The US President remarked that tensions between India and Pakistan have existed “for a very long time, sometimes under different names for centuries.”
US President Donald Trump once again reiterated his claim of playing a key role in brokering peace between India and Pakistan after their military conflict in May. Trump asserted that he personally intervened between the two nuclear-armed nations and pressured Prime Minister Narendra Modi into agreeing to a ceasefire with Islamabad by threatening trade restrictions and high tariffs.
Recalling his alleged conversation with Modi, Trump said: “I am talking to a very terrific man, Prime Minister of India, Narendra Modi. I asked, what’s going on with you and Pakistan? The hatred was tremendous.”
India, however, has firmly rejected Trump’s assertions, maintaining that the decision to cease hostilities with Pakistan was reached independently through direct talks between the Directors General of Military Operations (DGMOs) of both countries.
This should shake the nation 🚨
— Rohini Anand (@mrs_roh08) August 26, 2025
Trump completely exposed Narendra Modi
“I spoke to Modi & threatened him to shut trade deals if he didn’t stop war. Then he stopped in only 5 hours” 🤯
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The US President claimed that India–Pakistan tensions had been ongoing “for a hell of a long time, sometimes under different names for hundreds of years.”
India and Pakistan became independent states in 1947, when the British ended nearly 200 years of colonial rule in the subcontinent and partitioned it into two nations. Prior to that, the region consisted of several smaller kingdoms.
Trump claimed that in order to broker peace between the two neighbours, he threatened Prime Minister Narendra Modi with Washington withholding trade benefits and imposing steep tariffs on New Delhi.
“I said, I don’t want to make a trade deal with you… You guys are going to end up in a nuclear war. I told him, call me back tomorrow, but we’re not going to do any deals with you — or we’re going to put tariffs on you so high, your head’s going to spin,” Trump recounted.
The Republican leader further asserted that New Delhi and Islamabad reached a peace deal within “five hours” of his talks with Modi.
“Within about five hours, it was done… Now maybe it starts again, I don’t know. I don’t think so, but I’ll stop it if it does. We can’t let these things happen,” he added.
Trump’s Constant Claims
This is not the first time that Donald Trump has asserted he “brokered” peace between India and Pakistan. Since May 10—when he announced on social media that the two countries had agreed to a “full and immediate” ceasefire after a “long night” of talks allegedly mediated by Washington—Trump has repeated more than 40 times that he “helped settle” tensions between New Delhi and Islamabad.
On Monday, the former US President went further, claiming he had stopped seven wars across the world, including the one between the two South Asian nuclear powers. Speaking to reporters at the White House, Trump said that in four of those cases he relied on tariffs and trade threats to pressure the parties into halting conflict.
“I had tariffs and trade, and I was able to say, ‘If you want to fight and kill everybody, that’s okay, but I’m going to charge you each a 100% tariff when you trade with us.’ They all gave up,” Trump said.
“I have stopped all of these wars. A big one would have been India and Pakistan…” he added.
Trump further claimed that the conflict between India and Pakistan was on the brink of escalating into a nuclear war. “The war with India and Pakistan was the next level that was going to be a nuclear war… They had already shot down seven jets — it was raging. I said, ‘You want to trade? We’re not doing any trade or anything with you if you keep fighting. You’ve got 24 hours to settle it.’ They said, ‘Well, there’s no more war going on.’”
He added that he had used similar tactics on several occasions. “I used trade and whatever I had to use,” Trump said.
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India’s Response
India has categorically said there was no third-party intervention in bringing about a ceasefire with Pakistan during Operation Sindoor. Prime Minister Narendra Modi has said in Parliament that no leader of any country asked India to stop its military exercise against Pakistan.
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