On Saturday, September 6, 2025, Prime Minister Narendra Modi said that he “deeply” appreciated U.S. President Donald Trump’s “positive assessment” of the partnership between India and the U.S. This came after Trump praised the “special” relationship between the two countries, which was seen as an attempt to keep the relationship from getting worse.
A few hours before, Mr. Trump told reporters at the White House that he would always be “friends with Modi,” but he didn’t say why he didn’t like what the Indian leader was doing at this “certain moment.” This is what the Prime Minister said on social media.
“Really appreciate and fully agree with President Trump’s kind words and positive view of our ties,” Mr. Modi said.
Even though trade disputes with India are still going on, US President Donald Trump said Friday that he will always be friends with Modi and called him a “great prime minister.”
Trump told reporters at the White House, “I’ll always be friends with Modi.” He is a wonderful leader. Wonderful. He’s doing something I don’t like right now, though. India and the US, on the other hand, have a unique bond. Not to think about anything. We just have times now and then.
The US has put 50% taxes on Indian goods that are going to the US, which has hurt relations between the two countries. In August, Donald Trump put a 25% tax on India and then another 25% duty on top of that, saying that Russia was buying oil from India.
In response, India said that the US’s move was “unjustified” and that the US was unfairly going after trade with Russia.
In a social media post on Friday, Donald Trump said that the US seems to have lost India to “darkest China.” This came just a few days after the friendly relations between Prime Minister Modi, Chinese President Xi Jinping, and Russian Premier Vladimir Putin at a SCO summit in the Chinese city of Tianjin, which caught the attention of the whole world.
“It looks like China has won; they have India and Russia.” “May they have a long and happy life together!” the US president wrote on the social media site Truth Social.
Trump was angry at the White House about Delhi’s energy ties with Moscow. “I told them that I was upset that India was getting so much oil from Russia. Indian goods were subject to a 50% tax, which is a very high tariff. Modi is a great Prime Minister, and I get along great with him. “He was here a few months ago,” Trump said.
On Saturday, September 6, 2025, Prime Minister Narendra Modi said that he “deeply” appreciated U.S. President Donald Trump’s “positive assessment” of the partnership between India and the U.S. This came after Trump praised the “special” relationship between the two countries, which was seen as an attempt to keep the relationship from getting worse.
A few hours before, Mr. Trump told reporters at the White House that he would always be “friends with Modi,” but he didn’t say why he didn’t like what the Indian leader was doing at this “certain moment.” This is what the Prime Minister said on social media.
“Really appreciate and fully agree with President Trump’s kind words and positive view of our ties,” Mr. Modi said.
India-US Relations: Modi Responds to Trump’s Positive Review #moditrump | The Hindu made the video.
“The Comprehensive and Global Strategic Partnership between India and the United States is very positive and looks to the future,” he said on X.
They talked on the phone on June 17 and this was their first chance to talk about their ideas.
New Delhi and Washington’s relationship has taken a big hit after Mr. Trump doubled tariffs on Indian goods to a huge 50%. India’s purchases of Russian crude oil now face an extra 25% in duties. India said that what the U.S. did was “unfair, unreasonable, and not justified.”
But India didn’t say anything in response to Trump’s comments that suggested New Delhi is moving closer to China.
