‘Called Modi and Pakistan, said stop war or will make your head spin with high tariff’: Donald Trump

#WATCH | “…I am talking to a very terrific man, Prime Minister of India, Narendra Modi. I said what’s going on with you and Pakistan. Then I am talking to Pakistan about trade. I said what’s going on with you and India? The hatred was tremendous. This has been going on for a… pic.twitter.com/gJVOTmKjXN

— ANI (@ANI) August 27, 2025

“I said, I don’t want to make a trade deal with you… You guys are going to end up in a nuclear war… I said, call me back tomorrow. But we are not going to do any deals with you, or we are going to put tariffs on you that are so high, your head’s going to spin,” he said.

“Within five hours, it was done. Maybe it starts again, but I will stop it if it does,” he said.

Trump also claimed that “seven jets or maybe more” were shot down – he did not say which country’s aircraft he was referring to.

Talking to the press at the White House two days ago, Trump had claimed that he stopped seven wars around the world, including the one between India and Pakistan. He said that of the seven wars he stopped, four were because he used tariffs and trade to negotiate with the parties involved in the conflict.

His latest remarks, being viewed in Delhi as the most personalised attack on the Prime Minister, have led to a fair amount of disquiet in Delhi.

Delhi has fact-checked the US President in the last few months, but it has not stopped Trump from claiming credit for brokering an end to the hostilities between India and Pakistan.

Modi had told Trump that there was no conversation between them on trade. On July 30, Trump announced the imposition of 25 per cent tariff on Indian goods, and followed it a week later by announcing an additional 25 per tariff over Indian purchase of Russian oil.

India and the US have had a difficult relationship and the ties have been hit adversely in the last few months over the tariffs and the India-Pakistan military confrontation.