US Political Scientist Calls Trump ‘Ch***ya’ On Air, Doubles Down: 'This Is The Word For...'

Last Updated:August 26, 2025, 16:30 IST

Carol Christine Fair called Donald Trump “ch***ya” in an interview as she slammed his administration and highlighted US bureaucracy challenges.

Carol Christine Fair during an interview with Pakistan-origin British journalist Moeed Pirzada. (Image Credit: X)

US political scientist Carol Christine Fair called President Donald Trump “ch***ya" during an interview with Pakistan-origin British journalist Moeed Pirzada, drawing laughter before repeating the slur and launching a broader critique of the administration. The Hindi term roughly translates to “idiot".

Carol Christine Fair remarked, “The optimist in me would like to believe that the bureaucracy is going to hold it together. But the pessimist in me says, this is six months and we’ve got four years of this ch***ya here."

She added, “This is the word which I keep saying in Urdu and my many viewers object to it. You have ended up using it in an English discussion."

The interviewer responded, “Such is the humongous importance of the word ch***ya that at times you cannot describe a situation without saying ch***ya."

To this, Carol Christine Fair said that her car “license plate is ch***ya." Slamming the Donald Trump administration, Carol Christine Fair also said, “I can’t speak for the patina of officials in the Trump administration, unfortunately, many of the Trump officials are not terribly expert in their field. So it’s very tempting to just take them as the singular force that matters."

“But one does have to remember that we have this complicated bureaucracy. And this bureaucracy has been really working towards this relationship for these 25 years. A lot of this bureaucracy has just been initiated. We just lost thousands of State Department personnel. We don’t have visibility into where that expertise was lost," she added.

Carol Christine Fair is an American political scientist and associate professor at Georgetown University, specialising in South Asian political and military affairs. She has worked with RAND Corporation, the UN in Afghanistan and the US Institute of Peace. She has authored books on Pakistan’s military and Lashkar-e-Taiba.

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August 26, 2025, 16:30 IST

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