WASHINGTON — President Trump boasted about how the heads of Rwanda and the Democratic Republic of Congo , whose countries have been engaged in a longstanding conflict, will now be “hugging” one another as they signed a US-brokered peace deal.

The deal was inked during an official ceremony at the recently rebranded “Donald J. Trump Institute of Peace,” where the president emphasized how far the two neighboring and rival countries have come.

“They’ve spent a lot of time killing each other, and now they’re going to spend a lot of time hugging, holding hands, and taking advantage of the US economically, like every other country does,” Trump said of leaders of Rwanda and the Congo.

Back in June, Trump, who has billed the deal the “Washington Accords,” got the two nations’ foreign ministe

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