{"id":2313,"date":"2026-07-09T10:43:22","date_gmt":"2026-07-09T05:43:22","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/usnews-14267fa.ingress-comporellon.ewp.live\/?p=2313"},"modified":"2026-07-09T10:43:22","modified_gmt":"2026-07-09T05:43:22","slug":"trump-claims-he-ended-the-rwanda-congo-war-i-settled-it","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/usnews-14267fa.ingress-comporellon.ewp.live\/?p=2313","title":{"rendered":"Trump Claims He Ended the Rwanda-Congo War: &#8216;I Settled It&#8217;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><script>\r\n  atOptions = {\r\n    'key' : '644b717812d811d6a1c1fc5b6ccd6fa6',\r\n    'format' : 'iframe',\r\n    'height' : 90,\r\n    'width' : 728,\r\n    'params' : {}\r\n  };\r\n<\/script>\r\n<script src=\"https:\/\/www.highperformanceformat.com\/644b717812d811d6a1c1fc5b6ccd6fa6\/invoke.js\"><\/script>\r\n<br \/>\n<\/p>\n<div id=\"post-body\">\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"President Trump Gaggles with Press on Air Force One En Route Joint Base Andrews, Jul. 8, 2026\" width=\"640\" height=\"360\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/xHhlrvRwGt8?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>President <strong>Donald Trump<\/strong> took credit for ending an ongoing conflict that he claimed had seen the beheadings of 15 million people.<\/p>\n<p>Trump held a press gaggle aboard Air Force One after attending a NATO summit in Turkey. On the flight, a reporter asked the president about a recent <a href=\"https:\/\/www.wsj.com\/world\/americas\/how-machados-return-to-venezuela-got-derailed-after-u-s-resistance-dc5ef755\">report<\/a> that said the Trump administration <a href=\"https:\/\/www.mediaite.com\/media\/news\/us-yanked-support-for-exiled-venezuelan-leaders-return-home-wall-street-journal\/\">told<\/a> exiled Venezuelan opposition leader <strong>Mar\u00eda Corina Machado<\/strong> not to return to her country. The <em>Wall Street Journal<\/em> said Machado was on a flight to Venezuela when Trump pulled his support of the idea.<\/p>\n<p>The president denied having anything to do with it before pivoting to the time Machado gave <a href=\"https:\/\/www.mediaite.com\/media\/news\/maria-corina-machado-presented-donald-trump-with-her-nobel-peace-prize\/\">him her Nobel Peace Prize<\/a> in January. Machado made the gesture less than two weeks after Trump ordered the U.S. raid that abducted then-Venezuelan President <strong>Nicolas Maduro<\/strong>. Machado appeared to be angling to become the country\u2019s new leader, but Trump has so far stuck with Maduro\u2019s former vice president, <strong>Delcy Rodr\u00edguez<\/strong>, who has seemingly complied with Trump\u2019s demands.<\/p>\n<p>Trump reiterated his claim to have ended eight wars, including one in which 15 million people were supposedly decapitated.<\/p>\n<p>\u2018Think of the wars I settled,\u201d he told reporters. \u201cEight. Wars that were going on for 30 years. Even if you look in the Congo. The Congo vs. Rwanda. I settled it after 14 years and about 15 million people had their heads chopped off. I settled that one. I settled eight wars. And when she won the Nobel Prize for Peace, she said, \u2018I can\u2019t believe I won. The only one that should win it is Trump. Actually, they probably will do the wrong thing. It\u2019s very sad. But I would say, I should\u2019ve won that award more than anybody that ever received the Nobel Peace Prize, because nobody\u2019s settled wars. I settled eight of them. Because I\u2019m a certain type of personality, I was able to settle them.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>In 2025, Rwanda and the D.R.C. signed an <a href=\"https:\/\/www.state.gov\/peace-agreement-between-the-democratic-republic-of-the-congo-and-the-republic-of-rwanda\">agreement<\/a> in Washington, D.C. to end hostilities in the conflict, which began in 2022 when Rwanda began providing military support to a Congolese rebel group. Despite the agreement, fighting has continued, and the pact appears to be in jeopardy of <a href=\"https:\/\/www.foreignaffairs.com\/democratic-republic-congo\/why-trumps-congo-deal-falling-apart\">disintegrating<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Regarding Trump\u2019s allegation that 15 million people were massacred in the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.cfr.org\/global-conflict-tracker\/conflict\/violence-democratic-republic-congo\">conflict<\/a>, there is no evidence to support that claim, let alone the charge that that many people had \u201ctheir heads chopped off.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Watch above via The White House. <\/p>\n<p><em><strong>New: The Mediaite One-Sheet &#8220;Newsletter of Newsletters&#8221;<\/strong><br \/>Your daily summary and analysis of what the many, many media newsletters are saying and reporting. <a href=\"https:\/\/www.mediaite.com\/subscribe\">Subscribe now!<\/a><\/em><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><script type=\"text\/javascript\">\n!function(f,b,e,v,n,t,s){if(f.fbq)return;n=f.fbq=function(){n.callMethod?\nn.callMethod.apply(n,arguments):n.queue.push(arguments)};if(!f._fbq)f._fbq=n;\nn.push=n;n.loaded=!0;n.version='2.0';n.queue=[];t=b.createElement(e);t.async=!0;\nt.src=v;s=b.getElementsByTagName(e)[0];s.parentNode.insertBefore(t,s)}(window,\ndocument,'script','https:\/\/connect.facebook.net\/en_US\/fbevents.js');\n<\/script><br \/>\n<br \/><script async=\"async\" data-cfasync=\"false\" src=\"https:\/\/pl30214220.effectivecpmnetwork.com\/9ab3d4df8a7e1a6171e16ddbf732cc19\/invoke.js\"><\/script>\r\n<div id=\"container-9ab3d4df8a7e1a6171e16ddbf732cc19\"><\/div>\r\n<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>President Donald Trump took credit for ending an ongoing conflict that he claimed had seen the beheadings of 15 million people. 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