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Washington: United States President Donald Trump has recounted a meeting with Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi, saying Modi sought permission to meet him, as he mocked Modi during remarks at a House GOP member retreat.<\/p>\n Washington: United States President Donald Trump has recounted a meeting with Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi, saying Modi sought permission to meet him, as he mocked Modi during remarks at a House GOP member retreat.<\/p>\n
According to Kashmir Media Service, \u201cPrime Minister Modi came to see me, \u2018Sir, may I see you please\u2019. Yes,\u201d Trump said while speaking about defence sales and trade ties with India.<\/p>\n
Trump said India has been waiting for five years for US-made Apache attack helicopters and had ordered 68 of them. He made the comments while discussing defence demand and trade leverage.<\/p>\n
The US president said Modi was \u201cnot that happy with me\u201d because of tariffs imposed by Washington on New Delhi over its continued purchases of Russian oil.<\/p>\n
\u201cI have a very good relationship with him. He\u2019s not that happy with me because you know they’re paying a lot of tariffs now because they’re not doing the oil, but they are, they’ve now reduced it very substantially, as you know, from Russia,\u201d Trump said.<\/p>\n
Congress India took to X, caricaturising the instance narrated.![\"\"](\"https:\/\/kmsnews.org\/kms\/assests\/2026\/01\/congress-on-modi.jpg\")
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Trump has imposed 50% tariffs on India, including a 25% levy linked specifically to its purchases of Russian oil. On Sunday, he warned that Washington could further raise tariffs if New Delhi failed to curb such imports.<\/p>\n
\u201cModi […] knew I was not happy, and it was important to make me happy,\u201d Trump said.<\/p>\n
\u201cThey do trade, and we can raise tariffs on them very quickly,\u201d he added when asked about India\u2019s oil imports from Russia.<\/p>\n
The United States doubled import tariffs on Indian goods to 50% last year as punishment for what it described as heavy buying of Russian oil.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
Washington: United States President Donald Trump has recounted a meeting with Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi, saying Modi sought permission to meet him, as he mocked Modi during remarks at a House GOP member retreat. According to Kashmir Media Service, \u201cPrime Minister Modi came to see me, \u2018Sir, may I see you please\u2019. Yes,\u201d Trump …<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":192102,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[14],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-192101","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-india"],"aioseo_notices":[],"aioseo_head":"\n\t\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t