‘Sunny Isn’t Your Birth Name’: Nikki Haley Fires Back At ‘The View’ For Calling Her An Ethnic ‘Chameleon’

Former South Carolina Governor Nikki Haley (R) fired back at “The View” host Sunny Hostin for saying on Tuesday’s broadcast that she was an ethnic “chameleon.”

This from dailywire.com.

Hostin accused Haley, who also served under President Trump as the U.S. Ambassador to the United Nations, of shedding her more ethnic-sounding given name—Nimarata—in an effort to “pass” and be more marketable in Republican politics.

But Haley, who has gone by her middle name “Nikki” since she was a child, quickly pointed out that Hostin had also chosen to publicly go by a name other than the first name she was given.

Haley tweeted after the broadcast:

Thanks for your concern @Sunny.

It’s racist of you to judge my name.

Nikki is an Indian name and is on my birth certificate—and I’m proud of that. What’s sad is the left’s hypocrisy towards conservative minorities.

Haley then turned the issue back onto Hostin, pointing to the ABC host’s hypocrisy on the subject and adding:

By the way, last I checked Sunny isn’t your birth name.

Ken Farnaso, Haley’s spokesman, jumped into the conversation as well and added:

Are we really going to play this [trash] game, @Sunny? Nikki is an Indian name that means ‘little one.’

It’s @NikkiHaley’s middle name on her birth certificate. You should know better than this—you don’t even go by your first name.