{"id":94857,"date":"2017-06-27T21:23:29","date_gmt":"2017-06-27T15:53:29","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/greattelangaana.com\/english\/?p=94857"},"modified":"2017-06-27T21:23:29","modified_gmt":"2017-06-27T15:53:29","slug":"modi-is-a-hugger","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/greattelangaana.com\/english\/modi-is-a-hugger\/","title":{"rendered":"Modi is a hugger"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Trump treated Modi to cocktails and dinner at the White House on Monday night after their meeting and shared a laugh when he pointed to their social media dominance. Trump\u2019s @realdonaldtrump Twitter handle has 32.8 million followers, while Modi\u2019s Twitter game draws more than 31 million followers.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Trump playfully said he was \u201cproud to announce\u201d that \u201cPrime Minister Modi and I are world leaders in social media \u2014 we\u2019re believers \u2014 giving the citizens of our countries the opportunity to hear directly from their elected officials, and for us to hear directly from them.\u201d<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">\u201cI guess it\u2019s worked very well in both cases,\u201d Trump said.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. The president said he had lived up to his campaign promise to give India \u201ca true friend in the White House\u201d and announced that daughter Ivanka Trump had accepted an invitation to visit India this fall.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-94858\" src=\"https:\/\/greattelangaana.com\/english\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/06\/modi-3.jpg\" alt=\"Modi is a hugger\" width=\"800\" height=\"400\" srcset=\"https:\/\/greattelangaana.com\/english\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/06\/modi-3.jpg 800w, https:\/\/greattelangaana.com\/english\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/06\/modi-3-768x384.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\" \/><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">For his part, Modi cited Trump\u2019s \u201cvast and successful experience in the business world\u201d and even gave a shout-out to Trump\u2019s campaign mantra of \u201cmaking America great again\u201d in his statement.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">President Donald Trump found out Monday that India\u2019s Prime Minister Narendra Modi is a hugger.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Modi swooped in for two big bear hugs with the US President during their joint statements in the Rose Garden, wrapping his arms around Trump\u2019s midsection and ending their first embrace with a lingering handshake that stretched the president\u2019s arm between their two lecterns.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">After wrapping up his own remarks, the much shorter Modi hugged Trump a second time, placing his head close to the president\u2019s shoulder in video that quickly spread around social media.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Modi offered yet another embrace as he departed the White House. After shaking Trump\u2019s hand, Modi went in for a third and final public hug \u2014 resting his head first near Trump\u2019s left shoulder, then near his right. Trump welcomed the parting gesture, patting Modi kindly on the back.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Trump treated Modi to cocktails and dinner at the White House on Monday night after their meeting and shared a laugh when he pointed to their social media dominance. Trump\u2019s @realdonaldtrump Twitter handle has 32.8 million followers, while Modi\u2019s Twitter game draws more than 31 million followers. Trump playfully said he was \u201cproud to announce\u201d [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":94859,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[8,3,2],"tags":[13375,11555,510,266,47805,421,43,9724],"class_list":["post-94857","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-nri","category-politicalnews","category-top-stories","tag-cocktails","tag-dinner","tag-india","tag-modi","tag-modi-is-a-hugger","tag-trump","tag-twitter","tag-white-house"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/greattelangaana.com\/english\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/06\/donald-trump-narendra-modi_109d8b6e-5ae7-11e7-a7a5-fdf01393e65b.jpg","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/greattelangaana.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/94857","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/greattelangaana.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/greattelangaana.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/greattelangaana.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/greattelangaana.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=94857"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/greattelangaana.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/94857\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/greattelangaana.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/94859"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/greattelangaana.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=94857"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/greattelangaana.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=94857"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/greattelangaana.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=94857"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}