President Donald Trump’s interview on NBC’s Meet the Press on Sunday mostly made headlines for the president storming off the set at the end, even appearing to crush the network’s portable microphone.
That wasn’t something Trump has often done. But earlier in that interview, Trump did something he’s often done: Said things that were blatantly untrue.
That’s according to a CNN fact check published on Monday.
“President Donald Trump told a bunch of lies before he abruptly walked out of an interview that aired Sunday on NBC’s ‘Meet the Press.’ One of them was about what he had promised Americans about war,” CNN’s Daniel Dale wrote.
Trump to NBC: “First of all, I didn’t guarantee no war.” And: “So when you say I promised – I didn’t promise anything. I don’t like these endless wars. This is not an endless war.”
Reality: Trump promised in two of his highest-profile 2024 addresses not to have any wars at all,…
— Daniel Dale (@ddale8) June 8, 2026
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“While discussing the Iran war Trump started this year, NBC anchor Kristen Welker pressed him on what had changed from the campaign promise she described as ‘no new wars,'” Dale wrote. “The president responded to this line of questioning in several ways – you can read the full transcript here – but one of his claims was this: ‘First of all, I didn’t guarantee no war.’ Later, he said, ‘So when you say I promised – I didn’t promise anything. I don’t like these endless wars. This is not an endless war.'”
Trump, throughout his multiple presidential campaigns, often swore that his opponents would take America to endless war, and that he could be trusted to avoid such entanglements. He spent his first year back in office demanding to be awarded the Nobel Peace Prize, and exaggerating how many “wars” he had “ended.”
“In fact, Trump repeatedly promised in 2024 that the US would not have any wars during his second presidency,” Dale continued. “Though it’s true that he often deployed some nuance on the subject – for example, vowing to end ‘endless’ wars or prevent ‘World War III’– he unequivocally pledged on other occasions that the US wouldn’t get involved in wars, period.”
Dale then shared several examples of Trump promising just that.
Trump, during the 2024 campaign, positioned that election as “a choice between STRENGTH or WEAKNESS, COMPETENCE or INCOMPETENCE, peace and prosperity or war and no war.”
