Overview
- During an Oct. 17 White House meeting with Ukraine’s Volodymyr Zelenskyy, President Donald Trump said the U.S. has never had a president who solved even one war.
- PolitiFact evaluated the remark the same day and rated it Pants on Fire, finding it flatly contradicted by the historical record.
- The fact-check highlights Theodore Roosevelt’s 1905 mediation ending the Russo‑Japanese War and Jimmy Carter’s 1978 Camp David negotiations between Egypt and Israel as direct presidential interventions that produced peace agreements.
- It also notes major settlements achieved by U.S. envoys under sitting presidents, including the 1995 Dayton Accords on Bosnia, the 1998 Good Friday Agreement in Northern Ireland, and Sudan’s 2005 Comprehensive Peace Agreement.
- PolitiFact reports Trump has recently claimed credit for several ceasefires that it characterizes as incremental and contested in durability, and says the White House did not respond to its inquiry by publication time.