*NEW DELHI – President Donald Trump allegedly made an offer to Indian PMNarendra Modi and it’s ridiculous.*

*Trump joked he could play matchmaker for Indian Prime Minister NarendraModi after learning from aides that the 67-year-old Indian leader has longbeen estranged from his wife.*

Trump also displayed a lack of familiarity with South Asia, according tothe report.

Ahead of the meeting last year with Modi at the White House, Trumpallegedly studied a map of South Asia and mispronounced Nepal as “nipple”and referred to Bhutan as “button,” Politico said, quoting two unnamedsources.

The president seemed confused that the two countries – which border India –even existed, the report says.

“He didn’t know what those were. He thought it was all part of India,” asource told Politico. “He was like, ‘What is this stuff in between andthese other countries?’”

After Trump’s staffers told the president that Modi would not be bringinghis wife along to the meeting at the White House, Trump allegedly joked,“Ah, I think I can set him up with somebody,” the report said, according to“two people briefed on the meeting.”

White House spokeswoman Sarah Huckabee Sanders said that Trump hasdeveloped “strong relationships” with “America’s closest allies,” whichallow for “candid conversations.”

In truth, the issue of Modi’s wife is confounding – and a point of hilarityfor some – even for Indians. The prime minister was married as a teen aspart of a child marriage then typical of his social caste. He left hisvillage and his wife shortly thereafter, but the couple never divorced.Until he declared his candidacy for office in 2014, he had never officiallyacknowledged her existence.

The wife, Jashodaben, a retired teacher now 66, lives quietly with familyin a village in Modi’s home state of Gujarat.

Over the years her existence has proven a bit inconvenient for the primeminister, who embraces a bachelor lifestyle, arising at dawn for a round ofmorning yoga.

She told The Washington Post in 2015 that she still hopes to join herhusband in the capital as his spouse.

Recently, when a politician from Modi’s party said at a function that theprime minister was not married, she felt strongly enough to issue a videocorrection, saying, “I was his wife. I am and would remain his wife and itis correct that he is married.”