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that he's the only person who could do it. And then he did it. He did it right in front of us. You change reality instead of negotiating. There was also negotiating, but the changing of reality is the breakout part. The part that brings him from, oh, he's a good dealmaker. That's not what you're seeing. You're seeing a legend. You're seeing a once ever personality. You don't see this again. You'll…
← Previous segment →ybe up for a Nobel Peace Prize and you didn't make it and you were not Trump, what would be the summary of that situation? The summary would be, well you know I guess you didn't do enough to win a Nobel Peace Prize. That's the end of that. But when it's Trump, don't you think that the credibility of the Peace Prize is what took the hit, not Trump? Like the fake news. It used to be if the fake news said something about Trump, you would say, "Oh that's bad. That's bad for Trump. That's really bad." But once you realize that the fake news is fake news, then you blame the fake news when they blame Trump. That's happening here too. That even though there's I would argue that there's good reason because of the timing of things why he wasn't eligible for this one. But it'll be harder for them to deny him next year. It'll be hard to deny if things work out. You know, we'll know by then if things are working out. But I think he's destroying the credibility of the prize. He's already destroyed the credibility of the Pulitzer by showing that the Russia hoaxers were the ones getting Pulitzer prizes. So to me that just makes the Pulitzer just a garbage. I mean I already thought it was a garbage prize but I mean the rest of the world knows now it's a garbage prize. I think when Obama was picked as a Nobel Peace Prize winner, you know maybe that was a big hit for their credibility. But by not choosing Trump, even though they've got a good reason because of timing, people aren't going to take it that way. People are going to say you could have changed it at the last minute. I mean it's your own organization. You make the rules. You could just change them and say, "Well this is extraordinary but we had somebody picked but we're going to change it at the last minute." They could have done that, decided not to. So I think that destroys the credibility of the Nobel Peace Prize as opposed to being bad for Trump, although he still wants it, of course.
All right, let's talk about how many wars and or conflicts Trump has solved because he likes to mention that. He'll probably mention it again today from the Oval Office. He said quote, "Nobody in history has solved eight wars in a period of 9 months." So that's his claim, eight in a period of nine months. So I went to Grok and I said, "Can you tell me how many wars and or conflicts Trump was instrumental in helping solve?" It came up with six, not counting Gaza. So the typical Trump thing is to add two to whatever he's doing. Like if he saves you a trillion dollars, he's going to say three, right? So he always adds a little. So I knew that the real number would not be eight. But Grok says six plus I guess they would add Gaza.
Here are the ones. Just so you remember, they're claiming, and by the way these are not claims that other people would necessarily say that Trump made a difference. These are just Trump claims that he made a difference. The Israel-Iran war, he definitely made a difference there. I don't know if we'll call that peace. I guess even Iran at the moment is saying they like the Gaza deal. Did you see that coming? That Iran has officially said they like the Gaza peace deal. Weird. I was not expecting that.
Then there was the Republic of Congo-Rwanda conflict but some say violence continues. There was the India-Pakistan Kashmir conflict. The US tried to mediate but India acts like India was more the cause of that. Thailand-Cambodia border, pushed for a ceasefire and I think he actually gets credit for that one. They actually say yeah you made the difference. There's the Armenia-Azerbaijan Nagorno-Karabakh conflict that he resolved. And but the stability is uncertain but that would be true of all peace deals. There was a Egypt-Ethiopia Nile dam dispute. The claim is that he settled it to avert war, but there's no official agreement. But it looks like they averted war, at least for now. Serbia-Kosovo ethnic tensions resolved via economic normalization. Some say there's more progress than there is settlement per se but he gives credit for that one too. And you add the Gaza deal.
So here's what I love about Trump claiming that he solved eight wars in nine months. First of all, he's going to make his critics argue about whether those were wars because some of them were just conflicts. Secondly, he's going to have people trying to score his report card to take his grade down. But how down are they going to be able to take it? Suppose somebody says, "All right, you did not solve eight wars in nine months. You solved five conflicts in nine months." He's mak
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ing them think past the sale. The sale is, did you solve a whole bunch of conflicts around the world? Yes or no? If he can make you argue about which ones he solved and which ones he didn't, is the number six or seven or eight, he wins. He wins hard. So he just has to make you think, is that the right number? Let's talk about that. Let's talk about all these examples that you never would have hear…
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