New Delhi, June 17 -- US President Donald Trump was all praise for Prime Minister Narendra Modi on the sidelines of the G7 Summit happening in France. During their high-profile encounter at the G7 leaders' lunch on Wednesday, Trump characterised PM Modi as "calm", "cool" and a "total killer".

This was just before the two leaders were scheduled to sit down for a bilateral meeting, their first in over 16 months.

"Unlike PM Modi, who's calm, cool & a total killer.I am not.look at him," Trump was quoted by several reports as saying. Trump has repeatedly leveraged the expression to emphasise that, behind closed doors, PM Modi is an incredibly astute political strategist and an uncompromising negotiator.

He later described PM Modi as an "ang...