On September 22, 2019, Narendra Modi and Donald Trump appeared together at the “Howdy, Modi!” rally in NRG Stadium in Houston. There Modi used the slogan Ab ki baar Trump sarkar, this time a Trump government. On February 24, 2020, Modi welcomed Trump at “Namaste Trump,” before a crowd of more than 100,000 in a stadium in Ahmedabad.
In Trump’s second term, an executive order of August 6, 2025, added a tariff of 25 percent on Indian goods to the 25 percent already in place. From August 27, most Indian imports to the United States faced a tariff of 50 percent.