Indian newspaper gets crucified over crass Trump tweet

You know you've hit rock bottom when a daily paper shares such headlines

Impulsive, immoderate and politically untested, Donald Trump did not exactly seem to fit the profile of a candidate for the most powerful job in the world.

However, as publications worldwide shared news of Trump being elected as the 45th president of the United States, Indian publication Times of India went a step ahead.



The Indian daily which has also previously been slammed for trivializing sexual assault went a little too far and tweeted saying: "'It's official, Donald Trump grabs America by the..., Congratulations Mr President elect!'.

https://twitter.com/timesofindia/status/796256757282578432

The headline chose to paraphrase Trump’s controversial “grab them by the p****” quote, which led the Republican being accused of sexual assault and glorifying rape culture.

Twitter was quick to react to the crass tweet:

https://twitter.com/arpandholi/status/796258763808403456

https://twitter.com/DhruvMullick/status/796291097274126337

this tweet is in such bad taste!!!

— aslesha belliappa (@aslesha1) November 9, 2016

Classy reporting TOI. So damn classy.

— Aisiri (she/her) (@Aisiri_Amin) November 9, 2016

disgusting TOI truly deplorable

— Prerna Menon (@prernamenon26) November 9, 2016

https://twitter.com/NeethaRK/status/796300703165718528

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