"During Trump's Howdy, Modi speech, he said, "You have never had a better friend as President than President Donald Trump, that I can tell you." There are more than five million people of Indian origin in the U.S., and in three Presidential elections Trump has steadily increased his vote share in that group, from under thirty per cent, in 2016, to nearly forty per cent last year, according to some estimates. (Modi is tremendously popular with the Indian diaspora.)"
"Earlier this summer, Trump put a twenty-five-per-cent tariff on India; then, in late August, he doubled it to fifty per cent, arguing that the rate was meant to punish India for buying Russian oil. Trump had already enraged some Indians by taking credit for brokering a ceasefire, in May, between India and Pakistan, after the countries had engaged in their worst military conflict in decades."
Donald Trump and Narendra Modi once displayed close personal and political alignment, rallying support among conservative bases and the Indian diaspora. Both leaders rose by consolidating dominant conservative parties and appealing through nationalist and economic messaging. Despite significant diaspora backing for Trump, bilateral relations have sharply deteriorated: Trump imposed a twenty-five‑percent tariff on India, later doubled to fifty percent, citing punishment for Indian purchases of Russian oil. Trump also angered Indians by claiming credit for a ceasefire between India and Pakistan, and tensions surfaced over differing reactions to Pakistan's nomination of Trump for the Nobel Peace Prize.
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