Newsman: President Donald Trump met with Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi Thursday.
Trump and Modi greeted each with a hug in the lobby of the West Wing before meeting Thursday afternoon in the Oval Office. Trump called Modi a “great friend.”
“We have great friendship, he and I and our countries, and I think it’s only going to get closer,” Trump said.
“The world had this thinking that India somehow is a neutral country in this whole process,” Modi said, praising Trump for speaking with Russia and Ukraine’s leaders on Wednesday. “But this is not true. India has a side, and that side is of peace.”
Modi is the fourth foreign leader to visit Trump since his inauguration last month, following Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, Ishiba of Japan and Jordan’s King Abdullah II.
Prior to meeting with Trump, Modi sat down with national security adviser Mike Waltz. He also met with billionaire SpaceX founder and top Trump administration official Elon Musk.
India is hosting a summit of a group of countries known as the Quad — made up of the U.S., India, Japan and Australia — later this year.
