United States President Donald Trump seemed to confuse India with Iran while repeating his claim that he used tariffs to prevent a possible nuclear conflict between India and Pakistan. He has frequently claimed that his use of tariffs helped stop wars, even going so far as to say his trade policies ended "five or six" of the "eight wars" that occurred during his time in office.

While responding about tariffs on China, Trump said, “We have a 100 per cent tariff. If we didn’t have tariffs, we would be exposed as being a nothing. We would have no defence. They’ve used tariffs on us, but we’ve never had anybody sitting in that chair who felt the need to do it."

"As an example, if you look at Pakistan and Iran. I told them I was negotiating a trade deal with Iran, and Pakistan was going to be

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