US President Donald Trump: PM Modi a great friend, think Indian-Americans would vote for me

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 covid-19 situation in India. He also expressed confidence that Indian-Americans would vote for him in the elections scheduled to be held in November.

Trump said during a press briefing at the White House, in response to a question about India-US ties., Prime Minister Modi is a great friend of mine and he’s doing a very good job. 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.

He said, we have great support from India. We have great support from Prime Minister Modi. I would think that the Indian (American) people would be voting for Trump.”

The US president referred to India as an incredible place but said it had been hit very hard by the covid-19 crisis.

He said, 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 we had an incredible time. What we saw the people are so incredible it’s really an incredible place, an incredible country and its definitely big. He was ready to help India and China amid fresh border tensions between the two countries and referred to the situation along the Line of Actual Control as nasty. China and India are going at it pretty good on the border, as you know. It’s [the standoff] has been very nasty. And we stand ready to help with respect to China and India. If we can do anything, we would love to get involved and help. And we are talking to both countries about that.

The US president had offered to mediate between China and India in May and also in June after the Galwan Valley clash. Both China and India had refused the offer.