Yes, really. Here are the receipts.
In 2025–26, Trump claimed he had "ended seven or eight wars," including Egypt–Ethiopia, where no shooting war existed, and others like DRC, Libya, Syria, Ukraine, and Gaza, which remained active or unresolved despite his statements.
The count went from seven to eight in a single day at the Knesset podium. The AP walks through each claimed war — including one between countries an expert says are simply not at war...
Rated Mostly False: he had a hand in easing some conflicts, but several of the countries involved dispute his role outright. Which government flatly denied his account of how their ceasefire happened...
Going conflict by conflict, most weren't formally wars, most weren't permanently solved, and fresh fighting later broke out in at least two. The one that was never a shooting war at all...