The team managing the Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s social media accounts must have exercised great care in composing his congratulatory tweets to Joe Biden and Kamala Harris on winning the 2020 U.S. elections. After all, Modi and Donald Trump had shared a bubbling bonhomie. To the outside world, at least, the two men seemed to have formed a mutual admiration society.
At “Howdy Modi,” a 2019 event organised in his honour in Texas, Modi extolled Trump, expressing admiration for his “sense of leadership, a passion for America, a concern for every American, a belief in American future and a strong resolve to make America great again.”
Modi also claimed, with false optimism, that Trump had “already made the American economy strong again” and that “in these years [under each other’s leadership], the two nations have taken the relationship to new heights.” Throwing caution to the wind, Modi championed Trump’s candidature by repurposing his own winning 2014 slogan: “Ab Ki Baar Trump Sarkar,” “This time, a Trump government.”
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