Donald Trump’s efforts to “make America great again” have prioritized trade and tariffs. On numerous times, Trump has stated that “tariff” is his favourite term in the dictionary and that he believes they are critical to the restoration of the US economy.
Following their hour-long discussion, US President Donald Trump and Prime Minister Narendra Modi held a joint news conference to discuss India-US bilateral ties and answer international media questions.
With Donald Trump declaring sweeping reciprocal tariffs for all countries as a tit-for-tat trade strategy hours before his meeting with Prime Minister Modi, one of the concerns posed to President Trump was whether he is a harder and better negotiator than Prime Minister Modi. To this, the US President quickly responded, “He is a much tougher negotiator than me and a much better negotiator than me.” There’s not even a contest.”
Regarding reciprocal tariffs, President Trump stated, “It is only fair that taxes and tariffs are reciprocal.” Explaining his point, he stated that “many attempts have been made” by the US throughout time to cut duties on US exports, “but since that has not worked out, we have now decided to reciprocate in the exact same way – something that has never been done before.”
Donald Trump’s efforts to “make America great again” have prioritized trade and tariffs. On numerous times, Trump has stated that “tariff” is his favourite term in the dictionary and that he believes they are critical to the restoration of the US economy.
Even on Thursday evening (US Eastern Time), Donald Trump stated, “We (the US) had been a tremendous economy, the number one in the world – still are – but, ever since Covid, the economy has been stressed. “We will now revive it,” he stated in response to another tariff-related inquiry.
Even before the bilateral talks began, both leaders addressed the press. Donald Trump lauded PM Modi, saying, “Prime Minister Modi is a great leader,” and promised, “We’re going to make some wonderful trade deals for India and the US.”
Aside from trade and tariffs, the two presidents had in-depth discussions about regional and global security, the India-US defence partnership, foreign investment, energy, technology, education, visas, and immigration.
PM Modi is one of the first world leaders to travel to the United States for an official visit to meet with Donald Trump following his election victory. This is PM Modi’s tenth visit to the United States as prime minister, and his fourth with Trump as president.
