As Mr. Trump hopped from city to city, Senator Robert Menendez, Democrat of New Jersey, sought assurances from the United States Embassy in Delhi that it was not helping Mr. Trump. “Unprecedented, unheard-of.”The controversy only grew as word spread that Mr. Trump planned to give a speech in New Delhi on Friday, taking the podium before Prime Minister Narendra Modi speaks. In his comments on the stage in Mumbai on Thursday, Mr. Trump defended his actions, and said his father’s job had actually been bad for business. “I think there is something about the spirit of the Indian people that is unique here to other parts of the emerging world,” Mr. Trump said in a local television interview earlier in the week. Instead, they waited for an hour and a half for Mr. Trump to show up.

Source: New York Times February 22, 2018 20:47 UTC