Overview
- In a Fox News interview and later at the White House, President Trump repeated that he halted last May’s India–Pakistan hostilities and argued he merits a Nobel Peace Prize.
- Trump said eight jets were shot down and claimed Pakistan’s Shehbaz Sharif publicly thanked him, crediting him with saving at least 10 million lives.
- New Delhi continues to deny any mediation, saying the ceasefire followed India’s Operation Sindoor and a May 10 outreach by Pakistan’s DGMO to his Indian counterpart.
- The specific figures Trump cites and his assertion of U.S. mediation have not been independently verified in public reporting.
- Trump has made the India–Pakistan claim roughly 70 times and folded it into broader boasts of settling eight wars, referencing praise he says he received from Vladimir Putin and María Corina Machado.