US critic hits back at Anwar for calling him ‘colonialist’

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Bill O’Reilly laughs off Anwar Ibrahim’s comments and reminds him that the US annual household income per capita is eight times more than Malaysia’s.  Read More: https://www.freemalaysiatoday.com/category/nation/2025/04/24/us-critic-hits-back-at-anwar-for-calling-him-colonialist  Free Malaysia Today is an independent, bi-lingual news portal with a focus on Malaysian current affairs.    Subscribe to our channel - http://bit.ly/2Qo08ry   ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Check us out at https://www.freemalaysiatoday.com Follow FMT on Facebook: https://bit.ly/49JJoo5 Follow FMT on Dailymotion: https://bit.ly/2WGITHM Follow FMT on X: https://bit.ly/48zARSW  Follow FMT on Instagram: https://bit.ly/48Cq76h Follow FMT on TikTok : https://bit.ly/3uKuQFp Follow FMT Berita on TikTok: https://bit.ly/48vpnQG  Follow FMT Telegram - https://bit.ly/42VyzMX Follow FMT LinkedIn - https://bit.ly/42YytEb Follow FMT Lifestyle on Instagram: https://bit.ly/42WrsUj Follow FMT on WhatsApp: https://bit.ly/49GMbxW  ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Download FMT News App: Google Play – http://bit.ly/2YSuV46 App Store – https://apple.co/2HNH7gZ Huawei AppGallery - https://bit.ly/2D2OpNP  #FMTNews #AnwarIbrahim #BillOReilly #XiJinping

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00:00Malaysia is mad at me. This is an unbelievable story.

00:06Conservative American political commentator Bill O'Reilly has hit back at Prime Minister Anwar Ibrahim

00:12for calling him a colonialist after O'Reilly questioned the spending power of three Southeast

00:17Asian nations, including Malaysia. In a video clip today, O'Reilly laughed off Anwar's comments

00:24and compared Malaysia's annual household income per capita of $5,731 to the U.S.'s of $42,220.

00:33That would be eight times as much. So if you want to buy a little hat and you're only making five

00:45grand a year, you're not going to buy it. Okay. You're not getting Chinese takeout either in Kuala

00:52Lumpur. You're barely eating. So Prime Minister, I wish you the best. I've been to Malaysia,

00:59beautiful country. Chinese President Xi Jinping visited Malaysia, Vietnam and Cambodia last week

01:05as part of a regional tour which came amid a trade war with the U.S. over its 145% tariff on China.

01:13The political commentator was criticized by netizens last week after his controversial video

01:18clip in which he told Xi that Malaysia, Vietnam and Cambodia do not have the spending power to

01:24mitigate the impact of the U.S.'s tariff on Chinese goods. In response, Anwar Sid O'Reilly's comments

01:36were rooted in xenophobia, racism and Islamophobia.

01:40Daneshwadja Reza, FMT.

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