Public sentiment towards Trump's visit to India is largely negative, dominated by skepticism, mockery, and distrust regarding his reliability as a leader and partner. Many commenters express concerns over past actions that they perceive as disrespectful and manipulative, fostering a strong sentiment for India's self-reliance and caution towards U.S. intentions. While there are minor optimistic voices regarding trade opportunities, the overarching mood is disappointment and skepticism towards the U.S.

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There are two things going on here at the same time: 

**1).)** U.S. is looking for an excuse to renegotiate trade with India. Both sides have been trying to negotiate a trade deal for quite some time, but there are huge issues: India will not sell out its agricultural base and the U.S. can’t really put tariffs on digital services from India the way it can physical imports from other nations. This makes India extremely difficult to negotiate with but at the same time, extremely important for America to strike a deal with before India erodes America’s white collar base without giving reciprocal access to its consumer market. You simply can’t put tariffs on your IT guy in Bangalore the way you can car parts from Germany because no physical good is crossing a physical border.

What’s happening now is that the gloves are coming off: America is trying to play hardball and express displeasure with India. The problem is that India is just in the flat out superior negotiating position. America may have a technology edge but this is being eroded and India is trending towards further expansion economically and in terms of human capital. Withholding technological transfer to India will not work, because the technological gatekeeping the U.S. used in the past is already being eroded by China. If the U.S. continues then it opens up the U.S. to IP/technological theft not just from China but India as well, which will be fatal to U.S. domestic industry. 

The U.S. should have renegotiated trade deals with China and India after the 2008 financial crisis but both the Chinese and the Indians were too effective at stalling the negotiations to the point that now they have the upper hand. Now they are trying to make up for lost time and doing too much from too weak of a bargaining position. 

**2.)** The bigger issue is that the recent India - Pakistan conflict exposed America’s position. During the conflict Pakistan could reliably count on diplomatic support from Turkey, China, **and America**. India received no support at all from the Quad during this conflict. The IMF even financially bailed Pakistan out during the conflict and Trump/Vance attempted to mediate on behalf of Pakistan while equivocating the two sides internationally. For India, this was a massive red line. 

Subsequently, Trump invited General Asif Munir (ie not Pakistan’s PM) to the White House to negotiate using Pakistani airspace to bomb Iran. This demonstrated to India that the U.S. simply will never give up Pakistan. 

So now India in a position where it sees that the U.S. is not only unreliable diplomatically but that it will always prioritize relations with its mortal enemy *and* that will try to impede India’s technological development further. 

I’d argue that all of this was very predictable.

CoachKoranGodwin

He already tanked the relation with India. 
Even if he backtracks tomorrow, which we all doubt, there is no guarantee that he wouldn’t change his mood again the day after. 
And even if he is out of office we now all have seen, that Americans could vote another lunatic into office anytime. 
Trump is the beginning of the end of US dominance. We, the world, should thank him for this.

mastermindman99

An entire new generation of Indians, born from the late 90s to 2000s will now learn &amp; internalize why their previous generations took a cautious distrustful approach with the US. Sigh. This is penny wise pound foolish move by Trump.

[deleted]

Thing is, India never relied on US. So title is kinda...you know..

JustGulabjamun

I’ll agree about the bizzare nice treatment of Pakistan and China  but the stuff about secondary sanctions over Russian oil is pretty classic American stuff and viewed from a Rus/Ukr view instead of a south Asian foreign policy one makes a lot of sense.

spinosaurs70

What I don’t quite understand is why the U.S. deep state appears to be giving Trump so much leeway.

The strategic direction of a nation is shaped over years—often decades—not in reaction to short-term political shifts.

Trump now seems singularly focused on forcing Russia to end the war. But even if that happens in the next couple of months, the underlying damage to U.S. alliances and trust is already done. The relationship with key partners is strained, perhaps irreparably.

