'Didn’t do it for Nobel': Trump repeats tariff claim on India-Pak war, calls Gaza truce his 8th win

Trump asserted that his use of tariffs and trade pressure helped bring peace to war-torn regions around the world.

US President Donald Trump, in the wee hours of Monday, once again claimed credit for resolving several long-standing global conflicts, including those between India and Pakistan, as he flew to the Middle East to attend the Gaza peace summit.

Speaking to reporters aboard Air Force One, Trump asserted that his use of tariffs and trade pressure helped bring peace to war-torn regions around the world.

“This will be my eighth war that I have solved, and I hear there is a war now going on between Pakistan and Afghanistan. I said I’ll have to wait till I get back, I’m doing another one. Because I’m good at solving wars,” Trump said, referring to the ongoing hostilities along the Afghanistan-Pakistan border across over 29 hotspots along the Durand Line.

Reiterating his earlier claims, the US President said his administration had ended multiple wars “within a day,” including the conflict between India and Pakistan.

“Think about India, Pakistan. Think about some of the wars that were going on for years, one for 31, one for 32, one for 37 years, with millions of people being killed in every country. And I got every one of those done, for the most part, within a day. It’s pretty good,” he noted.

Trump further claimed that he had used economic leverage to stop wars, particularly citing his tariff threat as a decisive tool.

“I settled a few of the wars just based on tariffs. For example, between India and Pakistan, I said, if you guys want to fight a war and you have nuclear weapons, I’m going to put big tariffs on you both....100 percent, 150 percent, maybe 200 percent. I said I’m putting tariffs, and I had that thing settled in 24 hours. Without tariffs, you could have never settled that war,” he told reporters.

Moreover, Trump linked his remarks to this year's Nobel Peace Prize, awarded on Friday to Venezuelan opposition leader Maria Corina Machado. He claimed Machado called him to dedicate the honour to him.

“She said, ‘I’m accepting this in honour of you because you really deserved it.’ I didn’t say, ‘Give it to me,’ though,” Trump said, adding that he was “happy to have saved millions of lives.”

The US president further went on to suggest that he deserved the Nobel recognition for his role in “ending seven wars,” including those involving Armenia and Azerbaijan, Kosovo and Serbia, Israel and Iran, Egypt and Ethiopia, and Rwanda and the Congo.

“If you stop Russia and Ukraine, sir, you should be able to get the Nobel,” he quoted others as saying. “I said I stopped seven wars already, that’s one more, and that’s a big one," he remarked.

However, he also noted, "In all fairness to the Nobel committee, it was for 2024. This was picked for 2024. But there are those who say you could make an exception because a lot of things happened during 2025 that are done and complete and great. But I did not do this for the Nobel. I did this for saving lives".

Trump’s remarks come amid his upcoming participation in the Gaza ceasefire and hostage-release deal ceremony, which he will co-chair with Egyptian President Abdel Fattah al-Sisi.

New Delhi has, however, categorically denied that the U.S. played any role in mediating the India-Pakistan ceasefire following Operation Sindoor in May.

The Ministry of External Affairs reiterated that the truce was reached through direct military-to-military communication between the two neighbours’ Directors General of Military Operations (DGMOs), without any third-party mediation.

Prime Minister Narendra Modi told Parliament earlier this year that “no country asked India to halt its counter-terror operation” and that “India makes sovereign decisions in matters of national security," during the Monsoon session.

Trump’s latest remarks mark the fourth time since September that he has claimed to have “brokered peace” between India and Pakistan, assertions that New Delhi continues to reject unequivocally.