US President Donald Trump is an American businessman and politician affiliated with the Republican Party. He served as the 45th president of the United States from 2017 to 2021 and was re-elected as the 47th president after winning the November 2024 election.
His first term was defined by a trade war with China, tense exchanges with North Korea, and his controversial push to build a wall along the U.S.-Mexico border to curb immigration.
At the start of his second term, Trump imposed tariffs on Canada and Mexico, straining relations with America’s closest neighbors despite the NAFTA and USMCA trade agreements. He also stirred controversy with his remarks about Panama’s control of its canal and his reported interest in purchasing Greenland from Denmark—a proposal widely dismissed by Danish officials.
Trump became the first U.S. president to be impeached twice and one of the few to lose a re-election bid before staging a political comeback. He began his career in the family real estate business, later becoming a real estate tycoon and reality TV host before entering politics in 2016. His presidency and post-presidency have been clouded by legal troubles, including multiple felony charges and civil cases. The most infamous controversy remains his alleged role in the January 6, 2021, attack on the U.S. Capitol by his supporters as Congress was certifying Joe Biden’s victory. In 2024, Trump survived an assassination attempt during a rally while he was campaigning for presidency.
The issue with Modi is written in first para itself i.e ” wish to consolidate domestic polity”.
Everyone wants to Win elections but for MODI that’s like a paranoia…obsession. The “PARCHARAK in Modi ” doesn’t let PM Modi work.
Japan unfortunately cannot take up the slack created with America. Indian merchandise exports of $ 5 billion last year, versus $ 80 billion to the US. Plus the US is a market for service exports that others simply cannot match.
On a lighter note, EAM can also talk to his Chinese interlocutors in excellent Mandarin.
My heart tells me this goes beyond opening the marker for US agricultural exports. A loaded political question in India. Also beyond the personality and temperament of President Trump, obviously a monumental challenge for the whole world, including NATO allies. 2. The defining partnership of the twenty first century. Over hyped, both sides did their sums and realised it was not delivering as expected. Our problems with America will not end with the departure of Trump, any more than they did with Biden’s. 3. With America and China, the two superpowers and largest economies, Indian foreign policy needs to return to the drawing board.
You are right in mentioning that ‘no Indian prime minister can offer the kind of concessions Trump seeks in agriculture’. But if I were the prime minister, I would have enforced zero import tariffs on all products and services worldwide and made India the world’s number one free-market economy, I would have India such a heavily industrialised country that the interested farmers would themselves sell their lands for market prices directly to industries without the govt mediating. At the end of my five-year term as the prime minister, I would have implemented reforms in land, labour, and capital to make India a developed country, only to see the electorate kick me out of the PM’s office. For me, the nation’s prosperity is more important than farmers and their ‘third-rate socialist security’. Long live the free market.