So what exactly is the endgame here?

curiousstrider

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Dean_46

I’m not sure there’s much I can add here that hasn’t been said already. It’s a huge mistake for the US to antagonise both India and Brazil at the same time, especially since it’s for idiotic reasons in the first place. 

The best way to get both nations to limit their trade with Russia is to offer them long term stable commitments that help improve them. India has a population of well over 1.4 billion and one that is still growing. 

The other way to get those countries to limit their trade with Russia is to let them see that Russia is an unreliable partner and one that isn’t capable of offering much. That’s something they need to experience on their own terms and not be subject to threats of sanctions or tariffs. 

Biden had a much better grasp of geopolitics.

Ethereal-Zenith

If India genuinely does employ a pragmatic and transactional approach to relations with major powers beyond its region then surely a few ripples in US bilateral affairs can be managed easily 

The Indian logic of buying Russian oil is it is simply pursuing its interests. ‘We do balancing, it’s the cheapest option and our economy takes precedence, Ukraine is not our fight’. Fair enough.

The US logic is it is simply pursuing its own interests. ‘We have an opportunity to humble Russia and protect Ukraine, India’s support of Russia enables them and imposes costs on the US in terms of military aid and posture’. Fair enough. If Russia can be stopped the US can get troops out of Europe quicker.

Strong_Remove_2976

Just 25? Go to the back of queue. They ripped 80+ years of relationship with us.

Jazzlike_770

Why did you reelect Trump, my American friends? But on a more serious note I think that indian people and the American people are very much aligned - far more stable than earlier. I don't think that the president can spoil this much.

houstonrice

That's someone's plan, no doubt. Or the plan of a number of state actors. Or both, either way.

DanoPinyon

trump is risks thanking every countries relation

Legitimate-Proof5152

Consider it tanked. 

The Indian-US rapprochement of the last few years bucked a decades long trend of misalignment and disconnect. Trump’s erratic behavior now basically confirms some of the long held fears and prejudices in India regarding Western interests and influence.

Trump really is a bull in a China Shop

Open_Management7430

Field Marshall* , (both are correct though)

theakashray

GovindaKeFan

Iske mood swings to average teenager se bhi zyada h

Aapkearmaan2007

chacha o bhos\*\*iwale chacha!! Choco chahiye kya?

Cheap-Plenty-161

Callistoo-

Sexy_papa1

Perfect word Made in India for this -  नौटंकी -  "Nautanki"

Realistic_Patience67

humanobserverpro

Something’s seriously wrong with this guy 😅

MandoFromMandolore

Karl-Marx0505

Connect_Surprise_868

Apart-Raspberry-7909

Pain_Smoker_

camus_by_night

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LazyCurvyPanda

No deal and the market is up by 150 points?

villageboyz

Definitely working on his 2026 Nobel Peace Prize.

amnorobotquery

Feisty_Challenge_854

He deal is that Pakistan will keep vocally yelling for his Nobel price and that he will keep yelling about the planes shot down

AbrocomaOk9726

He is competing with Rahul Gandhi and Pakistan on who can spew more bullshit and lies

NikolaiRoarke

Karrot-guy

Pura hitler wadi soch, "jhoot bar bar bolo aur itna bada bolo jisse so sach lagne lagega" 

Data-CHOR-365

Repeat a lie several times to make it right.

Prestigious-Swim5641

Kabhi kisi din CIA wale hi iski fielding laga dege

Sosuke_Aizen5

DickSmasherSauce

Trump- "We can't have a trade deal with you,if there is a war."
Goes to increase custom duties on Indian goods,when there's no war!???

PlentyTasty

EvenAd9876

skaiinyx

I'll raise your 7 planes by 4 boats and 14 civilians

mcorbett94

ye trump sala.. kejriwal se bhi bada dogla h

mavericknis

Abbe kab ka clip upload kiya hai??
Operation Sindoor ke time ka toh nahi?

