ့ဒီစကားကို
အားပေးထောက်ခံခဲ့ကြတယ်လို့ ပြန်ဖြေတယ်….
သတင်းထောက် မေးလိုက်တဲ့ လူမျိုးရေးကိစ္စ
ဆိုတာ သိပ်မကြာခင်အချိန်က Donald Trump
ဆိုရှယ်မီဒီယာမှာ ရေးတင်ခဲ့တဲ့ အိန္ဒိယနဲ့ တရုတ်
တို့ကို Hellhole လို့ ပြောခဲ့တဲ့ကိစ္စကို ရည်ညွှန်းတာ….
Rubio က အဲ့ဒါကို သဘောမပေါက်ဘဲ ဘယ်လို
ပြန်ဖြေလိုက်လည်းဆိုတော့….
တိုင်းပြည်တိုင်းမှာ အဲ့လိုစောင်ပေါ စကားတွေ
ပြောနေကြတဲ့ စောင်ရူးတွေ ရှိနေကြတာပါပဲ။
အမေရိကားမှာလည်း ရှိနေတာပဲ။ ကျနော်တို့
အဲ့လိုမှတ်ချက်တွေကို အလေးမထားဘူး။
ကျနော်တို့က အားလုံးကို အလေးထားတယ်
ဘာညာနဲ့ ပြန်ဖြေသွားတယ်….
Rubio ရဲ့ အဖြေကြောင့် ဝါရှင်တန်မှာ ထိုင်နေတဲ့
Donald Trump တော့ စောင်ပေါ စကားတွေ
ပြောနေတဲ့ စောင်ရူးကြီး ဖြစ်သွားတာပေါ့….
Rubio ရဲ့ အဖြေကြောင့် Donald Trump ကတော့ စောက်ရူးကြီး ဖြစ်သွားတာပေါ့
