Conservative commentator Ann Coulter sparked outrage this week after going on a racist rant directed at former UN Ambassador Nikki Haley, accusing the newly declared Republican presidential candidate of being a “bimbo” and a “preposterous creature.”
But Coulter provoked the most anger for admonishing the Indian American Haley to “go back to [her] own country” where people are “starving” while “worshipping cows and rats,” during her interview on the “The Mark Simone Show,” according to NBC News.
Coulter said she was incensed by then-South Carolina Governor Haley’s move to take down the Confederate flag from South Carolina’s Statehouse in 2015, which occurred after a mass shooting at an African American church in Charleston.
“This is my country, lady,” Coulter said. “I’m not an American Indian, and I don’t like them taking down all the monuments.”
Coulter went on to further insult Haley for being of Indian descent.
“Her candidacy did remind me that I need to immigrate to India so I can demand they start taking down parts of their history,” Coulter said during the interview.
Coulter is no stranger to controversy and offensive remarks. In 2015, the right-wing pundit was denounced for a series of tweets, deemed by many to be antisemitic, in which she expressed rage over Republican debate candidates' support for Israel.
She was particularly incensed by the answers given by GOP candidates Ted Cruz, Mike Huckabee, Marco Rubio and Chris Christie, for mentioning Israel when asked "What will AMERICA [emphasis hers] look like after you are president."
"How many f---ing Jews do these people think there are in the United States?" Coulter asked, before musing that perhaps the candidates were trying "to suck up to the Evangelicals."
Coulter, who at the time was a high-profile supporter of candidate Donald Trump, also sarcastically suggested Huckabee was "running for PM of Israel."
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