“I said I was going to put 250% tariffs on each country, which means that you’ll never do business. There’s nothing that you can sell for 250%. That’s a nice way of saying, ‘We don’t want to do business with you.’ You don’t have to say, ‘We don’t want to do business.’ That’s nasty,” Trump said. “They understood that, and within 48 hours we had no war, no people killed. It makes me feel so good. We saved millions of lives,” he added.
The US President further went to praise Prime Minister Narendra Modi and Pakistan’s PM Shehbaz Sharif calling them “great” guys. He also called PM Modi as a “tough” and “killer” guy.
Read more: ‘Have great respect for PM Modi, going to do a trade deal with India,’ says US Prez Trump at APEC SummitHe also stated that he stopped eight wars in eight months for the good of humanity. However, he expressed his displeasure over not being able to stop the Russia-Ukraine war.
“That will get done too. I thought that was going to be an easy one because of my relations with Russian President Putin, but it turned out to be different,” the US President said.
“I think it’ll get done. However, that wouldn’t have ever started if I were a president (at that time),” Trump added.
This is not the first time that Trump has claimed to have mediated the India and Pakistan conflict that lasted for four days from May 7 to May 10, after India had launched Operation Sindoor, targetting the terrorist infrastructure and base camps in Pakistan and Pakistan-Occupied Kashmir (PoK) in retaliation to the Pahalgam terror attack of April 22 that left 26 people dead.
India has maintained that there was no mediation by any country to stop the war and a ceasefire ‘understanding’ was reached after Pakistan’s Director General of Military Operations (DGMO) requested to halt the military actions with his Indian counterpart.
