President Trump meets with Indian Prime Minister Modi at the White House | LiveNOW from FOX

kept the relationship. during the. 4 year, period.

The period that was very interesting. Period Indeed I watched I got to see how not to do things. and uh, we've just started up again, and we have I think some very big things to talk about.

Number 1 is uh, they're going to be purchasing a lot of our oil and gas we have more oil and gas than any other country in the world by far. and, they needed. And we have it.

and we, uh, we're going to talk about trade. We're going to talk about many things but uh, it's really an honor to see you and you have been my friend for a long time. and congratulations.

on having done a great job. Thank you. thank you Thank you.

For. Love to say anything more. No, I'm okay.

I'm delighted to see you back in the White House and to meet with you today in. this room. on behalf of 1.

4 billion people of India. let me convey my heart is congratulations to you. on your grand and historic victory.

This. Last year, the people of India. gave me the opportunity to serve them for the third consecutive time, and it has happened in the history of India in in the last 60 years.

for the first time. and uh, in this term, I will have an opportunity to work with you over the next 4 years. And it's a great great pleasure to see the 2 cohancy.

Are mainly. How? I'm happy that.

as soon as I entered this room, my friend reminded me of Ahab and the cricket stadium where we held the big rally and uh, uh, the events that we did the mega events that we did in Ahmedabad Namaste Trump, or the howdy Modi in Houston. we had conveyed a very strong message of our friendship through those events and the resounding echo of those events can be heard even today in India. and the world.

Arm. you made. immense personal contribution towards strengthening of our relations towards making them more comprehensive.

And in attaining unprecedented Heights in our relationship. And I firmly believe that in your second term, we will work with even more speed as I had promised to the people of India, that in my third term, as the prime minister of India, we will work with trees to speed I firmly believe that with President Trump during the next 4 years during his second term, we will work with twice the speed that we did in the first time. Ras.

I am. 1 thing that I deeply appreciate. And I learned from president.

Trump. Is that he keeps the national interest Supreme. and like him.

I also keep the national interest of India at the top of everything else. And this has been my real fortune. Fortune.

Great again. president, Donald Trump and make America great again are inseparable whenever we talk about President Trump, 1 has to talk about make America great again. Similarly, that that Vision inspires everybody similarly in India, we have the resolve of 1.

4 billion people of India that by the time India reaches the 100th anniversary of its independence. we will make our country a developed country by 2047 and this is getting new speed. And new, uh results.

America. which 1 + 1 2. Us is the world's largest, uh, world's oldest democracy And India is the world's largest democracy.

So when India and the US come together they make 1 plus 1 11 and not 2. and this is the power of 11 that is going to work for the welfare of the human Humanity. once again, thank my friend.

president Trump And uh, we together resolve that we will together March towards progress and towards prosperity for our Nations. Thank you. Thank you.

Thank you very much. Great job in India. Everybody talks about it.

He's doing a really fantastic job, a great leader. great leader. I thank you for your warm words.

Mr President, and I firmly believe that every person in India respects your sentiments. Thank you very much. Any questions please?

You are you you know you are both very popular leaders in your sense. That you should expect. from the meeting.

Well, I think more than anything else will be the unity We have great Unity. we have great friendship. He and I, and our countries.

and I think it's only going to get closer but it's very important that we remain United as countries. We are uh, we're friends and we're going to stay that way. If you're going to be tough with India and trade, how are we going to beat China, then?

A very good shape to beat anybody we want, but we're not looking to beat anybody. We're looking to do a really good job. where we've done a fantastic job for the American people.

We had a great 4 years and we were interrupted by uh, terrible Administration. Absolutely terrible. They didn't know what they were doing and now we're putting it back together and I think it's going to end up being much stronger than it was before even.

much stronger than it was before. Yeah. of all, congratulations for the fantastic.

24 days of your presidency. Historic and unprecedented decisions that you made transformational reforms. and put By.

usaid and I would like, you to share with us. if you think usaid had a role in election. interference in the US in 2020 and Indian elections in 2024 so, it could have had a role.

