Washington, Feb. 15 -- When Donald Trump greeted Narendra Modi with a warm hug at the entrance of West Wing on Thursday evening eastern, the American President told the Indian Prime Minister, "We have missed you. We have missed you a lot."

When Trump gifted Modi a book, titled Our Journey Together, he showed him various images of them together, especially from their public rallies in Ahmedabad and Houston, and inscribed a note, "Mr Prime Minister, You are Great!" Trump had captioned the pictures, describing Modi in many of them as his friend, and showing off the crowd size, a detail close to his heart, and clearly one of the reasons he respects the Prime Minister is his ability to attract masses.

And when Trump took the stage to introdu...