As US President Donald Trump addressed the press at the White House on Tuesday, he once again repeated his claim that he had prevented a potential war between India and Pakistan in May 2025, when the two countries were locked in heightened military escalation following Operation Sindoor.
“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, speaking to reporters at the White House (US time) to mark the first anniversary of the start of his second term.
Trump's remarks mirrored comments he made a few days earlier at an event marking the renaming of the US' Southern Boulevard as Donald J Trump Boulevard.
He went on to argue that he deserved a Nobel Peace Prize for each conflict he claimed to have resolved. “But I don't say that. I saved millions and millions of people. 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 said, referring to Venezuelan politician Maria Machado, who recently presented her peace prize medal to him—an act that drew a stern response from the Nobel Foundation.
Trump's repeated India-Pakistan claims
Trump has reiterated these claims multiple times since May 2025, asserting that US pressure and tariff threats helped defuse tensions between the two nuclear-armed neighbours during their military stand-off. His comments have coincided with a public push for the Nobel Peace Prize, which he ultimately did not receive.
India, however, has consistently rejected Trump's assertions, maintaining that the ceasefire was achieved without any third-party mediation.
New Delhi has stated that the ceasefire was brokered directly between India and Pakistan following India's launch of Operation Sindoor, which targeted terror bases in Pakistan in response to the April 2025 Pahalgam terror attack in Jammu and Kashmir that killed 26 people, most of them tourists.
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