Trump complains about 'losing' India and Russia to our 'deepest, darkest' adversary

President Donald Trump lamented what he characterized as the "loss" of India and Russia to China Friday morning following the Chinese summit this week, and in a social media post, sarcastically gave the two countries his blessing and well wishes for their “long and prosperous future together.”

“Looks like we’ve lost India and Russia to deepest, darkest, China,” Trump wrote in an online post on his social media platform Truth Social. “May they have a long and prosperous future together!”

Trump shared an image of Chinese President Xi Jinping walking alongside Russia’s Vladimir Putin and India’s Prime Minister Narendra Modi, the three of them having grown closer amid Trump’s antagonistic trade policy with India, and failed peace talks with Russia.

The leaders met this past week in eastern China for an annual summit, where Xi took several jabs at the United States, and called for world leaders attending the event to reject a “Cold War mentality,” a not-so-subtle jab at the United States’ hostile posture toward China.

While Russia has historically never been among the United States’ closest allies, India has, historically, been a key trading partner. That relationship has soured during Trump’s second term, however, with the president slapping the nation with a 50% tariff rate in retaliation for its continued purchasing of Russian oil, which India, in turn, responded to by pausing purchases of American-made weapons.