Trump, India's PM share hugs
WASHINGTON — So much for handshakes. President Donald Trump found out Monday that India’s Prime Minister Narendra Modi is a hugger.
Modi swooped in for two big bear hugs with the U.S. president during their joint statements in the Rose Garden, wrapping his arms around Trump’s midsection and ending their first embrace with a lingering handshake between their two lecterns.
After wrapping up his own remarks, the much shorter Modi hugged Trump a second time, placing his head close to the president’s shoulder in video that quickly spread around social media.
Modi offered yet another embrace as he departed the White House.
Trump welcomed Modi to the White House for their first in-person meeting and both sought to convey warm relations between the two global powers. Trump said his daughter Ivanka Trump had accepted an invitation to visit India this fall.
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