US President Donald Trump has cancelled his planned visit to India later this year for the Quad Summit, according to a report by The New York Times. The development comes at a time when relations between Trump and Prime Minister Narendra Modi are said to have “unravelled” in recent months.
The NYT report, titled The Nobel Prize and a Testy Phone Call: How the Trump-Modi Relationship Unravelled, cited people familiar with Trump’s schedule. It noted: “After telling Mr Modi that he would travel to India later this year for the Quad Summit, Mr Trump no longer has plans to visit in the fall.”
India is set to host the Quad Summit later this year. Earlier in January, the Trump administration had hosted the Quad foreign ministers’ meeting, just a day after Trump was sworn in for his second term.
Why ties have soured
According to the report, PM Modi grew increasingly frustrated with Trump’s repeated claims of having “resolved” the four-day conflict between India and Pakistan in May — assertions New Delhi has consistently denied. “President Trump’s repeated claims about having ‘solved’ the India-Pakistan war infuriated Prime Minister Narendra Modi. And that was only the beginning,” the article stated.
The piece adds that Modi was “losing patience” with Trump, marking a sharp contrast to the warmth the two leaders once publicly displayed during events such as the “Howdy Modi” rally in Houston and the “Namaste Trump” visit in Ahmedabad in 2020.
So far, there has been no official comment from either the White House or India’s Ministry of External Affairs on the reported cancellation.
