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It repeats the pattern of the unpaid $2,000 tariff dividend and the unpaid $5,000 DOGE dividend before it.","repeat_count":3,"sources":[{"title":"Trump promised $5,000 checks if Republicans win the midterms. How would that work?","outlet":"PBS NewsHour","url":"https://www.pbs.org/newshour/politics/trump-promised-5000-checks-if-republicans-win-the-midterms-how-would-that-work","date":"2026-09-11"},{"title":"Trump Announces $5,000 Dividend if Republicans Win Midterms","outlet":"TIME","url":"https://time.com/article/2026/09/10/trump-dividend-five-thousand-dollars-midterms-republican-convention/","date":"2026-09-10"},{"title":"Trump's $1 trillion-plus 'dividend' plan meets immediate bipartisan pushback","outlet":"CNBC","url":"https://www.cnbc.com/2026/09/10/trump-dividend-midterms-gop.html","date":"2026-09-10"}],"file":"term-2.json","year":2026,"deadline_date":null,"days_since_promise":13,"days_overdue":null,"two_weeks":false,"url":"/promise/five-thousand-dollar-midterm-dividend/","sort_key":"2026-09-09","number":275},{"id":"gasoline-promise-project-47","title":"Renewed gas price promise after prices spiked","quote":"[paraphrase] Gas prices are going to come way down — you're going to see it very soon.","date_promised":"2026-06","venue":"White House remarks on Project 47 energy initiative","deadline_text":null,"deadline_days":null,"category":"economy","era":"term-2","status":"still-waiting","what_happened":"MS NOW noted this was the rare specific, checkable promise Trump almost never makes. Prices went the other way: regular gasoline hit a record $4.15 a gallon over Labor Day weekend 2026, up 30% year over year, and reached $4.29 by mid-September 2026. Trump shifted to framing $3 gas as an acceptable cost of the Iran war.","repeat_count":3,"sources":[{"title":"Trump just made the kind of promise he almost never makes","outlet":"MS NOW","url":"https://www.ms.now/news/news-analysis/trump-gas-prices-promise-project-47","date":"2026-06-01"},{"title":"Trump promised $2 gas... Now he says $3 gas is the reward for winning the war with Iran","outlet":"Moneywise","url":"https://moneywise.com/news/economy/trump-gas-prices-promises-iran-war-2026","date":"2026-09-08"}],"file":"term-2.json","year":2026,"deadline_date":null,"days_since_promise":113,"days_overdue":null,"two_weeks":false,"url":"/promise/gasoline-promise-project-47/","sort_key":"2026-06","number":274},{"id":"iran-8pm-ultimatum-two-week-ceasefire-2026","title":"'Tuesday, 8:00 P.M. Eastern Time!' — then a two-week ceasefire instead","quote":"Tuesday, 8:00 P.M. Eastern Time! [paired with the threat that] a whole civilization will die tonight, never to be brought back again.","date_promised":"2026-04-05","venue":"Truth Social posts and remarks, setting a hard deadline of 8:00 p.m. ET on April 7, 2026","deadline_text":"Tuesday, 8:00 P.M. Eastern Time","deadline_days":2,"category":"iran","era":"term-2","status":"partial","what_happened":"Hours before the deadline Pakistan's prime minister publicly asked Trump for a two-week extension. Trump said the US was in 'heated negotiations' and then agreed to suspend attacks for two weeks in exchange for Iran reopening the Strait of Hormuz; Iran's Supreme National Security Council accepted and oil posted its biggest one-day drop since 2020. When the two weeks expired around April 21, 2026 Trump extended again and the arrangement became open-ended. On May 18, 2026 he posted that 'we will NOT be doing the scheduled attack of Iran tomorrow.'","repeat_count":4,"sources":[{"title":"Trump, Iran agree to two-week ceasefire, plan to open Strait of Hormuz","outlet":"CNBC","url":"https://www.cnbc.com/2026/04/07/trump-iran-ceasefire-hormuz-strait.html","date":"2026-04-07"},{"title":"Iran war: Trump's series of unenforced deadlines","outlet":"ABC News","url":"https://abcnews.com/Politics/iran-war-trumps-series-unenforced-deadlines/story?id=133088467","date":"2026-05-18"},{"title":"Peace Through Strength: Operation Epic Fury Crushes Iranian Threat as Ceasefire Takes Hold","outlet":"The White House","url":"https://www.whitehouse.gov/releases/2026/04/peace-through-strength-operation-epic-fury-crushes-iranian-threat-as-ceasefire-takes-hold/","date":"2026-04-08"}],"file":"term-2.json","year":2026,"deadline_date":"2026-04-07","days_since_promise":170,"days_overdue":168,"two_weeks":true,"url":"/promise/iran-8pm-ultimatum-two-week-ceasefire-2026/","sort_key":"2026-04-05","number":273},{"id":"iran-war-ends-two-weeks-2026","title":"The 2026 Iran war would be over in 'two weeks, maybe three'","quote":"[paraphrase] The core strategic objectives are nearing completion — we'll be out in two weeks, maybe three.","date_promised":"2026-03-31","venue":"Remarks to reporters ahead of a planned address to the nation","deadline_text":"two weeks, maybe three","deadline_days":14,"category":"iran","era":"term-2","status":"broken","what_happened":"The war did not end on that timeline. Fighting continued, petrol topped $4 a gallon, and a ceasefire only arrived on April 7, 2026 — itself only two weeks long and then repeatedly re-extended. By June 2026 Trump was touting 'complete victory' while the two-week framing recurred; by August 2026 the US-Iran memorandum of understanding had expired and collapsed, and on August 18, 2026 he was threatening to bomb Oman.","repeat_count":4,"sources":[{"title":"Iran war: Trump's series of unenforced deadlines","outlet":"ABC News","url":"https://abcnews.com/Politics/iran-war-trumps-series-unenforced-deadlines/story?id=133088467","date":"2026-05-18"},{"title":"Timeline of the 2026 Iran war","outlet":"Wikipedia","url":"https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Timeline_of_the_2026_Iran_war","date":"2026-09-01"},{"title":"4 phases of the Iran war: Key moments from start of 'Epic Fury' to 'Project Freedom'","outlet":"ABC News","url":"https://abcnews.com/International/4-phases-iran-war-key-moments-start-epic/story?id=132703824","date":"2026-05-10"}],"file":"term-2.json","year":2026,"deadline_date":"2026-04-14","days_since_promise":175,"days_overdue":161,"two_weeks":true,"url":"/promise/iran-war-ends-two-weeks-2026/","sort_key":"2026-03-31","number":272},{"id":"iran-five-day-pause-2026","title":"A five-day pause on strikes that kept getting extended","quote":"I HAVE INSTRUCTED THE DEPARTMENT OF WAR TO POSTPONE ANY AND ALL MILITARY STRIKES.","date_promised":"2026-03-23","venue":"Truth Social post","deadline_text":"a five-day pause","deadline_days":5,"category":"iran","era":"term-2","status":"late","what_happened":"The pause was extended before it ran out. On March 26, 2026 Trump posted that he was 'pausing the period of Energy Plant destruction by 10 Days,' moving the deadline to April 6, and on April 5 he moved it again to 8:00 p.m. ET on April 7.","repeat_count":3,"sources":[{"title":"Iran war: Trump's series of unenforced deadlines","outlet":"ABC News","url":"https://abcnews.com/Politics/iran-war-trumps-series-unenforced-deadlines/story?id=133088467","date":"2026-05-18"}],"file":"term-2.json","year":2026,"deadline_date":"2026-03-28","days_since_promise":183,"days_overdue":178,"two_weeks":true,"url":"/promise/iran-five-day-pause-2026/","sort_key":"2026-03-23","number":271},{"id":"hormuz-48-hours-2026","title":"48 hours for Iran to reopen the Strait of Hormuz","quote":"If Iran doesn't FULLY OPEN [the Strait of Hormuz]... the United States will hit and obliterate their POWER PLANTS.","date_promised":"2026-03-21","venue":"Truth Social post during the 2026 Iran war (Operation Epic Fury)","deadline_text":"48 hours","deadline_days":2,"category":"iran","era":"term-2","status":"broken","what_happened":"The 48 hours expired and the strikes were postponed rather than executed. It was the first in a chain of at least six short deadlines Trump set and then let pass during the 2026 Iran war, catalogued by ABC News in May 2026 under the headline 'Trump's series of unenforced deadlines.'","repeat_count":6,"sources":[{"title":"Iran war: Trump's series of unenforced deadlines","outlet":"ABC News","url":"https://abcnews.com/Politics/iran-war-trumps-series-unenforced-deadlines/story?id=133088467","date":"2026-05-18"},{"title":"Timeline of the 2026 Iran war","outlet":"Wikipedia","url":"https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Timeline_of_the_2026_Iran_war","date":"2026-09-01"}],"file":"term-2.json","year":2026,"deadline_date":"2026-03-23","days_since_promise":185,"days_overdue":183,"two_weeks":true,"url":"/promise/hormuz-48-hours-2026/","sort_key":"2026-03-21","number":270},{"id":"affordability-won-state-of-the-union","title":"Claimed victory on affordability while costs kept rising","quote":"[paraphrase] We have won the war on affordability — prices are down.","date_promised":"2026-02","venue":"State of the Union address, U.S. Capitol","deadline_text":null,"deadline_days":null,"category":"economy","era":"term-2","status":"broken","what_happened":"Groundwork Collaborative called it a 'state of delusion': at the time of the speech groceries, electricity, rent, medical care and tuition were all above January 2025 levels, ACA premiums had jumped about 18% with subsidized out-of-pocket costs up more than 75%, and households faced roughly $1,300 in added annual costs in 2026. Senate Democrats' companion analysis documented higher prices and fewer jobs.","repeat_count":6,"sources":[{"title":"State of Delusion: Trump Claims to Have 'Won' Affordability As Working Families Struggle","outlet":"Groundwork Collaborative","url":"https://groundworkcollaborative.org/news/state-of-delusion-trump-claims-to-have-won-affordability-as-working-families-struggle/","date":"2026-02-01"},{"title":"The True State Of The Union Under Trump: Broken Promises, Higher Prices And Fewer Jobs","outlet":"Senate Democratic Leadership","url":"https://www.democrats.senate.gov/newsroom/press-releases/the-true-state-of-the-union-under-trump-broken-promises-higher-prices-and-fewer-jobs-for-american-families","date":"2026-02-01"},{"title":"Broken Promises? Why US Grocery Prices Are Still Breaking Your Budget","outlet":"Korea Daily (English)","url":"https://en.koreadaily.com/us-grocery-prices-inflation-trump-promises-2026/","date":"2026-03-01"}],"file":"term-2.json","year":2026,"deadline_date":null,"days_since_promise":233,"days_overdue":null,"two_weeks":false,"url":"/promise/affordability-won-state-of-the-union/","sort_key":"2026-02","number":269},{"id":"maduro-one-week-to-leave-2025","title":"Maduro given 'one week' to leave Venezuela","quote":"[paraphrase] You have one week to leave Venezuela with your family, for any destination of your choosing.","date_promised":"2025-11-21","venue":"Private phone call from Trump to Nicolas Maduro, lasting under fifteen minutes, first reported by Reuters","deadline_text":"one week (deadline November 28, 2025)","deadline_days":7,"category":"foreign-policy","era":"term-2","status":"late","what_happened":"Maduro demanded full amnesty plus sanctions relief for more than 100 officials and Trump refused most of it. The November 28 deadline passed with no departure and no immediate action beyond Trump declaring Venezuelan airspace closed. The resolution came five weeks later: on January 3, 2026 US forces executed Operation Absolute Resolve, striking Venezuela and capturing Maduro and his wife.","repeat_count":1,"sources":[{"title":"Trump gave Maduro ultimatum to flee Venezuela as land operations loom: report","outlet":"Fox News","url":"https://www.foxnews.com/politics/trump-gave-maduro-ultimatum-flee-venezuela-land-operations-loom-report","date":"2025-11-24"},{"title":"Alleged US Deadline for Maduro Exit Passes Without Incident","outlet":"Venezuelanalysis","url":"https://venezuelanalysis.com/news/alleged-us-deadline-for-maduro-exit-passes-without-incident/","date":"2025-12-01"},{"title":"Second presidency of Donald Trump","outlet":"Wikipedia","url":"https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Second_presidency_of_Donald_Trump","date":"2026-09-01"}],"file":"term-2.json","year":2025,"deadline_date":"2025-11-28","days_since_promise":305,"days_overdue":298,"two_weeks":true,"url":"/promise/maduro-one-week-to-leave-2025/","sort_key":"2025-11-21","number":268},{"id":"epstein-files-30-day-statutory-deadline","title":"The Epstein Files Transparency Act's 30-day release deadline","quote":"[paraphrase] The Justice Department shall publish its Epstein investigative files within 30 days of enactment.","date_promised":"2025-11-19","venue":"Bill signing at the White House, with no reporters present, after Trump reversed course on November 16 and told House Republicans to vote yes","deadline_text":"30 days (statutory, by December 19, 2025)","deadline_days":30,"category":"transparency","era":"term-2","status":"partial","what_happened":"On December 19, 2025 DOJ made a partial release of roughly 12,285 items and 125,575 pages, heavily redacted, with more than 500 pages entirely blacked out. The bulk slipped to January 30, 2026, when Deputy Attorney General Todd Blanche released further data sets and declared 'full compliance' despite DOJ having identified around 6 million responsive pages. On August 13, 2026 a federal judge put DOJ on notice over stalled production, saying of contempt, 'It's not a threat. It's a promise,' and by September 18, 2026 was warning Blanche personally.","repeat_count":3,"sources":[{"title":"Epstein files","outlet":"Wikipedia","url":"https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Epstein_files","date":"2026-09-01"},{"title":"Now that Bondi is out, what does that mean for the Epstein files?","outlet":"WBUR Here & Now","url":"https://www.wbur.org/hereandnow/2026/04/06/bondi-doj-epstein-files","date":"2026-04-06"},{"title":"What Are the Epstein Files? A Timeline — 2026: Contempt, delays, and more documents","outlet":"Britannica","url":"https://www.britannica.com/topic/The-Epstein-Files-A-Timeline/2026-Contempt-delays-and-more-documents","date":"2026-09-01"}],"file":"term-2.json","year":2025,"deadline_date":"2025-12-19","days_since_promise":307,"days_overdue":277,"two_weeks":false,"url":"/promise/epstein-files-30-day-statutory-deadline/","sort_key":"2025-11-19","number":267},{"id":"two-thousand-dollar-tariff-dividend","title":"A $2,000 tariff 'dividend' for everyone","quote":"A dividend of at least $2000 a person (not including high income people!) will be paid to everyone.","date_promised":"2025-11-09","venue":"Truth Social post, followed up in remarks the next day","deadline_text":"around mid-2026","deadline_days":240,"category":"economy","era":"term-2","status":"still-waiting","what_happened":"Trump and Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent said payments would start around mid-2026, then pushed it to later in 2026. Ten months on, ABC News reported on September 10, 2026 that no checks had gone out. It would require legislation Congress has not moved, economists put the cost near $450 billion, and after the Supreme Court struck down the tariffs in February 2026 the administration paid out roughly $100 billion in refunds to businesses instead. Prediction markets put the odds of a 2026 dividend at 3%.","repeat_count":3,"sources":[{"title":"Trump promised $2000 tariff 'dividends,' but they still haven't materialized","outlet":"ABC News","url":"https://abcnews.com/Politics/trump-promised-2000-tariff-dividends-materialized-10-months/story?id=136329468","date":"2026-09-10"},{"title":"Trump's $2000 tariff dividend checks are less likely, experts say","outlet":"CNBC","url":"https://www.cnbc.com/2026/02/23/trumps-2000-tariff-dividend-checks-are-less-likely-experts-say.html","date":"2026-02-23"},{"title":"Trump promises $2,000 tariff checks by mid-2026","outlet":"Axios","url":"https://www.axios.com/2025/11/17/2000-tariff-dividend-trump-check-2026","date":"2025-11-17"}],"file":"term-2.json","year":2025,"deadline_date":"2026-07-07","days_since_promise":317,"days_overdue":77,"two_weeks":false,"url":"/promise/two-thousand-dollar-tariff-dividend/","sort_key":"2025-11-09","number":266},{"id":"great-healthcare-plan-delayed-2026","title":"'Two weeks forever': the second-term health plan, delayed then thin","quote":"[paraphrase] The health care plan will be unveiled Monday.","date_promised":"2025-11","venue":"Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent said the plan would be revealed that week; the Monday rollout was then scrapped","deadline_text":"Monday / days away","deadline_days":4,"category":"healthcare","era":"term-2","status":"partial","what_happened":"The Monday rollout of the 'Healthcare Price Cuts Act' was scrapped after congressional Republicans revolted at a two-year ACA subsidy extension one lawmaker called 'Obamacare-lite.' 