President Donald Trump is taking credit for a ceasefire between Israel and Lebanon while inexplicably upping the count of wars he claims he solved.
“It has been my Honor to solve 9 Wars across the World, and this will be my 10th, so let’s, GET IT DONE!” Trump wrote in a post on Truth Social.
He has long made the dubious claim that he resolved eight wars in eight months while arguing he deserves the Nobel Peace Prize.
But on Thursday, he upped the tally to nine without explaining when or where he managed to sneak in another war. The Daily Beast reached out to the White House for clarity.
Trump’s previous count of eight included several conflicts where tensions continue to flare or the causes of the long-standing conflicts remain unresolved.
The president has repeatedly claimed he has brokered peace deals between Armenia and Azerbaijan; the Democratic Republic of the Congo and Rwanda; Israel and Iran; India and Pakistan; Cambodia and Thailand; Egypt and Ethiopia; Serbia and Kosovo, and Israel and Hamas.
It’s not the first time Trump has claimed nine wars without specifying the ninth. The State Department has credited him for eight.
Trump’s post came as the U.S. remains in a fragile ceasefire with Iran as peace talks have been stalled, but the president has hinted they could soon resume as the clock ticks down on his two-week deadline.
It was not clear whether Trump was including the war he started with Iran in his total. He has also attempted to facilitate a deal between Ukraine and Russia, but efforts there have repeatedly come up short.
On Thursday, the president announced that the leaders of Israel and Lebanon agreed to a ten-day ceasefire starting at 5 p.m. ET after tensions between the two countries escalated in connection with the U.S. and Israel striking Iran.