File Photo: US President Donald Trump speaks to members of the media aboard Air Force One | Photo credit: EVELYN HOCKSTEIN
“It’s great, it’s going well. He (Prime Minister Narendra Modi) stopped… To a large extent, he stopped buying oil from Russia,” Trump said in the Oval Office in response to a question about how talks with Modi and trade negotiations with India are progressing.
“He’s a friend of mine, and we’re talking… He wants me to go there. We’ll figure that out. I’ll go. I had a great trip there with Prime Minister Modi, he’s a great man. And I’ll go,” Trump said.
When asked if he plans to go to India next year, Trump said: “That could be the case, yes.”
India will host leaders from Australia, Japan and the US for the Quad Summit in New Delhi after the 2024 summit was held in Wilmington, Delaware.
However, the dates for the summit in India have not yet been announced.
In his remarks to the press, Trump repeated his claim that he had stopped the war between India and Pakistan in May using trade.
“Of the eight wars I’ve ended, I’d say five or six ended because of tariffs. I’ll give you an example. If you look at India and Pakistan, they started fighting, they’re two nuclear nations… They shot at each other. Eight planes were shot down. There were seven. Now it’s eight, because the one that was more or less shot down is now abandoned. Eight planes were shot down. Eight planes were shot down.”
“And I said, ‘Listen, if you guys are going to fight, I’m going to put tariffs on you.’ And they both said, they weren’t happy about that. And within 24 hours, I settled the war. If I hadn’t had tariffs, I couldn’t have settled that war,” Trump said.
The president also called tariffs a “great national defense.”
Published on November 7, 2025
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