'We stopped a big one': Donald Trump doubles down — again — on India-Pakistan truce claim

PM Narendra Modi and US President Donald Trump

US President Donald Trump has once again said that he brokered a truce between India and Pakistan during the worst military standoff since the 1999 Kargil War.

Speaking to the media at a White House event, Trump doubled down on peace claims and said that he stopped some “very, very big” conflicts. “We stopped a lot of fights, I think a very big one, frankly. A very, very big one was India and Pakistan, and we stopped that over trade,” Trump told reporters.

He reiterated that trade was the key factor that helped him bring peace between the two nuclear-armed neighbours. “We are dealing with India and Pakistan. We said that we are not going to be dealing with you at all if you are gonna fight. They were maybe at a nuclear stage... Stopping that was really important.”

#WATCH | US President Donald Trump says, "...We stopped a lot of fights, very, very big one was India and Pakistan. We stopped that over trade. We are dealing with India and Pakistan. We said that we are not going to be dealing with you at all if you are gonna fight. They were… pic.twitter.com/qeyJu3d712

— ANI (@ANI) July 7, 2025

The statement comes even as India has repeatedly denied any role or mediation claims by the US government or Trump in particular. Prime Minister Narendra Modi has said on several occasions that India will not bow down to ‘nuclear blackmail.’

Meanwhile, the main Opposition party Congress took to X to slam the Centre over the latest remarks by Trump.

ट्रंप ने 21वीं बार कहा कि मैंने भारत-पाकिस्तान के बीच वॉर रुकवा दी। 'मैंने उन्हें व्यापार रोकने की धमकी देकर वॉर रोकने को कहा' सवाल वही है- नरेंद्र मोदी ने देश के स्वाभिमान का समझौता क्यों किया? pic.twitter.com/rIIPxKqmmy — Congress (@INCIndia) July 8, 2025

Posting the video where Trump can be heard making the truce claims, the Congress wrote in Hindi that “this was the 21st time that Trump claimed that he stopped the India-Pakistan war. Trump also said that it was the threat of stopping trade that ‘helped’ him in brokering peace.”

The party took a jibe at the PM and asked, “Why did Narendra Modi compromise with the dignity of the nation?”