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Trump's India trip mixes politics with policy, and offers the promise of his biggest rally yet
“Namaste Trump.”
No, the president has not suddenly discovered the meditative glow of a good yoga session. He has, however, discovered the energizing power of a good political rally, Indian-style.
President Trump will almost certainly not complete a new U.S.-India trade deal during his two-day visit to the world’s most populous democracynext week. The trophy agreement has been repeatedly postponed amid trade tensions.
Instead, the centerpiece of Trump’s brief trip is a massive rally in Trump’s honor that his host, Prime Minister Narendra Modi, has billed as “Namaste Trump.” The greeting loosely translates from Sanskrit as, “I bow to you,” which may appeal to Trump as much as the idea that the gathering Monday in Ahmedabad is expected to fill, or nearly fill, the world’s largest cricket stadium.
Never mind that the projected stadium capacity is perhaps 120,000, not “millions,” as Trump has exclaimed, and that it seems a stretch to estimate that a crowd approaching the population of New York City will line the streets for his arrival.
“We’re not treated very well by India, but I happen to like Prime Minister Modi a lot,” Trump said Tuesday, when asked about the dwindling likelihood that the trade pact would be ready. “And he told me we’ll have seven million people between the airport and the event. And the stadium, I understand, is sort of semi under construction, but it’s going to be the largest stadium in the world. So it’s going to be very exciting.”
By the time an ebullient Trump spoke at a “Keep America Great Again” rally in Colorado on Thursday, the promised crowd had grown.
“I hear they are going to have 10 million people,” he said.
https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/trumps-india-trip-mixes-politics-with-policy-and-the-promise-of-his-biggest-rally-yet/2020/02/21/fda09950-54dc-11ea-b119-4faabac6674f_story.html
No, the president has not suddenly discovered the meditative glow of a good yoga session. He has, however, discovered the energizing power of a good political rally, Indian-style.
President Trump will almost certainly not complete a new U.S.-India trade deal during his two-day visit to the world’s most populous democracynext week. The trophy agreement has been repeatedly postponed amid trade tensions.
Instead, the centerpiece of Trump’s brief trip is a massive rally in Trump’s honor that his host, Prime Minister Narendra Modi, has billed as “Namaste Trump.” The greeting loosely translates from Sanskrit as, “I bow to you,” which may appeal to Trump as much as the idea that the gathering Monday in Ahmedabad is expected to fill, or nearly fill, the world’s largest cricket stadium.
Never mind that the projected stadium capacity is perhaps 120,000, not “millions,” as Trump has exclaimed, and that it seems a stretch to estimate that a crowd approaching the population of New York City will line the streets for his arrival.
“We’re not treated very well by India, but I happen to like Prime Minister Modi a lot,” Trump said Tuesday, when asked about the dwindling likelihood that the trade pact would be ready. “And he told me we’ll have seven million people between the airport and the event. And the stadium, I understand, is sort of semi under construction, but it’s going to be the largest stadium in the world. So it’s going to be very exciting.”
By the time an ebullient Trump spoke at a “Keep America Great Again” rally in Colorado on Thursday, the promised crowd had grown.
“I hear they are going to have 10 million people,” he said.
https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/trumps-india-trip-mixes-politics-with-policy-and-the-promise-of-his-biggest-rally-yet/2020/02/21/fda09950-54dc-11ea-b119-4faabac6674f_story.html
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