US President Donald Trump has renewed his claim that India and Pakistan agreed to a ceasefire in 2025 because of his intervention, adding fresh details during an event in Miami. He said he threatened to halt trade deals with both nations after reading that they were on the brink of war, even claiming that eight aircraft had been shot down during the conflict. According to Trump, he told both countries that no trade negotiations would continue unless they agreed to stop fighting—an ultimatum that he says “shocked” New Delhi and Islamabad.

Trump asserted that on May 9, he warned India and Pakistan that the United States would not trade with nuclear-armed nations engaged in conflict, and claimed that the very next day he received a call saying, “We made peace.” He credited tariffs for forcing the ceasefire, highlighting that Pakistan faced a 19% tariff while India was hit with a steep 25%, which later doubled to 50% as a penalty for buying Russian oil and participating in BRICS. Trump said these financial pressures played a key role in influencing both sides, insisting he had helped end “eight wars” in just nine months of his presidency.

India, however, has repeatedly dismissed Trump’s version of events. During the G7 Summit in Canada, Prime Minister Narendra Modi made it clear there were no discussions with the US regarding mediation or trade deals during the conflict period. Foreign Secretary Vikram Misri said India had “at no stage” engaged in talks involving US intervention. The conflict had escalated after India launched Operation Sindoor targeting terror camps in Pakistan and Pakistan-occupied Kashmir, following the killing of 26 tourists in a terror attack in Pahalgam. Despite Trump’s continued assertions, New Delhi maintains that the ceasefire was the result of its own strategic decisions, not US involvement.