The President of the United States of America, Donald Trump, will visit India from 24-25 February 2020. Prime Minister Modi claims that the US and India enjoy a special relationship and this visit will further bilateral ties to India’s benefit. Nothing could be further from the truth.In fact, weeks before Trump’s visit, India was removed from the Special and Preferential Status list of the countries that trade with the US. The real intention of Trump’s visit is to capture India’s market and force the country to accept all the conditions that help further the interests of US corporates. Government of India too is yielding to the pressure and accepting those conditions. Privatisation of defence production and financial institutions like LIC are all some such recent examples.Trump thrives on a politics of hate and bigotry that demonises minorities and migrants on the one hand and furthers the agenda of US corporations against the interests of workers and the environment on the other. India has nothing to gain and much to lose from this visit. Further, Trump’s belligerent foreign policy has been an unmitigated disaster for several countries such as Palestine, Iran, Iraq, Syria, Venezuela and Bolivia to just name a few. Therefore, a broad coalition of democratic and progressive groups from across the country have decided to oppose and resist Trump for the following reasons