Trump, saying he stopped six wars since taking office might be a bit of an overstatement but there seems to be clear evidence to show that it might not be far from the truth either. Trump and some of his supporters have given him a new nickname: the “peacemaker-in-chief.”
The Trump administration says the president cools tensions by leveraging both U.S. military and economic pressure. Trump supporters argue his actions to stop wars are worthy of the Nobel Peace Prize.
Many that oppose Trump will probably never agree that he has stopped any wars, but they can’t deny the fact that he’s had his hand in ceasefires around the world.
For example, less than two months ago, Trump said Serbia and Kosovo were on the verge of war.
“Serbia was — they were getting ready to go to war with a group. I won’t even mention, because it didn’t happen, we were able to stop it,” Trump said during an Oval Office press conference. “But I have a friend in Serbia, and they said, ‘we’re going to go to war again.’ And I won’t mention that it’s Kosovo, but it’s Kosovo. But they were going to have a big-time war, and we stopped it. We stopped it because of trade. They want to trade with the United States, and I said we don’t trade with people that go to war.”
Not long after Trump made these statements Kosovo President Vjosa Osmani said Trump recently had prevented a potential escalation “from Serbia” on Kosovo’s border.