US President Donald Trump on Friday revealed at the Department of Justice that he directed officials to keep Washington, DC clean for Prime Minister Narendra Modi and other leaders.
"We're cleaning up our city. We're cleaning up this great capital, and we're not going to have crime," Trump said, adding that the authorities took down the tents and grafitti.
Praising Mayor Muriel Bowser, the president said, "And so so far, so good. We want to have a capital that can be the talk of the world."
Trump recounted that when PM Modi, French President Emmanuel Macron and UK Prime Minister Keir Starmer came to meet him, his team ensured that the US capital looked beautiful. "I didn't want to have them see tents. I didn't want to have them see graffiti. I didn't want to have them see broken barriers and potholes in the roads," he added.
The President went on to explain his plans to make Washington, DC a crime-free capital, promising that it would not take long.
Besides Modi, Macron and Starmer, Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, Japanese Prime Minister Shigeru Ishiba, Jordan monarch King Abdullah II and Ukraine President Volodymyr Zelenskyy have also visited White House.
PM Modi was at the White House on February 13 where he discussed with Trump their mission to double bilateral trade to $500 billion by 2030. They also discussed deepening defence ties as the US hopes to make India less dependant of Russia for weapon imports. The PM had also met billionaire Elon Musk to discuss the India entry of Starlink and Tesla.