Fact-checking Trump’s unusual new White House presidential plaques - BBC
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Donald Trump also added a plaque for his current term to the “Presidential Walk of Fame”, which includes exaggerated claims about his record in office since January.
For example, it claims Trump has “defeated inflation” and “ended eight wars”.
On the first, inflation is down from the 2022 peak of 9.1% under President Joe Biden but it is not non-existent - the rate at which prices are rising in the US currently sits around 3%.
The second is a claim he’s made before about ending eight wars. The White House has listed these as the Israel and Hamas war in Gaza, Israel and Iran, Pakistan and India, Rwanda and the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC), Thailand and Cambodia, Armenia and Azerbaijan, Egypt and Ethiopia, and Serbia and Kosovo.
To take the example of Egypt-Ethiopia, although there were diplomatic tensions, there was simply no war to stop. A number of actual conflicts in...
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