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Trump, during his gaggle with the Press on Air Force One, was asked about India’s denial of Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s call with him.
“Well then, they’re going to just keep paying a lot of tariffs if they said that, but I don’t believe they said that. No, I spoke with Prime Minister Modi of India and he said he’s not going to be doing the Russian oil thing,” he said.
Trump added, “But if they want to say that, then they’ll just continue to pay massive tariffs, and they don’t want to do that.”
The Ministry of External Affairs on Thursday said that no phone call took place between Prime Minister Narendra Modi and US President Donald Trump the previous day.
When asked about Trump’s claim that India would stop buying Russian Oil, the Spokesperson of MEA, Randhir Jaiswal,