A fellow world leader was “surprised, shocked and concerned” after Donald Trump allegedly revealed to him he didn’t know this basic geographic fact.
Donald Trump once left Indian prime minister Narendra Modi shocked after telling him India and China didn’t share a border, according to a new book by two Pulitzer-winning journalists.journalists Phillip Rucker and Carol Leonning claim the incident took place during a face-to-face meeting between the pair, although it doesn’t specify which one.
“It’s not like you’ve got China on your border,” Mr Trump told Mr Modi. The Indian leader’s eyes “bulged out in surprise”, according to one of the President’s aides. Mr Modi’s expression “gradually shifted, from shock and concern to resignation” following Mr Trump’s remarks. The aide said they felt Mr Modi probably “left that meeting and said, ‘This is not a serious man. I cannot count on this man as a partner’.”
"There is a scene where the president is talking with the prime minister of India and sort of gets his geography wrong and he says 'well at least you don't border China'... At times the president was dangerously uninformed" -
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