New Delhi: There’s no stopping Donald Trump.
Despite India making it amply clear that they didn’t agree with Trump’s multiple statements claiming credit for the ceasefire with Pakistan, the US President just refuses to back down.
In his latest claim, Trump sounded a tad modest before saying he surely helped settle the military conflict between the neighbours.
“I don’t want to say I did… but I sure as hell helped settle the problem between Pakistan and India last week, which was getting more and more hostile and, all of a sudden, you’ll start seeing missiles of a different type… and we got it settled,” Trump told American soldiers at a base in Qatar during his tour of West Asia.
He further reiterated that the ceasefire was facilitated by the prospect of the US increasing trade with both countries. “We talked to them about trade. ‘Let’s do trade instead of war’, I said, and Pakistan was very happy with that and India was very happy with that. I think they are on the way,” Trump said.
He went on to repeat his weird claim that India and Pakistan have been at war for a ‘thousand years’.
“They have been fighting for about a thousand years in all fairness. I said, ‘I could settle that up’. I could settle anything. ‘Let me settle it up’, I said, and we got that settled. Boy, everybody was very happy, I’ll tell you. That looked like it was really going to be escalating out of control,” the US President said.
President Trump visits U.S. troops at Al Udeid Air Base in Qatar. 🇺🇸
God bless our troops! 🇺🇸 pic.twitter.com/RNnXcizu7c
— The White House (@WhiteHouse) May 15, 2025
White House Press Secretary Karoline Leavitt, who is part of Trump’s delegation on the trip to Saudi Arabia, Qatar and UAE, shared an incident to prove the President’s peace-making efforts.
“This morning at breakfast in Doha, my waiter told me to thank President Trump for him. I asked him why. He told me he is from Kashmir, and he has been unable to return home in recent weeks due to the India-Pakistan conflict. But he was just notified that he’s now able to return, thanks to the ceasefire mediated by President Trump, @VP & @SecRubio. He said President Trump is not receiving enough credit for literally preventing a nuclear war — and he is right! President Trump inherited so many conflicts around the globe, and he is tackling them one at a time,” Leavitt posted on X.
This morning at breakfast in Doha, my waiter told me to thank President Trump for him.
I asked him why.
He told me he is from Kashmir, and he has been unable to return home in recent weeks due to the India-Pakistan conflict.
But he was just notified that he’s now able to…— Karoline Leavitt (@karolineleavitt) May 15, 2025
