Trump Says He Never Promised 'No New Wars'. His Past Remarks Tell A Different Story
Trump Says He Never Promised 'No New Wars'. His Past Remarks Tell A Different Story Published By, Last Updated: June 09, 2026, 18:58 IST In
Trump Says He Never Promised 'No New Wars'. His Past Remarks Tell A Different Story Published By, Last Updated: June 09, 2026, 18:58 IST In an interview last week, Trump argued that he never guaranteed no new wars, despite years of remarks boasting he kept the US out of new conflicts and promising to stop wars. US President Donald Trump. (AFP photo) US President Donald Trump has claimed that he had never promised no new wars, despite making the pledge to avoid wars in past several years. In an interview with NBC’s ‘Meet the Press,’ Trump was questioned by Kristen Welker on his past promises to avoid new wars. “Mr President, in your first term, you held to that promise, and it was so fundamental to who you were as a candidate, to a first-term president," she said. “What changed? Because you insisted no new wars." Check for Live Updates In reply, Trump said: “I didn’t guarantee no war. Why would I have built the strongest military in the world? I built our military." Below are some of Trump’s public remarks over the years in which he said he would avoid new wars or keep the US out of foreign conflicts.
November 6, 2024: After accepting his victory in the presidential election, Trump said: “We want to have security. We want to have things be good, safe. We want great education. We want a strong and powerful military. And ideally, we don’t have to use it. You know, we had no war – four years, we had no wars, except we defeated Isis. We defeated Isis in record time, but we had no wars." “They said: ‘He will start a war.’ I’m not going to start a war. I’m going to stop wars," he added. October 5, 2024: During a campaign rally at State College, Pennsylvania, Trump said: “We had no wars. We had peace through strength. It was a great thing, peace through strength, and that’s it." “You don’t have to send your kids out to war, have your kid blown up for a country that you’ve never heard of and that doesn’t want anything to do with you anyway. But I will not send you to fight and die in a foolish, never-ending foreign war." August 5, 2024: According to The Guardian, during a campaign stop with controversial Kick streamer Adin Ross amid the 2024 election, Trump had claimed “the only war" against the Islamic State in Iraq and Syria, ongoing during his tenure had “started long ago".
“And we defeated – I defeated – them in a very short amount of time, very quickly," he said. “And we had no wars under the Trump administration, and that’s a great thing, you know. That’s a really great thing. It was I think 82 years since that’s happened. “And we won’t have wars again. But we could have a war before we even get there. That’s the problem." March 4, 2023: At a CPAC convention, Trump said: “No new wars. I finished some old wars. Remember when the Democrats and my Republican opponents would often look at me during the debates or whatever and they’d say, “No, no, he’s going to bring us into World War III." Because it’s a personality type. They said it had the personality. No, I had the personality type that kept us out of wars because people knew that they weren’t going to mess around here." August 20, 2020: Addressing a rally in Pennsylvania, Trump attacked Barack Obama and Hillary Clinton, saying “There’s going to be a war … No, it would have been a war if you had Hillary Clinton. Would’ve been a war if Obama were allowed to stay any longer.
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