Press Secretary Karoline Leavitt Briefs Members of the Media, July 31, 2025

July 31, 2025 · The White House · 0:34:25

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What happened

Press Secretary Karoline Leavitt briefed the media at the White House on July 31, 2025, carried on the White House channel, opening with condolences for the family of New York police officer Didarul Islam, killed in a New York City shooting, whose funeral services were held that day. She then recounted the President’s working visit to Scotland: “In less than 48 hours, President Trump brokered the biggest, most impactful trade deal in history and prevented a war in Asia for the second time since he took office.”

On the Thailand–Cambodia conflict, Leavitt said the President spoke directly by phone with Thailand’s acting prime minister and Cambodia’s prime minister and informed both that unless they ended the conflict there would be no trade discussions with the United States; a ceasefire followed that she described as immediate and unconditional, in a conflict that had displaced more than 300,000 people. She listed the administration’s peace record as the White House counts it — Thailand and Cambodia, Israel and Iran, Rwanda and the Democratic Republic of the Congo, India and Pakistan, Serbia and Kosovo, and Egypt and Ethiopia — “about one peace deal or ceasefire per month during his six months in office,” and said it was “well past time that President Trump was awarded the Nobel Peace Prize.” She also reported that Special Envoy Steve Witkoff and Ambassador Mike Huckabee had held a productive meeting that day with Prime Minister Netanyahu and other officials in Israel on delivering food and aid to Gaza.

Why it matters

This briefing is the White House’s formal telling of the Thailand–Cambodia ceasefire — the trade-leverage call as the stated mechanism — and its six-conflict peace tally at the six-month mark, the claims the scoreboard checks against the ceasefire record.

Scoreboard watch

This briefing is a scoreboard reference point: the Thailand–Cambodia ceasefire as described by the Press Secretary on July 31, 2025 (immediate and unconditional; more than 300,000 displaced), and the White House’s six-conflict peace tally at six months, each as stated by the Press Secretary, to be checked against the published record.

Sources: The White House, “Press Secretary Karoline Leavitt Briefs Members of the Media, July 31, 2025” (official upload, embedded above). All figures and characterizations as stated by the Press Secretary at the briefing.