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‘What about Hindus?’ Twitter asks Trump on Diwali tweet
“Today, we gathered for Diwali, a holiday observed by Buddhists, Sikhs, and Jains throughout the United States & around the world,” Trump tweeted
US President Donald Trump has once again found himself on the receiving end of Twitter’s wrath after his latest tweet on Diwali celebrations at the White House. In a tweet posted some 12 hours before writing this, Trump tweeted, “we gathered for Diwali, a holiday observed by Buddhists, Sikhs, and Jains throughout the United States & around the world” surprisingly forgetting to mention Hindus - the largest community in the world that celebrates the festival of lights. The tweet was promptly followed by another that did mention Hindus but not before Twitter began mercilessly trolling Trump for the gaffe.
Here’s what Trump tweeted after deleting his original tweet, which also did not mention Hindus:
The tweet immediately came under the scanner of tweeple and has since collected over 31,000 ‘likes’ and more than 7,700 retweets. It was followed by another tweet:
But people couldn’t stop trolling Trump for his earlier tweet.
Diwali celebrations, hosted by Trump, were held in the Roosevelt Room of the White House. The event was attended by several prominent faces.
The White House did not respond to questions on the series of tweets by the president and the criticism that he did not mention the Hindus in his tweets.
Trump had earlier mentioned Hindus in his November 7 Diwali greetings.
“Known as the Festival of lights, Diwali is a joyous and spiritual time marked by many Hindus, Sikhs, Jains and Buddhists,” the president had said in his Diwali greetings last week.
Diwali was celebrated across the world on November 7.
(With Inputs from PTI)
