Trump inaccurately touts his peacemaking record on his presidential plaquepublished at 11:41 GMT
11:41 GMT
Jake Horton
BBC Verify
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Donald Trump also added a plaque for his current term to the “Presidential Walk of Fame”, which includes exaggerated claims about his record in office since January.
For example, it claims Trump has “defeated inflation” and “ended eight wars”.
On the first, inflation is down from the 2022 peak of 9.1% under President Joe Biden but it is not non-existent – the rate at which prices are rising in the US currently sits around 3%.
The second is a claim he’s made before about ending eight wars. The White House has listed these as the Israel and Hamas war in Gaza, Israel and Iran, Pakistan and India, Rwanda and the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC), Thailand and Cambodia, Armenia and Azerbaijan, Egypt and Ethiopia, and Serbia and Kosovo.
To take the example of Egypt-Ethiopia, although there were diplomatic tensions, there was simply no war to stop. A number of actual conflicts in the list lasted just days and how much of a role Trump played in ending them is disputed.
Trump has successfully helped broker some peace agreements for some long-standing conflicts, such as between Armenia and Azerbaijan. But it is also unclear whether some of the peace agreements will last, given fighting has broken out on the Thailand-Cambodia border and between Rwanda and the DRC again since.
BBC Verify has taken a closer look at the conflicts and how much credit Trump can take for ending them here.