Examining Trump's claim he ended 6 wars in 6 months
U.S. President Donald Trump often claimed in his second presidential term that he stopped six wars within six months. On Aug. 18, 2025, during a meeting with Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy while calling for an end to the Ukraine-Russia war, Trump said he had "ended" six wars.
He made a similar claim days before the meeting, saying in an interview with Fox News, "I've solved six wars in six months" and repeating the claim during remarks in the Oval Office. And in July 2025, Trump said, "I'm averaging about a war a month" referring to the apparent wars he had helped end. Our readers have asked Snopes to fact-check Trump's claim.
Snopes listed all the conflicts Trump may have been referring to below and assessed his role in solving each of them. We found that while the United States did play a part in brokering a form of a temporary ceasefire in some cases, in most instances these issues were not permanently "solved" as Trump claimed. His part in brokering peace was also disputed by some of the countries involved. Furthermore, most of these ongoing conflicts were not formally declared as "wars" by the countries involved.
Trump and his team at various times had referred to the following seven, not six, conflicts: Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC) and Rwanda, India and Pakistan, Iran and Israel, Cambodia and Thailand, Armenia and Azerbaijan, Serbia and Kosovo, and even Egypt and Ethiopia.
https://www.snopes.com/news/2025/08/20/trump-ended-6-wars/
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