During a speech at the American Business Forum in Miami late on Wednesday, the US president said, “In eight months I ended eight wars, including Kosovo and Serbia, the Congo and Rwanda … Pakistan and India”.

Donald Trump mentioned that he was in the midst of a trade deal with both of them. Then he got news from a certain newspaper that they are going to war. He added that he won’t mention the newspaper because it’s usually fake news.

Highlighting the loss of aircrafts in May’s clash with Pakistan as a major embarrassment, “Eight planes, seven planes were shot down — an eighth was really badly wounded [sic]. But eight planes were shot down essentially.

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He reiterated his previous claims that he threatened not to make trade deals unless the two countries agreed to peace.

“I’m not trading with you; we are not making any deals with you if you are at war with each other,” he added.

The US president has previously stated on several occasions stated that five to seven planes were shot down during the May conflict between the two neighbouring countries. He had also reiterated his praise for Prime Minister Shehbaz Sharif and Chief of Army Staff Field Marshal Asum Munir, both of whom he met in Washington in September. Just last month, he had said that seven “brand-new, beautiful planes were shot down” during the brief military escalation between Pakistan and India.