Overview
- Speaking at the America Business Forum in Miami, President Trump said "eight planes were essentially shot down" during the May clashes between India and Pakistan.
- Trump again asserted that threatening to halt trade deals and impose tariffs compelled both countries to stop fighting, adding he received a call the next day saying they had "made peace".
- His public tally of aircraft losses has shifted over time, moving from three to five to seven and now to eight, without specifying which side lost the jets.
- New Delhi has consistently denied any third‑party mediation and says the ceasefire was reached through direct communications, despite Trump’s May 10 post claiming U.S.-mediated talks.
- The brief conflict followed the April Pahalgam attack that killed 26 civilians and India’s Operation Sindoor beginning May 7, with both sides exchanging strikes before announcing a truce on May 10.