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India Just Basically Called Trump a Liar After He Made a Questionable Claim About India's Leader During a Press Conference

India Just Basically Called Trump a Liar After He Made a Questionable Claim About India's Leader During a Press Conference
President Donald Trump and the Prime Minister of the Islamic Republic of Pakistan, Imran Khan, speak to the media in the Oval Office at the White House on July 22, 2019 in Washington, DC. (Photo by Mark Wilson/Getty Images)

He just makes it up.

Imran Khan, Prime Minister of the Islamic Republic of Pakistan, made his first visit to the Trump White House on Monday. During a press event with President Donald Trump, the United States' leader announced he was ready to mediate an agreement between Pakistan and India over the disputed territory of Kashmir.

Claiming to have spoken to India Prime Minister Narendra Modi at the G20 Summit in Japan, Trump stated to Khan:


"If I can help, I would love to be a mediator. If I can do anything to help, let me know."

The US President added:

“I was with Prime Minister Modi two weeks ago and we talked about this subject. And he actually said, 'would you like to be a mediator or arbitrator?' I said, 'where?' [Modi said] 'Kashmir'."

There was one major problem with the President's plan to aid in negotiations: it appears to have been completely made up out of whole cloth.

Raveesh Kumar, India Ministry of External Affairs Official Spokesperson, corrected the President's false claim on Twitter.

Watch Trump's statement claiming he spoke to Modi about Kashmir here.

As with so many topics, it appears that the President is unfamiliar with the long history of the dispute between Pakistan and India over Kashmir.

And when one is uninformed, it is best to remain silent.

The Financial Times' former India bureau chief, Edward Luce, explained why the President's ignorance of the issues created a problem for future relations with India.

People concurred that Trump lied out of ignorance in order to appear as a trusted advisor to world leaders, something his predecessor was known for actually being.

Some felt an apology was owed to India.

Additional video of the President's remarks during his meeting with Khan, which involved discussion of US forces leaving Afghanistan, was also cited for ignorance of the complexities of warfare and international relations as well as self-aggrandized claims of superiority by Trump.

The President said he had a plan that would win a war with Afghanistan in a week.

India is not a part of any major military alliances, but it has close strategic and military relationships with most of the world's major powers, including the United States.

To learn more about the history of modern India, the book India After Gandhi: The History of the World's Largest Democracy is available here.

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