President of the the United States of America Donald Trump gave an interesting speech as he addressed thousands of people on his first official visit to India at the ‘Namaste Trump’ event held at the Motera stadium in Ahmedabad on Monday.
In his speech, while praising India, Trump gave a special mention to Indian cricketers Sachin Tendulkar and Virat Kohli. His words drew a loud cheer from the crowd, which included Board of Control for Cricket in India president Sourav Ganguly and BCCI secretary Jay Shah.
“India is a creative hub that creates over 2000 movies from Bollywood a year,” Trump said while addressing people at the Motera Stadium, which is now the world’s largest cricket stadium with a capacity of 1,10,000.
“All over the planet, people take great joy in watching Bollywood films, bhangra, and classic films like DDLJ and Sholay. You cheer on great cricketers like Sachin Tendulkar and Virat Kohli,” he mentioned in his speech.
While the entire crowd at the stadium gave a huge cheer to Trump for mentioning Tendulkar and Kohli’s names, there were jokes aplenty after his hilarious pronunciation of the names.
Here are some reactions:
Something about Donald Trump's pronunciation of Sachin Tendulkar tells me he isn't a huge cricket fan pic.twitter.com/stFhq46MLx
— Andy Silke (@andysilke) February 24, 2020
All the words Trump mispronounced (and how to say them correctly):
— BBC News India (@BBCIndia) February 24, 2020
- Suuchin Tendulkar (Sachin Tendulkar)
- Cheewallah (Chaiwallah)
- Shojay (Sholay)
- The 'Vestas' (The Vedas)
- Swami Vivekamanan (Swami Vivekananda) #TrumpInIndia
Who is this Sue Chin Tendulkerr? 🤣 https://t.co/OOYoDr6Xv5
— Gary Lineker (@GaryLineker) February 24, 2020
Loves his cricket, Donaldpic.twitter.com/v5qiP1TVn5
— The Cricketer (@TheCricketerMag) February 24, 2020
Why hate someone for the pronunciation of names they’ve never heard before when there are so, so, so many better reasons to hate them?
— Jimmy Neesham (@JimmyNeesh) February 25, 2020
Did he get the names from EA Cricket 2007? https://t.co/o0xQXdnXAc
— Clive (@vanillawallah) February 24, 2020
Sach-
— ICC (@ICC) February 24, 2020
Such-
Satch-
Sutch-
Sooch-
Anyone know? pic.twitter.com/nkD1ynQXmF
Trump saying Sachin Tendulkar is the funniest thing I’ve ever heard
— jocy (@jocelynseip) February 24, 2020
NOT!!! 😂 pic.twitter.com/10hH2SzPuO
— vageesh (@PhantomkaGhuusa) February 24, 2020
FFS, @piersmorgan, pls ask your mate to do some research in pronouncing legends names?! https://t.co/eUGuCNReaM
— Kevin Pietersen🦏 (@KP24) February 24, 2020
Now I know why #GoBackTrump is trending 😂😂
— why_so_single_? (@Vinivinci3) February 24, 2020
Kitni mehnat kar raha hai 🤣🤣🤣
— saurabh. (@Boomrah_) February 24, 2020
Donald Trump loves Soo-chin Tendulkar!#MoteraStadium #TrumpInIndia
— Santadeep Dey (@SantadeepDey) February 24, 2020
he didn't pronounce kohli as kolly atleast 😂
— \\ (@ughwhatever) February 24, 2020
Trump mentioned sachin tendulkar-
— bedardi raja (@CopyWalaTweet) February 24, 2020
Sachintards - pic.twitter.com/8eqXjbXE3a
Suchin Tendulkar to Virat Kooli
— Kashish Shah (@quantum_kashish) February 24, 2020
Sure Trump is following the new meme format#TrumpIndiaVisit
#TrumpIndiaVisit
— Sir Yuzvendra (parody) (@SirYuzvendra) February 24, 2020
Sachin Tendulkar after Trump calls him Suuchinn pic.twitter.com/vxoVNeWISH
Mr Trump just gave a new name to our God "Suchin" Tendulkar #TrumpInIndia
— Venkat (@venky_tweets) February 24, 2020
Sooochin, Sooochin!
— mark butcher (@markbutcher72) February 24, 2020
Omg abort, abort. #suchintendulkar https://t.co/qPCEsd7hS8 pic.twitter.com/Y6XWvNZ0Wp
— Isabelle Westbury (@izzywestbury) February 24, 2020