Trump has followed Prime Minister Modi, Indian accent, while discussing Afghanistan: Report

Washington Post quoted senior administration officials as saying that American President Donald Trump "is known for influencing an Indian accent and copying Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi"

Updated: January 23, 2018 00:09 IST



For Trump, Modi's statement is evidence that the rest of the world saw America as a cheating. (File)

New Delhi: US President Donald Trump affects Indian diaspora and "imitates" Prime Minister Narendra Modi while discussing Afghanistan's policy, Washington Post said in a report quoting officials.

"The senior administration officials said that the President is known for influencing an Indian accent and for imitating Prime Minister Narendra Modi, who told him last year at the Oval Office meeting," Never change any country Not so much given in the "United States of Afghanistan," said the Washington Post report

The report says, "For Trump, Modi's statement is proof that the rest of the world cheated the United States and took advantage in Afghanistan".

President Trump has been accused of racism for the first use of imitation. In October, talking about Hurricane victims of Hurricane Maria heard using a Puerto Rican accent. During his election campaign, he made fun of the representative of an Indian call center and sparked his pronunciation while talking about "crooked banking".

President Trump has described Prime Minister Modi as a "true friend" and both leaders have developed a warm relationship over the last one year, have communicated on the phone and on Twitter.

President Trump organized Prime Minister Modi in the White House during his visit to the US in June last year. The White House said that it was "the first dinner for the foreign republic in the White House under the president (the president of the trumpet") and that it was "seeking to roll the red carpet".

Prime Minister Modi had warmly passed. He told reporters in the White House, "When he (President Trump) had come to India in 2014 ... he was full of very hot comments and comments about me, I still remember him."

Prime Minister Modi and President Trump had last met in November at the ASEAN summit in the Philippines.

Last year, Prime Minister Modi hosted Impna Trump, the daughter and President Trump's informal advisor, when he joined the 360-member delegation at a high profile business conference in Hyderabad.

The United States deepened the extended relationship between India and India in strategic partnership and terrorism, including defense, trade, research and fighting. He called India a "leading global power" and promised to support the role of India's leadership in South and Central Asia.