Trump’s `Grand Friend ” and India’s new envoy

He published books written by Donald Trump, raised millions for his campaign in 2024 and helped him to Washington staff with loyalists during the second term of the American president.

Now Sergio Gor should become Trump’s man in India, while supervising American relations with other countries in South Asia and Central Asia.

Last week, Trump announced that he was promoting Gor, his staff chief, to be the next American ambassador to India. He called GRO a “great friend” and someone he could “trust” to deliver to the agenda.

The appointment of the 38 -year -old man occurs at a time when relations between the two countries have been tense due to Trump’s punishing prices on India.

The appointment of GOR has mentioned mixed reactions in India, some observers saying that having a help from Trump in the post is a positive sign for Indian-American ties. But others have questioned Trump’s decision to share his envoy from India with the countries of South Asia and the Central, which includes Pakistan, with whom India shares a tense relationship.

Experts claim that the broad regional mandate of Gor threatens to expose India to a surplus of Washington in his business with Pakistan, including the question of cashmere – a red line for India.

“The additional designation of the special envoy will probably create challenges, at least in India. India generally prefers not to be” with Union “with Pakistan”, explains Alyssa Ayres of the Council of Foreign Relations, an American reflection group focused on the United States foreign policy.

Lawrence Haas, former senior house manager and the main member of the American Foreign Policy Council, said that it could also be the way to report to Delhi de Trump that he does not think that the role of the ambassador to India must be a full -time job.

“I imagine that the leaders of India will feel mean and insulted, which will express more American-Indian relations,” Haas told BBC.

India found itself in a similar situation in 2009, when the Obama administration would have planned to appoint Richard Holbrooke as a special envoy to Pakistan, Afghanistan and India.

Delhi would have been pressure against the move, leading to Holbrooke by being appointed sent to Pakistan and Afghanistan.

Trump, however, is not Obama.

Contrary to the prudence of his predecessor, Trump openly claimed the credit for having ended a recent four-day conflict between India and Pakistan-an affirmation that India categorically denied, insisting that no external power played a role in the ceasefire.

The Trump administration was also optimistic in its India requests in a potential trade agreement, seeking better access to dairy products and agriculture, the India sectors wanted to protect.

It remains to be seen if the presence of GOR in India will help to smooth these bumps and to strengthen the links of Washington-Delhi, or if it is here to break the whisk on Trump’s auctions.

Bill Drexel, a scholarship holder of the Center for Strategy and American Statecraft at the Hudson Institute, says that because decision-making is largely motivated by Trump, an Envoy de India who is close to him could be a major asset for Indian-American links.

“But there may be a steep learning curve given its limited diplomatic and regional experience (GOR),” explains Mr. Drexel.

MS Ayres echoes a similar view. She says that the proximity of GOR with the president could help “unravel” potential policy logjams.

Mr. Haas, however, says that the lack of diplomatic experience of GOR could pose a problem in an already tense relationship and that the United States should have chosen an envoy that could help improve the situation.

“Instead, I suspect that Delhi will interpret this appointment as a slap opposite and the additional evidence that Trump does not care about the relationship,” he said.

Gor would not only be reduced with Trump, but the whole Trump clan, including Ivanka Trump, Jared Kushner and Donald Trump Jr.

Kushner called Gor “easy to live” and “confidence”. The former member of the Congress, Matt Gaetz, recalled his fun side, noting that he once had ajet during the evenings of Maga in Palm Beach during the exile of Trump. The Western media, however, threw him widely as one of Trump’s most reliable batteries – someone who does the work.

Gor is known to have checked people appointed presidential loyalty to Trump. In June, Elon Musk described him as “snake” after the New York Post reported that Gor had not deposited the paperwork for his own permanent security authorization. The White House insisted that GOR had an active authorization and is “fully compliant” with the requirements.

The origins of Gor are both clear and interesting. Although he was known to describe himself as Maltese, he was born in 1986 in Uzbekistan when he was still part of the Soviet Union. He would have spent a large part of his childhood in Malta before moving to the United States at 12 years old.

Gor would have been interested in the republican policy of his school and college days when he was called Gorokhovsky, whom he then shortened to Gor.

In 2008, he became a member of the junior staff of the National Republican Committee and one of his jobs included the wearing of an squirrel costume during events to highlight the bonds of Barack Obama with a republican organization accused of engaging in electoral fraud.

After two years in Fox News, Gor worked with several Republican politicians before joining the Trump fundraising team in 2020.

A year later, he co -founded the edition of the winning team with Donald Trump Jr., who has since published several Trump books, including Photobook Save America. Since 2022, he has had a house in Florida, a few minutes by car from Mar-A-Lago, where he is a frequent visitor.

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