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

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“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

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1. He lies more than he breaths. Seems like only MSNBC calls him out on it.