Trevor Noah has been accused of inventing a large-scale ‘racist backlash’ against Rishi Sunak, who became Britain’s first ever Prime Minister of color.
The US TV host, sparked fury among his British fans on Twitter after uploading a clip from The Daily Show, entitled: ‘Unpacking the Backlash to Rishi Sunak.’
In the three-minute video, which has nearly a million views on Twitter, Noah claimed that “people are saying that Indians are going to take over Great Britain” in response to Mr Sunak’s rise to the top job.
Unpacking the backlash against new UK PM Rishi Sunak #BetweenTheScenes pic.twitter.com/MJNPgv5APK
— The Daily Show (@TheDailyShow) October 26, 2022
Mr Sunak is also the UK’s first ever Hindu Prime Minister. His grandparents migrated to the UK in the 1960s and they are all from India, bar his maternal grandmother, who was born in Africa, making him of British-Asian heritage.
Noah, a South African native, said ‘seeing the backlash’ over Mr Sunak’s promotion ‘was one of the more telling things about how people view the role that they or their people have played in history’.
In a ‘Between the Scenes’ segment – his interactions with the audience during the advert breaks – he then launched into a missive about post-colonial power structures and the suppression of black people and women in powerful positions.
