U.S. Secretary of State Marco Rubio has now explained what he understood from a reporter’s question a day earlier regarding alleged anti-India or racist comments online. While strongly defending Donald Trump, Rubio said he assumed the reporter was referring to random social media posts, trolls or bots, because no specific example was provided during the interaction. Rubio stressed that people “say crazy and stupid things online all the time” and insisted that Trump remains “a big fan of India” and shares a strong relationship with Prime Minister Narendra Modi. His remarks have sparked fresh political buzz around US-India relations and the messaging coming from Trump’s camp ahead of the US elections.