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Topics: Donald Trump, Politics, US News
Callum Jones
Donald Trump has left much of the internet shocked after suggesting 'without the United States everything in the world would die'.
The POTUS appeared in front of the media in the Oval Office on Tuesday (September 2) to announce the US Space Command is to move from Colorado to Alabama.
Trump's health was a big talking point in the buildup to the press conference, with some farfetched social media rumors even suggesting the president had died.
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One reporter asked: "How did you find out over the weekend that you were dead? Did you see that?"
The POTUS responded: "No. Really, I didn't see that... Last week, I did numerous news conferences, they went very well like this is going very well.
"I didn't do any for two days and they said 'there must be something wrong with him'.
"Biden wouldn't do them for months, you wouldn't see him, but nobody ever said there was anything wrong with him but we know he wasn't in the greatest of shape."
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A body language expert claimed Trump seemed uncomfortable when answering the question.
Like any Trump press conferences, Tuesday's gathering was certainly full of talking points, including comments made by the president that the rest of the world would 'die' without the US.
Trump said: "Without the United States, the whole world would die. It's [the US] so powerful, it's so big. I made it really big in the first four years."
He claimed the country started to 'degenerate' over the Biden years, but now Trump is back in the White House he's managed to 'build it up to a level I never thought we'd be at this quick'.
He said: "We're the hottest, we're the best, we're the best financially. The money coming in is so big because of tariffs.
"I settled seven wars and numerous of those wars were because of trade."
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The comments made by Trump have shocked much of the internet, with one Reddit user simply writing: "Completely nuts."
While a second added: "Delusional."
For anyone confused about what wars Trump is referring to, he said last month on Mark Levin's radio show: "I've settled six wars, and a lot of people say seven because there's one that nobody knows about."
The White House has since listed these seven conflicts as Israel and Iran, Rwanda and Democratic Republic of the Congo, Armenia and Azerbaijan, Thailand and Cambodia, India and Pakistan, Egypt and Ethiopia, and Serbia and Kosovo.
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"There has been more progress towards peace than ever before because of this President's leadership," the Trump administration official wrote.
Can Trump take all the credit however?
Well, Michael O'Hanlon, a senior fellow at Brookings, feels the president does deserve some credit for the ceasefire in the Middle East.
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"He managed to use a combination of a good relationship with Netanyahu, but also a willingness to put a little pressure on Netanyahu that I think contributed to the at least temporary cessation of hostilities," he told CBS News.
However, Larry Haas, a senior fellow, quipped: "I very strongly disagree with the notion that the president brought peace to Iran and Israel. We may be in a quiet period in terms of direct confrontation, but Iran right now is trying to regroup."
Many of the other wars Trump says he's ended proved suspect.
Senior fellow for Southeast Asia and South Asia at the Council on Foreign Relations Josh Kurlantzick said there is 'no real ending' to the conflict between India and Pakistan.
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O'Hanlon also said of the Egypt and Ethiopia tensions: "I would not call the Egypt-Ethiopia interaction a war."