New Delhi: US president Donald Trump has made his umpteenth claim of resolving tensions between India and Pakistan in May this year with trade threats, and claimed that he deserves the Nobel Peace Prize for “ending seven wars.”PTI reported that Trump was speaking at the American Cornerstone Institute Founder’s Dinner on September 20 when he said, “Think of India and Pakistan. Think of that. And you know how I stopped that – with trade. They want to trade. And I have great respect for both leaders. But when you take a look at all of these wars that we’ve stopped.”India differs with this account. Prime minister Narendra Modi, who Trump touts as a great friend of his, has said that no foreign leader asked India to halt Operation Sindoor – its retaliatory strikes of terror bases in Pakistan after the April 22 Pahalgam attack killing 26 civilians in Kashmir. India has said that it was talks between the Directors General of Military Operations or DGMOs of the two countries’ respective militaries that led to peace.The external affairs ministry has also said that there was no third-party intervention.All of this, however, has not moved Trump from claiming – over 40 times by now – that he was the person who brought piece to this equation, affecting the ceasefire by dangling the threat of ceasing trade ties and setting exorbitant tariffs on both India and Pakistan.On September 20, Trump added that trade had been instrumental in resolving multiple conflicts, claiming, “Just look at that. India, Pakistan, Thailand, Cambodia, Armenia, Azerbaijan, Kosovo and Serbia, Israel and Iran, Egypt and Ethiopia, Rwanda and the Congo. We stopped all of them. And 60% of them were stopped because of trade.”He added, “Like with India, I said, ‘look, we’re not going to do any trade if you’re going to fight and they have nuclear weapons.’ They stopped.”Trump – who has set a 25% additional tariff rate on India for buying Russian crude and in effect allegedly supporting its war on Ukraine – also said that he has been told that stopping that war in Europe could get him the Nobel. “So they said, ‘But if you stop Russia and Ukraine, sir, you should be able to get the Nobel’. I said I stopped seven wars. That’s one war, and that’s a big one,” he claimed.At the same dinner, Trump called his predecessor, former American president Joe Biden, “stupid”, “mean” and a “son of a bitch” – the latter marking an extraordinary devolution in language used in his position.“Biden was always a mean guy, but never a smart guy. We go back 30 years, 40 years, he’s a stupid guy. He was always a mean son of a b—h. How’s it working? Not working too well for him now. When you start feeling sorry for him, remember he was a bad guy,” he said.