Donald Trump is an American businessman and politician associated with the Republican Party. He served as the 45th president of the United States from 2017 to 2021. His tenure as president was known for his war of words with North Korea, a trade war with China, and his claims to build a wall to stop immigration from the south.
He is the first president to be impeached twice and one of the very few to not get an immediate second term in office. Trump started his career by joining the family business and rose to be a real estate tycoon. He then went on to host reality TV before joining politics in 2016. While he faces numerous felony counts and civil and criminal cases in US courts, the most infamous is his alleged role in the 6 January 2021 storming of Capitol Hill by his supporters, as the US Congress began the electoral vote count to confirm Joe Biden as the next President.
Among so many other things, Mike Pompeo was also a Sunday school teacher (preacher)! And when he released the International Religious Freedom Report on India (and other countries), he made it clear that the matter was also personal. This is what he said: “This mission is not just a Trump administration priority – it’s a deeply personal one. For many years, I was a Sunday school teacher and a deacon at my church,” Mr. Pompeo said. “And that might sound unusual to a lot of folks inside the Beltway [ i.e., Washington DC] . But I am one of millions of Americans, and billions of people across the world, who live in the knowledge of a higher power,” he added. Pompeo may like Modi, as Obama did, but that wouldn’t come in the way of his duties. Obama had also criticised the treatment of minorities in India, when he was in India as a chief guest on the occasion of Republic Day ceremonies. Pompeo would have to follow the instructions of his crazy boss Trump, who wants to annul defence pacts with even America’s NATO allies, and Japan, because they don’t pay fair shares of their defence expenses! If Trump decides that India must not buy the S-400 air defence system from Russia, then that’s it, and Pompeo would say so!