President Donald Trump address to the United Nations Tuesday was immediately hit by a fact-check that highlighted a long list of claims that were far-fetched — at best.
CNN Senior Reporter Daniel Dale wasted no time rattling off a response to the multiple Trump brags.
"There are a lot of issues there," Dale said. "So first of all, some of the conflicts he's counting as wars he's resolved were not actually wars at all. For example, Egypt and Ethiopia have argued over an Ethiopian dam project on the Blue Nile but they were not in a raging war in which thousands of people were being killed. Similarly, Trump has claimed that he prevented conflict between Serbia and Kosovo from resuming, but they were not in a raging war either."
Trump believes he deserves the Nobel Peace Prize for his intervention in military conflicts, and said the following in his speech in front of international dignitaries:
"I ended seven wars, and in all cases they were raging with countless thousands of people being killed. This includes Cambodia and Thailand, Kosovo and Serbia, the Congo and Rwanda, a vicious, violent war that was, Pakistan and India, Israel and Iran. Egypt and Ethiopia, and Armenia and Azerbaijan. It included all of them, no president or prime minister, and for that matter no other country has ever done anything close to that. And I did it in just seven months. Never happened before. There's never been anything like that. I'm very honored to have done that."
Trump tried to claim certain conflicts were over, despite them continuing, Dale said.
"In addition,the conflict involving the Democratic Republic of Congo andneighboring Rwanda has notactually been resolved," Dale said.
India has denied Trump is responsible for mediating its truce with neighboring Pakistan, he added.
Dale mentioned that there were even more things Trump said that were false and that "he doesn't have enough time to run through them."
Trump also said inflation has been defeated in the U.S., citing grocery prices dropping, yet inflation has risen, Americans have high grocery bills, and electricity bills are climbing in the U.S. — the opposite of what Trump said during his lengthy speech, Dale said.
He claimed that China built a lot of wind turbines for other countries but refuses use their own products — but this is incorrect and China is a leader in wind power, Dale added.
Dale also fact-checked Trump's claims that he had secured an investment of more than $17 trillion in investment in the U.S.
"Just yesterday, his own White House press secretary said it was about $9 trillion in investment," Dale said. "So I don't know where the additional $8 trillion in a day has come from. And even that initial $9 trillion the press secretary claimed is highly dubious, counting a whole bunch of things that aren't actually spending, but rather are vague commitments from various countries."