Trump: ‘There would be no World War II if I were President’

KANANASKIS, Alberta — “There would’ve been no World War Two, believe me,” Donald Trump said pointedly after a bilateral meeting with host Prime Minister Mark Carney at the G7 summit in the Canadian Rockies.

Flanked by a wordless Carney on Monday, the U.S. president shifted blame to Franklin D. Roosevelt and British Prime Minister Winston Churchill, accusing them of “weak leadership” and “provoking Germany unnecessarily.”

“FDR and a guy named Churchill—they didn’t know how to negotiate. I would’ve made a deal with Hitler. A strong deal. Peace through strength. We would’ve avoided the whole thing,” Trump claimed, referencing the most devastating conflict of the 20th century. “People don’t talk about it, but I would’ve handled it very differently. No war. Zero.”