Trump rally at Madison Square Garden: Vivek Ramaswamy missing from speaker list – The Times of India

One of the best moments in Crazy men came when the developers of the now iconic New York City Madison Square Garden worried about the destruction of the dirty Penn State station. While chiding developers for having a guilty conscience, the fictional Don Draper points out, “Let’s just say that change is neither good nor bad. It just is. It can be treated with horror or joy – an outburst that says: “I want it to be like it was” or a dance that says: “Look – something new”. … I was in California. Everything is new and clean. People are full of hope. New York is falling apart. But Madison Square Garden — it’s the beginning of a new city on a hill.
He goes on to deliver one of the show’s most elegant lines: “PR people can figure it out, but they can never execute it. If you don’t like what’s being said, change the conversation.

The talk over the past week has been all about Madison Square Garden, where Donald Trump is holding a huge rally that Hillary Clinton has already compared to a 1939 Nazi rally held there in support of Hitler.
A who’s who of Trump’s campaign spoke at the rally, including his vice president pick JD VanceSpeaker Mike Johnson, New York Representative Elise Stefanik, former Democrat Tulsi Gabbard, Lara, Eric and Don Jr., Elon Musk, Dan Scavino, Dan White, Tucker Carlson, and even former presidential candidate RFK Jr.
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However, one prominent MAGAvenger seems to be missing from the list, former presidential candidate and one of Team Trump’s most flamboyant members: Vivek Ramaswamy.
Read: The MAGAvengers: The team Trump assembled to save America
It almost makes one wonder if there’s suddenly a rift in the MAGAverse where Vivek Ramaswamy has suddenly become persona non grata and been removed from the Garden, or maybe it’s just a typo. Or maybe, so close to the election, they don’t want to remind people that one of the most prominent members of Team MAGA is actually a Hindu who just recently had a fight with a MAGA supporter about his religion.
To be fair, Ramaswamy has attended Trump’s most recent events

Trump’s supporters pushed the narrative that he was God’s chosen warrior who had survived two assassination attempts. His supporters attribute his survival to divine intervention, interpreting it as a clear sign of his predestined role. New York Rep. Elise Stefanik noted this, calling on Americans to unite in November to restore peace, while House Speaker Mike Johnson declared that “GOD protected President Trump.” Other members of Congress echoed this sentiment, claiming that God’s “protective hand” had ensured Trump’s safety, with Rep. Cory Mills attributing it to “divine intervention” and Rep. Carlos Antonio Jimenez attributing it to the “grace of God.”
Ideology is consistent with Christian nationalistswhich portray Trump as a divinely chosen leader in battle against the left, considered godless and dangerous. Even Pope Francis gave a satirical nod, describing the US election as a choice between the “lesser evil”, with one candidate “chasing migrants” and the other “killing children”, demonstrating a complex and sometimes cynical religious narrative surrounding Trump’s candidacy.
How Ramaswamy became an important figure of MAGA
In the past, the term “Samosa Caucus” referred to the few Indian-Americans who made it to the high levels of US politics. Much has changed since then, with a significant number of politicians of Indian origin now entering the race on both sides, leading to even a Tamil vs. Telugu subplot in this year’s US presidential election. Yet if there is one Indian American who has truly stood out during the campaign 2024this is vivek ramaswamy. A nationally ranked high school tennis player, champion debater, accomplished public speaker and celebrant, Ramaswamy has been the aspirational archetype of every Asian “tiger mom” since the beginning. Notably, “Tiger Mom” ​​Amy Lynn Chua was a big influence on him, as were JD and Usha Vance. After his time at Harvard and Yale Law, Ramaswamy worked in hedge funds, started a pharmaceutical company and amassed a substantial fortune. He also received the Paul and Daisy Soros Fellowship for New Americans, leading some to label him a “Soros agent,” even though the foundation has no connection to the perennial right-wing antagonist.
With his “Ten Truths” — which resemble the Ten Commandments and have no connection to Hinduism — Ramaswamy emerged as the ideal replacement for Trump in the early stages of the Republican primary, running a campaign that echoed The Newsroom’s Will McAvoy’s opening monologue, citing to the nostalgia of a great America. His interactions with Nikki Haley were particularly notable as he mocked her for changing her name and religion in an attempt to position herself as the “real” Hindu American who did not change her identity to rise in the hierarchy.
As an outsider to Trump’s party, though familiar to influential right-wingers, Ramaswamy exhibits traits that make him attractive to MAGA’s base. He even took a stand with figures like Ann Coulter, who admitted she agreed with his views but refused to support him because of his ethnicity. In fact, it could be argued that if Ramaswamy were on the opposite side of the political spectrum, numerous mainstream media outlets would praise his campaign as a ground-breaking effort.
Many Trump supporters had hoped Ramaswamy would be Trump’s choice for vice president, but he ended up dropping out of the race in the final stages, with Trump choosing Ramaswamy’s Yale colleague JD Vance instead. Regardless, Ramaswamy appears poised for a prominent role in the burgeoning MAGA movement, prompting Time magazine to call him Trump’s most obvious “heir apparent.”