In 2025, Modi encountered growing friction with the United States alongside a strengthening domestic political position.

US President Donald Trump said that Prime Minister Narendra Modi directly raised an issue with him over the delivery of American-made Apache helicopters and called him "sir".

Sergio Gor, a confidant of the U.S. president, took up his post as ambassador in New Delhi with ties between the countries at their lowest ebb in decades.

India-US trade deal fell through because Prime Minister Narendra Modi did not make a final confirmation call to US President Donald Trump, a senior Trump aide has now claimed, adding fresh tension to an already fraught tariff standoff between the two countries.