First, on the campaign trail and since taking office, Trump has barked a consistent anti-immigrant message and has claimed immigrants are “taking American jobs.” (In fact, robots are taking away those American jobs.) This week, he signed an executive order rendering it more difficult for Indians to obtain lucrative H-1 visas for tech jobs in the United States.

Second, Trump’s anti-Muslim vitriol has given a fillip to America’s undiscerning racists who have assaulted non-Muslims of Indian-heritage because they mistook them for Muslims.

Third, despite campaign commitments to push China hard, since becoming President he has actually prioritised better ties with China. This is a serious reversal of US policies under George W Bush and Barack Obama, who believed India was an important partner with which China’s troublesome rise could be managed. More recently, Trump derisively suggested that India’s commitment to the Paris Accord was because of financial perquisites rather than a desire to decelerate the pace of global climate change.

Worse yet, Trump’s government is in disarray with hundreds of appointments vacant nearly five months into his first term. Despite media commentary to the contrary, this is not due to incompetence; rather it is a deliberate step to fulfill what Steve Bannon described as an intention to “deconstruct the administrative state.” Trump has not appointed an ambassador to India and the Departments of Defense and State are lacking assistant secretaries and deputy assistant secretaries, the levels at which planning for such bilateral meetings typically take place.