Donald Trump has reinforced his insistence that he was the only one who stopped a full-scale war between India and Pakistan last year. His latest comments would suggest that Pakistan’s prime minister, Shehbaz Sharif, thanked the President himself for his intervention and said the U.S. President had “saved at least 10 million people.”
The ‘Rapid Order’ Peace Deal
Attending a group of media persons and energy executives, Trump called the May 2025 escalation caused by India’s “Operation Sindoor” a conflict that was “getting ready to start big.” “We stopped India and Pakistan, two nuclear nations, from fighting,” Trump said. “The Pakistani Prime Minister said Donald Trump saved at least 10 million people, and it was amazing.” He also said that the fighting had already been "eight jets shot out of the air" before he concluded an agreement "in rapid order."
The President tied these attempts to his wider running for the Nobel Peace Prize, claiming that while a lot of others have gotten the nod for doing "nothing," he has brought "eight major wars" to a close within the first year of his second term.
Contradictory Narratives from New Delhi
Though Trump is still trying to put himself on his best foot as the mediator, New Delhi has always kept a different story. Indian government officials repeatedly denied any third party involvement in the May 2025 ceasefire. The ceasefire was arrived at by direct bilateral channels, the Indian Ministry of External Affairs has said.
Brief post "Operation Sindoor" a mission of India to remove the terror infrastructure in response to an attack in Pahalgam is widely reported by most reports as having been initiated by the Pakistan Director General of Military Operations (DGMO) to contact his Indian counterpart on May 10, 2025 by seeking to cease hostilities. The Nobel Pitch. Trump’s sustained statement in this regard, which trade analysts estimate to be made almost 80 times since the ceasefire, comes amid his increasingly-disciplined criticism of the Nobel Committee.
He recently noted that Venezuelan opposition leader María Corina Machado had symbolically offered him her own Nobel medal as a gesture of respect, an act he called "a wonderful honor." The President did little to back down from the determination that the "long night" of May 10 was resolved only through the work of his diplomacy, as the 2026 geopolitical season starts.
