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Donald Trump wants the American people to believe he is the foreign policy whisperer, the Cesar Millan of international relations and national security.

He wants you to believe he opposed the Iraq War. He wants you to believe he opposed the United States intervention in Libya. He wants you to believe he never supported the ousting of former Egyptian President Hosni Mubarak.

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These are the pillars on which he wants to earn your trust. This -- along with a plan to issue an ideology test to immigrants coming to the U.S. -- is what he reiterated on Monday, in a major speech on his foreign policy plans.

All of these statements were debunked by a number of reporters on Twitter.

We broke down those statements, below.

Iraq

Trump again claimed on Monday that he was against the war in Iraq from the start, which is demonstrably untrue.

This is becoming one of Trump's most often-repeated lies.

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He has also indicated that the removal of U.S. soldiers from Iraq allowed ISIS to gain strength, something he blames Obama and Clinton for, even though he supported the removal.

Libya

President Barack Obama and then-Secretary of State Hillary Clinton "should have never attempted to build a democracy in Libya," Trump said on Monday.

That's not how he felt at the time of the 2011 intervention, though. He once criticized Obama for not being even more aggressive.

"Now we should go in, we should stop this guy, which would be very easy and very quick," Trump said of then-Libyan dictator Muammar Gaddafi, in past comments to Fox News.

Now he takes the opposite stance.

Egypt

Trump again attacked the Obama administration on Monday for supporting the 2011 ouster of Egyptian President Hosni Mubarak, though he had a much different take on that ouster when it happened.

"It’s a good thing that they got him out," Trump said of Mubarak at the time. He also questioned Mubarak's wealth and lifestyle.

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