WASHINGTON: To visit or not to visit, that is the question; whether it is worth the risk to make the journey to meet a leader during what could be his terminal domestic crisis, or play it safe and defer the trip till his troubles blow over.This is the dilemma facing Prime Minister Narendra Modi and his team as they prepare for his first visit to the US in a Trump White House. Although the two-city visit (Washington DC and Houston) has been penciled in for June 26-28, seismic political developments in the US capital that are shaking the Trump presidency to its foundations are putting a question mark on the advisability of the visit at this point in time.The visit has not been officially announced as yet. Officials are leery of talking about it on record, but preparations have been going on for several weeks now with a series of graduated visits, including exchanges between the National Security Advisors and other officials of the two countries. Current indications are that both sides will continue to prep for the visit regardless of Trump's political troubles and domestic developments in the US."We can’t wait for a perfect moment… we just have to deal with whatever situations arise," one official involved in the exercise said on background, adding that talk of a Trump impeachment or resignation is just "jumping the gun" and "largely in the realm of speculation."The official also pointed out that the White House has been hosting a series of foreign leaders, including the President of Turkey Reccip Erdogan (who was in New Delhi only last week) and the Crown Prince Mohamed bin Zayed Al Nahyan of the United Arab Emirates earlier this week, to be followed by Columbia’s Juan Maria Santos on Thursday.In fact, the White House has seen a parade of world leaders, from a range of lightweights in the US scheme of things to heavyweights such as China’s Xi Jin Ping and Japan’s Shinto Abe to allies such as Britain’s Theresa May and Germany Angela Merkel.Not that the steady stream offers any comfort. While the optics of some visits have been disastrous, even US officials are said to be privately quailing at President Trump’s approach to foreign engagements."Some of Trump’s senior advisers fear leaving him alone in meetings with foreign leaders out of concern he might speak out of turn. General McMaster (the National Security Advisor), in particular, has tried to insert caveats or gentle corrections into conversations when he believes the president is straying off topic or onto boggy diplomatic ground," one media report said about the U.S President’s latest screw-up involving intelligence discussions with visiting Russian foreign minister Sergei Lavrov. In turn, the account said, Trump was chafing at being constrained and has complained that McMaster talks too much in meetings, and referred to him as "a pain."Such accounts have spooked some officials, considering McMaster is the lead player in setting up the Modi visit since the Secretary of State Rex Tillerson has not shown any great interest in the India portfolio. Partial to pomp and ceremony, and sticklers for elaborate, reciprocal protocol, lengthy and verbose joint statements (with MOUs and fact sheets thrown in), the Indian side is also wary of the quick in-and-out that many leaders have been subjected to in the Trump White House, sometimes with joint statements running into a bare 5-6 lines.In fact, many US pundits and purveyors of international relations are of the view that President Trump does not have it in him to conduct a mature foreign policy.In several severe reviews of his style and manner, the New York Times called him an "infantalist" and said "immaturity is becoming the dominant note of his presidency, lack of self-control his leitmotif." It compared him to a "7-year-old boy who is bouncing around the classroom" and said "his inability to focus his attention makes it hard for him to learn and master facts. He is ill informed about his own policies and tramples his own talking points." A separate account said he was a "hasty and indifferent reader of his briefing materials."New Delhi’s attitude to such reports is typically karmic. "We have to deal with whatever we have to," said one key official at the center of the preparations for the visit.