A CNN host is accused of making a racist comment to Indian American Scripps Spelling Bee Champion Ananya Vinay during a segment after the competition.

Alisyn Camerota, host of the show New Day with Chris Cuomo, was speaking with the 12-year-old champion after Thursday victory at Gaylord National Resort and Convention Center in suburban Washington when Camerota asked her to spell President Trump's made up word 'covfefe.'

'It's a nonsense word. So, we're not sure that its root is actually in Sanskrit, which is what you're probably, uh, used to using, so, I don't know. Anyway,' Camerota said of the girl from Fresno, California.

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Alisyn Camerota, host of the show New Dayn with Chris Cuomo, was speaking with the 12-year-old champion after Thursday victory at Gaylord National Resort and Convention Center in suburban Washington when Camerota asked her to spell PresidentTrump's made up word 'covfefe'

'It's a nonsense word. So, we're not sure that its root is actually in Sanskrit, which is what you're probably, uh, used to using, so, I don't know. Anyway,' Camerota said of the girl from Fresno, California

Ananya won the 2017 Scripps National Spelling Bee by spelling the word 'marocain', at Gaylord National Resort & Convention Center June 1, 2017

Social media criticized Camerota's comment, saying that it was laced with racist undertones.

Comedian @JeremyMcLellan shared the video and said: '12-year-old Ananya Vinay won the National Spelling Bee so naturally CNN had her on to spell 'covfefe' and say some racist stuff to her.'

His tweet was shared and retweeted by thousands of users who had similar sentiments.

Columnist @jasuja had a similar critique and said: 'Reinforcing the Sanskrit stereotype on a champion of a Indian origin, really?How progressive @CNN?Ever stepped outside the USA for #Covfefe?'

Comedian @JeremyMcLellan shared the video and said: '12-year-old Ananya Vinay won the National Spelling Bee so naturally CNN had her on to spell 'covfefe' and say some racist stuff to her'

Columnist @jasuja had a similar critique and said: 'Reinforcing the Sanskrit stereotype on a champion of a Indian origin, really?How progressive @CNN?Ever stepped outside the USA for #Covfefe?'

'She said 'that's what you're probably used to' that's a pretty clear stereotype,' commented @masaldaan

'She said 'that's what you're probably used to' that's a pretty clear stereotype,' commented @masaldaan.

One user, gaming critic David Abrams spoke out in favor of the CNN host by posting a picture of spelling bee guidelines and said: 'or maybe it's a perfectly reasonable comment? Let's all be outraged anyway. Fuck it!'

A spokeswoman for CNN spoke with the Washington Post and said Camoreta's comment had nothing to do with Ananya's heritage and that it wasn't the first time the anchor has cracked that type of joke.

Gaming critic David Abrams spoke out in favor of the CNN host by posting a picture of spelling bee guidelines and said: 'or maybe it's a perfectly reasonable comment? Let's all be outraged anyway. F*** it!'

'Alisyn made the same joking reference to the root of 'covfefe' in an earlier panel discussion that aired Wednesday,' she told the Washington Post.

'If she's guilty of anything it's recycling a joke. To assign a bias to what was a fun and innocent segment celebrating Ananya Vinay's incredible accomplishment is frankly extremely cynical.'

Sanskrit - an ancient language that is associated with Hinduism - is hardly spoken today with the exception of Hindu priest.