Sure As Hell Helped…”: Donald Trump’s Latest India-Pak Ceasefire Claim

New Delhi:

Donald Trump – undeterred by India’s six-point rebuttal Thursday in response to the United States President’s many claims for credit for the ceasefire with Pakistan – is at it again.

Trump told American soldiers at a base in Qatar he “sure as hell helped settle the problem between India and Pak last week”, and that he had resolved a “more and more hostile situation”.

“I don’t want to say I did… but I sure as hell helped settle the problem between Pakistan and India last week, which was getting more and more hostile and, all of a sudden, you’ll start seeing missiles of a different type, and we got it settled,” Trump, on a tour of West Asia, said.

He also claimed the ceasefire had been facilitated by the prospect of the US increasing trade with both countries. “… we talked to them about trade. ‘Let’s do trade instead of war’, I said, and Pak was very happy with that and India was very happy with that. I think they are on the way.”

“They have been fighting for about a thousand years in all fairness. I said, ‘I could settle that up’. I could settle anything. ‘Let me settle it up’, I said, and we got that settled. Boy, everybody was very happy, I’ll tell you. That looked like it was really going to be escalating out of control.”