Donald Trump claimed his trade tariffs stopped global wars, including the India-Pakistan crisis, boasting that “seven planes were shot down” before his very effective intervention through tariffs.
US President Donald Trump has once again repeated that the threat of tariffs imposed by the United States helped prevent multiple global wars, including one between India and Pakistan. He claimed that his trade tactics turned America into a peacekeeping nation.
“If I didn’t have the power of tariffs, you would have at least four of the seven wars raging,” Trump said during an address on Monday. “If you look at India and Pakistan, they were ready to go at it. Seven planes were shot down… I don’t want to say exactly what I said, but what I said was very effective.”
Trump said the United States had become rich and powerful again under his watch, adding that his trade leverage helped stop wars worldwide. “Not only did we make hundreds of billions of dollars, but we’re a peacekeeper because of tariffs,” he said.
