Nepalis in New York think Donald Trump is racist and a liar

Watch video of Nepalese community lambasting Trump.

By Sujeet Rajan

NEW YORK: “I don’t want two of me…” the GOP candidate for president Donald Trump said Tuesday night, answering a question posed by CNN anchor Anderson Cooper, on his pick for the vice president’s position if he were to get the party nomination. Trump was making a point that he would choose somebody unlike himself; he would pick an establishment politician as an understudy, somebody who knows the ropes around Capitol Hill.

As far as Nepalese immigrants in New York City are concerned, even one Donald Trump is more than enough, abhorrent, hard to reconcile with. Two of them might be like entering a maze of horrors where actual crimes take place, it seems, going by some reactions from the community in New York City.

In interviews conducted by Anuz Thapa for Voices of NY, an ethnic and community journalism news website initiative run by the City University of New York, the Nepalese community made it clear ahead of the state’s primaries on April 19 that the arrogant and brash Trump is the last person they want to see assuming position in the White House.

Watch the video, where person after person lambasts Trump as an unsuitable choice for POTUS.

Here are some comments from the interview, in case you are a Trump supporter and rather not watch your choice candidate being flayed:

“He is racist.”

“Donald Trump Is liar”.

“He might be a good human being, but not a good politician.”

“He is a joker.”

“Aggressive”.

“Business celebrity”.

“He is good for his business but not good to be the President of the United States”.

“I like him as an entertainer but not as a politician, because he talks more and more racism.”

“He is against immigrants.”

“He has no respect for women.”

“He has clearly stated Mexicans are criminals and rapists. That is more than enough to define him.”

“I like him for his straightforward talk, but I don’t like him for whatever he says and he dominates people.”

“He is better than others in the Republicans.”

 “This is a country of immigrants, so any president who comes in has to be supportive of immigrants.”

“He doesn’t come from family of immigrants, so he will not feel the pain of immigrants.”

“I don’t like him, he is anti-immigrant.”

And my favorite reaction from the interviews: “He is so aggressive, his mouth is so wide open. He is so anger all the time.”

Trump, who has been criticized by Mark Zuckerberg this week for his racial overtures and restrictive policies on immigration, faces heat on his decision to headline an upcoming fundraiser in the racially conflicted town of Patchogue in Long Island, at a venue close to where a Latino man was killed in a hate crime in 2008. That crime was the eventual brutality after years of White teenagers indulging in a violent late night ‘sport’ jocularly termed as ‘beaner bopping’ – where groups of teenagers randomly ganged up on Latinos and attacked them.

Is it possible that such crimes against Latinos would increase if Trump were to become president? Is it possible that not just Latinos but people of color, like South Asians, and those who are not Caucasian, will be attacked too? Do you want ‘two’ of Trump?

Ask yourself. The Nepalese immigrants know the answers already. Watch video below.

(Sujeet Rajan is Editor-in-Chief, The American Bazaar. Follow him @SujeetRajan1).