Washington: US President Donald Trump has made another controversial statement, this time claiming no president before him ever ended a single war. He dropped the bombshell during a White House meeting with Ukraine’s President Volodymyr Zelenskyy on October 17.
He said that people tell him, “‘Sir, if you solve one more, you are going to be known as a peacekeeper.’ So to the best of my knowledge, we have never had a president that solved one war, not one war. (George W) Bush started a war (in Iraq). A lot of them start wars, but they don’t solve the wars. They don’t settle them, and especially when they are not, when they have nothing to do with us.”
Historians heard the words and winced. Trump’s sentences ignored an entire record of American presidents who negotiated end of wars. Some e