Conservative Pundit Ann Coulter Wants America-born Nikki Haley to ‘Go Back To Her Own Country’
- Calling the former South Carolina governor and former U.S. Ambassador to the U.S. “an absolutely ridiculous character,” and “a preposterous creature,” she predicted that Haley will not get more than 2% of the vote.
Conservative pundit Ann Coulter went on a racist rant against Nikki Haley on Feb. 15, after the former South Carolina governor and former U.S. Ambassador to the U.S., officially launched her 2024 presidential campaign. Speaking on Mark Simone’s show on WOR radio, Coulter said Haley should “go back to your own country.” Calling her “an absolutely ridiculous character,” and “a preposterous creature” Coulter wondered why cows are considered sacred in India, where Haley’s parents emigrated from.
Haley, 5,1, was born in South Carolina in 1972. Her parents immigrated to the U.S. from Punjab via Canada. In a video she released, announcing her candidacy, she described herself as “a proud daughter of Indian immigrants,” Haley, who was born Nimrata Nikki Randhawa, called herself “not Black, not White, but different.” She talks about how her mother always told her that her job is “not to focus on the differences, but on the similarities.” Her parents told her and her siblings every day how blessed they were to live in America, she said in the video.
Coulter, an acerbic, take-no-prisoners conservative, also referenced Haley removing the Confederate flag from the South Carolina state capitol in 2015 after a White supremacist shot and killed nine people at a historically Black church in Charleston.
Coulter told Simone that her “candidacy did remind me that I need to immigrate to India so I can demand they start taking down parts of their history. What’s with the worshipping of the cows? They’re all starving over there and they are worshipping cows? Do you know they have a rat temple where they worship? Rats? Hey, babycakes, why don’t you go back to your own country and reconsider that history,” she wondered. “This is my country, lady. I’m not an American Indian, and I don’t like them taking down all the monuments.” (Haley is an Indian American, not an American Indian as the Ivy League-educated pundit claimed. American Indians are native peoples who inhabited North and South America since the last Ice Age.)
Noting that she doesn’t “like to make predictions,” she said she doesn’t think Haley “will get more than 2% of the vote.” She called her “weak on the issue of immigration” and noted that her own state will not vote for her.
This is not the first time Coulter has lashed out at Haley for the removal of the Confederate flag. In 2015, at the time of the incident, she said Haley doesn’t understand America because she is “an immigrant” with roots in India. In an appearance on Fox News, she said she “would really like to like Nikki Haley since she is a Republican,” but added that she “is an immigrant and does not understand America’s history.”