Hindu American Tulsi Gabbard Advising Trump on Foreign Policy Matters, Hopes to Be His Running Mate

Former Hawaii congresswoman Tulsi Gabbard, a 2020 Democratic presidential candidate and the first Hindu American in Congress, is counseling Trump on foreign policy matters. The discussions between the two included “policy proposals, military entanglements overseas, and how the Defense Department should be run in a second Trump term,” The Washington Post reported. “The talks are part of a broader conversation about how Trump would manage the Pentagon differently if voters award him a second term.” The two have met in person at least once last year, the report added. 

Gabbard, who served in the House from 2013 to the end of 2020, ran an unsuccessful White House campaign in the 2020 Democratic primary. She has a sizable following among those who identify themselves as Hindu Americans and is said to have close ties with Prime Minister Modi. Gabbard enjoys strong support from several Hindu organizations including the Hindu American Foundation. 

An outspoken critic of aid to Ukraine and U.S. military interventions overseas, she has “often shared Trump’s approach toward the world in his post-presidency,” The Post said. The publication also also noted that Trump advisers hope Gabbard — who serves in the Army Reserve — “could appeal to independent voters in a general election, and advocate his military policies.”

In April 2003, while serving in the Hawaii State Legislature, she enlisted in the Hawaii Army National Guard. In July 2004, she was deployed for a 12-month tour in Iraq, serving as a specialist with the Medical Company, 29th Support Battalion, 29th Infantry Brigade Combat Team.

Last week, she surprised many by saying on “Fox & Friends” that she’d be “open” to a “conversation” about becoming Trump’s next vice president. “I’d be open to that conversation,” she said. “My mission in life is to serve our country and serve the American people and find the best way to be able to do that.” There were also rumors floating that Robert F. Kennedy Jr. was considering her as her running mate. 

Would you support a Donald Trump Tulsi Gabbard ticket pic.twitter.com/x0DXgT1Azm

— FOX NIIGHT (@FOXNIIGHTGALAXY) February 15, 2024

for VP pass it on… pic.twitter.com/KR0oFx7as0

— DR. HAROLD THOMAS JR. AMES, IV (@dramesltd) February 11, 2024

“A Trump/Tulsi ticket would dominate in 2024 even with RFK Jr. and his running mate in the picture,” read a post on X by End Tribalism in Politics. “Tulsi being a former Democrat would pull in many former Democrats along with moderates which is a spot that Trump lacks.” But this should worry RFK Jr.’s campaign, the post added. “RFK Jr’s campaign team should also be worried if this occurs. With many RFK Jr. followers wanting him to pick Tulsi as his running mate this would be a huge blow to him since she would without a doubt pull a good amount of voters from him.”

Tulsi Gabbard when asked if Trump asked her to be her running mate would she consider:

“I’d be open to that conversation, my mission in life is to serve our country and the American people.”

A Trump/Tulsi ticket would dominate in 2024 even with RFK Jr. and his running mate in… pic.twitter.com/uv4kbuNF4t

— End Tribalism in Politics (@EndTribalism) February 7, 2024

Tulsi Gabbard should be put somewhere in the cabinet, say what you will but she's actually decent. https://t.co/IW7Z6ekLQp

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Last month, she inked a deal with Elon Musk to host a show on X. Her new show will be a series of documentary-style videos and broader content. “We will be bringing you stories & news about the truth of what’s happening in our country and world but that those in power don’t what you hear, and a series of short films that share the stories of those most impacted, but whose voices are silenced,” she wrote in a post on X.

She left the Democratic party in 2021, accusing it of being “under complete control of an elitist cabal of warmongers who are driven by cowardly wokeness, who divide us by racializing every issue and stoking anti-white racism.”

Since then, she made a short-lived podcast last year, and signed a deal with Fox News as a contributor in 2022, appearing on a variety of shows. But even before this deal, she was a fixture on Fox News, attacking Democrats since long before she left its ranks. She has repeatedly criticized the Democrats, including President Biden. She once called Hillary Clinton the “embodiment of corruption, and personification of the rot that has sickened the Democratic Party for so long,” according to Reuters. She endorsed Sen. Bernie Sanders’ run against Clinton for the 2016 presidential party nomination and briefly ran herself for the 2020 election before dropping out and backing Biden.

Last October, she released a memoir titled “For Love of Country: Why I Left the Democratic Party,” In the book, she “calls on those who love America to protect our rights from those who are seeking to undermine them at every turn. It’s time to say goodbye to the Democratic Party.”