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India's PM Modi meets Trump with bear hugs

Author
Reuters,
Publish Date
Tue, 27 Jun 2017, 9:39PM
President Donald Trump and Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi embrace while delivering joint statements in the Rose Garden of the White House. (Getty)
President Donald Trump and Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi embrace while delivering joint statements in the Rose Garden of the White House. (Getty)

India's PM Modi meets Trump with bear hugs

Author
Reuters,
Publish Date
Tue, 27 Jun 2017, 9:39PM

President Donald Trump should have been ready as he met with India's prime minister, an unabashed hugger.

Smiling widely at a news conference during a visit to Washington, Prime Minister Narendra Modi met the president's outstretched arm not as an invitation for a handshake, but as a pull toward an embrace.

Then he did it again in the White House Rose Garden. Then once more before leaving.

Trump appeared stiff and uncomfortable with the first hug, smiling thinly and patting Modi on the back a couple of times.

But it was the same folksy, effusive greeting Modi has used with Trump's predecessor, Barack Obama, and a host of foreign dignitaries and celebrities. The list includes former French President Francois Holland, Russian President Vladimir Putin and Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe to Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg and Hollywood's Hugh Jackman.

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