Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi(left) and President Trump (right) hold press conference at the White House
During a press conference Thursday with the Prime Minister of India, President Trump announced a historic trade and military alliance. The President also responded to a question from The Gateway Pundit about the contrasts between his administration and the weak, incompetent Biden Administration.
As The Gateway Pundit reported, President Trump welcomed the fourth foreign leader to the White House after he took office last month. The President met with Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Thursday. The two were expected to discuss military and trade alliances following President Trump’s signing of a memorandum imposing reciprocal tariffs on all countries that are taxing America’s exported goods.
WATCH LIVE: President Trump Holds Press Conference with Prime Minister of India
During the press conference, President Trump announced that the U.S. will be “increasing military sales to India by many billions of dollars,” including providing F35 stealth fighters, starting this year. The President further shared that he and the Prime Minister “reaffirmed” the diplomatic partnership between Australia, India, Japan, and the United States, known as “The Quad.”
“In addition, the United States and India will be working together like never before to confront the threat of radical Islamic terrorism, a threat all over the world,” the President said before announcing that he had approved the extradition of Tahawwur Rana, a suspect in the 2008 Mumbai terror attack. “He’s going to be going back to India to face justice,” President Trump affirmed.
The President further spoke about tariffs and the trade deficit between India and the United States and announced an agreement to cut India’s “30 to 40 to 60 and even 70%” tariffs as well as the U.S.’s nearly $100 billion dollar trade deficit. “As a signal of good faith, Prime Minister Modi recently announced the reductions to India’s unfair, very strong tariffs that limit U.S. access into the Indian market very strongly,” the President shared. “Prime Minister Modi and I have agreed that we’ll begin negotiations to address the long-running disparities that should have been taken care of over the last four years.”
President Trump said he plans to close the deficit with exports of oil and liquid natural gas to India. He announced an agreement with Modi to “restore the United States as a leading supplier of oil and gas to India” and reform Indian laws to “welcome US nuclear technology.” The sale of nuclear technology will bring tens of billions of dollars into the U.S., according to President Trump. Additionally, the U.S. and India are “joining forces” to ensure the two countries have a stranglehold on the A.I. industry. “We’re going to remain at the top of the AI or artificial intelligence, I think, for a long time to come, and we’re going to be working very closely with India and other countries on that,” the President said.
Lastly, President Trump announced that India and the U.S. are going to work together to “build one of the greatest trade routes in all of history,” running “from India to Israel to Italy and onward to the United States” and “connecting our partners by ports, railways, and undersea cables.”
President Trump closed his speech by saying, “The friendship between the United States and India is the strongest, I believe, it’s ever been.”
The Prime Minister expressed great excitement and confidence in his country’s partnership with the United States, praising President Trump and our American values. At one point, he borrowed President Trump’s signature phrase and said, “Our vision for a developed India is to make India great again or MIGA.” The Prime Minister continued, “When America and India work together, that is when MAGA– when it’s MAGA plus MIGA, it becomes a mega, a mega partnership for prosperity. And it is this mega spirit that gives new scale and scope to our objectives.”
Biden could never have inspired such confidence in a foreign leader or negotiated such an incredible partnership to help the U.S. prosper.
After Prime Minister Modi and President Trump delivered remarks, the President took this reporter’s question about Biden’s incompetence and weakness, which was initially meant for Modi. However, President Trump stepped up and knocked it out of the park.
WATCH:
Conradson: You and the President, you both spoke about combating ISIS, you both sounded very excited about this partnership upcoming. And I was curious, how much more confident are you with President Trump leading this country, that there will be peace through strength and you will have a successful partnership with the United States, versus with Biden’s incompetence and weakness over the last four years?
Trump: That’s your question, but I’ll answer it. I agree with you. Gross incompetence. We’re gonna have a fantastic relationship, and it has been, but the whole world’s been set back over the last four years by the weakness of the United States, the weak leadership of the United States, but I think we’ve taken care of it in just three weeks.
It seems to me that even some of the media that we wouldn’t prefer has been writing that this is a much different country right now, that the world has a light over it. Not only our country, but the whole world. The prime minister told me that before too. Even over India, the world has a light; they need the United States to be strong and powerful, but good. And I think that’s happened, and I think it’s happened in a very short period of time, but I will tell you, we’re going to have a fantastic relationship, and it’ll make Both countries Much Stronger.
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