Donald Trump has described India as a “dead economy” and said the US does “very little business” with the country, ratcheting up his fiery rhetoric against the world’s fifth-largest economy as the two sides hit an impasse over his threat of 25 per cent tariffs on Indian goods.
The US president, writing on his Truth Social platform early on Thursday, attacked India alongside its long-standing defence and trade partner Russia, after warning a day earlier that he would penalise New Delhi for buying Russian weapons and energy.
“I don’t care what India does with Russia,” Trump wrote. “They can take their dead economies down t