'The Great Healthcare Plan' finally appeared on January 15, 2026 as a legislative framework rather than a bill. Forbes wrote on February 2, 2026 that it 'isn't more than a brief conceptual outline,' echoing his 2024 'concepts of a plan,' and it still requires Congress to act.","repeat_count":12,"sources":[{"title":"Trump Delays His Health Care Plan After Revolt From Republicans","outlet":"The New Republic","url":"https://newrepublic.com/post/203622/trump-delays-health-care-plan-revolt-republicans","date":"2025-12-09"},{"title":"White House Releases 'Great Healthcare Plan'","outlet":"Committee for a Responsible Federal Budget","url":"https://www.crfb.org/blogs/white-house-releases-great-healthcare-plan","date":"2026-01-15"},{"title":"Trump's 'Great Healthcare Plan' Isn't More Than A Brief Conceptual Outline","outlet":"Forbes","url":"https://www.forbes.com/sites/joshuacohen/2026/02/02/trumps-great-healthcare-plan-isnt-more-than-a-brief-conceptual-outline/","date":"2026-02-02"},{"title":"'Two Weeks Forever': Trump's 2020 Health-Care Promise Resurfaces As White House Delays New Proposal","outlet":"IBTimes UK","url":"https://www.ibtimes.co.uk/two-weeks-forever-trumps-2020-healthcare-promise-resurfaces-white-house-delays-new-proposal-1758020","date":"2025-11-25"}],"file":"term-2.json","year":2025,"deadline_date":"2025-11-05","days_since_promise":325,"days_overdue":321,"two_weeks":true,"url":"/promise/great-healthcare-plan-delayed-2026/","sort_key":"2025-11","number":265},{"id":"budapest-summit-two-weeks-2025","title":"Putin summit in Budapest 'within two weeks'","quote":"[paraphrase] We will meet in Budapest within two weeks to end the war.","date_promised":"2025-10-16","venue":"Announcement after a phone call with Vladimir Putin","deadline_text":"within two weeks","deadline_days":14,"category":"ukraine","era":"term-2","status":"never-delivered","what_happened":"Six days later, on October 22, 2025, Trump cancelled the summit after Moscow restated maximalist demands that Ukraine cede territory, cut its army and renounce NATO. A preparatory Rubio-Lavrov meeting was postponed indefinitely and the Budapest summit never took place.","repeat_count":1,"sources":[{"title":"Trump-Putin Summit in Budapest Is Canceled","outlet":"Democracy Now!","url":"https://www.democracynow.org/2025/10/22/headlines/trump_putin_summit_in_budapest_is_canceled","date":"2025-10-22"},{"title":"Budapest summit postponed as Putin rejects Trump's ceasefire proposal","outlet":"Atlantic Council","url":"https://www.atlanticcouncil.org/blogs/ukrainealert/budapest-summit-postponed-as-putin-rejects-trumps-ceasefire-proposal/","date":"2025-10-23"},{"title":"US Scrapped Trump-Putin Budapest Summit After Moscow's Hardline Demands on Ukraine","outlet":"The Moscow Times","url":"https://www.themoscowtimes.com/2025/10/31/us-scrapped-trump-putin-budapest-summit-after-moscows-hardline-demands-on-ukraine-ft-a91001","date":"2025-10-31"}],"file":"term-2.json","year":2025,"deadline_date":"2025-10-30","days_since_promise":341,"days_overdue":327,"two_weeks":true,"url":"/promise/budapest-summit-two-weeks-2025/","sort_key":"2025-10-16","number":264},{"id":"gaza-hamas-three-or-four-days-2025","title":"Hamas has 'three or four days' to accept the 20-point plan","quote":"[paraphrase] Hamas has three or four days to respond. Hamas is either going to be doing it or not, and if it's not, it's going to be a very sad end.","date_promised":"2025-09-30","venue":"Remarks to reporters after unveiling the 20-point Gaza plan with Benjamin Netanyahu at the White House; hardened on October 3 to a fixed Sunday 6:00 p.m. ET deadline on Truth Social","deadline_text":"three or four days, then 'Sunday at 6:00 p.m.'","deadline_days":4,"category":"foreign-policy","era":"term-2","status":"partial","what_happened":"This one largely held. On October 3, 2025, just before the deadline, Hamas agreed to release all remaining hostages and hand Gaza's administration to independent technocrats, while refusing to disarm. Trump accepted, told Israel to stop bombing, and the ceasefire and hostage-release phase proceeded in October 2025. The disarmament and stabilisation-force elements remained unresolved long past the deadline.","repeat_count":2,"sources":[{"title":"Trump says Hamas has 'three or four days' to respond to Gaza proposal","outlet":"Al Jazeera","url":"https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2025/9/30/trump-says-hamas-has-three-or-four-days-to-respond-to-gaza-proposal","date":"2025-09-30"},{"title":"Trump issues Sunday ultimatum for Hamas to accept Gaza plan","outlet":"Al Jazeera","url":"https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2025/10/3/trump-issues-sunday-deadline-for-hamas-to-accept-gaza-peace-proposal","date":"2025-10-03"},{"title":"Read Trump's 20-point proposal to end the war in Gaza","outlet":"PBS NewsHour","url":"https://www.pbs.org/newshour/politics/read-trumps-20-point-proposal-to-end-the-war-in-gaza","date":"2025-09-29"}],"file":"term-2.json","year":2025,"deadline_date":"2025-10-04","days_since_promise":357,"days_overdue":353,"two_weeks":true,"url":"/promise/gaza-hamas-three-or-four-days-2025/","sort_key":"2025-09-30","number":263},{"id":"gaza-lasting-peace","title":"A lasting peace in Gaza under the 20-point plan","quote":"[paraphrase] This is the dawn of a new Middle East — the war in Gaza is over.","date_promised":"2025-09-29","venue":"White House announcement of the 20-point Gaza plan with Prime Minister Netanyahu","deadline_text":null,"deadline_days":null,"category":"foreign-policy","era":"term-2","status":"partial","what_happened":"The ceasefire took effect Oct. 10, 2025 and produced a hostage exchange and an aid surge, but J Street's six-month review found the plan 'largely stalled on all its promises' beyond that. More than 700 Palestinians and four Israelis were killed after the ceasefire began. Phase two was declared in January 2026 before phase one was complete; NPR reported in March 2026 that the plan had stalled as the Iran war ground on, Israel escalated attacks in August 2026 in defiance of the plan, and the U.S. official leading the effort publicly criticized Israel on Aug. 27, 2026.","repeat_count":10,"sources":[{"title":"Six Months In: Assessing the Status of the Gaza Ceasefire","outlet":"J Street","url":"https://jstreet.org/six-months-in-assessing-the-status-of-the-gaza-ceasefire/","date":"2026-04-10"},{"title":"Trump's peace plan for Gaza stalls as Iran war grinds on","outlet":"NPR","url":"https://www.npr.org/2026/03/12/nx-s1-5745145/trumps-peace-plan-for-gaza-stalls-as-iran-war-grinds-on","date":"2026-03-12"},{"title":"Israel defies Trump's peace plan as it escalates deadly attacks on Gaza","outlet":"Al Jazeera","url":"https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2026/8/3/israel-defies-trumps-peace-plan-as-it-escalates-deadly-attacks-on-gaza","date":"2026-08-03"},{"title":"Official leading Trump's Gaza ceasefire effort criticizes Israel for its attacks","outlet":"NPR","url":"https://www.npr.org/2026/08/27/g-s1-140400/israel-gaza-ceasefire","date":"2026-08-27"}],"file":"term-2.json","year":2025,"deadline_date":null,"days_since_promise":358,"days_overdue":null,"two_weeks":false,"url":"/promise/gaza-lasting-peace/","sort_key":"2025-09-29","number":262},{"id":"putin-step-in-very-strongly-2025","title":"'Over the next week or two... at that point, I'll step in very strongly'","quote":"We'll see what happens over the next week or two. And at that point, I'll step in very strongly.","date_promised":"2025-08-25","venue":"Remarks to reporters at the White House","deadline_text":"over the next week or two","deadline_days":14,"category":"ukraine","era":"term-2","status":"never-delivered","what_happened":"No intervention followed in the stated window. Through September 2025 there were no new US sanctions on Russia tied to the threat, and HuffPost catalogued the run of expired deadlines under the headline that Putin had faced no consequences.","repeat_count":6,"sources":[{"title":"Putin Keeps Violating Trump's 'Peace' Deadlines But Has Faced No Consequences","outlet":"HuffPost","url":"https://www.huffpost.com/entry/trump-putin-two-weeks_n_68b75ec2e4b0735128b89a7b","date":"2025-09-02"}],"file":"term-2.json","year":2025,"deadline_date":"2025-09-08","days_since_promise":393,"days_overdue":379,"two_weeks":true,"url":"/promise/putin-step-in-very-strongly-2025/","sort_key":"2025-08-25","number":261},{"id":"putin-which-way-two-weeks-aug-2025","title":"'Over the next two weeks we're going to find out which way it's going to go'","quote":"I think over the next two weeks we're going to find out which way it's going to go.","date_promised":"2025-08-22","venue":"Remarks to reporters at the White House","deadline_text":"over the next two weeks","deadline_days":14,"category":"ukraine","era":"term-2","status":"never-delivered","what_happened":"The deadline passed with no announced determination and no consequence for Moscow. It was at least the fifth two-week Ukraine deadline of 2025. 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The shortened deadline expired around August 8, 2025 with no comprehensive sanctions regime imposed on Russia itself; instead Trump met Putin in Alaska on August 15, 2025. 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The episode triggered the June 2025 wave of 'two weeks' supercuts on CNN, NBC and late-night television.","repeat_count":1,"sources":[{"title":"Trump is no stranger to setting 2-week deadlines. 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The first batch of tariff letters to trading partners was sent in early July 2025, roughly two weeks past the outer edge of the window, and the rates in them were repeatedly revised afterwards.","repeat_count":2,"sources":[{"title":"Trump is no stranger to setting 2-week deadlines. 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A framework deal involving a US joint venture was only announced in late September 2025, roughly three months after the two-week promise.","repeat_count":2,"sources":[{"title":"Trump is no stranger to setting 2-week deadlines. Here's how others have played out","outlet":"NPR","url":"https://www.npr.org/2025/06/20/nx-s1-5440143/trump-two-weeks-deadline-pattern","date":"2025-06-20"}],"file":"term-2.json","year":2025,"deadline_date":"2025-06-15","days_since_promise":478,"days_overdue":464,"two_weeks":true,"url":"/promise/tiktok-buyer-two-weeks-2025/","sort_key":"2025-06","number":254},{"id":"putin-tapping-us-along-may-2025","title":"'We're going to find out whether or not he's tapping us along' — two weeks","quote":"I'll let you know in about two weeks, within two weeks... 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By September 2026 the administration had signed 26 manufacturers covering about 90% of the branded market and extended MFN pricing to all 50 state Medicaid programs. But NPR reported on Sept. 17, 2026 that the TrumpRx consumer website lists a limited set of drugs, that most consumers still do better paying an insurance copay, and that U.S. prices on TrumpRx remain well above what consumers abroad pay — so the 'lowest price in the world' promise is not met for ordinary patients.","repeat_count":12,"sources":[{"title":"Did Trump lower Medicaid drug prices, as promised?","outlet":"NPR","url":"https://www.npr.org/2026/09/17/nx-s1-5971066/trump-rx-medicaid-generous-drug-prices-pfizer-favored-nation","date":"2026-09-17"},{"title":"What Trump's Most-Favored-Nation Deal Means for Drug Prices","outlet":"TIME","url":"https://time.com/article/2026/09/01/what-trump-most-favored-nation-deal-means-for-drug-prices/","date":"2026-09-01"},{"title":"President Trump Extends Most Favored Nation Drug Pricing to Every Medicaid Program in America","outlet":"The White House","url":"https://www.whitehouse.gov/releases/2026/09/president-trump-extends-most-favored-nation-pricing-to-every-medicaid-program-in-america/","date":"2026-09-16"}],"file":"term-2.json","year":2025,"deadline_date":null,"days_since_promise":498,"days_overdue":null,"two_weeks":false,"url":"/promise/trumprx-lowest-drug-prices-in-world/","sort_key":"2025-05-12","number":251},{"id":"pharma-tariffs-two-weeks-2025","title":"Pharmaceutical tariff decision 'over the next two weeks'","quote":"I'll announce it over the next two weeks.","date_promised":"2025-05-05","venue":"Oval Office remarks to reporters","deadline_text":"over the next two weeks","deadline_days":14,"category":"trade","era":"term-2","status":"late","what_happened":"No pharmaceutical tariff rate was announced within the two weeks. Trump kept promising pharma tariffs through the summer of 2025 before announcing a 100% tariff on branded imported drugs in late September 2025, nearly five months after the deadline he set.","repeat_count":3,"sources":[{"title":"Trump is no stranger to setting 2-week deadlines. 