Embarrassing: Trump’s nominees of Singapore reduce basic questions – Dr. Who is Anjani Sinha? , world News
Since Donald Trump returned to the White House, Washington has started meeting St. Petersburg – not a Russian city, but a living monument for Peter theory. For uninterrupted, Peter Siddhant says that in any hierarchy, people grow to their level of disability. Under Trump 2.0, it appears to be primary qualification for the public office. Loyalty? optional. Expertise? Disqualify But even in this ocean of magnificent underperformance, recently a Senate hearing managed to set a new reduction: Dr. Nominated for the US Ambassador to Singapore. Anjani Sinha’s confirmation hearing.On July 9, a regular attendance was expected before the Senate Foreign Relations Committee. Dr. Sinha, a retired orthopedic surgeon and long -standing Trump familiar, was inflicted as a democratic senator Tami Duckworth, subjected to a barrage of basic questions on trade, defense and southeast Asian diplomacy, no one of which he was ready.Duckworth warned, “This is not a role you can only lift by whispering, or because there is a great place to live in Singapore,” Duckworth warns, warn, before dissecting your talk with surgical accuracy, before dissecting your talk. “I think you are not taking it seriously.”
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In 2024, it was asked to explain the size of the US trade surplus with Singapore, Dr. Sinha confidently called US $ 18 billion. Real data? US $ 2.8 billion. “You are away from a huge factor,” Duckworth clearly said.His interpretation of Trump’s sudden tariff hazards-2004, since a free trade agreement did not end up to 25% on imports from a long-term trade partner. “The presidents are resetting trade numbers,” he replied, no argument was given how a surplus restrictions justifies the restrictions.
Geography, Defense and Homework Gaps
Things deteriorated only when Duckworth asked Sinha when Singapore would do the next chair ASEAN. He could not answer. “2027,” he supplied. When asked to nominate the issue of a priority to Singapore as a chair, he cited “defense and trade”. “Very broad,” he shot back.Asked how he would strengthen American-Singapur military cooperation, Sinha mentioned joint exercises-very vague to Duckworth. “Name a specific feature,” he demanded. he could not.He said, “You want to be an ambassador to Singapore, which is one of the most important friends we have in Indo-Pacific … and you have not even done your homework,” he said, “” You think you are going to live a good life in Singapore, but what we want is someone who is really going to work. “
Doctor vs. Doctor? Not enough.
Republican senators tried to smooth things. Lindsay Graham described Sinha as a “talented entrepreneur”. The fresh senator Pete Rickets with the Shangri-La dialogue in Singapore urged Sinha to tie Sinha with Foreign Minister Vivian Balakrishnan on his common medical background.Sinha, eager to connect, replied: “He became an eye surgeon, I became an orthopedic surgeon.There was just one problem: Vivian Balakrishnan’s wife is not a neurologist. He is not even a doctor. He is a teacher and founder of children donations. The expansion was not only wrong, but a symbol of a deep issue: a nominated person who was designed for a dinner party, not for a diplomatic position.
St. Petersburg, USA
Dr. Sinha’s performance would be comic if it did not suit Trump’s widespread dysfunction of the second term. A homeland security secretary who shot his own dog. A Defense Secretary who leaked classified schemes on the signal. A National Security Advisor who added journalists to chat about bombing on Yemen. A Vice President who asks foreign leaders to “thank” and to say the death of rivals in their unpopularity. In Washington of Trump, the incompetence is not casual – it is structural.Peter theory is no longer the only principle. It is a governing philosophy of the world’s most powerful democracy. And Sinha’s enrollment is another brick in a collapse where personal loyalty and vibes are more important than preparation or policy.Who is Anjani Sinha?Born in India and joined America in 1977, Dr. Anjani Sinha made her name and luck – a sports medical expert and a medical entrepreneur on Long Island. Trump nominated him in a brief truth social post on March 11, referring to him as “Dr. Fil Sinha” and placed him as “highly respected entrepreneurs with an incredible family”.His wife, Dr. Kiki Sinha, a retired Nyu Anaesthesiologist, and his sons were present at the hearing. His daughter, a lawyer in Norway, saw online proceedings.In his initial statement, Sinha described Singapore as “a major strategic partner and friend in Indo-Pacific”, and promised to expand people’s contact with defense relations, technical cooperation and people. However, the nuances were rare.
what happens now?
By 27 July, 2025, Dr. Anjani Sinha has not yet been confirmed as Ambassador to Singapore. His nomination was favorablely informed by the Senate Foreign Relations Committee on 16 July and currently the Executive Calendar of the Senate (no. 288), a full floor is waiting for the vote. Catching 53 out of 100 Senate seats with Republican, they are likely to be confirmed until new objections come.If confirmed, Sinha will be sent to a country that has become one of the most important Indo-Pacific partners of the United States-economic, military and strategically. Can he represent the relationship with capacity, there is a question that is now hanging on the chamber and region.
