Donald Trump is racking up peace deals like trading cards — and he’s not shy about letting the world know it.
Fresh off brokering an immediate and unconditional ceasefire between Thailand and Cambodia, Trump touted his record during a bilateral meeting with British Prime Minister Keir Starmer at his Turnberry resort in Scotland. “Now this would be six that we’ve stopped. I have … stopped six wars in the last — I’m averaging about a war a month,” Trump said, leaning into his “peace through strength” doctrine that has defined his return to the White House.
.@POTUS on the ceasefire between Cambodia and Thailand: “We solved it through trade. I said, ‘I don’t want to trade with anybody that’s killing each other.'” pic.twitter.com/cNNOh9qCoW
— Rapid Response 47 (@RapidResponse47) July 28, 2025
The Thailand-Cambodia ceasefire was no fluke. Over the weekend, Trump made clear to leaders of both countries that he wouldn’t finalize trade deals with them if the fighting continued — all while new tariffs loomed on the horizon. Within 48 hours, the two Southeast Asian nations, which have been sparring over colonial-era border maps for more than a century, agreed to stand down. That decision came after fighting displaced over 150,000 people in just one week.
And that’s just the latest notch on Trump’s diplomatic belt. In June, he pulled off what many thought impossible: a ceasefire between Israel and Iran after the bloody “12-day war.” That truce came only after Trump authorized crushing strikes on three Iranian nuclear facilities — Fordow, Natanz, and Isfahan — forcing Tehran to the table.
He also oversaw a peace agreement between the Democratic Republic of the Congo and Rwanda, ending a conflict that had dragged on for three decades. Rwandan Foreign Minister Olivier Nduhungirehe even told Breitbart News that Trump “absolutely” deserves a Nobel Peace Prize for his role in the deal.
Rwandan Foreign Minister Olivier Nduhungirehe tells @POTUS “there has been many mediations, facilitation in the past but none of them succeeded and we believe it’s because of your leadership and steadfast commitment to this process” that Rwanda and the DRC signed a historic peace… pic.twitter.com/S2OgujAZEZ
— Rapid Response 47 (@RapidResponse47) June 27, 2025
Then there’s the May ceasefire between India and Pakistan, where Trump personally announced that both nuclear-armed rivals had agreed to halt hostilities after a tense exchange of attacks on military bases. Around the same time, he also cut a deal with Yemen’s Houthi rebels: they stop targeting U.S. ships, and the U.S. stops bombing Yemen. While the Houthis have continued targeting Israel, American forces are out of the line of fire.
And in June, Trump jumped into a brewing crisis between Egypt and Ethiopia over the Grand Ethiopian Renaissance Dam. For now, at least, he’s kept the Nile River dispute from boiling over.
Say what you will about his style, but six months into his second term, Trump has made one thing clear: his brand of hardball diplomacy gets results.
