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US President Donald Trump has ordered the cleaning of Washington. He said that he did not want Prime Minister Narendra Modi and other global leaders to see tents and frescoes. He said that the capital is beautiful …Read more
Trump said that he had changed the path of PM Modi's convoy. (Reuters)
Highlights
- Trump ordered cleaning Washington
- The path of PM Modi's convoy changed
- Trump insisted on making the capital beautiful
New York/Washington: US President Donald Trump has said that he did not want India's Prime Minister Narendra Modi and other global leaders who came to meet him should see tents and frescoes near federal buildings in Washington. Trump has ordered the cleanliness of the US capital. Trump said in his statement in the Ministry of Justice on Friday, 'We are cleaning our city. We are cleaning this capital and we will not allow crime, we will not stand in favor of crime, we are going to remove frescoes (pictures on the walls), we have already started removing tents and we are working closely with the administration.
He said that till now Washington Mayor Murial Bosar has done a good job towards cleaning the capital. Trump said, 'There are many tents in front of the Ministry of External Affairs. They have to be removed. We want a capital that can become a topic of discussion around the world. He said, 'When Prime Minister of India Modi, French President all these people… The Prime Minister of Britain had all come to meet me in the last one and a half weeks and when he came… I had changed the route. I did not want them to see tents. I did not want them to see frescoes. I did not want them to see broken barriers and pits on the streets. We made it beautiful.
PM Modi reached the white house
PM Modi visited the White House on 13 February with US President Donald Trump. After the swearing in of Trump in January 2025, PM Modi was the fourth foreign leader who reached America. Shortly after the start of his second term, Trump hosted Israeli PM Benjamin Netanyahu, Japanese PM Shigeru Ishiba and Raja Abdullah II of Jordan. French President Emmanuel Macron and UK PM Kir Stormon are among other foreign leaders who arrived in the US in Trump's second term.
