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Thomas Copeland BBC Confirm Stay journalist

The BBC Confirm crew in Washington DC have been listening to President Donald Trump’s speech on the United Nations Normal Meeting yesterday.

It was a wide-ranging deal with - right here’s three issues he stated that they fact-checked.

Has Trump actually ‘ended seven unendable wars’?

The president listed “wars” he claims to have ended as being between: Israel and Iran, Pakistan and India, Rwanda and the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC), Thailand and Cambodia, Armenia and Azerbaijan, Egypt and Ethiopia and Serbia and Kosovo.

Quite a few these “wars” lasted simply days and it's unclear whether or not a few of the peace offers will maintain.

Whereas Trump claimed “talks mediated by america” ended a four-day battle between India and Pakistan, the federal government in New Delhi has performed down the position of the US.

In June, the US hit nuclear websites in Iran - a transfer seen as ending 12 days of hostilities with Israel, however specialists say there was no everlasting peace settlement.

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The Mayor of London featured within the speech with Trump calling Sadiq Khan “a horrible mayor – horrible, horrible mayor. Now they need to go to Sharia regulation."

False claims like this one have circulated for years on social media and a spokesperson for Khan informed the BBC: "We're not going to dignify his appalling and bigoted feedback with a response."

Sharia regulation is an Islamic authorized system and Sharia councils do exist within the UK – there have been an estimated 85 throughout the UK in 2009, according to one think tank . Most of their work offers with marriage and monetary arbitration between Muslims however the UK government has been clear , external that their rulings are "not legally binding".

Has unlawful immigration into the US ‘ completely stopped ’ ?

“In reality they’re not even coming anymore as a result of they know they will’t get by way of,” Trump went on to say about unlawful immigrants.

Since he took workplace, figures from US Customs and Border Safety do present a big fall in apprehensions of unlawful migrants - however to not zero. Complete month-to-month apprehensions dropped from 28,728 in January 2025 to 5,456 in August , external .

Trump additionally claimed that underneath the earlier Biden administration “tens of millions of individuals have been pouring in. Twenty-five million altogether”. Border crossings did attain file ranges underneath President Joe Biden however Trump’s figures are exaggerated.