US President Donald Trump has again claimed that his intervention helped avert a possible war between India and Pakistan in May 2025, when tensions sharply escalated following Operation Sindoor.
Speaking
to reporters at the White House on Tuesday, Trump claimed that during the first 10 months of his second term, he had brought an end to eight long-running conflicts, singling out tensions between India and Pakistan, who “were going to go nuclear.”
He said the two nuclear-armed neighbours were on the brink of a major confrontation, alleging that eight aircraft had been downed and warning that the situation could have spiralled into a nuclear exchange. Recounting a recent meeting, Trump said Pakistan’s Prime Minister Shehbaz Sharif had credited him with saving millions of lives.
#WATCH | US President Donald Trump says, “…I ended eight unendable wars in 10 months…Pakistan and India. They were really going at it. Eight planes were shot down. They were going to go nuclear, in my opinion. The Prime Minister of Pakistan was here and he said, President… pic.twitter.com/kTDa912iLQ
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“I ended eight unendable wars in 10 months…Pakistan and India. They were really going at it. Eight planes were shot down. They were going to go nuclear, in my opinion. The Prime Minister of Pakistan was here and he said, President Trump saved 10 million people and maybe much more than that,” Trump said while addressing the media to mark the first anniversary of the start of his second term.
The US President had made the same remarks just days earlier at an event commemorating the renaming of Southern Boulevard as Donald J Trump Boulevard.
Trump Says He Deserved Nobel Prize For Ending 8 Wars
Trump went on to suggest that he deserved a Nobel Peace Prize for each conflict he claimed to have resolved. “I should have gotten the Nobel Prize for each war. But I don’t say that. I saved millions and millions of people,” he said, adding pointed remarks about the Nobel Committee.
Referring to Norway, Trump implied that decisions on the prize were politically influenced. He also mentioned Venezuelan opposition leader María Corina Machado, praising her for handing over her peace prize medal to him and saying she believed he was more deserving.
“Don’t let anyone tell you that Norway doesn’t control the shots, okay? It’s in Norway. Norway controls the shots…That’s why I have such respect for Maria, doing what she did. She said, I don’t deserve the Nobel Prize. He does,” Trump.
Trump’s Repeated Claims Of Ending India-Pakistan Conflict
Since May 2025, Trump has repeatedly maintained that his administration played a decisive role in defusing tensions between India and Pakistan, arguing that US diplomatic pressure and the threat of tariffs forced both sides to step back from the brink during a military standoff. These statements have aligned with Trump’s broader public campaign highlighting his credentials for the Nobel Peace Prize—an honour he ultimately did not receive.
India has firmly dismissed Trump’s claims, consistently stating that no external mediation was involved in the ceasefire. New Delhi has asserted that the truce was the result of direct communication between the two neighbours after India carried out Operation Sindoor, which targeted terrorist infrastructure in Pakistan in retaliation for the April 2025 Pahalgam attack in Jammu and Kashmir that killed 26 people, most of them tourists.
Indian officials have said that on May 10, Pakistan’s Director General of Military Operations reached out to his Indian counterpart seeking a halt to the fighting, after which both sides mutually agreed to cease hostilities.
