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Nikki Haley and the Trump Cult

Bonnie Greer on how the woman challenging Donald Trump for the Republican presidential nomination represents more than she realises

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Jan 22, 2024
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Republican presidential candidate, and former UN Ambassador Nikki Haley speaking at a campaign event at Franklin Pierce University on 20 January 2024, in Rindge, New Hampshire. Photo: Michael Nigro/ Sipa US/Alamy

The following is the first in a series of regular columns by the British-American playwright, author, broadcaster and former Deputy Chair of the British Museum, Bonnie Greer, exclusively for subscribers to Byline Supplement.


By the time that you read this, Nikki Haley may be the past. Toast. Off the US and world stage. Or onboard the juggernaut that is the Trump Train.

There is a part of me that feels sorry for her.

You do have to wonder how many twists and turns, byways and highways, that Nimarata Nikki Randhawa, born in South Carolina of Sikh parents from the Punjab, must have had to negotiate in her life.  How many surrenders she may have had to make. Yet, on the surface, she is a great success: the governor of a deep south state; ambassador to the United Nations under Trump.

Maybe her effectiveness is why Trump said that it was she who had been in charge of security on January 6, the day of the Insurrection. When she wasn’t. “Don The Con” had mixed her up, on purpose no doubt, with former Speaker of the House, Nancy Pelosi, hated by his MAGA cult. So hated by them that one tried to murder her husband.

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