President Donald Trump once again couldn’t resist turning a routine policy question into a victory lap, boasting about another supposed world-saving accomplishment in glowing terms. The exaggeration was so over the top it practically begged for a comeback — and California Gov. Gavin Newsom didn’t miss his chance.

Trump’s latest claim came during a phone interview with Fox News, where he insisted his trade tariffs were “bringing peace to the world” and “saving millions of lives.”

During the interview with Sean Hannity, Trump said he’s using tariffs, essentially taxes on Americans, to control international behavior he doesn’t like and that the taxes are a life-saving humanitarian tool.

“The tariffs have brought peace to the world,” Trump absurdly insisted, while bragging about the trillio

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