“I ended eight wars.”

The list does not hold up. It includes the Egypt-Ethiopia dispute over the Nile dam, which a Council on Foreign Relations analysis describes as "mutual suspicion and periodic saber-rattling," adding: "Bizarrely, the Nile waters dispute has been among the 'wars' Trump claims to have ended." And the war between Congo and Rwanda did not end: the State Department says that days after Trump presided over the December 4, 2025 Washington Accords signing, "Rwanda-backed M23 fighters captured the Congolese city of Uvira, in clear violation of the Washington Accords."

The Israel-Iran war he says he ended in June 2025 resumed on February 28, 2026, when the United States and Israel launched a major attack on Iran, the second U.S. attack on the country in eight months. When he told Attkisson he had ended eight wars, the United States was at war with Iran. Some items on the list were real U.S.-brokered agreements, such as the Armenia-Azerbaijan peace text initialed at the White House in August 2025, though signing and ratification were still to come.