Donald Trump has forcefully denied ever promising not to draw the US into war, despite having spent years pledging to avoid doing just that. The US president's own biography on the White House website credits him with 'putting a stop to endless wars' – raising questions about the US-Israel war on Iran, which he launched, with no end currently in sight.
In a recent interview on NBC's Meet the Press, Kristen Welker pressed Trump about his previous pledges to refrain from starting 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.'
'I didn't guarantee no war,' Trump interjected. 'Why would I have built the strongest military in the world? I built our military.' His response sharply contradicts previous comments he has made over the years, where he repeatedly suggested – and said outright – that he would not take the country to war.
