{"id":322713,"date":"2025-12-18T12:10:05","date_gmt":"2025-12-18T12:10:05","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/322713\/"},"modified":"2025-12-18T12:10:05","modified_gmt":"2025-12-18T12:10:05","slug":"bbc-verify-live-fact-checking-trumps-unusual-new-white-house-presidential-plaques","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/322713\/","title":{"rendered":"BBC Verify Live: Fact-checking Trump\u2019s unusual new White House presidential plaques"},"content":{"rendered":"

Trump inaccurately touts his peacemaking record on his presidential plaquepublished at 11:41 GMT<\/p>\n

11:41 GMT<\/p>\n

\"\"Jake Horton
BBC Verify<\/p>\n

\"WorkersImage source, Win McNamee\/Getty Images<\/p>\n

Donald Trump also added a plaque for his current term to the \u201cPresidential Walk of Fame\u201d, which includes exaggerated claims about his record in office since January.<\/p>\n

For example, it claims Trump has \u201cdefeated inflation\u201d and \u201cended eight wars\u201d.<\/p>\n

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%. <\/p>\n

The second is a claim he\u2019s 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.<\/p>\n

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. <\/p>\n

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.<\/p>\n

BBC Verify has taken a closer look at the conflicts and how much credit Trump can take for ending them here.<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Trump inaccurately touts his peacemaking record on his presidential plaquepublished at 11:41 GMT 11:41 GMT Jake HortonBBC Verify…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":278751,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[29],"tags":[96,391,56,54,55],"class_list":{"0":"post-322713","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-tv","8":"tag-entertainment","9":"tag-tv","10":"tag-uk","11":"tag-united-kingdom","12":"tag-unitedkingdom"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/322713","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=322713"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/322713\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/278751"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=322713"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=322713"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=322713"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}