US President Donald Trump has again claimed fighter jets were shot down during the India-Pakistan conflict in May, reiterating that his intervention had prevented what he described as a “potential nuclear war” between the two neighbours.
Trump’s fresh statement comes just days after he said "six or seven planes came down" during the crisis. Back in July, he had claimed five aircraft were downed.
However, he once again didn't specify whether these were Indian or Pakistani jets, or a combined tally.
“I have stopped all of these wars. A big one would have been India and Pakistan,” Trump said during a bilateral meeting with the South Korean president.
He added: “The war with India and Pakistan was the next level that was going to be a nuclear war… They already shot down 7 jets — that was raging. I said, ‘You want to trade? We are not doing any trade or anything with you if you keep fighting, you’ve got 24 hours to settle it.’ They said, ‘Well, there’s no more war going on.’ I used that on numerous occasions. I used trade and whatever I had to use.”
The US president further claimed to have stopped "seven wars," including four by threatening 100 per cent tariffs.
He stated, " Of the 7 wars I stopped, 4 were because I had tariffs and trade and I was able to say, 'If you go fight and want to kill everybody, that is okay, but I am going to charge you each 100 per cent tariff when you trade with us'. They all gave up... we are taking trillions of dollars in tariffs and stopping wars due to tariffs... Other countries did it to us and now we are doing it to other countries."
Trump's latest remarks come weeks after Indian Air Force Chief, Air Chief Marshal Amar Preet Singh, confirmed India had destroyed at least five Pakistani fighter jets and a large surveillance aircraft during Operation Sindoor.
The operation was launched in the early hours of May 7, in retaliation to the April 22 terrorist attack in Pahalgam, Jammu and Kashmir, which killed 26 civilians. Indian armed forces carried out precision strikes on nine terrorist camps in Pakistan and Pakistan-occupied Kashmir, killing more than 100 terrorists.
The strikes triggered days of cross-border clashes, before a ceasefire was reached on May 10 after Pakistan’s Director General of Military Operations contacted his Indian counterpart seeking a halt to hostilities.
Trump has repeatedly — over three dozen times — credited himself with stopping the conflict. New Delhi, however, has pushed back, stressing that the ceasefire deal was discussed only with Islamabad.
Trump’s fresh statement comes just days after he said "six or seven planes came down" during the crisis. Back in July, he had claimed five aircraft were downed.
However, he once again didn't specify whether these were Indian or Pakistani jets, or a combined tally.
“I have stopped all of these wars. A big one would have been India and Pakistan,” Trump said during a bilateral meeting with the South Korean president.
Breaking: Donald Trump now claims that India shot down seven Pakistani jets. pic.twitter.com/idvFfWirE2
— Meru (@MeruOnX) August 25, 2025
He added: “The war with India and Pakistan was the next level that was going to be a nuclear war… They already shot down 7 jets — that was raging. I said, ‘You want to trade? We are not doing any trade or anything with you if you keep fighting, you’ve got 24 hours to settle it.’ They said, ‘Well, there’s no more war going on.’ I used that on numerous occasions. I used trade and whatever I had to use.”
The US president further claimed to have stopped "seven wars," including four by threatening 100 per cent tariffs.
He stated, " Of the 7 wars I stopped, 4 were because I had tariffs and trade and I was able to say, 'If you go fight and want to kill everybody, that is okay, but I am going to charge you each 100 per cent tariff when you trade with us'. They all gave up... we are taking trillions of dollars in tariffs and stopping wars due to tariffs... Other countries did it to us and now we are doing it to other countries."
Trump's latest remarks come weeks after Indian Air Force Chief, Air Chief Marshal Amar Preet Singh, confirmed India had destroyed at least five Pakistani fighter jets and a large surveillance aircraft during Operation Sindoor.
The operation was launched in the early hours of May 7, in retaliation to the April 22 terrorist attack in Pahalgam, Jammu and Kashmir, which killed 26 civilians. Indian armed forces carried out precision strikes on nine terrorist camps in Pakistan and Pakistan-occupied Kashmir, killing more than 100 terrorists.
The strikes triggered days of cross-border clashes, before a ceasefire was reached on May 10 after Pakistan’s Director General of Military Operations contacted his Indian counterpart seeking a halt to hostilities.
Trump has repeatedly — over three dozen times — credited himself with stopping the conflict. New Delhi, however, has pushed back, stressing that the ceasefire deal was discussed only with Islamabad.
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