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Trade adviser Peter Navarro's companion boast of '90 deals in 90 days' also fell far short.","repeat_count":2,"sources":[{"title":"Two weeks' notice: Trump's deadline on Iran is a familiar one","outlet":"NBC News","url":"https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/donald-trump/two-weeks-notice-trumps-deadline-iran-familiar-one-rcna214089","date":"2025-06-20"}],"file":"term-2.json","year":2025,"deadline_date":"2025-05-22","days_since_promise":506,"days_overdue":488,"two_weeks":false,"url":"/promise/china-trade-deal-two-weeks-2025/","sort_key":"2025-05-04","number":249},{"id":"largest-wealth-transfer-not-working-people","title":"The tax bill would be for working people, not the wealthy","quote":"[paraphrase] This bill is for the workers — the rich will not benefit.","date_promised":"2025-05","venue":"Remarks promoting the One Big Beautiful Bill Act","deadline_text":null,"deadline_days":null,"category":"taxes","era":"term-2","status":"broken","what_happened":"The DNC's 200-day review characterized the law as the largest upward wealth transfer in more than 40 years, pairing permanent high-end and business tax cuts with roughly $1 trillion in health and nutrition program reductions, and adding over $3 trillion to the debt over a decade. The tips, overtime and senior deductions aimed at workers all expire after 2028 while the business provisions do not.","repeat_count":10,"sources":[{"title":"200 Days of Trump: Promises Made, Promises Broken","outlet":"Democratic National Committee","url":"https://democrats.org/news/200-days-of-trump-promises-made-promises-broken/","date":"2025-08-07"},{"title":"Trump's health care plan for 2026: Pay even more, get even less. 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He reset the clock on May 19 and again on May 28 without ever announcing a verdict, then moved to a 50-day ultimatum in July 2025 which he cut to 10-12 days on July 28, 2025.","repeat_count":3,"sources":[{"title":"Two weeks' notice: Trump's deadline on Iran is a familiar one","outlet":"NBC News","url":"https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/donald-trump/two-weeks-notice-trumps-deadline-iran-familiar-one-rcna214089","date":"2025-06-20"},{"title":"Trump gives Russia its third two-week deadline","outlet":"Crooks and Liars","url":"https://crooksandliars.com/2025/05/trump-gives-russia-its-third-two-week","date":"2025-05-29"},{"title":"President Trump's timeline for things seems to almost always be 'in two weeks'","outlet":"CNN","url":"https://www.cnn.com/2025/05/29/politics/video/president-trump-two-week-timeline-war-in-ukraine-vrtc","date":"2025-05-29"}],"file":"term-2.json","year":2025,"deadline_date":"2025-05-11","days_since_promise":513,"days_overdue":499,"two_weeks":true,"url":"/promise/putin-serious-two-weeks-april-2025/","sort_key":"2025-04-27","number":247},{"id":"ukraine-aid-ask-in-two-weeks-2025","title":"'You can ask that question in two weeks' on military aid to Ukraine","quote":"You can ask that question in two weeks, and we'll see.","date_promised":"2025-04-24","venue":"Oval Office meeting with Norwegian Prime Minister Jonas Gahr Store","deadline_text":"in two weeks","deadline_days":14,"category":"ukraine","era":"term-2","status":"never-delivered","what_happened":"Asked whether US military assistance to Ukraine would continue, Trump deferred by two weeks. No answer came at the two-week mark. He used variations of the same deflection on April 27, May 19 and May 28, 2025.","repeat_count":4,"sources":[{"title":"Trump is no stranger to setting 2-week deadlines. Here's how others have played out","outlet":"NPR","url":"https://www.npr.org/2025/06/20/nx-s1-5440143/trump-two-weeks-deadline-pattern","date":"2025-06-20"},{"title":"Two weeks' notice: Trump's deadline on Iran is a familiar one","outlet":"NBC News","url":"https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/donald-trump/two-weeks-notice-trumps-deadline-iran-familiar-one-rcna214089","date":"2025-06-20"}],"file":"term-2.json","year":2025,"deadline_date":"2025-05-08","days_since_promise":516,"days_overdue":502,"two_weeks":true,"url":"/promise/ukraine-aid-ask-in-two-weeks-2025/","sort_key":"2025-04-24","number":246},{"id":"tariff-rates-two-three-weeks-2025","title":"Setting tariff numbers 'over the next two, three weeks'","quote":"Over the next two, three weeks. 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When the 90 days expired in early July 2025 the tally was still two, about 2% of the promise, and Trump extended the negotiating deadline into August. The Supreme Court struck down the IEEPA tariffs in February 2026 and by September 2026 the administration had paid out roughly $100 billion in tariff refunds.","repeat_count":2,"sources":[{"title":"Navarro says Trump has '90 deals in 90 days possibly pending here'","outlet":"The Hill","url":"https://thehill.com/homenews/administration/5246773-navarro-trump-90-deals-90-days/","date":"2025-04-12"},{"title":"90 deals in 90 days? 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The Joint Economic Committee found 108,000 manufacturing jobs lost in Trump's first year; BLS data showed 89,000 lost between April 2025 and February 2026 and roughly 75,000 fewer than at inauguration by mid-2026. Construction spending on factories dropped about 30%, from $250 billion annualized in November 2024 to $175 billion by May 2026. Growth was flat from March 2026 onward.","repeat_count":20,"sources":[{"title":"NEW DATA: During Trump's First Year, the Manufacturing Industry Lost 108,000 Jobs","outlet":"U.S. Joint Economic Committee (Democrats)","url":"https://www.jec.senate.gov/public/index.cfm/democrats/2026/2/new-data-during-trump-s-first-year-the-manufacturing-industry-lost-108-000-jobs","date":"2026-02-06"},{"title":"On 'Liberation Day,' Trump promised a manufacturing boom. 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No cause of the autism epidemic was identified.","repeat_count":3,"sources":[{"title":"President Trump, Secretary Kennedy Announce Bold Actions to Tackle Autism Epidemic","outlet":"HHS.gov","url":"https://www.hhs.gov/press-room/hhs-trump-kennedy-autism-initiatives-leucovorin-tylenol-research-2025.html","date":"2025-09-22"},{"title":"Trump administration set to tie Tylenol to autism risk, officials say","outlet":"Washington Post","url":"https://www.washingtonpost.com/health/2025/09/21/trump-autism-announcement-tylenol-leucovorin/","date":"2025-09-21"},{"title":"RFK Jr walks back Trump administration's claims linking Tylenol and autism","outlet":"Al Jazeera","url":"https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2025/10/29/rfk-jr-walks-back-trump-administrations-claims-linking-tylenol-and-autism","date":"2025-10-29"}],"file":"term-2.json","year":2025,"deadline_date":"2025-08-29","days_since_promise":539,"days_overdue":389,"two_weeks":false,"url":"/promise/autism-cause-by-september-2025/","sort_key":"2025-04","number":242},{"id":"support-student-loan-borrowers","title":"Student borrowers will be 'fully supported' in repaying loans","quote":"borrowers are paying back their loans, that they are fully supported in doing so.","date_promised":"2025-04","venue":"Department of Education statement announcing the return to collections","deadline_text":null,"deadline_days":null,"category":"education","era":"term-2","status":"broken","what_happened":"Collections restarted and support collapsed. Protect Borrowers found 3.6 million borrowers defaulted between January 2025 and early 2026, bringing the national total in default to about 9 million, after the SAVE repayment plan was terminated and servicing backlogs mounted. Wage garnishment and Social Security offsets resumed for defaulted borrowers.","repeat_count":2,"sources":[{"title":"President Trump's Broken Promises and the State of Americans' Ballooning Debts as President Trump Talks Affordability in the State of the Union","outlet":"Protect Borrowers","url":"https://protectborrowers.org/president-trumps-broken-promises-debt-affordability-sotu/","date":"2026-02-01"},{"title":"Warren Releases New Report Detailing President Trump's Broken Promises on Affordability","outlet":"U.S. Senate Banking Committee (Minority)","url":"https://www.banking.senate.gov/newsroom/minority/warren-releases-new-report-detailing-president-trumps-broken-promises-on-affordability","date":"2026-01-30"}],"file":"term-2.json","year":2025,"deadline_date":null,"days_since_promise":539,"days_overdue":null,"two_weeks":false,"url":"/promise/support-student-loan-borrowers/","sort_key":"2025-04","number":241},{"id":"jfk-files-fully-unredacted","title":"Release all JFK assassination files with no redactions","quote":"[paraphrase] We're releasing all 80,000 pages — no redactions.","date_promised":"2025-03-17","venue":"Remarks at the Kennedy Center, Washington, D.C.","deadline_text":null,"deadline_days":null,"category":"transparency","era":"term-2","status":"partial","what_happened":"The National Archives published just over 60,000 pages on March 18, 2025 — well short of the 80,000 promised — and many documents had been released before with redactions still in place. The dump also exposed hundreds of living people's Social Security numbers, an error the Archives spent weeks remediating. RFK and MLK records followed in April-July 2025, the MLK release over the King family's objection.","repeat_count":6,"sources":[{"title":"Fact Sheet: President Donald J. 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CBO projected roughly 10–17 million more uninsured; ACA marketplace enrollment fell 1.4 million (24.2M to 22.8M) by early 2026. Reporting indicated Trump had to be told by a House member that the bill did in fact 'touch Medicaid.'","repeat_count":12,"sources":[{"title":"Here are the times Trump has said he wouldn't cut Medicaid","outlet":"ABC News","url":"https://abcnews.com/Politics/trump-medicaid-republican-bill-cut-benefits/story?id=121756481","date":"2025-05-20"},{"title":"Medicaid cuts in Trump's 'big beautiful bill' will leave millions uninsured, threaten rural hospitals","outlet":"CNBC","url":"https://www.cnbc.com/2025/07/01/how-trump-bill-medicaid-cuts-will-impact-us-health-care.html","date":"2025-07-01"},{"title":"Trump on Fourth of July signs 'One Big Beautiful Bill' to implement his agenda","outlet":"NPR","url":"https://www.npr.org/2025/07/03/nx-s1-5454841/house-republicans-trump-tax-bill-medicaid","date":"2025-07-03"},{"title":"200 Days of Trump: Promises Made, Promises Broken","outlet":"Democratic National Committee","url":"https://democrats.org/news/200-days-of-trump-promises-made-promises-broken/","date":"2025-08-07"}],"file":"term-2.json","year":2025,"deadline_date":null,"days_since_promise":567,"days_overdue":null,"two_weeks":false,"url":"/promise/no-cuts-to-medicaid/","sort_key":"2025-03-04","number":239},{"id":"epstein-client-list-on-my-desk-2025","title":"The Epstein client list 'sitting on my desk right now to review'","quote":"It's sitting on my desk right now to review.","date_promised":"2025-02-21","venue":"Fox News interview with Attorney General Pam Bondi, acting on Trump's release directive","deadline_text":"imminent / within days","deadline_days":7,"category":"transparency","era":"term-2","status":"broken","what_happened":"Six days later, on February 27, 2025, DOJ staged the white-binder 'Epstein Files: Phase 1' handout to social media influencers on the White House driveway. It contained essentially no new information. Bondi then blamed the FBI's New York field office. A DOJ and FBI memo in July 2025 concluded there was no client list at all.","repeat_count":4,"sources":[{"title":"Attorney General Pamela Bondi Releases First Phase of Declassified Epstein Files","outlet":"US Department of Justice","url":"https://www.justice.gov/opa/pr/attorney-general-pamela-bondi-releases-first-phase-declassified-epstein-files","date":"2025-02-27"},{"title":"Epstein files","outlet":"Wikipedia","url":"https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Epstein_files","date":"2026-09-01"}],"file":"term-2.json","year":2025,"deadline_date":"2025-02-28","days_since_promise":578,"days_overdue":571,"two_weeks":true,"url":"/promise/epstein-client-list-on-my-desk-2025/","sort_key":"2025-02-21","number":238},{"id":"tiktok-day-one-and-four-extensions","title":"Saving TikTok on day one — then four rolling extensions","quote":"[paraphrase] I'm going to save TikTok. We'll issue an executive order on day one.","date_promised":"2025-01-20","venue":"Inauguration day executive order directing non-enforcement of the divest-or-ban law","deadline_text":"75 days","deadline_days":75,"category":"other","era":"term-2","status":"late","what_happened":"Four consecutive enforcement delays followed: January 20, 2025 (75 days), April 4, 2025 (75 days), June 19, 2025 (90 days) and September 2025 (to December 16, 2025). Asked in mid-2025 who the buyer was, Trump said 'I'll tell you in about two weeks.' A framework was signed off on September 25, 2025 and the deal finally closed on January 22, 2026 — about a year and four extensions after day one.","repeat_count":5,"sources":[{"title":"Further Extending the TikTok Enforcement Delay","outlet":"The White House","url":"https://www.whitehouse.gov/presidential-actions/2025/09/further-extending-the-tiktok-enforcement-delay-9dde/","date":"2025-09-16"},{"title":"US extends TikTok sale deadline by another 90 days","outlet":"Al Jazeera","url":"https://www.aljazeera.com/economy/2025/6/19/us-extends-tiktok-sale-deadline-by-another-90-days","date":"2025-06-19"},{"title":"TikTok Ban Timeline: How Trump Keeps Pushing the Deadline","outlet":"No Labels","url":"https://nolabels.org/the-latest/tiktok-ban-timeline-how-trump-keeps-pushing-the-deadline/","date":"2025-09-17"}],"file":"term-2.json","year":2025,"deadline_date":"2025-04-05","days_since_promise":610,"days_overdue":535,"two_weeks":false,"url":"/promise/tiktok-day-one-and-four-extensions/","sort_key":"2025-01-20","number":237},{"id":"tariffs-paid-by-foreign-countries","title":"Tariffs will be paid by foreign countries, not Americans","quote":"Instead of taxing our citizens to enrich other countries, we will tariff and tax foreign countries to enrich our