President Trump and Prime Minister Modi have met several times, and it isn’t clear from the Post’s report which of these meetings the authors described
New Delhi: President of United States Donald Trump once left Prime Minister Narendra Modi shocked and concerned by telling him India and China didn’t share a border, a new book by two Pulitzer-winning journalists claims.
According to the US newspaper “It’s not like India has got China on your border,” Donald Trump told PM Modi, and the Indian premier’s eyes “bulged out in surprise”, Washington Post journalists Phillip Rucker and Carol Leonning report in “A Very Stable Genius”.
The book’s title is a shout-out to Donald Trump’s own description of his mental awareness.
According to a report, Rucker and Leonning, the authors in the there write highlights that Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s expression “gradually shifted, from shock and concern to resignation” after Trump’s statement and that one of the US president’s aides felt PM Modi probably “left that meeting and said, ‘This is not a serious man. I cannot count on this man as a partner’,”.
The close aide told the book’s authors that India took a step back in its diplomatic ties with Washington after that meeting.
President Trump and Prime Minister Modi have met several times, and it isn’t clear from the Post’s report which of these meetings the authors described. India and the US are in talks for the visit of Trump in India next month.
If it is confirmed, the trip to India would be President Donald Trump’s first since he was voted to power in 2016.
Donald Trump’s knowledge of the subcontinent’s geography has come under scrutiny before. A TIME magazine correspondent wrote in 2019 that the US president had to be corrected at a briefing, he said Nepal and Bhutan are part of India. Trump also reportedly “mispronounced Nepal as ‘nipple’ and laughingly referred to Bhutan as ‘button’.”
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