President Donald Trump has been repeating one in all his favourite boasts since taking workplace in January — that he has personally ended a number of international conflicts — and he’s been doing it with a watch on one thing greater: a Nobel Peace Prize.
With the prize announcement anticipated subsequent month, Trump has labored the road into speeches and interviews and insists his management deserves recognition on the world stage.
“I finished seven wars, and so they had been, they’re massive ones too,” Trump mentioned in August, earlier than including that “lots of people say seven as a result of there’s one which no one is aware of about.”
However regardless of being fact-checked again and again, Trump can’t appear to assist himself. At a speech Tuesday earlier than the nation’s high navy brass at Quantico, he as soon as once more introduced up his supposed report of peace offers — solely this time, the quantity had grown once more. “To have achieved eight of them is simply such an honor,” he boasted.
That’s when the story actually began to unravel. Not solely did Trump all of the sudden add an eighth battle “that no one is aware of about” to the tally, however in an actual headscratcher of a second, he went on to brag about settling the battle between Azerbaijan and one other nation that he couldn’t keep in mind.
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“And I mentioned, ‘That’s so good, and also you’re going to stay associates.’ And I spoke to them, one in all them the opposite day, he mentioned, ‘No, he’s now my pal,’ however for 22 years, he’s been the pinnacle of Azerbaijan, for 22 years. And the opposite man, nice man, too, seven.”
The lacking nation, in fact, was Armenia — a element Trump has repeatedly bungled in previous interviews, as soon as complicated it fully with Albania. And this was all taking part in out earlier than the navy’s high brass.
That slip solely makes it simpler for extra brutal reality checks from late-night comic Seth Meyers who simply final week rolled the tape on Trump’s contradictions, mispronunciations, and flat-out fabrications. He hammered the president with comedic timing and even maps displaying the nations he can’t appear to maintain straight. And it despatched the viewers into stitches.
“I solved wars that was unsolvable. Uh, Azerbaijan and Albania,” Trump mentioned in a Sept. 12 “Fox & Associates” clip that was the primary of a medley Meyers posted.
“You noticed the Aber-by-jahn. That was a giant one happening for 34, 35 years, with, uh, Albania,” Trump crowed on Aug. 19 on the “Mark Levin Present” whereas mispronouncing Azerbaijan within the second clip Meyers posted.
Meyers didn’t miss a beat. “It was by no means going to be settled as a result of it by no means existed. There has by no means been a battle between Azerbaijan and Albania. I imply, look how far aside they’re,” the comic joked whereas displaying a map displaying the hanging distance between the 2 nations.
“Right here’s what occurred. Trump retains complicated Albania with Armenia as a result of they each begin with A and nobody on his workers is correcting him, even when he will get it proper,” Meyers laughed.
“What a moron. The truth that Trump sits at that degree of presidency is the whole and complete humiliation of a nation,” mentioned one viewer in response to Meyers’ clip.
“Donald J. Trump is actually probably the most embarrassing individual this nation has ever produced,” added one other.
“Is Trump Okay,” requested one other.
And extra importantly, even when Trump does get it proper, the information are nonetheless unsuitable. Trump didn’t resolve the battle between Armenia and Azerbaijan. He brokered a serious settlement between the 2 nations which led to a historic peace deal, however the battle just isn’t over, and the deal has not been ratified or applied.
Regardless of the White Home’s insistance, international coverage consultants say that whereas Trump has performed a task in ceasefires, a lot of the conflicts stay unresolved — and a few had been by no means full-scale wars to start with.
Though there’s a framework for a peace deal, the combating between Israel and Hamas rages on.
Trump additionally contends he ended the battle between Israel and Iran; the Democratic Republic of Congo and Rwanda; Cambodia and Thailand; India and Pakistan; Serbia and Kosovo; Egypt and Ethiopia; and Armenia and Azerbaijan.
International coverage consultants mentioned Trump deserves some credit score for current peace agreements in a number of conflicts. They cited conflicts between Cambodia and Thailand, Israel and Iran, and India and Pakistan, though India disputes Trump’s involvement, PolitiFact reported.
However the peace settlement between the DRC and Rwanda is non permanent and shaky. There isn’t any deal between Egypt and Ethiopia of their dispute, which is disagreement over a dam and water from the Nile, not a navy battle. And there’s no proof that Trump was concerned with Kosovo and Serbia or that the 2 nations had been even about to have interaction in a battle.
