India, Sept. 7 -- Trade between India and the US "is a totally one-sided disaster", President Donald Trump said at the start of the week. By weekend, he was calling Prime Minister Narendra Modi a "great PM", vowing that the two leaders would "always" remain friends.

On Friday, Trump shared a picture of PM Modi, Chinese President Xi Jinping and Russia's Vladimir Putin, claiming that the US had "lost India and Russia" to China. Hours later, he backtracked on the remark, claiming he doesn't think India was lost.

Amid heightened trade tensions over the sweeping 50% tariffs on Indian imports, the past few days saw Donald Trump flipping his narrative on India multiple times.

September 1: "...they (India) sell us massive amounts of goods, the...