TOI correspondent from Washington: MAGA fundamentalists are having an almighty meltdown after US President Donald Trump hosted a Diwali celebration in the White House on Tuesday, their hysteria underlining the growing hostility towards immigrants and foreigners in nativist circles in America. Scores of MAGA supporters, many of them Christian nationalists, berated the Trump on social media after he lit a Diwali diya (lamp) in the Oval office in the presence of prominent Indian-Americans in his administration and from Corporate America. “The White House has been defiled by celebrating Diwali with a pagan ritual” and “Trump has been compromised by demon worship” were among the dozens of posts on X from MAGA fundamentalists, some of whom called for a nation in which Christianity i
MAGA nativists embrace darkness of racism over White House Diwali

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