Trump Reiterates He Averted ‘Nuclear War’ Between India and Pakistan by Imposing Tariffs

Donald Trump Claims He Used Trade Threats to Avert ‘Nuclear War’ Between India and Pakistan.

Former US President Donald Trump has once again claimed credit for defusing what he described as a potential “nuclear war” between India and Pakistan, saying he used tariffs and trade threats to prevent escalation. In an interview with CBS News, Trump said that during a period of heightened military tensions in May, his administration leveraged economic pressure to push both countries toward peace. “Out of all the wars I have stopped, I used tariffs to stop 60 per cent of them,” Trump said. “It worked with India and it worked with Pakistan. Without tariffs and trade, I couldn’t have made those deals.”

He asserted that both nations were “ready for a nuclear war,” but his intervention convinced them to step back. “I told both of them, ‘If you don’t work out a deal fast, you’re not doing any business with the United States.’ They were great leaders, and they stopped the war,” Trump said. “That would’ve been a bad war — a nuclear war.”

However, India has never confirmed any such US involvement. The confrontation Trump referred to followed India’s retaliatory Operation Sindoor against terror camps in Pakistan and Pakistan-occupied Kashmir after a deadly attack in Pahalgam that killed 26 people. New Delhi maintained that its actions were “limited and precise” and categorically denied any third-party mediation.

Trump went on to claim that Pakistan’s Prime Minister Shehbaz Sharif publicly thanked him, saying, “If Donald Trump didn’t get involved, many millions of people would be dead right now.”

When asked why his tariff-based diplomacy has not worked in conflicts like Ukraine, Trump said the situation was different because Russia “doesn’t buy much” from the United States but suggested his approach could still end the war quickly if he were in power.