citizens.","date_promised":"2025-01-20","venue":"Inaugural address, U.S. Capitol","deadline_text":null,"deadline_days":null,"category":"trade","era":"term-2","status":"broken","what_happened":"Importers and consumers, not foreign governments, paid. The Yale Budget Lab estimated the tariffs cost the average U.S. household about $1,700 a year; inflation rose after the April 2025 announcement and consumer confidence fell for five straight months. On Feb. 20, 2026 the Supreme Court ruled 6-3 in Learning Resources, Inc. v. Trump that IEEPA does not authorize tariffs, voiding the centerpiece of the program and forcing an estimated $175–$200 billion in refunds to the importers who had in fact paid.","repeat_count":30,"sources":[{"title":"Tracking Trump's first year promises","outlet":"MS NOW","url":"https://www.ms.now/news/tracking-trumps-first-year-promises-what-he-delivered-what-he-didnt","date":"2026-01-05"},{"title":"Supreme Court Strikes Down IEEPA Tariffs: What Importers Need to Know Now","outlet":"Holland & Knight","url":"https://www.hklaw.com/en/insights/publications/2026/02/supreme-court-strikes-down-ieepa-tariffs","date":"2026-02-23"},{"title":"Supreme Court Tariff Ruling: IEEPA Revenue and Potential Refunds","outlet":"Penn Wharton Budget Model","url":"https://budgetmodel.wharton.upenn.edu/p/2026-02-20-supreme-court-tariff-ruling/","date":"2026-02-20"},{"title":"Trump's Broken Promises on Debt and Manufacturing","outlet":"Steve Rattner / Morning Joe","url":"https://stevenrattner.com/2026/07/trumps-broken-promises-on-debt-and-manufacturing-steve-rattner-on-morning-joe/","date":"2026-07-21"}],"file":"term-2.json","year":2025,"deadline_date":null,"days_since_promise":610,"days_overdue":null,"two_weeks":false,"url":"/promise/tariffs-paid-by-foreign-countries/","sort_key":"2025-01-20","number":236},{"id":"no-new-wars-iran","title":"No new wars — then war with Iran","quote":"We will measure our success not only by the battles we win, but also by the wars that we end, and perhaps most importantly, the wars we never get into.","date_promised":"2025-01-20","venue":"Inaugural address, U.S. Capitol","deadline_text":null,"deadline_days":null,"category":"iran","era":"term-2","status":"broken","what_happened":"The U.S. went to war with Iran on Feb. 28, 2026 in an operation the Pentagon named Epic Fury. Trump predicted in the first week that it would take 'four to five weeks'; six months later it was still going. Asked about the campaign pledge, he said 'I didn't guarantee no war. I didn't promise anything.' Rep. Adam Smith noted Trump had said specifically, 'If I'm president, we will not go to war with Iran.'","repeat_count":30,"sources":[{"title":"Trump says Iran doesn't go against his campaign pledge of no new wars","outlet":"NPR","url":"https://www.npr.org/2026/06/07/g-s1-126826/trump-iran-wars-campaign-message","date":"2026-06-07"},{"title":"The Trump Administration's Middle East Quagmire: Six Months Into the War in Iran","outlet":"Center for American Progress","url":"https://www.americanprogress.org/article/the-trump-administrations-middle-east-quagmire-six-months-into-the-war-in-iran/","date":"2026-08-28"},{"title":"2026 Iran war","outlet":"Britannica","url":"https://www.britannica.com/event/2026-Iran-war","date":"2026-09-01"},{"title":"Pentagon policy chief grilled as Dem claims Trump broke promise about going to war with Iran","outlet":"Fox News","url":"https://www.foxnews.com/politics/pentagon-policy-chief-grilled-dem-claims-trump-broke-promise-about-going-war-iran.amp","date":"2026-06-10"}],"file":"term-2.json","year":2025,"deadline_date":null,"days_since_promise":610,"days_overdue":null,"two_weeks":false,"url":"/promise/no-new-wars-iran/","sort_key":"2025-01-20","number":235},{"id":"end-weaponization-of-justice","title":"Never again weaponize the state against political opponents","quote":"Never again will the immense power of the state be weaponized to persecute political opponents.","date_promised":"2025-01-20","venue":"Inaugural address, U.S. Capitol","deadline_text":null,"deadline_days":null,"category":"justice","era":"term-2","status":"broken","what_happened":"Trump publicly demanded charges against named critics; James Comey was indicted Sept. 25, 2025 in the Eastern District of Virginia and New York Attorney General Letitia James was indicted weeks after Trump's Truth Social post naming her. James pleaded not guilty Oct. 24, 2025 and the charges were dismissed without prejudice Nov. 24, 2025. Trump had ousted the U.S. attorney who doubted the cases, told CNN 'there will be others,' and said the prosecutions were 'the opposite' of retribution: 'I've been very mild-mannered.' Chief of Staff Susie Wiles conceded it 'might be retribution.'","repeat_count":12,"sources":[{"title":"Comey's indictment marks a dramatic escalation in Trump's political retribution efforts","outlet":"NPR","url":"https://www.npr.org/2025/09/27/nx-s1-5554448/comeys-indictment-marks-a-dramatic-escalation-in-trumps-political-retribution-efforts","date":"2025-09-27"},{"title":"These are the people Trump told the Justice Department to prosecute after Comey","outlet":"Axios","url":"https://www.axios.com/2025/09/26/trump-justice-department-prosecute-james-comey-adam-schiff-letitia-james","date":"2025-09-26"},{"title":"Trump says indictment of critics is 'opposite' of retribution: 'I've been very mild-mannered'","outlet":"The Hill","url":"https://thehill.com/homenews/administration/5585981-trump-indictments-political-rivals/","date":"2025-10-14"},{"title":"Tracking Trump's first year promises: what he delivered, what he didn't","outlet":"MS NOW","url":"https://www.ms.now/news/tracking-trumps-first-year-promises-what-he-delivered-what-he-didnt","date":"2026-01-05"}],"file":"term-2.json","year":2025,"deadline_date":null,"days_since_promise":610,"days_overdue":null,"two_weeks":false,"url":"/promise/end-weaponization-of-justice/","sort_key":"2025-01-20","number":234},{"id":"drill-baby-drill-lower-prices","title":"'Drill, baby, drill' would cut prices across the board","quote":"We're going to drill, baby, drill... prices will come down, and with everything.","date_promised":"2025-01-20","venue":"Inaugural address and day-one energy emergency executive orders","deadline_text":null,"deadline_days":null,"category":"environment","era":"term-2","status":"broken","what_happened":"Drilling deregulation did not translate into lower consumer prices. A UC Berkeley energy professor called the claim that more extraction would drive down inflation 'a direct falsehood.' By 2026 electricity was up nearly 7% year over year, household power bills rose 6.7% in 2025, and gasoline hit a record $4.15 a gallon over Labor Day 2026.","repeat_count":30,"sources":[{"title":"No tariffs on day one, but Trump promises to 'drill, baby, drill'","outlet":"Al Jazeera","url":"https://www.aljazeera.com/economy/2025/1/20/no-tariffs-on-day-1-but-trump-promises-to-drill-baby-drill","date":"2025-01-20"},{"title":"Trump unravels US climate agenda as he promises to 'drill, baby, drill'","outlet":"Grist","url":"https://grist.org/politics/trump-climate-actions-day-one-energy-emergency/","date":"2025-01-21"},{"title":"One Year Of Failed Promises","outlet":"Senate Democratic Leadership","url":"https://www.democrats.senate.gov/newsroom/press-releases/one-year-of-failed-promises-how-trumps-policies-are-raising-costs-ripping-away-health-care-and-destroying-the-economy","date":"2026-01-20"}],"file":"term-2.json","year":2025,"deadline_date":null,"days_since_promise":610,"days_overdue":null,"two_weeks":false,"url":"/promise/drill-baby-drill-lower-prices/","sort_key":"2025-01-20","number":233},{"id":"drastic-price-reductions","title":"Promised 'pretty drastic price reductions' as president-elect","quote":"You're going to see some pretty drastic price reductions.","date_promised":"2025-01-07","venue":"Press conference, Mar-a-Lago, Palm Beach, Florida","deadline_text":null,"deadline_days":null,"category":"economy","era":"campaign-2024","status":"broken","what_happened":"No broad price reductions followed. By the week of Jan. 27, 2025, egg prices were still climbing, and CNN reported that Trump's team had already begun conceding there would be no immediate rollback. Overall consumer prices kept rising through 2025 and 2026; the 2026 State of the Union claim that affordability had been 'won' was contradicted by BLS data showing groceries, electricity and rents all above their January 2025 levels.","repeat_count":3,"sources":[{"title":"Trump's Economic Promises Timeline","outlet":"Office of Rep. Lloyd Doggett","url":"https://doggett.house.gov/issues/trumps-economic-promises-timeline","date":"2025-02-01"},{"title":"Trump pledged to bring down food prices on Day One. 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The Supreme Court then struck down the IEEPA tariffs on Feb. 20, 2026, halting collection and triggering an estimated $175–$200 billion in refunds. No income tax was eliminated.","repeat_count":8,"sources":[{"title":"Trump's Economic Promises Timeline","outlet":"Office of Rep. Lloyd Doggett","url":"https://doggett.house.gov/issues/trumps-economic-promises-timeline","date":"2025-02-01"},{"title":"Supreme Court Tariff Ruling: IEEPA Revenue and Potential Refunds","outlet":"Penn Wharton Budget Model","url":"https://budgetmodel.wharton.upenn.edu/p/2026-02-20-supreme-court-tariff-ruling/","date":"2026-02-20"},{"title":"Trump promised $5,000 checks if Republicans win the midterms. 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PolitiFact rated the underlying pardon promise Kept, but the promised individualized screening never occurred.","repeat_count":5,"sources":[{"title":"Tracking Trump's first year promises: what he delivered, what he didn't","outlet":"MS NOW","url":"https://www.ms.now/news/tracking-trumps-first-year-promises-what-he-delivered-what-he-didnt","date":"2026-01-05"},{"title":"MAGA-Meter: Pardon people convicted of crimes related to storming the Capitol on Jan. 6, 2021","outlet":"PolitiFact","url":"https://politifact.com/truth-o-meter/promises/maga-meter-tracking-donald-trumps-2024-promises/promise/387548/","date":"2025-01-21"}],"file":"campaign-2024.json","year":2024,"deadline_date":null,"days_since_promise":653,"days_overdue":null,"two_weeks":false,"url":"/promise/jan6-pardons-case-by-case/","sort_key":"2024-12-08","number":230},{"id":"gaza-hostages-all-hell-to-pay-2024","title":"'ALL HELL TO PAY' if the Gaza hostages aren't out by January 20","quote":"If the hostages are not released prior to January 20, 2025, the date that I proudly assume Office as President of the United States, there will be ALL HELL TO PAY in the Middle East.","date_promised":"2024-12-02","venue":"Truth Social post","deadline_text":"prior to January 20, 2025","deadline_days":49,"category":"foreign-policy","era":"campaign-2024","status":"partial","what_happened":"A ceasefire-and-hostage-release deal was announced on January 15, 2025 and took effect on January 19, with the first three hostages released the day before the inauguration, so the ultimatum was arguably met. But the deal was substantially the framework Biden's team had negotiated since May 2024 and was brokered jointly by the outgoing and incoming administrations. The ceasefire collapsed in March 2025.","repeat_count":2,"sources":[{"title":"Trump says 'hell to pay' if captives in Gaza not released","outlet":"Al Jazeera","url":"https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2024/12/2/trump-says-hell-to-pay-if-captives-in-gaza-not-released","date":"2024-12-02"}],"file":"campaign-2024.json","year":2024,"deadline_date":"2025-01-20","days_since_promise":659,"days_overdue":610,"two_weeks":false,"url":"/promise/gaza-hostages-all-hell-to-pay-2024/","sort_key":"2024-12-02","number":229},{"id":"no-tariffs-on-day-one","title":"Tariffs promised for day one did not arrive on day one","quote":"[paraphrase] On day one, I will sign the tariffs — 25 percent on Mexico and Canada, immediately.","date_promised":"2024-11-25","venue":"Truth Social post after the election","deadline_text":"day one","deadline_days":1,"category":"trade","era":"campaign-2024","status":"late","what_happened":"No tariffs were signed on Jan. 20, 2025; Al Jazeera and NBC News both flagged it as a missed day-one item. Mexico and Canada tariffs came weeks later and were repeatedly paused, and the broader program was voided by the Supreme Court on Feb. 20, 2026 before being partially rebuilt under other statutes.","repeat_count":10,"sources":[{"title":"No tariffs on day one, but Trump promises to 'drill, baby, drill'","outlet":"Al Jazeera","url":"https://www.aljazeera.com/economy/2025/1/20/no-tariffs-on-day-1-but-trump-promises-to-drill-baby-drill","date":"2025-01-20"},{"title":"Trump checks off major Day 1 campaign promises — leaving some on the to-do list","outlet":"NBC News","url":"https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/donald-trump/trump-checks-major-day-1-campaign-promises-leaving-list-rcna188552","date":"2025-01-21"},{"title":"Supreme Court Strikes Down IEEPA Tariffs, But White House Announces New 10% Global Tariff in Response","outlet":"Honigman","url":"https://www.honigman.com/alert-3240","date":"2026-02-24"}],"file":"campaign-2024.json","year":2024,"deadline_date":"2024-11-26","days_since_promise":666,"days_overdue":665,"two_weeks":true,"url":"/promise/no-tariffs-on-day-one/","sort_key":"2024-11-25","number":228},{"id":"lower-grocery-prices","title":"Groceries will be cheaper","quote":"Your groceries will be cheaper.","date_promised":"2024-11-04","venue":"Campaign rally, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania (election eve)","deadline_text":null,"deadline_days":null,"category":"economy","era":"campaign-2024","status":"broken","what_happened":"PolitiFact's Jan. 20, 2026 one-year review found groceries and clothing each up almost 2% year over year, electricity up nearly 7%, and housing, medical care, tuition and child care all up about 3%. The New York Times found beef up 16.4%, coffee up 19.8% and lettuce up 7.3%, with the largest monthly grocery jump (0.7%) since August 2022. Households were projected to absorb another $1,300 in added costs in 2026, up from $1,000 in 2025.","repeat_count":20,"sources":[{"title":"MAGA-Meter: Reduce prices for groceries, cars, and other consumer items","outlet":"PolitiFact","url":"https://www.politifact.com/truth-o-meter/promises/maga-meter-tracking-donald-trumps-2024-promises/promise/1693/reduce-prices-for-groceries-cars-and-other-consume/article/3223/","date":"2026-01-20"},{"title":"Trump did not bring down grocery costs","outlet":"The Washington Times","url":"https://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2026/feb/11/trump-bring-grocery-costs/","date":"2026-02-11"},{"title":"One Year Later, Rep. Sewell Returns to the Grocery Store to Highlight Trump's Broken Promise to Lower Prices","outlet":"U.S. Rep. Terri Sewell","url":"https://sewell.house.gov/2026/8/one-year-later-rep-sewell-returns-to-the-grocery-store-to-highlight-trump-s-broken-promise-to-lower-prices","date":"2026-08-01"},{"title":"Trump's Economic Promises Timeline","outlet":"Office of Rep. 