United States President Donald Trump appeared to confuse India with Iran while repeating his claim that he had used tariffs to prevent a possible nuclear conflict between India and Pakistan. He often claimed that his use of tariffs helped stop wars, even going so far as to say that his trade policies ended “five or six” of the “eight wars” that occurred during his time in office.
In response to the tariffs on China, Trump said: “We have a 100 percent tariff. If we didn’t have tariffs, we’d be exposed as nothing. We’d have no defense. They’ve used tariffs on us, but we’ve never had anybody sitting in that chair who felt the need to do that.”
Meanwhile, however, he said he was in the middle of “negotiating a trade deal with Iran,” when he was actually talking about an incident related to Pakistan.
“As an example, if you look at Pakistan and Iran. I told them I’m negotiating a trade deal with Iran and Pakistan will be in line. Because of the tariffs, they all wanted to negotiate completely differently. Then I heard them shooting at each other and I said, ‘Are you going to go to war? Two nuclear powers we’re thinking about,'” he added.
(This is a developing story. More to come)
