President Donald Trump lavished praise on himself Sunday in a self-congratulatory social media post boasting about his “fast and decisive” action in supposedly ending a conflict between Thailand and Cambodia, while also repeating the debunked claim that he had “settled and stopped” eight conflicts during his second term.
“I am pleased to announce that the breakout fighting between Thailand and Cambodia will stop momentarily, and they will go back to living in PEACE, as per our recently agreed to original Treaty,” Trump wrote Sunday on his social media platform Truth Social.
“It was FAST & DECISIVE, as all of these situations should be! The United States of America, as always, was proud to help! With all of the wars and conflicts I have settled and stopped over the last eleven months, EIGHT, perhaps the United States has become the REAL United Nations, which has been of very little assistance or help in any of them, including the disaster currently going on between Russia and Ukraine.”
Thailand launched airstrikes toward Cambodia on Saturday in just the latest flare up of the long-running territorial dispute between the two countries. A ceasefire between the two countries was brokered by Malaysia in July, with Trump claiming he helped facilitate the deal by threatening to revoke trade privileges unless both sides agreed to halt the fighting.
As to Trump’s repeated claim to have ended eight wars, experts have called it a significant exaggeration, with some pointing to two disputes “that weren’t actually wars,” and “one war that is still running,” CNN reported.
“The United Nations must start getting active and involved in WORLD PEACE!” Trump wrote.