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Overall grocery prices remained above their January 2025 level through 2026, with the largest monthly grocery jump since August 2022 recorded in the one-year review.","repeat_count":15,"sources":[{"title":"Trump pledged to bring down food prices on Day One. Instead, eggs are getting more expensive","outlet":"CNN Business","url":"https://www.cnn.com/2025/01/28/economy/trump-inflation-price-promises","date":"2025-01-28"},{"title":"Trump's False Claims About Gas, Egg Prices","outlet":"FactCheck.org","url":"https://www.factcheck.org/2025/04/trumps-false-claims-about-gas-egg-prices/","date":"2025-04-25"},{"title":"Trump makes false or misleading claims about grocery prices and the cost of gas","outlet":"CBS News","url":"https://www.cbsnews.com/news/trump-grocery-prices-gas-consumers-fact-check/","date":"2025-09-04"}],"file":"campaign-2024.json","year":2024,"deadline_date":null,"days_since_promise":687,"days_overdue":null,"two_weeks":false,"url":"/promise/egg-prices-will-come-down/","sort_key":"2024-11-04","number":226},{"id":"chronic-disease-autism-task-force","title":"Presidential commission on chronic disease and childhood autism","quote":"[paraphrase] I will establish a panel of top experts to investigate what is causing the decades-long increase in chronic health problems and childhood diseases, including autism and autoimmune disorders.","date_promised":"2024-11-01","venue":"Campaign rally, Salem, Virginia (the 'Make America Healthy Again' pledge with Robert F. 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The MAHA Commission produced reports criticized for citing nonexistent studies, and no standing expert task force with the investigative mandate Trump described was established.","repeat_count":8,"sources":[{"title":"MAGA-Meter: Create task force on chronic health problems, such as autism, autoimmune disorders and obesity","outlet":"PolitiFact","url":"https://politifact.com/truth-o-meter/promises/maga-meter-tracking-donald-trumps-2024-promises/promise/387514/","date":"2026-01-20"},{"title":"MAGA-Meter: Trump's Second Term","outlet":"PolitiFact","url":"https://www.politifact.com/truth-o-meter/promises/maga-meter-tracking-donald-trumps-2024-promises/","date":"2026-01-20"}],"file":"campaign-2024.json","year":2024,"deadline_date":null,"days_since_promise":690,"days_overdue":null,"two_weeks":false,"url":"/promise/chronic-disease-autism-task-force/","sort_key":"2024-11-01","number":225},{"id":"doge-two-trillion-in-cuts","title":"DOGE will cut $2 trillion from federal spending","quote":"[paraphrase] We think we can do at least $2 trillion in federal spending cuts through the Department of Government Efficiency.","date_promised":"2024-10-27","venue":"Madison Square Garden rally, New York (Elon Musk pledge Trump adopted and repeated)","deadline_text":null,"deadline_days":null,"category":"economy","era":"campaign-2024","status":"broken","what_happened":"DOGE never came close. Its 'Wall of Receipts' claimed $110 billion, later $215 billion when the effort wound down; a government watchdog report in August 2026 found the figures rested on estimates that were wrong or unsupported, and third-party analysis could verify only about $35 billion. The promised offshoot of '$5,000 DOGE dividend' checks funded by the savings never happened either.","repeat_count":10,"sources":[{"title":"Trump's Broken Promises on Debt and Manufacturing","outlet":"Steve Rattner / Morning Joe","url":"https://stevenrattner.com/2026/07/trumps-broken-promises-on-debt-and-manufacturing-steve-rattner-on-morning-joe/","date":"2026-07-21"},{"title":"Could Trump really give money from Musk's DOGE cuts to taxpayers?","outlet":"PBS NewsHour","url":"https://www.pbs.org/newshour/politics/could-trump-really-give-money-from-musks-doge-cuts-to-taxpayers","date":"2025-02-20"},{"title":"Trump added $2.25 trillion to the national debt in his first year back in charge","outlet":"Yahoo Finance","url":"https://finance.yahoo.com/news/trump-added-2-25-trillion-213617999.html","date":"2026-01-22"}],"file":"campaign-2024.json","year":2024,"deadline_date":null,"days_since_promise":695,"days_overdue":null,"two_weeks":false,"url":"/promise/doge-two-trillion-in-cuts/","sort_key":"2024-10-27","number":224},{"id":"family-caregiver-tax-credit","title":"A tax credit for family caregivers","quote":"[paraphrase] We're going to support the family caregivers — I will enact a tax credit for people caring for a parent or a loved one at home.","date_promised":"2024-10-27","venue":"Madison Square Garden rally, New York","deadline_text":null,"deadline_days":null,"category":"taxes","era":"campaign-2024","status":"still-waiting","what_happened":"The One Big Beautiful Bill Act did not include a caregiver tax credit. Twenty months into the term no such credit has been enacted; PolitiFact still lists it as unfulfilled.","repeat_count":5,"sources":[{"title":"MAGA-Meter: Enact tax credit for family caregivers","outlet":"PolitiFact","url":"https://politifact.com/truth-o-meter/promises/maga-meter-tracking-donald-trumps-2024-promises/promise/387510/","date":"2026-01-20"},{"title":"MAGA-Meter: Trump's Second Term","outlet":"PolitiFact","url":"https://www.politifact.com/truth-o-meter/promises/maga-meter-tracking-donald-trumps-2024-promises/","date":"2026-01-20"}],"file":"campaign-2024.json","year":2024,"deadline_date":null,"days_since_promise":695,"days_overdue":null,"two_weeks":false,"url":"/promise/family-caregiver-tax-credit/","sort_key":"2024-10-27","number":223},{"id":"fire-jack-smith-two-seconds-2024","title":"'I would fire him within two seconds'","quote":"It's so easy — I would fire him within two seconds.","date_promised":"2024-10-24","venue":"Call-in interview on 'The Hugh Hewitt Show', asked whether he would fire special counsel Jack Smith on the day he took the oath","deadline_text":"within two seconds of taking office","deadline_days":1,"category":"justice","era":"campaign-2024","status":"broken","what_happened":"He never got to fire him. After the election Smith moved to drop both federal cases, which were dismissed on November 25, 2024 under DOJ's policy against prosecuting a sitting president, and Smith resigned from the Justice Department on January 10, 2025, ten days before the inauguration. Legal analysts also noted a president cannot personally fire a special counsel; only the attorney general can.","repeat_count":3,"sources":[{"title":"Trump says he would 'fire' Jack Smith 'within two seconds' if elected","outlet":"CNBC","url":"https://www.cnbc.com/2024/10/24/trump-says-he-would-fire-jack-smith-within-two-seconds-if-elected.html","date":"2024-10-24"},{"title":"Trump says he would 'fire' Jack Smith 'within two seconds'","outlet":"NBC News","url":"https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/2024-election/trump-says-fire-jack-smith-two-seconds-elected-rcna177025","date":"2024-10-24"},{"title":"Trump says he would fire special counsel Jack Smith within 2 seconds of taking office. 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By December 2025, about 74% of the nearly 70,000 people in ICE detention had no criminal convictions at all. Enforcement shifted to courthouse, worksite and street arrests of people with no records.","repeat_count":25,"sources":[{"title":"Tracking Trump's first year promises: what he delivered, what he didn't","outlet":"MS NOW","url":"https://www.ms.now/news/tracking-trumps-first-year-promises-what-he-delivered-what-he-didnt","date":"2026-01-05"},{"title":"Immigration after one year under Trump","outlet":"PolitiFact","url":"https://politifact.com/article/2026/jan/20/Trump-mass-deportations-1-year-immigration-ICE/","date":"2026-01-20"}],"file":"campaign-2024.json","year":2024,"deadline_date":null,"days_since_promise":721,"days_overdue":null,"two_weeks":false,"url":"/promise/deport-worst-of-the-worst/","sort_key":"2024-10","number":221},{"id":"credit-card-interest-cap-10-percent","title":"Cap credit card interest rates at 10%","quote":"We're going to cap it at around 10 percent. We can't let them make 25 percent and 30 percent.","date_promised":"2024-09-18","venue":"Campaign rally, Uniondale, New York (repeated Erie, Pa., Sept. 29, 2024)","deadline_text":"temporary cap","deadline_days":null,"category":"economy","era":"campaign-2024","status":"still-waiting","what_happened":"Nothing happened for a year. On Jan. 12, 2026 Trump posted that 'Effective January 20, 2026, I... am calling for a one year cap on Credit Card Interest Rates of 10%,' but a president cannot set rates unilaterally. Speaker Mike Johnson said the next day it could have 'negative secondary effects,' the Hawley-Sanders bill remained stuck in committee as of February 2026, and Sen. Warren opened an inquiry into regulators' lack of progress. Meanwhile credit card debt hit a record $1.23 trillion and CFPB rollbacks cost families an estimated $18 billion in 2025.","repeat_count":8,"sources":[{"title":"MAGA-Meter: Put a temporary cap of 10% on credit card interest rates","outlet":"PolitiFact","url":"https://politifact.com/truth-o-meter/promises/maga-meter-tracking-donald-trumps-2024-promises/promise/387454/","date":"2026-01-20"},{"title":"Trump calls for a 10% cap on credit card interest rates","outlet":"NPR","url":"https://www.npr.org/2026/01/12/nx-s1-5675151/trump-credit-card-interest-rate-cap","date":"2026-01-12"},{"title":"Months After Trump Announced His January 20 Cap on Credit Card Interest Rates, Warren Questions Banking Regulators","outlet":"U.S. Senate Banking Committee (Minority)","url":"https://www.banking.senate.gov/newsroom/minority/months-after-trump-announced-his-january-20-cap-on-credit-card-interest-rates-warren-questions-banking-regulators-on-their-lack-of-progress","date":"2026-04-01"},{"title":"President Trump's Broken Promises and Americans' Ballooning Debts","outlet":"Protect Borrowers","url":"https://protectborrowers.org/president-trumps-broken-promises-debt-affordability-sotu/","date":"2026-02-01"}],"file":"campaign-2024.json","year":2024,"deadline_date":null,"days_since_promise":734,"days_overdue":null,"two_weeks":false,"url":"/promise/credit-card-interest-cap-10-percent/","sort_key":"2024-09-18","number":220},{"id":"revoke-haitian-temporary-status","title":"Revoke the temporary legal status of Haitian migrants","quote":"[paraphrase] We will revoke the temporary protected status of the Haitians in Springfield and send them home.","date_promised":"2024-09-13","venue":"Campaign remarks after the ABC debate, Las Vegas","deadline_text":null,"deadline_days":null,"category":"immigration","era":"campaign-2024","status":"still-waiting","what_happened":"The administration moved to end Haitian TPS but the terminations were repeatedly blocked or delayed in federal court, and PolitiFact still rated the promise Stalled in its January 2026 one-year review.","repeat_count":5,"sources":[{"title":"MAGA-Meter: Revoke the Temporary Legal Status of Haitians","outlet":"PolitiFact","url":"https://politifact.com/truth-o-meter/promises/maga-meter-tracking-donald-trumps-2024-promises/promise/387400/","date":"2026-01-20"},{"title":"MAGA-Meter: Trump's Second Term","outlet":"PolitiFact","url":"https://www.politifact.com/truth-o-meter/promises/maga-meter-tracking-donald-trumps-2024-promises/","date":"2026-01-20"}],"file":"campaign-2024.json","year":2024,"deadline_date":null,"days_since_promise":739,"days_overdue":null,"two_weeks":false,"url":"/promise/revoke-haitian-temporary-status/","sort_key":"2024-09-13","number":219},{"id":"no-tax-on-overtime-limits","title":"No tax on overtime — capped and expiring in 2028","quote":"[paraphrase] We are going to end all taxes on overtime.","date_promised":"2024-09-12","venue":"Campaign rally, Tucson, Arizona","deadline_text":null,"deadline_days":null,"category":"taxes","era":"campaign-2024","status":"partial","what_happened":"The 2025 tax law created a deduction for overtime premium pay capped at $12,500 for single filers ($25,000 joint), phased out at higher incomes and expiring after 2028 — not an end to taxation of overtime. Payroll taxes still apply and the benefit is unavailable to workers who take the deduction against no federal income tax liability.","repeat_count":20,"sources":[{"title":"MAGA-Meter: End taxation on overtime","outlet":"PolitiFact","url":"https://politifact.com/truth-o-meter/promises/maga-meter-tracking-donald-trumps-2024-promises/promise/387445/","date":"2026-01-20"},{"title":"Donald Trump says he kept his campaign promises. The record is more complicated.","outlet":"Poynter","url":"https://www.poynter.org/fact-checking/2026/has-trump-kept-campaign-promises/","date":"2026-01-20"}],"file":"campaign-2024.json","year":2024,"deadline_date":null,"days_since_promise":740,"days_overdue":null,"two_weeks":false,"url":"/promise/no-tax-on-overtime-limits/","sort_key":"2024-09-12","number":218},{"id":"concepts-of-a-plan-2024","title":"'I have concepts of a plan' — nine years after the first 'two weeks'","quote":"I have concepts of a plan... if we come up with something, we are working on things, we're going to do it and we're going to replace it.","date_promised":"2024-09-10","venue":"ABC News presidential debate with Kamala Harris, National Constitution Center, Philadelphia","deadline_text":"no deadline offered — the end of nine years of two-week promises","deadline_days":14,"category":"healthcare","era":"campaign-2024","status":"never-delivered","what_happened":"This was the terminus of a chain that began with 'something terrific' in 2015, ran through repeated 'two weeks' promises in 2017, and produced five separate 'weeks away' pledges in 2020. No replacement plan followed the debate. The administration's 'Great Healthcare Plan', released January 15, 2026, was a brief conceptual outline requiring congressional action, which Forbes noted was still not more than concepts.","repeat_count":12,"sources":[{"title":"Donald Trump on Healthcare Plan: Has 'Concepts of a Plan'","outlet":"C-SPAN","url":"https://www.c-span.org/clip/campaign-2024/donald-trump-on-healthcare-plan-has-concepts-of-a-plan/5131801","date":"2024-09-10"},{"title":"After debate, Trump still doesn't have a plan to replace Obamacare","outlet":"NBC News","url":"https://www.nbcnews.com/health/health-news/debate-trump-health-care-plan-replace-obamacare-rcna170665","date":"2024-09-11"},{"title":"Trump promised a health care plan in 'weeks,' but a month later, it hasn't come","outlet":"NBC News","url":"https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/2020-election/trump-promised-health-care-plan-weeks-month-later-it-hasn-n1238972","date":"2020-08-19"}],"file":"campaign-2024.json","year":2024,"deadline_date":"2024-09-24","days_since_promise":742,"days_overdue":728,"two_weeks":true,"url":"/promise/concepts-of-a-plan-2024/","sort_key":"2024-09-10","number":217},{"id":"gasoline-below-two-dollars","title":"Gasoline below $2 a gallon","quote":"We're going to get gasoline below $2 a gallon.","date_promised":"2024-09-05","venue":"Economic Club of New York","deadline_text":null,"deadline_days":null,"category":"economy","era":"campaign-2024","status":"never-delivered","what_happened":"Gas never approached $2. PolitiFact rated the promise Stalled at the one-year mark. After the U.S.