President Donald Trump has falsely claimed that the U.S. has “never had a president that solved one war.”
Trump made the false claim as he prepared to meet with Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky at the White House on Friday afternoon. They’re expected to discuss strengthening U.S. support for Kyiv.
“To the best of my knowledge, we’ve never had a president that solved one war, not one war,” Trump told reporters. “Bush started a war. A lot of them start wars, but they don’t solve the wars.”
Beforehand, Trump boasted that he had ended “eight wars” but complained he did not win a Nobel Peace Prize for any of them.
“Look at all of the wars that we solve, and every time I solve one, they say, ‘If you solve the next one, you’re going to get the Nobel Prize,’” he said. “I didn’t get a Nobel Prize.”
Trump’s allies campaigned for him to win a Nobel Peace Prize earlier this month after he announced the first phase of a ceasefire deal between Israel and Hamas. This year’s Nobel Peace Prize winner, Venezuelan opposition leader Maria Corina Machado, dedicated her prize to Trump.
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