In this file photo taken on January 2, 2018 shows US ambassador to the United Nations Nikki Haley speaking during a brief press availability at United Nations headquarters in New York. US Ambassador Nikki Haley has slammed rumors that she was having an affair with President Donald Trump as "highly offensive" and "disgusting."The rumors stem from author Michael Wolff of the best-seller "Fire and Fury," who suggested in an interview that Trump was having an affair and that the liaison was with someone detailed in his book. Wolff wrote in his book that Haley, the most high-profile woman in Trump's administration, was positioning herself as the president's heir apparent. Pic/AFP

Washington: Indian American Nikki Haley, the top US diplomat to the UN, has described rumours about her having an affair with President Donald Trump as "highly offensive" and "disgusting". "It is absolutely not true," she said yesterday. Haley ' the first ever Indian-American Cabinet-ranking official in any presidential administration ' strongly quelled rumours in this regard as "highly offensive and disgusting," in the interview with 'Politico'. "I have literally been on Air Force One once and there were several people in the room when I was there," Haley said. "He says that I've been talking a lot with the president in the Oval about my political future.