President Trump has issued his most detailed comments on Kashmir after India struck inside Pakistan after terrorists killed 25 Hindu tourists there.
‘It’s so terrible. My position is I get along with both … and I want to see them work it out,’ Trump told reporters while swearing in the new U.S. ambassador to China David Perdue.
‘I want to see them stop,’ said Trump in the Oval Office.
‘They’ve gone tit for tat, so hopefully they can stop now,’ Trump said.
Trump also offered himself up as a potential mediator.
‘If I can do anything to help I will be there,’ he said.
That stance was a departure from earlier comments Trump seemed to keep his distance from the long-simmering conflict. ‘I am very close to India and I’m very close to Pakistan, and they’ve had that fight for a thousand years in Kashmir,’ he told reporters aboard Air Force One this weekend.
He repeated his comment about 1,000 years, adding ‘probably longer than that.’
The territorial clash began after the partition of India in 1947.
US President Donald Trump speaks during a swearing-in ceremony for the Ambassador to China, former Republican Senator of Georgia, David Perdue at the White House in Washington, DC, May 7, 2025
India fired missiles into Pakistan and part of Kashmir controlled by Pakistan Wednesday.
India then told a group of envoys that ‘if Pakistan responds, India will respond.’
The situation has raised concerns of an escalating clash between the two nuclear powers.
