President Donald Trump has upped his figure for the number of wars he has ended since starting his second term.
While speaking on the “Todd Starnes Show,” Trump on Thursday said he may have solved at least 10 conflicts.
“They wrote an article that they gave me three additional ones that I ended without even knowing it. I saw things were going bad, and it looked like it was going to go bad, and it could have been 10,” Trump told the conservative radio host.
It is unclear what story the president was referencing.
His updated figure comes as he has moved back and forth among whether he has ended six or seven wars since taking office.
On Monday, before his high-stakes meeting with Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy and other European leaders, Trump wrote on his Truth Social platform that ”I’ve settled 6 Wars in 6 months, one of them a possible Nuclear disaster…”
“I’ve done six wars, I’ve ended six wars,” Trump then said hours later during remarks in the Oval Office, as he looks to inch closer to a peace deal between Ukraine and Russia. “Look, India-Pakistan, we’re talking about big places, you just take a look at some of these wars. You go to Africa and take a look at them.”
The next day, during an interview with Fox News, Trump said that “we ended seven wars,” though he did not specify the one he added to his count. He added that if he helps work out the Russia-Ukraine war, then “this would be one of the reasons” he is able to go to heaven.
“I want to try and get to heaven if possible. I’m hearing I’m not doing well,” Trump said, before joking that he is “really at the bottom of the totem pole.”
Meanwhile, the White House provided a list of six wars that Trump has resolved in a statement to The Washington Post last week: Armenia and Azerbaijan, Rwanda and the Democratic Republic of Congo, India and Pakistan, Israel and Iran, Cambodia and Thailand, and Egypt and Ethiopia.
But while speaking on the show, Trump again pointed to his seven figure. He did, though, go on to say, “Probably more than that.”
When asked if he would be able to eventually “get peace” between Ukraine and Russia, after also meeting with Russian President Vladimir Putin at a summit in Alaska last week, Trump said that he will know within two weeks “one way or the other.”
Trump has since ditched his hope for a ceasefire, and is instead now pushing for a permanent peace agreement — a demand held by the Kremlin.
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