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Howdy, Modi!
I’ve been making dinner and listening to the huge “Howdy, Modi!” rally in Houston with President Trump and Prime Minister Modi. It’s pretty enjoyable. It appears to be a huge crowd, and the Fox youtube clip I’m watching begins with awesome pounding drums.
After the drums stopped in a fabulous climax, a lovely young woman sang “The Star-Spangled Banner.” When she finished, the crowd burst into chants of “USA! USA!” After the Indian anthem, the crowd began chanting “Modi! Modi!” as the president also applauded.
Huge cheers and applause for the president, for Modi. Huge cheers when the president spoke of the NBA coming to Mumbai, and asking Modi if he could come for it. Huge applause and cheers for Trump’s line on opposing Islamic terrorism.
At the conclusion of Trump’s remarks, he says that he will leave and let the audience listen to the wisdom of Modi, who is a very wise man. That’s just beginning as I finish up writing this post, so I haven’t heard the wisdom yet, which will not be translated, so I can’t understand most of it anyway.
I don’t know that any American president previous to President Trump has had a massive campaign rally with a foreign head of state. It was a great way to spend the dinner prep, but I wonder what you all might think of it?
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Pretty sure he’ll be speaking English. As I understand it, the many Indian dialects are so disparate, they only understand each other in English. It is their national language. Imagine that.
Nope, his final remarks are not in English, but now there is a translator speaking with his remarks, although not at the beginning of his speech.
By the way, dinner is a porchetta roast, baked taters, and brussels sprouts. Yum. An apple crisp will be ready in about 5…Catch you after my meal!
Why wasn’t I invited? 😜
Huh, I’ve been misled.
Thanks for pointing this out. I’ll watch it later.
What no Curry?
It was a great rally, and it was good to see the enthusiasm of the audience. I loved Modi’s introduction to Trump.
I did too. I was laughing as I listened; it was so enjoyable and surreal, and made Papa Toad listen to it with me again when he came in. I don’t really know what to think about Modi. He’s very skillful, as a politician, it seems. He won pretty decisively I think his second parliamentary election to stay on as prime minister, and he was very popular with the crowd. I just don’t know what I think of the president and the prime minister seemingly endorsing each other. Is there another head of state Trump could/would do this with?
I wanted leftovers! With only three offspring living at home, leftovers are once again on the menu! (’cause I still am cooking for eight…)
Or should?
Yeah. My mama learned to cook for the whole Confederate army. There were always leftovers for late-night snacks.
Yeah, I guess I’m asking if he should even be doing it with Modi.
Even while totally enjoying the spectacle of 50,000 people all cheering for Trump and for Modi. And the drums…
I wrote about President Trump’s skilled use of walk out music with “Sandman” Mariano Rivera. I’m just going to say here that these drummers beat the whole Metallica band as walk out music.
Joe Biden is wondering how the 7/11s were kept open this Sunday.
The autogenerated close captioning is hilarious once PM Modi gets rolling!
I do want to see a real translation, especially after this analysis in the Hindustan Times:
You can see, without understanding a word that this is a seriously skilled politician.
The Hindu has a summary of the Modi speech. I especially note Modi’s strategic switching among languages, truly communicating directly at multiple audiences.
“Data is the new oil. Data is the new gold.”
I did not get the translator on any of the video recordings I could find.
I do note PM Modi has and uses a YouTube channel effectively:
https://www.youtube.com/user/narendramodi/videos
In the video I linked from Fox’s YouTube channel, President Trump finishes speaking around 44:24. Then there’s applause and Trump shakes a bunch of hands, then Modi starts speaking around 46:10, and says, “Thank you President Trump, thanks a lot. Howdy my friends!” and then begins speaking in a different language than English. At 58:10 the translators to English come in and begin speaking over the prime minister, and that continues to the end of the video.
Listening to the president’s remarks when he visited the Coast Guard in Houston yesterday, I hear him say at about 8:30 that Modi asked Trump about 4 weeks ago to come to the rally in Houston and make a speech.
So that explains how it happened… That’s interesting.
Darn it! I was going to call “dibs” on the leftovers . . .
Ah, I missed the hyperlink in the subtle style, it would really be nice if links stood out on the page.