{"id":356022,"date":"2025-08-27T12:39:18","date_gmt":"2025-08-27T07:09:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/?p=356022"},"modified":"2025-08-27T12:39:18","modified_gmt":"2025-08-27T07:09:18","slug":"i-will-put-tariffs-so-high-that-your-heads-going-to-spin-trump-to-india-pak","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/i-will-put-tariffs-so-high-that-your-heads-going-to-spin-trump-to-india-pak\/","title":{"rendered":"I will put tariffs so high that \u2018your heads going to spin\u2019: Trump to India, Pak"},"content":{"rendered":"\n
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After more than 27 times reiterating that he mediated the war between India and Pakistan after a terror attack in Kashmir\u2019s Pahalgam which became a hot topic in India and gave an upper hand to Opposition on which it cornered the central government, US President Donald Trump once again said that he directly intervened to stop a potential nuclear confrontation.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Presiding over the cabinet meeting, he said that he warned both the nation of hefty trade tariffs that \u2018your heads going to spin\u2019.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

He said that he personally spoke to the Prime Minister Narendra Modi on the matter.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cI am talking to a very terrific man, Modi of India. I said, ‘what’s going on with you and Pakistan?’ Then I spoke to Pakistan about trade. I said, ‘what’s going on with you and India?’ This has been going on for a hell of a long time, sometimes under different names for hundreds of years,\u201d he added.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

India Pakistan conflict goes back to 1947 when both the nation became independent, following the end of nearly 200 years of British colonial rule in the subcontinent.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

He said, \u201cBut I said, ‘what’s going on?’ I said, ‘I don’t want to make a trade deal\u2026.’ I said, ‘no, no, I don’t want to make a trade deal with you. You are going to have a nuclear war. You guys are going to end up in a nuclear war’. And that was very important to them. I said, ‘call me back tomorrow, but we are not going to do any deals with you, or we are going to put tariffs on you that are so high. I don’t give a damn. Your head’s going to spin.” <\/p>\n\n\n\n

“Within about five hours, it was done. Now, maybe it starts again, I don’t know. I don’t think so. But I will stop it if it does. We can’t let these things happen. \u201dHe also went on to say that seven or more fighter jets were downed during the war. \u201cI saw seven jets were shot down and that was not good. Seven, maybe more than that, they never revealed the real numbers,\u201d he added.\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

After more than 27 times reiterating that he mediated the war between India and Pakistan after a terror attack in Kashmir\u2019s Pahalgam which became a hot topic in India and gave an upper hand to Opposition on which it cornered the central government, US President Donald Trump once again said that he directly intervened to […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":181,"featured_media":356023,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[15084,36],"tags":[18841,16742,19632,16061,19535,17645],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/posts\/356022"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/users\/181"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=356022"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/posts\/356022\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":356024,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/posts\/356022\/revisions\/356024"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/media\/356023"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=356022"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=356022"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=356022"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}