

I don’t. I think he has two guiding principals: he gets what he wants (by bullying) and the only thing that matters is him.
Truth as other people know it? That’s just another unimportant weakness that others care about which would keep him from what he wants. The only reason he would care about ending the war would be to look good. During the campaign he only said that to get elected. He may have been confident in his bullying abilities but at no point did it matter to him for the sake of the lives at stake.
Things that never happened