00:05India Today's credibility known even to the global newsmakers and top leaders of the world.
00:11US President Donald Trump re-shares India Today's magazine cover.
00:16India Today clearly on the global platform here, look at that.
00:19That is Donald Trump's social media profile where he's clearly endorsing the India Today magazine
00:25where he's shown with Prime Minister Narendra Modi.
00:28This is, just to give you a background, 2025 edition of India Today magazine.
00:32And with Donald Trump giving a thumbs up, it's for all to see.
00:36This was the Mover and the Shaker cover viral.
00:39This was 2025 where at that point, remember, especially with the kind of visits that were happening,
00:45the bonhomie that we saw between Prime Minister Modi and the President Donald Trump.
00:50So he's the one who's basically shared this on his social media profile.
00:55India Today's magazine cover.
00:58Let's go across to Suyesha Sawant for the latest on that.
01:01Suyesha, it is a good moment.
01:04And I remember he's, I think this has happened earlier as well.
01:07Tell us more about this cover, possibly why Donald Trump shared this.
01:11Oh yes, absolutely, Pooja.
01:12And let's also tell our viewers.
01:13He had first, or earlier rather, shared this on the 6th of February, 2026.
01:18So this magazine cover that was titled Newsmakers of the Year 2025, and you see a powerful picture,
01:24a powerful picture of Prime Minister Narendra Modi and US President Donald Trump.
01:28It was titled The Mover and the Shaker, bolstered by electoral wins.
01:32Modi pushed full steam ahead of his Reform Express in 2025, even as the countered, the disruptions unleashed by Donald
01:38Trump.
01:39So he had posted this on the 6th of February, 2026.
01:44US President Donald Trump had put this out on his Truth Social post.
01:49And then again, he had not added any text or any caption to it.
01:52So that had a lot of speculation that it had evoked to why he had possibly posted this picture or
01:59posted India Today's magazine cover.
02:00One thing, certainly, that he may have really liked this cover.
02:04Then, of course, we slowly also concluded the timeline.
02:08And we realized that US envoy to India, Sergio Gore, had put out details of Prime Minister Narendra Modi and
02:14US President Donald Trump.
02:15A phone call that had happened between the two.
02:17Neither sides had put out an official statement of what was discussed.
02:20Then later, US President Donald Trump had put out a post where he had put out details of how the
02:26trade deal was slowly on the verge of finality.
02:30And US had imposed reciprocal tariffs, had reduced it from 25% to 18%.
02:35So that had happened at that time.
02:36That was also followed by a meeting between Sergio Gore and AM Jai Shankar.
02:41And heightened engagement that we had seen between the two sides diplomatically.
02:46Now, then again, we understand that the talk of the town and, you know, the globe that is talking about
02:51the Modi-Trump meeting that has happened at the G7 summit.
02:54Especially in the manner that he's praised Prime Minister Narendra Modi, saying that he's a beautiful looking guy.
02:59He's an angel, but he's a tough negotiator.
03:02That's right.
03:02He's praised him over and over.
03:04He said that, you know, if there is any time that he comes in trouble or India needs help, then
03:09the US is standing by him as long as he's the leader.
03:12So once again, the thoughts that had really existed and, you know, this meeting that happened after 16 months.
03:17It's incredible to say the least that we're working with the India Today group and to watch our cover be
03:24reshared by the US president reflects about the popularity, the credibility that's there prevalent as much.
03:31The popularity, clearly, of the India Today cover.
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