-Iran war began Feb. 28, 2026, pump prices spiked: gasoline jumped 21.2% in a single month in March 2026, hit a record $4.15 a gallon over Labor Day 2026 (up 30% year over year), and reached $4.29 by mid-September 2026. Trump reframed $3 gas as a reasonable price to pay for the Iran war.","repeat_count":15,"sources":[{"title":"MAGA-Meter: Reduce the cost of gasoline below $2 a gallon","outlet":"PolitiFact","url":"https://politifact.com/truth-o-meter/promises/maga-meter-tracking-donald-trumps-2024-promises/promise/387719/","date":"2026-01-20"},{"title":"Trump promised $2 gas... Now he says $3 gas is the reward for winning the war with Iran — and you're paying $4.15","outlet":"Moneywise","url":"https://moneywise.com/news/economy/trump-gas-prices-promises-iran-war-2026","date":"2026-09-08"},{"title":"Biden's Rotten Eggs Are Now Trump's Gas Problem","outlet":"Newsweek","url":"https://www.newsweek.com/trump-gas-prices-eggs-biden-iran-inflation-war-12221779","date":"2026-04-15"},{"title":"Trump made gas prices a political weapon. Now he's downplaying the pain.","outlet":"MS NOW","url":"https://www.ms.now/news/trump-made-gas-prices-a-political-weapon-now-hes-downplaying-the-pain","date":"2026-06-01"}],"file":"campaign-2024.json","year":2024,"deadline_date":null,"days_since_promise":747,"days_overdue":null,"two_weeks":false,"url":"/promise/gasoline-below-two-dollars/","sort_key":"2024-09-05","number":216},{"id":"cut-cost-of-new-home-in-half","title":"Cut the cost of a new home in half","quote":"[paraphrase] We will cut the cost of a new home in half.","date_promised":"2024-09-05","venue":"Economic Club of New York","deadline_text":null,"deadline_days":null,"category":"economy","era":"campaign-2024","status":"never-delivered","what_happened":"No halving of housing costs occurred. PolitiFact's one-year review found housing costs up about 3% year over year. The administration's 2026 housing package was described by Fortune as a 'big yawn' that did little for affordability, and mortgage costs rose again after the Iran war began in late February 2026.","repeat_count":4,"sources":[{"title":"Trump's Economic Promises Timeline","outlet":"Office of Rep. Lloyd Doggett","url":"https://doggett.house.gov/issues/trumps-economic-promises-timeline","date":"2025-02-01"},{"title":"Trump promised 'rocket fuel.' 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Instead of the promised 15% domestic-manufacturer rate, it restored 100% bonus depreciation and immediate R&D expensing. PolitiFact rated the promise a Compromise as of its Jan. 2026 review.","repeat_count":5,"sources":[{"title":"MAGA-Meter: Reduce corporate tax rate for companies making products in the U.S. to 15%","outlet":"PolitiFact","url":"https://politifact.com/truth-o-meter/promises/maga-meter-tracking-donald-trumps-2024-promises/promise/387450/","date":"2026-01-20"},{"title":"Trump's Economic Promises Timeline","outlet":"Office of Rep. 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Steel and aluminum tariffs raised input costs, factory construction spending fell about 30% from November 2024 to May 2026, and overall manufacturing payrolls were roughly 75,000 below the January 2025 level by mid-2026 — the opposite of a multi-decade high.","repeat_count":6,"sources":[{"title":"Trump's Economic Promises Timeline","outlet":"Office of Rep. Lloyd Doggett","url":"https://doggett.house.gov/issues/trumps-economic-promises-timeline","date":"2025-02-01"},{"title":"Trump says his aggressive trade policy is bringing back factory jobs. 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After a dip driven by directing Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac to buy $200 billion in mortgage bonds, rates backed up again once the Iran war started: 10-year Treasury yields topped 4.7% and 30-year mortgages sat at 6.66% in 2026 — roughly where they stood when Trump returned to office nearly two years earlier.","repeat_count":6,"sources":[{"title":"Trump Promised Lower Mortgage Rates. Here's What Happened Instead","outlet":"Newsweek","url":"https://www.newsweek.com/trump-promised-lower-mortgage-rates-heres-what-happened-instead-12414399","date":"2026-06-01"},{"title":"Trump promised 'rocket fuel.' 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A February 2025 executive order only requested policy recommendations; an October 2025 announcement covered a discount on one fertility drug and a voluntary employer benefit. In December 2025 Trump signed the defense authorization bill without the IVF coverage provision for active-duty service members after Speaker Mike Johnson stripped it. IVF still costs roughly $15,000–$20,000 per cycle out of pocket.","repeat_count":10,"sources":[{"title":"Tracking Trump's first year promises: what he delivered, what he didn't","outlet":"MS NOW","url":"https://www.ms.now/news/tracking-trumps-first-year-promises-what-he-delivered-what-he-didnt","date":"2026-01-05"},{"title":"200 Days of Trump: Promises Made, Promises Broken","outlet":"Democratic National Committee","url":"https://democrats.org/news/200-days-of-trump-promises-made-promises-broken/","date":"2025-08-07"},{"title":"MAGA-Meter: Spare families from in vitro fertilization costs","outlet":"PolitiFact","url":"https://politifact.com/truth-o-meter/promises/maga-meter-tracking-donald-trumps-2024-promises/promise/387506/","date":"2026-01-20"}],"file":"campaign-2024.json","year":2024,"deadline_date":null,"days_since_promise":754,"days_overdue":null,"two_weeks":false,"url":"/promise/government-pays-for-ivf/","sort_key":"2024-08-29","number":211},{"id":"medical-records-2024","title":"\"Very gladly\" releasing his medical records in 2024 — never released","quote":"[paraphrase] I would very gladly release my medical records.","date_promised":"2024-08-20","venue":"Interview with CBS News during the 2024 campaign","deadline_text":null,"deadline_days":null,"category":"transparency","era":"campaign-2024","status":"never-delivered","what_happened":"Fifty-five days later, on October 14, 2024, more than 200 health care professionals signed an open letter noting he still had not released anything. Kamala Harris released a detailed physician's report and challenged him to match it; Trump refused, and his campaign pointed instead to two July 2024 memos from Rep. Ronny Jackson about the assassination attempt. At 78, the oldest major-party nominee in history went into Election Day without releasing records — as he had in 2016 and 2020.","repeat_count":6,"sources":[{"title":"The Controversy Over Trump's Medical Records, Explained","outlet":"Time","url":"https://time.com/7099183/donald-trump-medical-records-absent-controversy-presidential-election-2024/","date":"2024-10-16"},{"title":"Trump again refuses to release current health records, as Harris questions his fitness","outlet":"CNBC","url":"https://www.cnbc.com/2024/10/18/trump-health-records-harris-exhausted.html","date":"2024-10-18"},{"title":"Harris slams Trump's refusal to release medical records","outlet":"Axios","url":"https://www.axios.com/2024/10/14/trump-medical-records-release-harris-2024-election","date":"2024-10-14"},{"title":"More than 230 doctors, health care professionals call on Trump to release medical records","outlet":"Fox News","url":"https://www.foxnews.com/politics/more-than-230-doctors-health-care-professionals-call-trump-release-medical-records","date":"2024-10-14"},{"title":"New Storm Over Donald Trump's Refusal to Release Medical Records","outlet":"The Daily Beast","url":"https://www.thedailybeast.com/trump-continues-to-break-promise-to-release-post-assassination-attempt-medical-records/","date":"2024-10-01"}],"file":"campaign-2024.json","year":2024,"deadline_date":null,"days_since_promise":763,"days_overdue":null,"two_weeks":false,"url":"/promise/medical-records-2024/","sort_key":"2024-08-20","number":210},{"id":"cut-energy-costs-in-half","title":"Cut energy and electricity prices in half within 12 months","quote":"We will be slashing energy and electricity prices by half within 12 months.","date_promised":"2024-08-14","venue":"Campaign rally, Asheville, North Carolina (repeated in Wilkes-Barre, Pa., Aug. 17, 2024: 'We're going to get your energy prices down by 50%')","deadline_text":"within 12 months","deadline_days":365,"category":"economy","era":"campaign-2024","status":"broken","what_happened":"PolitiFact rated this Promise Broken on Jan. 20, 2026: gasoline fell modestly in year one but electricity and natural gas prices rose. A Guardian analysis found average household electricity bills up 6.7% in 2025, about $116 more per household, and PolitiFact's one-year check found electricity almost 7% higher year over year. Protect Borrowers reported utility costs up 35% overall with 14 million Americans severely behind on utility debt.","repeat_count":12,"sources":[{"title":"MAGA-Meter: Cut energy costs by 50% in first year","outlet":"PolitiFact","url":"https://politifact.com/truth-o-meter/promises/maga-meter-tracking-donald-trumps-2024-promises/promise/387683/","date":"2026-01-20"},{"title":"President Trump's Broken Promises and the State of Americans' Ballooning Debts","outlet":"Protect Borrowers","url":"https://protectborrowers.org/president-trumps-broken-promises-debt-affordability-sotu/","date":"2026-02-01"},{"title":"Trump's Economic Promises Timeline","outlet":"Office of Rep. 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On Feb. 20, 2026 the Supreme Court struck it down 6-3; Trump signed an order halting collection and CBP stopped collecting on Feb. 24, 2026, with the Court of International Trade ordering administrative refunds on March 4, 2026. The White House announced a replacement 10% global tariff under other statutes, but as of September 2026 refunds remained tangled between Customs and the courts.","repeat_count":25,"sources":[{"title":"MAGA-Meter: Add a tariff of 10% to 20% to all nondomestic goods sold in America","outlet":"PolitiFact","url":"https://politifact.com/truth-o-meter/promises/maga-meter-tracking-donald-trumps-2024-promises/promise/387410/","date":"2026-01-20"},{"title":"United States terminates IEEPA-based tariffs following Supreme Court decision","outlet":"White & Case","url":"https://www.whitecase.com/insight-alert/united-states-terminates-ieepa-based-tariffs-following-supreme-court-decision","date":"2026-02-26"},{"title":"Months after IEEPA tariffs were struck down, some refunds remain caught between Customs and the courts","outlet":"Stacker / KRDO","url":"https://krdo.com/stacker-international/2026/09/21/months-after-ieepa-tariffs-were-struck-down-some-refunds-remain-caught-between-customs-and-the-courts/","date":"2026-09-21"}],"file":"campaign-2024.json","year":2024,"deadline_date":null,"days_since_promise":769,"days_overdue":null,"two_weeks":false,"url":"/promise/universal-baseline-tariff/","sort_key":"2024-08-14","number":208},{"id":"end-inflation-day-one","title":"End inflation and make America affordable again starting day one","quote":"Starting on day one, we will end inflation and make America affordable again.","date_promised":"2024-08-09","venue":"Campaign rally, Bozeman, Montana (repeated at Waunakee, Wisconsin, Oct. 1, 2024 and dozens of other rallies)","deadline_text":"starting on day one","deadline_days":1,"category":"economy","era":"campaign-2024","status":"broken","what_happened":"Within a month of taking office the White House was already walking the pledge back; by February 2025 Trump publicly abandoned the idea of an immediate rollback in prices. Inflation reaccelerated after the April 2025 'Liberation Day' tariffs, reaching roughly 3% in 2025, and the Senate Joint Economic Committee and outside analysts estimated households paid about $2,120 more in 2025 because of it. In his 2026 State of the Union Trump claimed he had 'won' on affordability while grocery, electricity, housing and medical prices all remained above January 2025 levels.","repeat_count":25,"sources":[{"title":"Trump's Economic Promises Timeline","outlet":"Office of Rep. 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After the single September 10, 2024 debate — which polls scored for Harris — he posted \"THERE WILL BE NO THIRD DEBATE!\" and in October ruled out the CNN-hosted October 23 debate Harris accepted, and Fox's offered dates of October 24 and 27. Only one Trump-Harris debate ever took place.","repeat_count":3,"sources":[{"title":"Trump says he won't debate Harris again","outlet":"NBC News","url":"https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/2024-election/trump-says-wont-participate-presidential-debates-harris-rcna170905","date":"2024-09-12"},{"title":"Trump refuses US presidential debate 'rematch' with Harris","outlet":"France 24","url":"https://www.france24.com/en/americas/20241010-trump-refuses-us-presidential-debate-rematch-with-harris","date":"2024-10-10"},{"title":"Donald Trump Again Says He Won't Do Another Debate: \"There Will Be No Rematch!