Only I can fix it · Before politics · № 1

Only I can fix it

Only he could fix America's roads, airports and bridges

“The only one to fix the infrastructure of our country is me - roads, airports, bridges. I know how to build, pols only know how to talk!”
Said
, Post on Twitter (@realDonaldTrump)
Subject
the country's infrastructure
Topic
Infrastructure
Era
Before politics

What happened

He repeated the claim at his June 16, 2015 announcement ("Rebuild the country's infrastructure. Nobody can do that like me.") and in his June 22, 2016 New York speech, where he said crumbling roads, bridges and airports "can all be fixed, but not by Hillary Clinton, only by me." No infrastructure bill passed during his term; PolitiFact's Trump-O-Meter rated his pledge to invest $550 billion in infrastructure and create an infrastructure fund "Promise Broken," with "no action evident" as of July 2020. Infrastructure legislation was later enacted under the Biden administration.

Sources

  1. Tweet: 'The only one to fix the infrastructure of our country is me' Twitter (@realDonaldTrump), May 12, 2015
  2. Donald J. Trump Addresses the Stakes of the Election (transcript) P2016 / Democracy in Action, Jun 22, 2016
  3. Trump-O-Meter: Invest $550 billion in infrastructure and create an infrastructure fund PolitiFact, Jul 15, 2020
  4. Presidential Candidacy Announcement, New York, NY (as spoken) Trump Campaign Corpus (GitHub), Jun 16, 2015