President Donald Trump repeated his claim that he had ended seven “unendable wars” during his address to the United Nations General Assembly on Tuesday, saying, “It’s too bad I had to do these things instead of the United Nations doing them.”

Trump, who has a history of boasting about his role as a resolver of world conflicts as he campaigns for a Nobel Peace Prize, also disparaged the work of the United Nations, a body that he said “did not even try to help in any of them.”

“What is the purpose of the United Nations?” he asked. All the institution does, he added, is “write a really strongly worded letter and then never follow that letter up.”

In some of the instances that Trump claims to have brokered peace, the warring parties have credited him with calming hostilities or advancing ta

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