\"","outlet":"Deadline","url":"https://deadline.com/2024/10/trump-debate-kamala-harris-cnn-1236112045/","date":"2024-10-10"},{"title":"Harris accepts invitation to second debate in October","outlet":"NBC News","url":"https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/2024-election/harris-accepts-invitation-second-debate-october-rcna172104","date":"2024-09-21"}],"file":"campaign-2024.json","year":2024,"deadline_date":null,"days_since_promise":782,"days_overdue":null,"two_weeks":false,"url":"/promise/second-debate-harris-2024/","sort_key":"2024-08","number":206},{"id":"eliminate-the-national-debt","title":"Pay down and eliminate the national debt","quote":"[paraphrase] We're going to pay off the national debt — and we'll do it fairly quickly.","date_promised":"2024-08","venue":"Campaign interviews and rallies (a pledge he first made in 2016 and revived in 2024)","deadline_text":null,"deadline_days":null,"category":"economy","era":"campaign-2024","status":"broken","what_happened":"The debt rose about $2.25 trillion in Trump's first year back in office ($2.29 trillion over calendar 2025) and is now approaching $50 trillion. Steve Rattner's July 2026 analysis found the deficit up from $1.8 trillion at inauguration to $1.9 trillion, above 6% of GDP versus 3.4% in 2017, with debt over 100% of GDP and on track to pass the 1946 record of 106% around 2030. Investor Jason Calacanis called Trump the 'worst-spending president in history.'","repeat_count":8,"sources":[{"title":"Trump broke his promise to lower the debt. A top investor calls him history's worst spender","outlet":"Fortune","url":"https://fortune.com/2026/07/29/donald-trump-national-debt-promise-jason-calacanis-worst-spending-president-in-history/","date":"2026-07-29"},{"title":"Trump added $2.25 trillion to the national debt in his first year back in charge, watchdog says","outlet":"Yahoo Finance","url":"https://finance.yahoo.com/news/trump-added-2-25-trillion-213617999.html","date":"2026-01-22"},{"title":"Trump's Broken Promises on Debt and Manufacturing","outlet":"Steve Rattner / Morning Joe","url":"https://stevenrattner.com/2026/07/trumps-broken-promises-on-debt-and-manufacturing-steve-rattner-on-morning-joe/","date":"2026-07-21"},{"title":"Donald Trump Once Said He Would Eliminate America's $19 Trillion in Debt. The Total Is Now Approaching $50 Trillion.","outlet":"Yahoo Finance","url":"https://finance.yahoo.com/economy/policy/articles/donald-trump-once-said-eliminate-180618882.html","date":"2026-06-01"}],"file":"campaign-2024.json","year":2024,"deadline_date":null,"days_since_promise":782,"days_overdue":null,"two_weeks":false,"url":"/promise/eliminate-the-national-debt/","sort_key":"2024-08","number":205},{"id":"restore-remain-in-mexico","title":"Restore the Remain in Mexico program","quote":"[paraphrase] We will immediately reinstate Remain in Mexico.","date_promised":"2024-08","venue":"Campaign rallies and the 2024 Republican platform","deadline_text":null,"deadline_days":null,"category":"immigration","era":"campaign-2024","status":"still-waiting","what_happened":"PolitiFact still rated this Stalled at the one-year mark in January 2026. The program requires Mexican cooperation that has not been secured at scale, and the administration relied instead on third-country removals and near-total asylum shutdowns at the border.","repeat_count":8,"sources":[{"title":"MAGA-Meter: Restore Remain in Mexico program","outlet":"PolitiFact","url":"https://politifact.com/truth-o-meter/promises/maga-meter-tracking-donald-trumps-2024-promises/promise/387407/","date":"2026-01-20"},{"title":"Trump said he kept all of his promises. 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PolitiFact rated the promise Stalled in its January 2026 review; states continue to run elections on their own equipment.","repeat_count":8,"sources":[{"title":"MAGA-Meter: Require only paper ballots","outlet":"PolitiFact","url":"https://politifact.com/truth-o-meter/promises/maga-meter-tracking-donald-trumps-2024-promises/promise/387589/","date":"2026-01-20"},{"title":"MAGA-Meter: Trump's Second Term","outlet":"PolitiFact","url":"https://www.politifact.com/truth-o-meter/promises/maga-meter-tracking-donald-trumps-2024-promises/","date":"2026-01-20"}],"file":"campaign-2024.json","year":2024,"deadline_date":null,"days_since_promise":782,"days_overdue":null,"two_weeks":false,"url":"/promise/paper-ballots-only/","sort_key":"2024-08","number":203},{"id":"count-all-votes-election-night","title":"All votes counted by election night","quote":"[paraphrase] We will have same-day voting with all results counted on election night.","date_promised":"2024-08","venue":"Campaign rallies","deadline_text":null,"deadline_days":null,"category":"elections","era":"campaign-2024","status":"never-delivered","what_happened":"No federal action was taken to force same-night counting, which federal law cannot impose on states. PolitiFact rated the promise Stalled at the January 2026 one-year mark, with the 2026 midterm rules unchanged.","repeat_count":6,"sources":[{"title":"MAGA-Meter: Count all votes by election night","outlet":"PolitiFact","url":"https://politifact.com/truth-o-meter/promises/maga-meter-tracking-donald-trumps-2024-promises/promise/387593/","date":"2026-01-20"},{"title":"MAGA-Meter: Trump's Second Term","outlet":"PolitiFact","url":"https://www.politifact.com/truth-o-meter/promises/maga-meter-tracking-donald-trumps-2024-promises/","date":"2026-01-20"}],"file":"campaign-2024.json","year":2024,"deadline_date":null,"days_since_promise":782,"days_overdue":null,"two_weeks":false,"url":"/promise/count-all-votes-election-night/","sort_key":"2024-08","number":202},{"id":"bring-down-cost-of-everything","title":"'I will bring the cost of everything way down'","quote":"I WILL BRING THE COST OF EVERYTHING WAY DOWN. I WILL BREAK THE INFLATION NIGHTMARE!!!","date_promised":"2024-08","venue":"Truth Social post","deadline_text":null,"deadline_days":null,"category":"economy","era":"campaign-2024","status":"broken","what_happened":"Costs rose across the categories families feel most. Sen. Warren's January 2026 report and Protect Borrowers documented groceries, utilities, health care and college all more expensive; utility costs rose 35% with 14 million Americans severely behind on utility debt; credit card debt hit a record $1.23 trillion with delinquencies near Great Recession levels. Households paid an estimated $2,120 more in 2025 alone.","repeat_count":40,"sources":[{"title":"President Trump's Broken Promises and the State of Americans' Ballooning Debts","outlet":"Protect Borrowers","url":"https://protectborrowers.org/president-trumps-broken-promises-debt-affordability-sotu/","date":"2026-02-01"},{"title":"Warren Releases New Report Detailing President Trump's Broken Promises on Affordability","outlet":"U.S. Senate Banking Committee (Minority)","url":"https://www.banking.senate.gov/newsroom/minority/warren-releases-new-report-detailing-president-trumps-broken-promises-on-affordability","date":"2026-01-30"},{"title":"Trump's broken promises to working people","outlet":"American Federation of Teachers","url":"https://www.aft.org/trumps-broken-promises-working-people","date":"2025-03-01"}],"file":"campaign-2024.json","year":2024,"deadline_date":null,"days_since_promise":782,"days_overdue":null,"two_weeks":false,"url":"/promise/bring-down-cost-of-everything/","sort_key":"2024-08","number":201},{"id":"no-tax-on-social-security","title":"Seniors will pay no tax on Social Security","quote":"SENIORS SHOULD NOT PAY TAX ON SOCIAL SECURITY!","date_promised":"2024-07-31","venue":"Truth Social post, repeated throughout the 2024 campaign","deadline_text":null,"deadline_days":null,"category":"taxes","era":"campaign-2024","status":"partial","what_happened":"The One Big Beautiful Bill Act, signed July 4, 2025, did not repeal the taxation of Social Security benefits. Instead it created a temporary $6,000 deduction for filers over 65 that runs only from 2025 through 2028 and phases out at higher incomes, leaving many beneficiaries — including those under 65 on disability or survivor benefits — still paying tax. PolitiFact rated the promise a Compromise.","repeat_count":14,"sources":[{"title":"MAGA-Meter: End taxation on Social Security","outlet":"PolitiFact","url":"https://politifact.com/truth-o-meter/promises/maga-meter-tracking-donald-trumps-2024-promises/promise/387436/","date":"2026-01-20"},{"title":"Trump 'No Tax on Social Security' vs. Senior Bonus Deduction","outlet":"Tax Foundation","url":"https://taxfoundation.org/blog/no-tax-on-social-security-senior-tax-deduction/","date":"2025-07-08"},{"title":"Trump Pledged 'No Taxes on Social Security' — But Here's the Reality in 2026","outlet":"FinanceBuzz","url":"https://financebuzz.com/trump-no-taxes-social-security-reality-2","date":"2026-03-01"}],"file":"campaign-2024.json","year":2024,"deadline_date":null,"days_since_promise":783,"days_overdue":null,"two_weeks":false,"url":"/promise/no-tax-on-social-security/","sort_key":"2024-07-31","number":200},{"id":"end-forever-wars-venezuela","title":"End the forever wars — instead, regime change in Venezuela","quote":"[paraphrase] I will end the forever wars and keep us out of new ones.","date_promised":"2024-07-18","venue":"Republican National Convention acceptance speech, Milwaukee","deadline_text":null,"deadline_days":null,"category":"foreign-policy","era":"campaign-2024","status":"broken","what_happened":"In early January 2026 U.S. forces assaulted Caracas, capturing President Nicolás Maduro and his wife; 80 Venezuelan and Cuban citizens were killed by U.S. gunfire and airstrikes. Trump then said the U.S. would 'run' Venezuela's government for an indefinite period, with no stated plan for governing 28 million people. By September 2026 the administration had also ordered strikes in Iran, Iraq, Nigeria, Somalia, Syria and Yemen, and Rep. Jason Crow introduced a war powers resolution to rein in the Venezuela operation.","repeat_count":25,"sources":[{"title":"Trump's Venezuela Regime Change Attempt an Illegal Act of War","outlet":"Center for International Policy","url":"https://internationalpolicy.org/publications/trumps-venezuela-regime-change-attempt-an-illegal-act-of-war/","date":"2026-01-15"},{"title":"The List of Countries Trump Is Threatening With War Keeps Growing","outlet":"The Intercept","url":"https://theintercept.com/2026/01/06/trump-wars-venezuela-colombia-cuba-iran/","date":"2026-01-06"},{"title":"Crow Introduces War Powers Resolution to Rein in Trump Military Action in Venezuela","outlet":"Office of Rep. 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Now he's starting one.","outlet":"Yahoo News / USA Today Opinion","url":"https://www.yahoo.com/news/articles/trump-promised-hed-end-forever-110355771.html","date":"2026-01-10"}],"file":"campaign-2024.json","year":2024,"deadline_date":null,"days_since_promise":796,"days_overdue":null,"two_weeks":false,"url":"/promise/end-forever-wars-venezuela/","sort_key":"2024-07-18","number":199},{"id":"fill-strategic-petroleum-reserve-immediately","title":"Immediately fill up the Strategic Petroleum Reserve","quote":"[paraphrase] We will fill up the Strategic Petroleum Reserve right to the top — immediately.","date_promised":"2024-07-18","venue":"Republican National Convention acceptance speech, Milwaukee","deadline_text":"immediately","deadline_days":null,"category":"environment","era":"campaign-2024","status":"still-waiting","what_happened":"The SPR was not refilled to capacity. Purchases were limited by appropriations and by the very oil prices the administration was trying to keep low, and refill slowed further once the February 2026 Iran war drove crude higher. PolitiFact still listed the promise as unfulfilled at the one-year mark.","repeat_count":6,"sources":[{"title":"MAGA-Meter: Fill up the Strategic Petroleum Reserve 'immediately'","outlet":"PolitiFact","url":"https://politifact.com/truth-o-meter/promises/maga-meter-tracking-donald-trumps-2024-promises/promise/387687/","date":"2026-01-20"},{"title":"Trump unravels US climate agenda as he promises to 'drill, baby, drill'","outlet":"Grist","url":"https://grist.org/politics/trump-climate-actions-day-one-energy-emergency/","date":"2025-01-21"}],"file":"campaign-2024.json","year":2024,"deadline_date":null,"days_since_promise":796,"days_overdue":null,"two_weeks":false,"url":"/promise/fill-strategic-petroleum-reserve-immediately/","sort_key":"2024-07-18","number":198},{"id":"job-creation-boom","title":"The greatest job boom in American history","quote":"[paraphrase] We will create jobs like you have never seen — the greatest economy in the history of our country.","date_promised":"2024-07-18","venue":"Republican National Convention acceptance speech, Milwaukee","deadline_text":null,"deadline_days":null,"category":"economy","era":"campaign-2024","status":"broken","what_happened":"Job creation slowed sharply. Reuters data cited by Senate Democrats showed average monthly job gains falling roughly two-thirds, from about 168,000 a month in Biden's final year to about 49,000 a month in Trump's first year, with manufacturing shedding 108,000 jobs. Consumer confidence fell for five consecutive months after the April 2025 tariffs, and a WSJ poll showed a 15-point gap in negative economy ratings.","repeat_count":25,"sources":[{"title":"One Year Of Failed Promises: How Trump's Policies Are Raising Costs, Ripping Away Health Care, And Destroying The Economy","outlet":"Senate Democratic Leadership","url":"https://www.democrats.senate.gov/newsroom/press-releases/one-year-of-failed-promises-how-trumps-policies-are-raising-costs-ripping-away-health-care-and-destroying-the-economy","date":"2026-01-20"},{"title":"NEW DATA: During Trump's First Year, the Manufacturing Industry Lost 108,000 Jobs","outlet":"U.S. Joint Economic Committee (Democrats)","url":"https://www.jec.senate.gov/public/index.cfm/democrats/2026/2/new-data-during-trump-s-first-year-the-manufacturing-industry-lost-108-000-jobs","date":"2026-02-06"},{"title":"Trump's broken promises to working people","outlet":"American Federation of Teachers","url":"https://www.aft.org/trumps-broken-promises-working-people","date":"2025-03-01"}],"file":"campaign-2024.json","year":2024,"deadline_date":null,"days_since_promise":796,"days_overdue":null,"two_weeks":false,"url":"/promise/job-creation-boom/","sort_key":"2024-07-18","number":197},{"id":"green-cards-for-college-graduates","title":"Automatic green cards for foreign graduates of U.S. colleges","quote":"What I want to do and what I will do is you graduate from a college, I think you should get automatically as part of your diploma a green card to be able to stay in this country.","date_promised":"2024-06-20","venue":"'All-In' podcast interview","deadline_text":null,"deadline_days":null,"category":"immigration","era":"campaign-2024","status":"broken","what_happened":"The campaign walked the pledge back within hours, and in office the administration moved the opposite direction — restricting student visas, raising