Davos: US President Donald Trump declared before a full house at Davos that he has made “15 new friends” whom he did not know before at a dinner last night — including three of Indian origin.

After a ‘band’ welcome and a nearly 20-minute speech, Trump sat down for a brief question and answers session with WEF Founder Klaus Schwab on the last day of the annual pow-wow of rich and powerful.

Trump said, “We had dinner last night with about 15 leaders of industry — none of whom I knew, but all of whom I have read about for years — and it was truly an incredible group.”

:And I think I have 15 new friends. So this has been really great what you have done in putting it together, the economic forum,” he said.

They included three PIOs — Swiss pharma giant Novartis’ incoming CEO Vas Narasimhan, Nokia CEO Rajeev Suri and Deloitte CEO Punit Renjen. Others were heads of Bayer, Anheuser-Busch InBev, Siemens, AB Volvo, SAP, Adidas, Statoil, Nestle, ABB and HSBC.