Vivek Ramaswamy, Republican candidate for governor of Ohio, quoted former President Ronald Reagan while talking about being American at a Turning Point USA event — but as usual, not without backlash. Although Ramaswamy said the same thing Reagan once said, MAGA pundits on social media said he was wrong and Nikki Haley’s son Nalin Haley, who never misses a chance to troll Ramaswamy, called him pathetic.“You can travel to Italy, but you will never be Italian. You can travel to France, but you will never be French. You can live in Germany, but you will never be German. You can pack your bags and spend the rest of your life in China or Japan, but you will never be Chinese or Japanese. Yet you can come to the United States from any one of those countries, and you can still be an American – as long as you work hard, you play by the rules.” Play, you do your part, wait your turn, pledge allegiance to the flag and get your citizenship,” Ramaswamy said at the event, quoting Reagan.Social media users said this is not correct as the countries they mentioned give citizenship to people after completing all the requirements.Nikki Haley’s son Nalin Haley recounted a “fun fact” from Ramaswami’s presidential campaign.Haley posted, “During the presidential campaign when all the candidates spoke at the same event, this guy would send his staff out into the crowd and get them to clap because no one else was clapping. He also made sure the applause spread throughout the crowd, making it seem like the applause was real and coming from the entire crowd. The more people heard it, the less people liked him. Pathetic.”Commentator Benny Johnson said Ramaswamy is “absolutely wrong” about being American and argued why Chinese, French, Japanese, German culture are distinctive and sacred and American culture is replaceable. Johnson said, “These comments highlight a worldview that America is simply an economic taxation zone whose resources will all be taken away by globalists and foreign fraudsters.”
