Trump claims to have ended six wars - is that true?

[babylonsister]

Pants on fire, again.

Trump claims to have ended six wars – is that true?
Trump and his administration claim to have helped settle conflicts from the Middle East to Asia, yet the reality is more complex
Andrew Roth Global affairs correspondent
Mon 18 Aug 2025 20.11 EDT


As he touted his bona fides as the so-called “peacemaker-in-chief” during talks over Ukraine at the White House on Tuesday, Donald Trump made two big claims: that he wants peace deals instead of ceasefires, and that he has ended six wars since he became president.

But in his haste to hammer out a peace deal in Ukraine, Trump is playing fast and loose with the truth.

Trump and his administration have claimed to have helped settle the conflicts between Israel and Iran, the Democratic Republic of Congo and Rwanda, Cambodia and Thailand, India and Pakistan, Serbia and Kosovo, and Egypt and Ethiopia.

Yet the claim to have settled those conflicts is embellished and in some cases contradicted by continued violence in countries like DR Congo, where Rwanda-backed rebels missed a deadline to reach a peace deal in Doha on Tuesday.

In Iran, the US carried out its own strikes using bunker-buster bombs against military and nuclear facilities before strong-arming Iran to accept a ceasefire. India has denied that Trump played any role in reaching a ceasefire deal with Pakistan to end days of strikes over the disputed Kashmir territory in May. Egypt and Ethiopia have no deal to settle the root of their conflict – a Nile River dam constructed by Ethiopia that would divert water from Egypt. And Serbia has denied it had any plans to pursue a war with Kosovo, although Trump took credit for preventing one.

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https://www.theguardian.com/world/2025/aug/19/trump-claims-to-have-ended-six-wars-is-that-true

[Lovie777]

1. shithole continues to lie........................

[Walleye]

2. Reporter should ask him to name all six from memory. I bet he can't.

[malaise]

3. Of course it's not true

Meanwhile
M23 rebels suspend peace talks with DR Congo government

https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/c80d12xj20ro

[thucythucy]

4. Absolutely!

The war against truth.
The war against science.
The war against morality and common decency.
The war against common sense.
The war against competence,
And best of all:
The war against democracy.

This last is still up for grabs, but he's won some major battles and intends to keep plugging away at it until final victory.

[mercuryblues]

5. You forgot the war against Christmas.

Everyone can say Merry Christmas now. Whether they want to or not.

[thucythucy]

6. True!

All these wars are over!

The enemies are defeated!

Now it's on to fluoride in water and the protection of our Precious Bodily Fluids!

[underpants]

7. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. Rec'd and Bookmarked

I’ve been looking for a good breakdown on this. The best I had found was just some post on Reddit - which closely mirrored this. I was going to post it to see what DU’ers opinions were on it but I couldn’t find it again.

Anytime they are crowing about ANYTHING I know it’s not accurate in fact it’s a steaming pile of crap.

It’s canon and dogma in loo loo world.
Of course Trump can’t get even the BS right.

Link to tweet

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[babylonsister]

8. You're welcome. I too had been looking for

confirmation on his alleged success repeated ad nauseum in ending wars. Totally unsurprisingly, he's lying about this too.

[LetMyPeopleVote]

9. MaddowBlog-Trump flubs the details of his own dubious boast about ending 'wars'

“In the six wars that I’ve settled, we haven’t had a ceasefire," the president said. Both parts of that sentence are demonstrably and embarrassingly wrong.

“In the six wars that I’ve settled, we haven’t had a ceasefire," Trump said.

Problem 1: He hasn’t settled six wars.

Problem 2: Most the resolutions he wants credit for have been the result of ceasefires. www.msnbc.com/rachel-maddo...

— Steve Benen (@stevebenen.com) 2025-08-19T15:26:48.045Z

https://www.msnbc.com/rachel-maddow-show/maddowblog/trump-flubs-details-dubious-boast-ending-wars-rcna225794

As part of his White House discussions with European leaders about Russia’s war in Ukraine, the American president added a new wrinkle to his dubious boasts. During an Oval Office event alongside Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy, for example, Trump declared, “I don’t think you need a ceasefire. If you look at the six deals that I settled this year they were all at war. I didn’t do any ceasefires.”

Soon after, as part of a larger discussion with European leaders, he pushed the same line: “In the six wars that I’ve settled, we haven’t had a ceasefire.”

Trump: "In the six wars that I've settled, we haven't had a ceasefire."

— Aaron Rupar (@atrupar.com) 2025-08-18T19:10:35.710Z

....The White House has never released a formal list of the five, six or seven wars that Trump has ostensibly ended, but the president did use his social media platform over the weekend to highlight a list put together by Roger Stone, a longtime GOP operative and Trump ally. It claimed that the president “has achieved peace” between:

India and Pakistan
Israel and Iran
Serbia and Kosovo
Rwanda and the Democratic Republic of Congo
Thailand and Cambodia
Armenia and Azerbaijan
Saudi Arabia, Syria and Lebanon (Abraham Accords)

....In reality, when tensions eased between India and Pakistan, that was a ceasefire. When Thailand and Cambodia stopped firing at one another, that was also a ceasefire. When Israel and Iran stopped trading shots, that, too, was a ceasefire.

In other words, Trump not only can’t keep track of his own dubious claim, and not only can he not back it up with specifics, he’s also flubbing the details of his own boast in ways he really ought to understand

[MurrayDelph]

10. I think it's like an episode of The Honeymooners

when Ralph claimed to save the life of {some celebrity, remember who, not important to the story}. On further details, his "saving the life" was him not driving his bus up the sidewalk to hit the guy*.


*I'm actually not sure I saw the episode, but was told of it after a time 40 years ago, when I worked in LA and stopped to avoid hitting a jogging George Takei.

[Rincewind]

11. It's sort of true,,

he ended the war on cancer, the war on poverty, the war on hunger, the war on illiteracy, the war on climate change, and the war on communicable disease.