The man Russia supposedly likes because he’s such a good “dealmaker” scores another big victory. Well, if you consider success to be getting a foreign leader to put on a big pageant to appease the overgrown toddler who runs the most powerful nation on earth.
You have to watch that whole comment about how he received the greatest greeting in world history to believe it.
The reports are that Trump mispronounced half the Indian words in his speech and people walked out in droves.
Politico: “President Donald Trump will close out his 36-hour trip to India Tuesday without striking a long-coveted trade deal to ease tariffs… The self-proclaimed master dealmaker is arguing that he is holding out for a bigger and better deal. Trump said during the trip that his team was in ‘the early stages of discussion for an incredible trade agreement,’ even though his staff had been working on a deal for more than a year and had indicated just days before the visit that it would be cinched while in India.”
Associated Press: “Trump’s India visit prioritizes pageantry over policy.”
Wall Street Journal: “The leaders of the world’s two largest democracies focused their discussion on complimenting each other, instead of the two countries’ sticking points on trade or deadly protests in New Delhi over a controversial new citizenship law.”
Trump got his boots licked and Modi got the president of the United States downplaying his anti-Muslim authoritarian crack-down.
President Trump commended Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi for “working very hard on religious freedom” and refused to discuss a controversial new citizenship law that set off protests across the country, saying that the matter was “really up to India.”
Trump’s comments came amid the worst outbreak of communal violence in India’s capital in decades. At least 13 people were killed in Delhi on Monday and Tuesday when clashes broke out between Hindus and Muslims in the northeastern part of the city.
As long as Trump got his big parade and stadium speech, he’ll do anything for his pal Modi. Even take a pass on trade negotiations. Adulation, phony or otherwise, is all he needs and wants.