Firm-Catch6454

Chacha kaun si side ke plane hai ,ye bhi bta de..........Paagal budhaa

Significant-Crazy241

Hut i kinda like how he uses his slang language like theres no poster / image of a president liked the way he said modi he is a killla

Fun_Walrus_2594

being_vampire

His own planes are falling off ships, should do some trade and invest in better anchors

FloorAccomplished635

Goodness, this guy is more obsessed with this country than those nationalists themselves.

SpecialistLet162

Timely_Category7589

What trump want to showcase is that american fighter planes were shot down by russian tech. Which isn't admissible for him to strike a deal. What a pathetic looser.

ArmedSage

They can't make a trade deal as India shot their planes ?

Sunnyhustle62

Is this a coherent sentence?? Seven jet shotdown and he called modi for trade? How are these 2 connected and why hes repeating the same thing?

Electrical-Dream-903

The unraveling of a seemingly positive trade dynamic shows the precarious nature of crafting an economic partnership with a mercurial Trump administration. India appeared on the fast track to a trade deal. An early White House visit by Prime Minister Narendra Modi led to months of negotiations. By July, the Indians believed they had struck an agreement and that Commerce Secretary Howard Lutnick and U.S. Trade Representative Jamieson Greer were simply waiting on President Donald Trump’s approval.

strategicpublish

No new information in the article.

“He is upset” - you don’t say…. A lot of Indians are upset too.

omnivision12345

Imagine that in a few decades people will be discussing how a rapist manchild felon became president of US, because Republican voters wanted Democrats to get rekt.

Of course he is upset, someone didn't kiss his ass enough so he tries to punish them by scraping any deal and destroying diplomatic relations. He doesn't care about short or long term implications of this, if he can even fathom them.

Cheerful_Champion

Poor Trumpanzee is such a big pedo snowflake because Modi refused to him a “Nobel Pedo Prize” photo op with Pakistan’s military dictator who is a professional ass kisser.

CampEmbarrassed170

Remind me, who negotiated the US trade deal with India?

Successful-Bobcat701

So the US' trade surplus with India is less than $50 billion and $586 billion with China. Yet somehow it's a "one sided disaster" only with India?

boinwtm0ds

He hasn’t figured out that India and China plus a lot of other countries are going to ignore him and his dumb ass tariffs . He will be responsible for driving the entire economy down the crapper.

PWL51

Jake Sulivan former NSA of America - 

"Trump sacrificed India Us relationship for his family's Crypto Business deal with Pakistan.".

Trump's Family Members own 60 to 70 percent of stake in A Crypto firm which is run by Zach witkoff son of Steve Witkoff who is Trump's family friend and US  special envoy to middle east .

Royal-Hunter3892

It's blatantly obvious to everyone else that Krasnov has his marching orders to try and get china and India together so they're emboldened to defy sanctions on Russia by buying more oil, right?

count023

Slams insulting tariffs and singling out India 

Labels them as Modi's War in Ukraine 

Provides a presidential lunch to an Islamist terrorist general Asim Munir in the White House where he spews nuclear attack. 

Plays out the casteist card by Navarro 

Trump - Why would India do this to me??

xenocideMadridKKR-07

dawgblogit

Most US trade relationships under Trump can be described as "a totally one sided disaster"

bdbr

India makes things Americans want, Americans buy them, India sells them... It's horrific.

YoungestDonkey

Dementia Donny told Modi what to do and he didn’t. Seriously does Modi not realize he was slighting the king of the pedos?

Stup1dMan3000

Why are CNBC using photos of him taken prior to his recent illness/absence - they bare little resemblance to how he actually looks at the moment.

AgUnityDD

The discrepancy between this buffoon’s God-like self-image and the reality of his abysmal ignorance and pathetic character is massive.

geographer035

Trump "requesting" EU to terrif on India. I never imagined I would see the US requesting the EU to follow them. Such a disaster for Taco man.

