United States President Donald Trump reiterated his claim that he stopped the escalation of the recent India-Pakistan conflict after the Pahalgam terror attack.
Trump made these remarks during his meeting with the Secretary General of North Atlantic Treaty Organisation (NATO), Mark Rutte.
“We have been very successful in settling wars, India, Pakistan… India, by the way, Pakistan would have been a nuclear war within another week, the way that was going. It was going very badly,” Trump stated.
He pointed to his strategy of using trade as leverage, stating, “We did that through trade. I said, we are not going to talk to you about trade, unless you get this thing settled, and they did.”
In June, Trump told reporters on Air Force One, “You know, I did something that people don’t talk about, and I don’t talk about very much, but we solved a big problem, a nuclear problem potentially with India and with Pakistan.”
“I spoke to Pakistan, I spoke to India, they have really great leaders, but they were going at it, and they could have gone at it nuclear,” he added.
Trump has repeatedly claimed credit for stopping hostilities between India and Pakistan after New Delhi’s effective response to Islamabad’s aggression following precision strikes on terror infrastructure.
Reacting to US Presidnt Trump’s Congress General Secretary in charge of Communications Jairam Ramesh said, “65 days. 22 times. The same claim. It keeps getting repeated.” In his remarks, Trump said, “India, by the way, Pakistan would have been a nuclear war within another week the way that was going. That was going very badly, and we did that through trade. I said, ‘we’re not going to talk to you about trade unless you get this thing settled’, and they did, and they were both great, great leaders, and they were great.”
65 days. 22 times. The same claim. It keeps getting repeated. https://t.co/JuApr2alf8
— Jairam Ramesh (@Jairam_Ramesh) July 15, 2025
