US President Donald Trump, this weekend, once again claimed that his trade and tariff threats helped avert a potential “nuclear war” between India and Pakistan during the May 2025 military escalation, asserting that his warning to withdraw US market access forced both nations to back down.

In an interview with CBS News’s 60 Minutes , Trump said the two countries were “on the brink of nuclear conflict” before his intervention. According to him, his administration’s economic leverage was decisive in bringing New Delhi and Islamabad to the table.

“It did work with India and it did work with Pakistan and it did work with 60 per cent of those countries," he noted.

"I can tell you if it wasn't for tariffs and trade, I wouldn't have been able to make the deals. But I stopped as an example. I

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