Street-bet777

Trump is ostracising all his allies and they are seeking new partners.

morts73

A golden age for China isn't too far away now!

hacketyapps

If you include Tech giants’ revenue along with indian students paying the American universities you can make a case that it is a very balance relationship. Also India bought arms worth 22 billion USD last year alone, idk what he is talking about. We buy things from Russia but our net share of defence imports from Russia is falling rapidly. It usually is spare parts or upgrades to existing equipment. 

Also the trade deal he mentioned, yeah it was offered in may/june 0 for 0 tariffs on most of the goods but he still wanted to levy a 10 percent charge which was unacceptable by indians and wanted to open up our agri and dairy sector. No prime minister is ever going to do that. It’s a political suicide. 

Also judging by the tone of this post (my guess) is that he’s looking for a face saving off ramp from all of this pressure applied by him and he’s attack dogs(ron vara especially).

vedantbajaj

Somebody didn’t get invited to the party. Maybe they were being an asshole?

Kwelikinz

Wait till he hears who's responsible for that disaster.

Niceguy955

melithium

Gee Cheeto, i wonder whose fault that is huh?

OnlyRise9816

So Vance FAILED along with every other person in the envoy Trump picked.  That’s all on Trump.

ViolettaQueso

Trump wanted to other countries the way he treated his own customers.  Now the US has what they thought was good.

In thr end it will it matter until Fox news starts calling bullshit and the Republican Congress grows a spine.

I am not holding my breathe for either.

As a Canadian, seeing Russia, China and India getting together is and should be chilling.

PreacherCoach

Who could possibly have seen this coming?

greaterwhiterwookiee

Again a lot of incorrect information coming from trump. if you look at the US gov's website India did a 130 billion trade with US. India was a hot destination for US arms till now. US literally sold Apache helicopters to them. India easily comes in top 15 countries that US trades with them and I'm excluding the digital goods like apps, software and all. This post was nothing but to gaslight the Americans especially the MAGA turds. The funny thing is him speaking this while Rubio doing a campaign about good relations of India-US relations.

EmbarrassedFig9129

Did Trump say this, or did someone tweet it using his account? Haven't heard him actually say shit for a while, and that'd be great if reports about his tweets weren't given as though he stood in front of a reporter and said a thing. If Biden had been radio silent outside of his social media, nothing posted on the social media would be reported on - it'd just be about how he hasn't done anything publicly in days.

kickinwood

It's not even a year and I am sick of seeing his ugly face.

macross1984

Trump problem is he doesn't understand asian culture pride and heritage, countries like India and China are ancient civilizations, once the richest country india has suffered lot of invaders throughout history and still manages to stand strong today , trump considers every country as pakistan -- obedient to be rented given the right money and pressure , but simply does work , we cannot agree with iranian regime but have to accept they are strong people with morals, they would rather die then be disrespected

It says a lot that Trump is not only hated by all of America’s long time reliable Allies,  but he is also hated by his fellow Autocrats and Dictators as well.

bsmithcan

fool-me-twice

The US is rich. Of course we buy a lot of stuff. Trump's economic plan is literally to make Americans poorer.

MansSearchForMeming

Only once sided since he didn't get his fucking way. Tantrum Taco Trump.

10v1

Whywouldanyonedothat

xxAkirhaxx

Whatever trump said in his post is complete BS that only MAGA r3tards will believe. 

US exports $40B to a $4T economy and India exports $80B to a $30T economy. 
Relative to GDP, US sells more to India than the other way round.

Srihari_stan

Bankrupting a casino is the perfect metaphor for what Trump is doing.

koreanwizard

US: \*buys products from where it's cheap\*

India: \*buys products from where it's cheap\*

US: Hey, you can't do that!

IllegalDevelopment

At this point, I expect most countries are looking to bolster trade relations where they can sell their products with anyone but the USA under Trump, regardless of the current terms they are offered because they have no way of knowing what’s going to happen tomorrow.

At the same time, I think we’ll see people buying less American products, including arms for similar reasons.

Trump fails to understand that trade relationships are politics, not math.

gregaustex

Poor little orange boy crying for attention

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