US President Donald Trump said on Friday that he nominated one of his closest helpers Sergio Gora for another American ambassador to India.
Sergio Gor, who is currently the director of the White House Presidential Office, would also serve as a special envoy to South and Central Asian affairs.
“I am pleased to announce that I promote Sergio Gor to be our next Ambassador of the United States in the Republic of India and a special envoy to South and Central Asian affairs,” Trump said in a Truth Social.
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The US President said Gor would remain in his current position until he was confirmed for the Indian Senate.
“Sergio is a great friend who has been on my side for many years. He has worked on my historical presidential campaigns, has published my best -selling books and ran one of the largest Super Pac that supported our movement,” Trump said, praising Gor’s work in hiring staff for his second term.
“For the most populous region in the world, it is important that I have someone I can fully trust to give my agenda and help us to make America great again,” Trump wrote.
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Gor, in the X post, thanked Trump for the nomination and said that it would be “honor of my life” to represent the United States in a new role.
Trump’s announcement of GOR nomination came shortly after the sudden cancellation of the planned visit to the US trade negotiators to Nový Dilli from 25 to 29 August.
Who is Sergio Gor?
Trump’s loyalist Sergio Gor has played a decisive role in deciding who does and gets a job in the current administration.
According to Politico, Gor oversee hiring through administration, forced the President and his family to adopt zero tolerance policy against job seekers who were critical of Trump in the past, often looking for their contributions to social media and sometimes interfere to block rent.
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Gor began to work with Trump in 2020 when he was the head of the Staff of the Financial Committee for the Trump victory. He was also a head advisor to Maga Inc and also led Right for America – the Political Action Committee (PAC) – for Trump.
He was born in Tashkent in Uzbekistan in 1986. At that time it was part of Soviet Russia. He also spent several years in Malta.
Gor previously helped create a publication company that Trump paid millions to produce his books when he was out of the office, and in 2024 he operated a Super Pac that supported the President.
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Gor was awarded the President for his perceived loyalty and his willingness to freeze from government people, which he considered inadequately pure, The New York Times reported.
In addition, Gor was reportedly involved in the provision of Trump information that Jared Isaacman, an entrepreneur and ally Muska, whom Trump had collected at the end of 2024, gave NASA to Muska’s recommendations to the Democrats recently.
A crucial time for relations between US and India
Trump’s announcement came to the decisive period for relations between the US and India, which seems to have deteriorated the planned doubling of US tariffs to goods from India next week.
The US-India’s ties were tense Trump’s trade war, and interviews about lower tariff rates collapsed after India resisted the opening of its huge agricultural and milky sectors, Reuters reported.
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Bilateral trade between the two countries is more than $ 19 billion every year.
Trump first ordered another 25% tariff on imports from India, then stated that from August 27 he would double to 50% as a punishment for increased purchases of Russian oil of the new Delhi. Trump did not save similar tariffs on goods from China, the largest buyer of Russian oil.
India addresses its future business relations with the United States with a “very open mind”, said Trade Minister Piyush Goyal on Friday, emphasizing the subsequent and important nature of the relationship with both countries.
(With the entry from agencies)
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