"'Sir, if you solve one more, you're going to be known as a peacekeeper.' So to the best of my knowledge, we've never had a president that solved one war, not one war. (George W.) Bush started a war (in Iraq). A lot of them start wars, but they don't solve the wars. They don't settle them, and especially when they're not, when they have nothing to do with us."
"Trump is ignoring at least two instances of presidents personally overseeing negotiations that ended other countries' wars, plus several others in which presidents' designated diplomats successfully reached peace agreements following negotiations. "Like a lot of Trump's statements, it massively exaggerates what he's done, while ignoring any history of what other presidents have done," said David Silbey, a Cornell University military historian."
President Donald Trump claimed during an Oct. 17 White House exchange that no previous president had solved even one war and that ending additional wars would brand him a peacekeeper. Fact-checkers and historians noted that Trump overlooked at least two instances where presidents personally oversaw negotiations that ended other countries' wars and multiple cases where presidential diplomats secured peace agreements. The analysis excluded conflicts in which the United States was a primary combatant. White House deputy press secretary Anna Kelly credited Trump's direct involvement and leverage of U.S. power and markets for bringing peace in several long-running conflicts. Theodore Roosevelt mediated a 1905 settlement in the Russo-Japanese War.
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