White House Press Secretary Karoline Leavitt had people raising their eyebrows after she claimed during a Fox News interview that President Donald Trump came up with the motto “peace through strength.”
Anyone worth their salt knows the phrase has been around for a very long time—though that didn’t stop Leavitt from crediting Trump anyway while discussing the U.S.’ role amid the ongoing conflict between Israel and Iran.
She said:
“Nobody knows what it means to accomplish peace through strength better than President Trump. He is the one who came up with that motto and that foreign policy doctrine and he successfully implemented it in his first term. This is one of many steps he’s taking to implement peace in his second term.”
You can hear what she said in the video below.
