Watch: Trevor Noah mocks Donald Trump for mispronouncing Indian words

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South African comedian and The Daily Show host Trevor Noah mocked Donald Trump for mispronouncing words at the 'Namaste Trump' event at Ahmedabad's Motera Stadium. The US president was in India with his wife Melania Trump on a two-day state visit.

The US President become the topic of social media jokes after he called the Prime Minister Narendra Modi, son of a chiwala instead of chaiwala, gave a reference to the Vedas by calling the scriptures the Vestas and botched the pronunciations of former cricketer Sachin Tendulkar and social reformer Swami Vivekananda.

Even as Trump was praised for paying his respects to the Indian film industry, colloquially called as Bollywood, he also mispronounced the cult films, Dilwale Dulhaniya Le Jayenge (DDLJ) and Sholay, which he pronounced as Shojay.

On his show, Noah mocked Trump for his failed attempts at pronouncing famous Hindi words. The Daily Show host commended Trump for making an effort to "show the Indian people how much he respects them by trying to speak their language". Noah explained. "It went about as well as you would think."

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He then showed a montage of Trump mangling Hindi words. He continued, "Oh man, even if that pronunciation was right, that facial expression was so wrong. That looked like the most exercise he's gotten in decades."

The 36-year-old comedian also spoke about the reaction of Indian Twitter users on the president's speech, "Now, after Trump butchered nearly half the Hindi dictionary, Indian Twitter lost their minds… But to those Indians, I say, please, don't be mad. Trump may not be able to pronounce Hindi words, but he can't pronounce English words either. He's an equal opportunity offender."

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