Trump is accompanied by First Lady Melania, daughter Ivanka, son-in-law Jared Kushner and the top brass of his administration
US President Donald Trump on Sunday left for his maiden visit to India for talks with the top Indian leadership. Before taking the 17-hour flight to India, Trump called Prime Minister Narendra Modi his “friend”.
‘Biggest event’
“I look forward to being with the people of India… I get along very well with PM Modi. He is a friend of mine,” Trump told reporters outside the White House. “I had committed to this trip long time ago. I hear it’s going to be a big event…the biggest event they ever had in India. That’s what the Prime Minister told me. It’s going to be very exciting,” Trump said.
Trump, who is seeking re-election in the US presidential elections in November, routinely gets the biggest crowds of any candidate in the US presidential race, ranging up to 20,000 or so, and he has been grudgingly admiring of Modi’s ability to get a bigger crowd than him. “Here’s my problem,” Trump told a large crowd of supporters in Colorado last week. “We have a packed house. We have thousands of people who couldn’t get in.
It’s going to look like peanuts from now on.”
In India, hundreds of thousands of people are expected to greet Trump in a massive road show in Ahmedabad before he arrives at the newly-built Motera cricket stadium, which has a capacity of over 100,000 people, for the ‘Namaste Trump’ event. The event will be a larger version of the Howdy Modi rally that they jointly appeared at in Houston to a crowd of 50,000 Indian Americans last year…
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