In eight months, I ended eight wars, including Kosovo and Serbia, the Congo and Rwanda. That was going on for a long time. Pakistan and India. You know, I was in the midst of a trade deal with both of them. And then I read on the front page of a certain newspaper. I said, I don't want to mention the newspaper because it's usually fake news.
But I heard they're going to war. Eight planes, seven planes were shot down. An eighth was really badly wounded. But eight planes were shot down, essentially. And I said, this is war. And they were going at it. And they're two nuclear nations. I said, I'm not going to make any trade deals with you guys unless you agree to peace. No way.
This has nothing to do. I said, it has everything to do. You're nuclear powers. I'm not trading with you. We're not making any deals with you if you're at war with each other. A day later, I get a call. We've made peace. They stopped.
I said, thank you. Let's trade. Isn't that great? Tariffs did that. You know what? Tariffs. Without tariffs, that would have never happened. Israel and Iran, Egypt and Ethiopia, Armenia and Azerbaijan, and Cambodia and Thailand. All of them were in war, starting war. Some of the wars were 32 years old. One was 38 years old. Amazing.
They tried to - President Putin. I spoke to him. Two weeks ago. And he said, on the one, he said, we've been trying to settle that war for 10 years. We weren't able to do it. You've got to settle. I got some of these things settled in an hour.
No help from the United Nations at all.
The only thing I got from them was a blank teleprompter. Remember I went up there, princess? Ladies and gentlemen, on behalf of the United States of America, President Donald J. Trump, I'm looking at the teleprompters, and I have all my friends, including your family, sitting out there, 158 leaders, some in beautiful silk white robes, others in bad shirts, bad ties, and some in beautiful shirts and ties.
But they're all the leaders, 158 leaders. And they're saying, President, and I'm walking up to the President Donald J. Trump, and I'm looking at the teleprompter, stone cold blank. They did it on purpose. And I think I gave my best speech. That's what I was told. Thank you. But it still wasn't a great feeling.
I'm walking up very slowly. You know, I'm 20 feet. I'm trying to walk slowly because I see it's not working. They're dead. They did it on purpose. But it worked out okay. Not great people.
