{"id":2686,"date":"2026-02-03T02:21:49","date_gmt":"2026-02-02T18:21:49","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/longzhuplatform.com\/?p=2686"},"modified":"2026-02-03T02:21:49","modified_gmt":"2026-02-02T18:21:49","slug":"two-people-that-get-things-done-trump-praises-pm-modi-after-tariff-talks","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/longzhuplatform.com\/?p=2686","title":{"rendered":"\u2018Two people that get things done\u2019: Trump praises PM Modi after tariff talks"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p> <div> <p lang=\"EN-GB\" paraeid=\"{5640f27d-491c-4eae-91ee-af9d9f32d7d3}{66}\" paraid=\"1522664972\" xml:lang=\"EN-GB\">US President Donald Trump on February 2\u00a0heaped praise on Prime Minister Narendra Modi, calling him \u201cone of my greatest friends\u201d and \u201ca powerful and respected leader of his country,\u201d as he detailed the substance of their latest conversation on trade and global geopolitics.\u00a0<\/p> <p lang=\"EN-GB\" paraeid=\"{5640f27d-491c-4eae-91ee-af9d9f32d7d3}{71}\" paraid=\"1919137291\" xml:lang=\"EN-GB\">In a post on his Truth Social platform, Trump said he and Modi spoke about \u201cmany things, including Trade, and ending the War with Russia and Ukraine,\u201d linking bilateral economic ties with broader strategic goals. Trump claimed that Modi had agreed to \u201cstop buying Russian Oil, and to buy much more from the United States and, potentially, Venezuela,\u201d a move he said would \u201chelp END THE WAR in Ukraine,\u201d which he described as claiming \u201cthousands of people dying each and every week.\u201d\u00a0<\/p> <article class=\"embedded-entity\"> <article class=\"media media--type-ckeditor-image media--view-mode-image\"> <\/article> <\/article> <p lang=\"EN-GB\" paraeid=\"{5640f27d-491c-4eae-91ee-af9d9f32d7d3}{76}\" paraid=\"801583071\" xml:lang=\"EN-GB\">Trump also said the discussion led to what he called an immediate trade understanding between the two countries. \u201cOut of friendship and respect for Prime Minister Modi, and as per his request, effective immediately, we agreed to a Trade Deal,\u201d he wrote, adding that the United States would reduce reciprocal tariffs while India would move to lower its trade barriers.\u00a0<\/p> <p lang=\"EN-GB\" paraeid=\"{5640f27d-491c-4eae-91ee-af9d9f32d7d3}{81}\" paraid=\"1989719862\" xml:lang=\"EN-GB\">Emphasising their personal chemistry, Trump said he and Modi are \u201ctwo people that GET THINGS DONE,\u201d and asserted that the agreement would make the US-India relationship \u201ceven stronger going forward.\u201d\u00a0<\/p> <\/div> <p>Trump Modi praise; Trump Truth Social Modi; US India leaders talks; Trump Modi trade comments; Trump Ukraine Russia oil India; Trump calls Modi friend; US India relations Trump; Modi Trump statement#people #Trump #praises #Modi #tariff #talks1770056509<\/p> ","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>US President Donald Trump on February 2\u00a0heaped praise on Prime Minister Narendra Modi, calling him \u201cone of my greatest friends\u201d and \u201ca powerful and respected leader of his country,\u201d as he detailed the substance of their latest conversation on trade and global geopolitics.\u00a0 In a post on his Truth Social platform, Trump said he and [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":2687,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[37],"tags":[3319,6430,6143,903,376,378,8277],"class_list":["post-2686","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-content-marketing","tag-modi","tag-people","tag-praises","tag-talks","tag-tariff","tag-trump","tag-trump-modi-praise-trump-truth-social-modi-us-india-leaders-talks-trump-modi-trade-comments-trump-ukraine-russia-oil-india-trump-calls-modi-friend-us-india-relations-trump-modi-trump-statement"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/longzhuplatform.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2686","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/longzhuplatform.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/longzhuplatform.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/longzhuplatform.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/longzhuplatform.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2686"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/longzhuplatform.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2686\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/longzhuplatform.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/2687"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/longzhuplatform.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2686"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/longzhuplatform.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2686"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/longzhuplatform.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2686"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}