United States President Donald Trump on Friday called Prime Minister Narendra Modi a “great friend” and praised him for doing a good job a...
United States President Donald Trump on Friday called Prime Minister Narendra Modi a “great friend” and praised him for doing a good job amid the worsening coronavirus situation in India. He also expressed confidence that Indian-Americans would vote for him in the elections scheduled to be held in November.
“Prime Minister Modi is a great friend of mine and he’s doing a very good job,” Trump said during a press briefing at the White House, in response to a question about India-US ties. “Nothing [is] easy, but he’s done a very good job.”
Trump recalled to the ‘Howdy Modi’ event in Houston in September 2019 and said it showed the Indian-American community’s support for him. “We have great support from India,” he said. “We have great support from Prime Minister Modi. I would think that the Indian (American) people would be voting for Trump.”
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The US president referred to India as an incredible place but said it had been hit “very hard” by the coronavirus crisis. “I also, as you know, went to India just prior to the pandemic setting in because India has been hit very hard, left really about a week before that, and...
