US EditionFact Check: Trump Falsely Claims No Other President Has Ever Ended a War
Trump claims unique success in ending wars despite historical peace deals by other U.S. presidents, with experts disputing his assertion of having solved more conflicts than all predecessors.
- On Oct. 17, 2025, President Donald Trump said `We’ve never had a president that solved one war, not one war` during a White House visit with President Volodymyr Zelenskyy, expanding his claim about ending wars.
- For weeks, President Donald Trump has repeatedly claimed to have ended multiple wars, saying `Everyone says that I should get the Nobel Peace Prize for each one of these achievements` while White House Deputy Press Secretary Anna Kelly defended his role.
- Historical records show presidential mediation led to formal treaties as Theodore Roosevelt, President, mediated Portsmouth Naval Shipyard in 1905 and Jimmy Carter, President, brokered Camp David Accords.
- Fact-Checkers rated Trump's claim Pants on Fire! and David Silbey said `like a lot of Trump’s statements, it massively exaggerates` his role, while Anna Kelly defended his involvement.
- Observers warn that recent ceasefires, including between Israel and Iran, India and Pakistan, and Armenia and Azerbaijan, are staged and may not lead to lasting peace, citing violations and ongoing violence between Cambodia and Thailand and in the Democratic Republic of Congo and Rwanda.
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U.S. President Donald Trump made multiple false claims to the press during a meeting with Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky at the White House on Friday, including a long-discredited claim about the war in Ukraine.
By Daniel Dale, CNN President Donald Trump made multiple false claims to reporters during a meeting with Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky at the White House on Friday, including a long-debunked claim about the war in Ukraine. Trump repeated his false account of Russia's full-scale invasion of Ukraine in 2022, claiming that Russia failed to win the war in a week because it chose to invade through muddy terrain rather than highways. “They go…
Fact check: Trump falsely claims no other president has ever ended a war
President Donald Trump made multiple false claims to the press during a Friday meeting with Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky at the White House – including a long-debunked claim about the war in Ukraine.
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Trump falsely claims no other US president has ever solved a war
Trump is meeting with Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky
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