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U.S. President Donald Trump has said helium settled hostility betwixt India and Pakistan aft threatening the 2 countries with 350% tariffs and claimed that Prime Minister Narendra Modi had called him to accidental “we're not going to spell to war.”
Mr. Trump has repeated the assertion implicit 60 times that helium “helped settle” hostility betwixt India and Pakistan successful May this year, adjacent arsenic India has consistently denied immoderate third-party intervention.
“…I’m bully astatine settling disputes, and I've ever been. I’ve done precise good with that implicit the years, adjacent earlier this. I was talking astir the antithetic wars… India, Pakistan... they were going to spell astatine it, atomic weapons,” Mr. Trump said connected Wednesday (November 19, 2025).
Speaking astatine the U.S.-Saudi Investment Forum attended by visiting Crown Prince of Saudi Arabia Mohammed bin Salman, Mr. Trump said that helium told the 2 nuclear-armed neighbours that they “can spell astatine it, but I'm putting a 350% tariff connected each country. No much commercialized with the United States.”
Claiming that some India and Pakistan told him not to bash it, Mr. Trump said that helium told them, “I'm going to bash it. Come backmost to maine and I'll instrumentality it down. But I'm not going to person you guys shooting atomic weapons astatine each other, sidesplitting millions of radical and having the atomic particulate floating implicit Los Angeles. I'm not going to bash it’.”
Mr. Trump past said that helium was “all set” and told Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent that helium volition enactment a 350% tariff to settee the conflict, and added, if the countries stopped the war, “we'll marque a bully commercialized deal,” arsenic they are successful the midst of the negotiations for the commercialized deal.
U.S. President Donald Trump and Crown Prince and Prime Minister Mohammed bin Salman of Saudi Arabia astatine the U.S.-Saudi Investment Forum successful Washington, D.C. | Photo Credit: Reuters
“Now, nary different president would person done that… I utilized tariffs to settee each these wars, not each of them. Five of the 8 were settled due to the fact that of the economy, due to the fact that of trade, due to the fact that of tariffs,” Trump said. “I did this.” He added that Pakistan Prime Minister Shehbaz Sharif called him and thanked him, successful beforehand of White House Chief of Staff Susie Wiles, for redeeming millions of lives.
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Mr. Trump past claimed that helium “got a telephone from Prime Minister Modi saying, ‘we're done’. I said, ‘You're done with what?’” Mr. Trump said and claimed Mr. Modi replied: “We're not going to spell to war.”
Mr. Trump said helium past thanked Mr. Modi and said, “Let's marque a deal.”
The U.S. president besides added that helium saved a batch of people, millions of people, successful galore different wars. Mr. Trump had repeated the assertion that helium stopped the warfare betwixt India and Pakistan a time earlier, too, during a bilateral gathering with the Saudi Crown Prince successful the Oval Office.
Since May 10, erstwhile Mr. Trump announced connected societal media that India and Pakistan had agreed to a “full and immediate” ceasefire aft a “long night” of talks mediated by Washington, helium has repeated his assertion implicit 60 times that helium “helped settle” the tensions betwixt India and Pakistan.
India launched Operation Sindoor connected May 7, targeting panic infrastructure successful Pakistan and Pakistan-occupied Kashmir successful retaliation for the Pahalgam onslaught that killed 26 civilians.
India has consistently denied immoderate third-party involution and maintained that the knowing connected cessation of hostilities with Pakistan was reached connected May 10 pursuing nonstop talks betwixt the Directors General of Military Operations (DGMOs) of the 2 militaries.