Now, there were a lot of bad things that happened in 2020. I think bad things happen in 2024, but it was too big to rig. We, we won by a tremendous.

margin. and we won every swing state we won. The popular vote by millions of votes.

So it was, it was too big to rig, but uh, yeah, I think They probably tried. We're looking to go to a system now much different. where 1 day voting voter ID and uh you just we have to do that and paper ballots.

we want paper ballots. and when they do that, we're going toclean it up very, very well. But we had a great.

2016. We had a much better. 2020 election but bad things happen.

and we had the best of all we had, they say the most consequential. in history. uh, 129 years.

Most consequential. So it was a great election. and it gives me a chance to work again with the prime minister.

And uh, Indianapolis. We're going to be we're going to have a great relationship. together.

Biggest. you see? India playing a role in your plan to broker peace in Ukraine and if I can ask you about a development in your home town today, the US attorney has resigned over the doj's request to drop the case into her Adams.

Did you personally request the justice department to drop that case? No, I did. know nothing about it.

I did not. uh I think that uh just to answer your other question. Uh, we just going to get along.

Well, we're going to get along with all countries. We're going to do very well. Uh, we're going to be doing, I think record business.

record numbers. and we're going to work with India. Also, we have some very big trade deals to announce in the very near future.

President Biden. president Trump. and Mr President what you would like to say about the Bangladesh issue because we saw and it is evident that How the Deep state of United States was involved regime change during the Biden Administration?

and then Mohammed yulu made. Junior Soros. Also so what is your your point of view about the Bangladesh?

and what is The role that beneath the created in the situation in Bangladesh? Well, there was no Royal for our deep state, it was uh, this is something that the prime Minister has been working on for a long time and has been worked on for hundreds of years, Frankly, I've been reading about it. but I will leave Bangladesh to the prime minister.

No, sir, Ukraine. Neutral. Heart of neutral.

Shanty. Media. Conviction.

Ukraine conflict is concerned. I'm very happy that President Trump has taken initiatives to restore peace and had telephones calls with the President Putin and president. zelinski.

the world. Uh, had this thinking that India somehow is a neutral country in this whole process. but this is not true.

India has a side and that side is of peace. from the very first day, I have the uh, uh, talking about the importance of dialogue and diplomacy and a peaceful solution and when I met President Putin, in the presence of media, I had told him that this is not the era of war and I have firm conviction That problems cannot be resolved on the battlefield. the 2 sides will have to come to the negotiating table.

I just want to add to that. We had a very good. phone call yesterday.

with President Putin. It lasted maybe an hour and a half. it was excellent.

And I think we went a long way toward getting a solution to the horrible War. where so many people are being killed. Especially soldiers on the battlefield.

It's a million and a half. soldiers have been killed. On a ridiculous War.

but we, uh, we've got a long way to I think we've got a long way to solving it. Uh, Tomorrow there's a meeting. in Munich.

and then next week, There's a meeting in Saudi Arabia not with myself for President Putin but with top officials, and, Ukraine will be a part of it, too. And we're going to see if we can end that war. That war is a horrible War.

It's a vicious, Bloody war. We want to end it. Uh to your other question that us attorney was actually fired.

I don't know. He or she resigned, but uh, that us attorney was fired. Did you expect?

us competition? with China? and in your broader vision?

for peace in the Middle East? Well, I think we're doing very well in our competition with everybody I think you're going to see a nation that really is uh going forward. at a very rapid pace.

Our economy is going to be fantastic. We're doing things to make it that way. We announced some very big.

elements today of success. I called an element of success. reciprocal tariffs.

So that uh, somebody charges us, we charge them the same amount. which is, uh never been done in our country before. We've always been taken advantage of by other countries that we allowed that to happen.

foolishly. But we can and that we're not going to allow that. any longer.

So I think we're going to do very well. We've been doing our last, uh, they say the last 3 weeks was among the best 3 weeks ever. for a start and a presidency.

There's never been anything like it. And when you see what we've been able to do in 3 weeks, people are really amazed. Even the prime minister mentioned it.

I think other countries are looking at it. but uh I just want to thank everybody for being here. This is a terrific man.

We're going to make some wonderful trade deals for India and for the US. and thank you all very much. Thank you.