Trump’s son visits temple to win Indian voters support

orlando — Donald Trump’s son Eric participated in a traditional ‘aarti’ at a Hindu temple in Florida to woo Indian-Americans as the Republican presidential nominee’s family is leaving no stone unturned to ensure his victory in the November 8 election.

Eric, 32, arrived at the temple in Orlando in a suit but changed his clothes and wore a creamcoloured Sherwani to attend the ‘aarti’. He took a tour of the temple where the priest explained him the significance of aarti and other rituals. The priest presented him a saffron stole.

The crucial swing state of Florida has a wealthy and growing Hindu population which could play a significant role in the election.

Earlier Donald Trump borrowed Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s winning slogan of the 2014 general elections and was seen in a TV ad saying Ab Ki Baar Trump Sarkaar.— PTI Donald Trump is in many ways a ‘lonely and solitary’ workaholic whose life has been driven by a need to build his own brand, according to one of the authors of a recent biography of the New York billionaire.

The book, entitled Trump Revealed: An American Journey of Ambition, Ego, Money and Power, was penned by Washington Post investigative reporters Michael Kranish and senior editor Marc Fisher. To write the book — which was written with the support of a team of other Washington Post journalists — the authors spent nearly 20 hours with Trump for interviews, and spoke to his friends, family members and business associates. On Saturday, the authors held an event at Politics and Prose, a popular Washington DC bookstore that has long been a favourite of political insiders.

At the event, Fisher noted that his final impression of Trump is “of a solitary figure alone in Trump Tower.”

“He’s an incredible workaholic. Work is his life,” he said. “What we found is that even socialising for him was solely for the publicity to build his brand. In many ways he’s a lonely and solitary figure.”

Both authors noted that Trump’s real skill is in his showmanship and ability to give an audience what it wants. “His great skill is to read a crowd and repeat their passions back to them,” Fisher said. Kranish, for his part, said that many of Trump’s more controversial statements