Trump claims he has stopped six wars around world
Donald Trump just claimed he’s stopped six wars. “I’m averaging about a war a month,” he boasted.
He refers to India and Pakistan, and Congo and Rwanda, but it’t not clear what the other wars he supposedly ended are.
Key events
Donald Trump continues his criticism of Fed chair Jerome Powell, saying, “a smart person would cut [interest rates]”.
“You know he leaves very soon,” he added of Powell. “I’ll miss him greatly.” (Powell’s tenure as chair is due to end in May 2026, the president has mused many times about wanting him gone before that.)
Asked if he thought Vladimir Putin had lied to him about his commitment to a ceasefire in Ukraine, Donald Trump said he wouldn’t say “lie” but there were times when they had had a good talk, and he thought Putin might agree to a ceasefire, but then nothing happened. He said this had happened too often, and he didn’t like it.
Trump says the US will set up ‘food centres’ in Gaza
Tom Ambrose
Trump said the US will set up “food centres” in Gaza, without elaborating on what this would actually mean in practice. He did acknowledge that starvation across the territory is real. Addressing the media alongside Keir Starmer in Scotland, the US president said:
We’re going to set up food centres and we’re going to do it in conjunction with some very good people and supply funds and we just took in trillions of dollars.
We’ve got a lot of money and we’re going to spend a little money on some food and other nations are joining us, I know your nation’s joining us, and we have all of the European nations joining us.
Trump has described the humanitarian situation in Gaza as “terrible” and has blamed Hamas for the “mess” in the territory and for the failed ceasefire talks.
But he rarely openly criticises his close ally, Israeli prime minister Benjamin Netanyahu, whose war he fuels by providing him with money and sheltering Israel on the diplomatic stage.
He said earlier that he was speaking to Netanyahu about getting back the remaining hostages, and said they are talking about “various plans”.
Earlier, when he was saying much the same on the doorstep with Starmer, he said:
I told Bibi that you’re going to have to now maybe do it a different way.
Starmer says UK’s Online Safety Act will not censor Trump’s Truth Social social media company
Andrew Sparrow
Asked if he’s worried the UK’s Online Safety Act is going to censor Truth Social, Trump jokes that he does not think that is likely.
Starmer says the act is not about censoring sites. He says the UK is committed to free speech. But children should be protected from things like suicide sites.
Trump says Congress pblocked similar legislation, supported by his wife. He goes on:
I cannot imagine him censoring Truth Social … I only say good things about him and his country.
Trump says new deadline for Russia over its war in Ukraine is ’10 or 12 days’
Donald Trump said his new deadline for Russia over its war in Ukraine would be “about 10 or 12 days from today”.
“There’s no reason for waiting,” he said. “I want to be generous but we just don’t see any progress being made.”
Trump claims he has stopped six wars around world
Donald Trump just claimed he’s stopped six wars. “I’m averaging about a war a month,” he boasted.
He refers to India and Pakistan, and Congo and Rwanda, but it’t not clear what the other wars he supposedly ended are.
The British prime minister Keir Starmer and Donald Trump are speaking again now at Turnberry golf course.
You can follow along live below.
Further to my previous post, Donald Trump the number one priority in Gaza was getting people fed, because “you have a lot of starving people”, adding that he was not going to take a position on Palestinian statehood at the moment.
Speaking alongside British prime minister Keir Starmer at his golf resort in Turnberry, Scotland, said the United States had provided $60m for humanitarian aid, and other nations would have to step up.
He said he discussed the issue with European Commission president Ursula von der Leyen yesterday, and she told him European countries would step up their blockistance very substantially. He said he also planned to discuss the humanitarian situation with Starmer during today’s visit.
Trump said he would not comment on a push by French president Emmanuel Macron to back Palestinian statehood.
Trump also criticized the Hamas militant group for not agreeing to release more hostages, living and dead, and said he had told Israeli prime minister Benjamin Netanyahu that Israel’s approach would probably have to change.
“I told Bibi that you have to maybe do it a different way,” Trump said, echoing similar comments made on Sunday.
Asked if a ceasefire was still possible, Trump said: “Yeah, a ceasefire is possible, but you have to get it, you have to end it.” He did not elaborate on what he meant.
Donald Trump also said he was reducing the 50-day deadline he gave Russia over its war in Ukraine, saying he was disappointed in Vladimir Putin.
“I’m disappointed in President Putin,” he said. “I’m going to reduce that 50 days that I gave him to a lesser number.” He did not give a new deadline.
Donald Trump has said that the European Union is going to send more aid to help Gaza and that he plans to ask British prime minister Keir Starmer to help.
Trump, speaking alongside Starmer in Scotland, also said he had told Israeli prime minister Benjamin Netanyahu that his fight in Gaza against Hamas would have to be different after talks on a ceasefire and hostage release fell apart last week.
