President Donald Trump slipped into an impersonation of Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s accent on the latest leg of his week-long tour of Asia, as he praised the strongman leader for being “tough as hell.”
Speaking at the Asia-Pacific Economic Cooperation summit in Gyeongju, South Korea, on Wednesday, following on from his appearances in Malaysia and Japan, the president reflected on India exchanging fire with neighboring Pakistan earlier this year in a four-day conflict that threatened to spiral into full blown war between the two nuclear powers.