Coming up Trumps
Jan 25, 2020
4 minutes
By Sandeep Unnithan
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Sometime next month, Prime Minister Narendra Modi will welcome US President Donald Trump on his first state visit to India. Among the highlights of the Trump trip will be a sequel to the rapturous ‘Howdy, Modi!’ event organised in Houston, Texas, in September last year which saw the two heads of state walking hand-in-hand before a crowd of nearly 50,000 people of Indian origin. The next US presidential elections are just 10 months away.
While Trump’s domestic approval ratings remain high despite facing an impeachment in the US Senate, he needs all the help he can get.
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