Donald Trump, while praising Prime Minister Narendra Modi as ‘tough as hell’, claimed he stopped a recent India-Pakistan conflict by threatening to withhold trade deals. Speaking in South Korea and Japan, the US President repeated inconsistent accounts of his supposed role in ending hostilities

Tokyo/Seoul: On the one hand, he praised Prime Minister Narendra Modi as the “nicest looking guy”, a “killer” and “tough as hell”. But in the same breath, Donald Trump once again waded into India-Pakistan conflict by claiming he stopped their recent military hostilities.

A few hours earlier, the US President also claimed that “seven brand new” planes were shot down in the May 7-10 Operation Sindoor .

“Prime Minister Modi is the nicest looking guy … he looks like you’d like to have your father

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