Donald Trump’s 5 most bonkers claims in 105-minute ramble – Gulf of Trump and baseball desires

On Jan 20, 2026

Donald Trump took a whole 105 minutes to talk up the first term of his second year in office, at one point claiming he could have been a professional baseball player

22:59, 20 Jan 2026

Donald Trump celebrated his first year in office by spouting a mix of spurious claims and outright lies from a pulpit at the White House – while continuing to level threats against his country’s centuries-old allies.

The US President, whose approval rating has nosedived 10 points since he took office last year, spent more than an hour touting his achievements in office this evening while his policies wreaked havoc at home and overseas. In a long-winding speech, he claimed wins on immigration, foreign policy and the economy, all the while brandishing documents from the stage.

The display was par-for-the-course from Trump, but he nevertheless made a series of newly strange statements, ranging from claiming God was proud of him, to insisting he could have become a professional baseball player.

‘God is very proud of the job I’ve done’

Trump was asked by a reporter early on in the 105-minute-long conference whether he felt that, on looking back, God “is proud of the effort that you’ve given?”

The reporter asked: “Last year, you told me that you believed that the reason you won the election is because God put you in this place so that you could save the world. Looking back [after] one year, do you feel like god is proud of the effort that you’ve [given]?” Trump responded with a chuckle, saying: “I do, actually. I think God is very proud of the job I’ve done.”

‘I’ve saved tens of millions of lives by stopping eight wars’

The self-proclaimed “Peace President” has claimed throughout the last year to have solved eight wars, a hotly-debated claim he repeated again tonight.

Claiming credit for solving the conflicts, he said: “What improved the lives of people are people that are living. I saved probably tens of millions of lives in the wars.” The wars he claims to have solved include a 40-year-long conflict between Armenia and Azerbaijan, and additional conflicts between Rwanda and the Democratic Republic of Congo, Israel and Iran, Israel and Hamas, India and Pakistan, Egypt and Ethiopia, Serbia and Kosovo, and Thailand and Cambodia.

Several parties involved in these conflicts, including India and Pakistan, have massively downplayed American involvement. Others, like the DRC and Rwanda and Thailand and Cambodia, have since broken down, and the conflicts between Egypt and Ethiopia and Serbia and Kosovo didn’t descend into armed conflict, so Trump’s claims to have saved “tens of millions” are provably false.

‘I could have been a professional baseball player’

Trump couldn’t resist a personal boast in his address this evening, with his latest being an attempt at bigging up his baseball playing skills while pledging to bring back insane asylums.

The President, who grew up in New York City, said he would practice for Little League at Cunningham Park, which he claimed was nearby Creedmoor Psychiatric Hospital. Not only was the claim thoroughly fact-checked by New Yorkers, who said the centre is three miles from the park, but it proved a bizarre moment for him to boost his baseball skills.

He said he “was quite the baseball player”, adding that his mother, Scottish-born Mary Anne MacLeod Trump, had told him he could have gone professional.

‘I was going to call it the Gulf of Trump’

One of Trump’s more controversial early moves was to rename the Gulf of Mexico to the “Gulf of America” a renaming that still isn’t globally accepted, despite being now a year old. The President revealed today that he had originally planned to name it the “Gulf of Trump”.

While claiming he was joking, he said he had “wanted to” rename it after himself, as he has done widely in following decisions. He said: “I thought I would be killed if I did that. I wanted to do it, I wanted to. I decided not to do that.”

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‘You’ll find out’

One of the most sinister quotes to come from the evening with Trump was when he was pressed to speak about his ongoing pressure campaign to purchase Greenland. The President has increasingly insisted the US, and he personally, need the semi-autonomous territory for “security” reasons, with his officials saying they would like to buy the land from Denmark.

Denmark, and other European nations, are firmly opposed to the move, however, and Trump has since refused to rule out a military campaign to take it by force. Today, he told a journalist asking whether he would use force against the country: “You’ll find out.”