President Trump offered this comment on his predecessors during an Oval Office event with Ukraine President Zelensky: “In the meantime, I have to run the USA, but I love solving wars,” Trump said.

PRESIDENT TRUMP: Well, you know, we resolved eight others. It’s funny how people say that: “If you get this one.” Every time I do one they forget about the others. I solved eight wars. Go to Rwanda and the Congo. Talk about India and Pakistan. Look at Thailand. Look at all of the wars that we solved, and every time I solve one, they say, If you solve the next one, you’re gonna get the Nobel Prize. I didn’t get a Nobel Prize. Somebody got it – a very nice woman, very nice. I don’t know who she is, but she was very generous. So I don’t care about all that stuff. I just care about saving lives. But this will be #9. Every time I solve one, they say, Sir, if you solve one more, you’re gonna be known as a peacekeeper. So to the best of my knowledge, we’ve never had a president that solved one war – not one war. Bush started a war. A lot of them start wars, but they don’t solve the wars. They don’t settle them. And especially when they’re not – when they have nothing to do with us. I saw almost – I guess just about all of these wars had nothing to do with us, but I saved tens of millions of lives. The Prime Minister of Pakistan said I saved millions of lives in interceding on Pakistan, and you look at Pakistan and India as an example – that would have been a bad 12 nuclear nations, right? So I say this: this is pretty much the last one, although I do understand that Pakistan attacked or there is an attack going on with Afghanistan. That’s an easy one for me to solve if I have to solve it. In the meantime, I have to run the USA, but I love solving wars. You know why? I like stopping people from being killed, and I’ve saved millions and millions of lives, and I think we’re going to have success with this war.
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