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2 days agoTrump touts his peace deals - but many are already unraveling
Many of President Trump's touted peace agreements are fragile ceasefires rather than durable peace, with several deals disputed or unraveling.
'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.
It will be a disaster if that is lost for our country, Trump said in a preview clip shared by Jennings. Our country will be weak, pathetic, and not rich. It will be, you know, I've put us in a position even negotiating I've negotiated seven peace deals because I was able to use tariffs. Without tariffs, many of those deals half of those deals I wouldn't have been able to do.
Is Donald Trump's diplomatic dealmaking truly putting an end to several wars? Donald Trump insists he has halted six wars since taking office, presenting himself as the world's peacemaker-in-chief. The claim has even fueled talk of a Nobel Prize. But is he truly ending wars or simply shaping peace to suit his politics? Jillian Wolf explains in this week's Fact Check.