On Friday, Cambodian Deputy Prime Minister Sun Chanthol recognized Trump’s role in negotiating peace, telling reporters in Phnom Penh that he would nominate the president for the Nobel Peace Prize for his efforts.

“We acknowledge his great efforts for peace,” he said.

Trump elaborated on his peace efforts on Monday while meeting with United Kingdom Prime Minister Keir Starmer in Scotland. He speculated that “Millions of people could have been killed,” in a “very bad war.”

“I said, ‘I don’t want to trade with anybody that’s killing each other,’” Trump said. “So we just got that one solved. And I’m going to call the two prime ministers who I got along with very, very well and speak to them right after this meeting and congratulate them. But it was an honor to be involved in that. That was going to be a very nasty war. Those wars have been very, very nasty.”

The president added that the U.S. “solved the war… through trade.”

“We have many ceasefires going on. The whole world is — if I weren’t around right now, you’d have six major wars going on,” Trump boasted. “We’ve done a lot. It’s an honor to do it. It’s not hard for me to do it. And I use — not in all cases — but I use a combination of knowing them a little bit or, in some cases, knowing them a lot.… We stopped a lot of wars, and it’s a great honor to have done it.”

The president played a central role in negotiating ceasefires between India and Pakistan, Rwanda and the Democratic Republic of the Congo, and Israel and Iran. The ceasefire between Rwanda and the DRC, if it holds, will end the bloodiest conflict of the 21st century.

An administration post-press pool document claimed he was also referencing his first-term peace negotiations with Serbia and Kosovo and the Abraham Accords. For his efforts, Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and the government of Pakistan nominated the president for the Nobel Peace Prize.

Trump’s peace efforts towards Thailand and Cambodia began on the third day of fighting. His overtures began with a call to Manet, followed by a call to Wechayachai minutes later, then another call to Manet. In a Truth Social post, the president uncharacteristically admitted a gap in his knowledge, saying he wasn’t as familiar with the conflict.

“I am trying to simplify a complex situation! Many people are being killed in this War, but it very much reminds me of the Conflict between Pakistan and India, which was brought to a successful halt,” he said after the first call.

In the post, Trump called the conflict a “War,” contradicting the heads of state of both Thailand and Cambodia, who had carefully refrained from labeling the conflict as much. He said that he was already talking with the two “by coincidence,” but trade talks would be halted until peace was achieved.

The U.S. is a longtime ally of Thailand, which is considered one of its closest allies in the Indo-Pacific region. This alliance has helped equip Thailand with a significant amount of modern military hardware, while Cambodia still uses primarily Soviet-era equipment from China and the USSR.

In his statements about the conflict, Trump has stressed the U.S.’s good relations with both countries.

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The immediate conflict began in February after a group of Cambodian tourists was taken to the Prasat Ta Muen Thom temple, claimed by both countries, where they sang the Cambodian national anthem, according to an analysis from Nathan Ruser of the Australian Strategic Policy Institute. Tensions over the exchange led to Cambodian, then later Thai, soldiers fortifying positions along the border. The first shots were exchanged in May, prompting the reinforcement of the border. On Thursday, five Thai soldiers were wounded after one stepped on a Cambodian landmine, triggering hostilities. Small arms fire quickly escalated into heavy artillery and missile fire, airstrikes, and the deployment of tanks and armored vehicles.

Border disagreements between Thailand and Cambodia stem from a border treaty between the French Empire and the Kingdom of Siam signed in the early 20th century. The border dispute most recently resulted in conflict from 2008-2011, killing 40 people.