During Trump's Howdy, Modi speech, he said, "You have never had a better friend as President than President Donald Trump, that I can tell you." There are more than five million people of Indian origin in the U.S., and in three Presidential elections Trump has steadily increased his vote share in that group, from under thirty per cent, in 2016, to nearly forty per cent last year, according to some estimates. (Modi is tremendously popular with the Indian diaspora.)
In some cases, Trump lets other Republicans carry his water and in others he is harming California more than other states with his nationwide moves, including the tariffs he has (possibly illegally) imposed on California's largest trade partners. These things will not likely knock California off its pedestal as the world's No. 4 economy, just ahead of India and just behind Germany.
The global economy has been more resilient than expected in the face of Donald Trump's tariffs, but is set to slow over the next year, the Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD) has warned. The Paris-based club of industrialised countries has upgraded its projection for global GDP this year, to 3.2% up from the 2.9% it expected in its last forecast in June.