‘Stopped 5 of 8 Wars With Threat of Tariffs’: Trump Makes Major Claim

United States President Donald Trump on Saturday (local time) claimed that he used the threat of tariffs to halt five of the eight wars he says he prevented, arguing that the policy has brought “trillions of dollars” into the US economy.

In a strongly worded post on Truth Social, Trump wrote, “We are taking in TRILLIONS of Dollars in Tariffs and Investment Dollars from foreign lands because of Tariffs. I have stopped 5 of the eight WARS directly because of the threat of Tariffs if they don’t stop fighting or, better yet, if they start.”

Trump has repeatedly asserted that tariffs played a role in halting military escalation between India and Pakistan in May this year—an assertion New Delhi has never confirmed.

Hits out at Biden over inflation

Attacking former president Joe Biden, Trump said inflation is now “almost non-existent,” adding that it had been “the worst in USA history under Sleepy Joe Biden.”

“The Stock Market just hit an ALL-TIME HIGH for the 48th time in 9 months,” he wrote, before accusing conservative activist Leonard Leo, the Koch network, and various countries of having “ripped off” the US for years through tariffs. He warned that “we don’t have a court system that’s going to let you destroy our Country any longer.”

‘November 5 and tariffs are the reason’

Trump further claimed the United States is currently the “richest, strongest, and most respected” it has ever been—crediting the turnaround to “November 5th,” referring to the 2024 US election date, and his aggressive tariff policies.