In what appears to be an endless streak of repeating the infamous claim, US President Donald Trump once again took credit for ending the war between India and Pakistan despite New Delhi’s reiterated rejection of his intervention. His renewed statement on the issue was delivered during a White House meeting with executives from US oil companies to boost Venezuelan oil production.
Trump reasserts he stopped India-Pakistan war
While interacting with the top oil and gas executives of the country at the White House, Trump doubled down on his belief that he should’ve won the Nobel Peace Prize. “I settled 8 wars… Some of them, which were just getting ready to start, like India and Pakistan, where already 8 jets were shot down,” he reiterated the much-repeated claim yet again.
Claiming that he resolved the issue in “rapid order without nuclear weapons,” he asserted that there was no one else who deserved to win the Nobel Peace Prize more than him. “Nobody settled wars… President Putin called me, and mentioned about two of the wars he had been wanting to stop for ten years,” he continued.
He then turned to alluding to Pakistan’s Prime Minister Shehbaz Sharif, who, alongside Field Marshal Asim Munir, was hosted by the US president at the White House in late September 2025. “The Prime Minister of Pakistan came here, and he made a very public statement. He said that President Trump saved minimum 10 million lives having to do with Pakistan and India, and that was going to be raging.”
The 79-year-old MAGA leader has continued to make such remarks about the India-Pakistan conflict since May, when both the South Asian nuclear-powered neighbours decided on a ceasefire agreement. The decision came after days-long cross-border hostility in light of India targeting Pakistan-based terror infrastructures through its retaliatory Operation Sindoor following the Pahalgam terror attack in April, which killed 26 people.
India has long rejected the intervention of a third party in the ceasefire agreement. Officials from the South Asian nation have consistently maintained that the decision was a direct consequence of both countries’ direct involvement. Indian authorities have emphasised that Pakistan’s Director General of Military Operations (DGMO) reached out to his Indian counterpart on May 10, pushing for peace to be brokered.
Trump doubles down on Nobel Peace Prize claims
Beyond his mentions of the India-Pakistan conflict, Trump also said that he was willing to accept the Nobel Peace Prize. His comments followed the original winner, aka Venezuelan opposition leader María Corina Machado’s suggestion that she wanted to share the prize with him. Both leaders are set to meet next week.
“I understand she’s coming in next week sometime, and I look forward to saying hello to her,” he said during a recent interview with Fox News. Trump went on to call Machado’s admission about wanting to share the prize a “great honour.”
During the same conversation, Trump branded Norway’s rejection of his Nobel Peace Prize campaign a “major embarrassment,” arguing that putting out “eight wars” should’ve actually gotten him a prize for each war.
Machado, on her part, had told Fox News, “I do want to say today, on behalf of the Venezuelan people, how grateful we are for [Trump’s] courageous mission,” adding that the Venezuelan people want to “share” the Nobel prize with him after the US captured President Nicolas Maduro and his wife over narco-terrorism charges.