H-1B fees and tightening OPT. PolitiFact rated the promise Promise Broken in its January 2026 review; no graduate has received a green card by virtue of a U.S. diploma.","repeat_count":1,"sources":[{"title":"MAGA-Meter: Give green cards to people on student visas who graduate from U.S. colleges","outlet":"PolitiFact","url":"https://politifact.com/truth-o-meter/promises/maga-meter-tracking-donald-trumps-2024-promises/promise/387387/","date":"2026-01-30"},{"title":"MAGA-Meter: Trump's Second Term","outlet":"PolitiFact","url":"https://www.politifact.com/truth-o-meter/promises/maga-meter-tracking-donald-trumps-2024-promises/","date":"2026-01-20"}],"file":"campaign-2024.json","year":2024,"deadline_date":null,"days_since_promise":824,"days_overdue":null,"two_weeks":false,"url":"/promise/green-cards-for-college-graduates/","sort_key":"2024-06-20","number":196},{"id":"no-tax-on-tips-limits","title":"No tax on tips — delivered only in capped, temporary form","quote":"For those hotel workers and people that get tips, you're going to be very happy, because when I get to office, we are going to not charge taxes on tips.","date_promised":"2024-06-09","venue":"Campaign rally, Las Vegas, Nevada","deadline_text":null,"deadline_days":null,"category":"taxes","era":"campaign-2024","status":"partial","what_happened":"The One Big Beautiful Bill Act created a deduction for tip income rather than eliminating the tax, capped at $25,000, limited to specified occupations, phased out by income, and set to expire after 2028. Payroll taxes on tips still apply. PolitiFact rated it Promise Kept, but the delivered policy is narrower and temporary compared with the flat 'no tax on tips' pledge.","repeat_count":30,"sources":[{"title":"MAGA-Meter: End taxation on tips","outlet":"PolitiFact","url":"https://politifact.com/truth-o-meter/promises/maga-meter-tracking-donald-trumps-2024-promises/promise/387440/","date":"2026-01-20"},{"title":"Donald Trump says he kept his campaign promises. The record is more complicated.","outlet":"Poynter","url":"https://www.poynter.org/fact-checking/2026/has-trump-kept-campaign-promises/","date":"2026-01-20"}],"file":"campaign-2024.json","year":2024,"deadline_date":null,"days_since_promise":835,"days_overdue":null,"two_weeks":false,"url":"/promise/no-tax-on-tips-limits/","sort_key":"2024-06-09","number":195},{"id":"epstein-files-release-promise-2024","title":"Declassifying the Epstein files — 'Yeah, yeah, I would'","quote":"Yeah, yeah, I would... I guess I would. I think that less so because, you don't know, you don't want to affect people's lives if it's phony stuff in there.","date_promised":"2024-06-02","venue":"Fox & Friends Weekend interview with Rachel Campos-Duffy; repeated on the Lex Fridman podcast on September 3, 2024","deadline_text":"framed by surrogates as a day-one act","deadline_days":1,"category":"transparency","era":"campaign-2024","status":"partial","what_happened":"In February 2025 Attorney General Pam Bondi said the client list was 'sitting on my desk'; a DOJ and FBI memo in July 2025 then concluded there was no client list and no further disclosures were warranted, and Trump called the story 'pretty boring stuff' and a Democratic 'hoax.' He reversed on November 16, 2025, told House Republicans to vote for release, and signed the Epstein Files Transparency Act on November 19, 2025. Releases remained partial and contested into September 2026. House Democrats accused Fox of deceptively editing the original 2024 broadcast to cut his hesitation.","repeat_count":4,"sources":[{"title":"How Donald Trump shifted on releasing the Jeffrey Epstein files","outlet":"PolitiFact","url":"https://www.politifact.com/article/2025/nov/17/Jeffrey-Epstein-files-Donald-Trump-Congress/","date":"2025-11-17"},{"title":"How Donald Trump shifted on releasing the Jeffrey Epstein files","outlet":"Al Jazeera","url":"https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2025/11/18/how-donald-trump-shifted-on-releasing-the-jeffrey-epstein-files","date":"2025-11-18"},{"title":"House Democrats send letter to Fox News demanding answers on edits to Trump's 2024 Epstein comments","outlet":"CNN Business","url":"https://www.cnn.com/2025/07/17/media/trump-epstein-fox-news-edits-house-democrats-oversight","date":"2025-07-17"}],"file":"campaign-2024.json","year":2024,"deadline_date":"2024-06-03","days_since_promise":842,"days_overdue":841,"two_weeks":true,"url":"/promise/epstein-files-release-promise-2024/","sort_key":"2024-06-02","number":194},{"id":"cut-federal-budget-every-year","title":"Cut the federal budget every single year","quote":"[paraphrase] We will cut the federal budget every year of my presidency.","date_promised":"2024-06","venue":"Agenda 47 policy platform / campaign video","deadline_text":"every year","deadline_days":null,"category":"economy","era":"campaign-2024","status":"broken","what_happened":"Federal spending and deficits both rose. The deficit grew from $1.8 trillion at inauguration to about $1.9 trillion by mid-2026, and the Treasury reported surging monthly deficits through fiscal 2026. Total federal outlays increased, driven by the 2025 tax law, higher interest costs and military operations in Iran and Venezuela. PolitiFact moved this between 'Compromise' and 'In the Works' but never to Kept.","repeat_count":4,"sources":[{"title":"MAGA-Meter: Cut the federal budget every year","outlet":"PolitiFact","url":"https://politifact.com/truth-o-meter/promises/maga-meter-tracking-donald-trumps-2024-promises/promise/387638/","date":"2026-01-20"},{"title":"U.S. budget deficit surges as Trump's campaign promises continue to unravel","outlet":"MS NOW / MaddowBlog","url":"https://www.ms.now/rachel-maddow-show/maddowblog/budget-deficit-july-fiscal-year-trump-campaign-promises","date":"2026-08-13"},{"title":"Trump's Broken Promises on Debt and Manufacturing","outlet":"Steve Rattner / Morning Joe","url":"https://stevenrattner.com/2026/07/trumps-broken-promises-on-debt-and-manufacturing-steve-rattner-on-morning-joe/","date":"2026-07-21"}],"file":"campaign-2024.json","year":2024,"deadline_date":null,"days_since_promise":843,"days_overdue":null,"two_weeks":false,"url":"/promise/cut-federal-budget-every-year/","sort_key":"2024-06","number":193},{"id":"testify-hush-money-trial","title":"\"I would testify, absolutely\" at the hush money trial — he never took the stand","quote":"I'm testifying. I tell the truth. I mean, all I can do is tell the truth. And the truth is that there is no case.","date_promised":"2024-04-12","venue":"Remarks to reporters ahead of his New York criminal trial","deadline_text":null,"deadline_days":39,"category":"justice","era":"campaign-2024","status":"never-delivered","what_happened":"Trump softened the pledge within weeks — \"I would if it's necessary\" — and the defense rested on May 21, 2024 without calling him. Afterwards he blamed Judge Juan Merchan's rulings: \"Anything I did in the past, they can bring everything up.\" On May 30, 2024 a jury convicted him on all 34 felony counts of falsifying business records.","repeat_count":3,"sources":[{"title":"Trump says he would 'absolutely' testify in his New York criminal trial","outlet":"NBC News","url":"https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/donald-trump/trump-absolutely-testify-new-york-criminal-trial-rcna147663","date":"2024-04-12"},{"title":"Trump Won't Testify In Hush Money Trial As Defense Rests Case","outlet":"Forbes","url":"https://www.forbes.com/sites/alisondurkee/2024/05/21/trump-wont-testify-in-hush-money-trial-as-defense-rests-case/","date":"2024-05-21"},{"title":"Defense rests in Trump hush money trial without former president's testimony","outlet":"NBC News","url":"https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/donald-trump/robert-costello-testify-hush-money-trial-clash-judge-merchan-rcna153173","date":"2024-05-21"},{"title":"Donald Trump found guilty in historic New York hush money case","outlet":"NBC News","url":"https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/donald-trump/donald-trump-verdict-hush-money-trial-rcna152492","date":"2024-05-30"}],"file":"campaign-2024.json","year":2024,"deadline_date":"2024-05-21","days_since_promise":893,"days_overdue":854,"two_weeks":false,"url":"/promise/testify-hush-money-trial/","sort_key":"2024-04-12","number":192},{"id":"migrant-crime-victim-compensation-fund","title":"Victim compensation fund for 'migrant crime' from seized gang assets","quote":"[paraphrase] We will create a victim compensation fund for Americans harmed by migrant crime, paid for with assets seized from the gangs.","date_promised":"2024-04","venue":"Agenda 47 policy plan / campaign rallies","deadline_text":null,"deadline_days":null,"category":"immigration","era":"campaign-2024","status":"never-delivered","what_happened":"No such fund has been created. PolitiFact rated the promise Stalled at the one-year mark in January 2026, with no legislation introduced and no seized-asset mechanism established.","repeat_count":4,"sources":[{"title":"MAGA-Meter: Create 'victim compensation fund' of 'migrant crime' from seized gang assets","outlet":"PolitiFact","url":"https://politifact.com/truth-o-meter/promises/maga-meter-tracking-donald-trumps-2024-promises/promise/387396/","date":"2026-01-20"},{"title":"MAGA-Meter: Trump's Second Term","outlet":"PolitiFact","url":"https://www.politifact.com/truth-o-meter/promises/maga-meter-tracking-donald-trumps-2024-promises/","date":"2026-01-20"}],"file":"campaign-2024.json","year":2024,"deadline_date":null,"days_since_promise":904,"days_overdue":null,"two_weeks":false,"url":"/promise/migrant-crime-victim-compensation-fund/","sort_key":"2024-04","number":191},{"id":"proof-of-citizenship-to-vote","title":"Require documentary proof of citizenship to vote","quote":"[paraphrase] Only citizens will vote — we will require proof of citizenship to register.","date_promised":"2024-04","venue":"Campaign rallies and the SAVE Act push","deadline_text":null,"deadline_days":null,"category":"elections","era":"campaign-2024","status":"still-waiting","what_happened":"The SAVE Act passed the House but stalled in the Senate, and Trump's March 2025 elections executive order imposing proof-of-citizenship requirements was blocked in federal court. PolitiFact rated the promise Stalled at the one-year mark; Poynter's January 2026 review listed it among the promises facing Senate hurdles.","repeat_count":12,"sources":[{"title":"MAGA-Meter: Require proof of citizenship at the polls","outlet":"PolitiFact","url":"https://politifact.com/truth-o-meter/promises/maga-meter-tracking-donald-trumps-2024-promises/promise/387578/","date":"2026-01-20"},{"title":"Donald Trump says he kept his campaign promises. The record is more complicated.","outlet":"Poynter","url":"https://www.poynter.org/fact-checking/2026/has-trump-kept-campaign-promises/","date":"2026-01-20"}],"file":"campaign-2024.json","year":2024,"deadline_date":null,"days_since_promise":904,"days_overdue":null,"two_weeks":false,"url":"/promise/proof-of-citizenship-to-vote/","sort_key":"2024-04","number":190},{"id":"not-touch-social-security-medicare","title":"Will not touch Social Security or Medicare","quote":"We're not going to do anything with Social Security... We're not touching Social Security, other than we make it more efficient. Medicare is going to be strengthened.","date_promised":"2024-03-11","venue":"CNBC 'Squawk Box' interview and repeated campaign statements","deadline_text":null,"deadline_days":null,"category":"healthcare","era":"campaign-2024","status":"partial","what_happened":"PolitiFact rated this a Compromise. The One Big Beautiful Bill Act triggered statutory PAYGO sequestration exposing Medicare to roughly $500 billion in cuts over a decade and raised Medicare Part D costs, while the Social Security Administration was gutted by staffing cuts and leadership churn; the Treasury secretary's comments about private accounts were characterized by Democrats as a 'backdoor for privatizing Social Security.'","repeat_count":15,"sources":[{"title":"MAGA-Meter: Leave Social Security and Medicare unchanged","outlet":"PolitiFact","url":"https://politifact.com/truth-o-meter/promises/maga-meter-tracking-donald-trumps-2024-promises/promise/387502/","date":"2026-01-20"},{"title":"Trump made a promise not to touch Medicare. His megabill just broke it.","outlet":"MS NOW (MSNBC Opinion)","url":"https://www.ms.now/opinion/msnbc-opinion/trump-made-promise-not-touch-medicare-megabill-just-broke-rcna208518","date":"2025-07-08"},{"title":"200 Days of Trump: Promises Made, Promises Broken","outlet":"Democratic National Committee","url":"https://democrats.org/news/200-days-of-trump-promises-made-promises-broken/","date":"2025-08-07"},{"title":"Republicans Are Cutting Medicare. Not Only Medicaid, Medicare.","outlet":"The American Prospect","url":"https://prospect.org/2025/07/03/2025-07-03-republicans-cutting-medicare-not-only-medicaid/","date":"2025-07-03"}],"file":"campaign-2024.json","year":2024,"deadline_date":null,"days_since_promise":925,"days_overdue":null,"two_weeks":false,"url":"/promise/not-touch-social-security-medicare/","sort_key":"2024-03-11","number":189},{"id":"sixty-percent-china-tariff","title":"A 60% tariff on all goods from China","quote":"[paraphrase] We'll put a 60 percent tariff — maybe more — on everything coming in from China.","date_promised":"2024-02-04","venue":"Fox News 'Sunday Morning Futures' interview","deadline_text":null,"deadline_days":null,"category":"trade","era":"campaign-2024","status":"never-delivered","what_happened":"The across-the-board 60% China rate was never put in place. Rates swung wildly through 2025 truces and escalations, and PolitiFact still rated the promise Stalled at the one-year mark in January 2026. The Feb. 20, 2026 Supreme Court ruling invalidated the emergency authority Trump had used for most of the China tariffs.","repeat_count":15,"sources":[{"title":"MAGA-Meter: Add a 60% tariff on goods from China","outlet":"PolitiFact","url":"https://politifact.com/truth-o-meter/promises/maga-meter-tracking-donald-trumps-2024-promises/promise/387416/","date":"2026-01-20"},{"title":"Supreme Court Strikes Down IEEPA Tariffs","outlet":"Holland & Knight","url":"https://www.hklaw.com/en/insights/publications/2026/02/supreme-court-strikes-down-ieepa-tariffs","date":"2026-02-23"}],"file":"campaign-2024.json","year":2024,"deadline_date":null,"days_since_promise":961,"days_overdue":null,"two_weeks":false,"url":"/promise/sixty-percent-china-tariff/","sort_key":"2024-02-04","number":188},{"id":"ban-federal-worker-revolving-door","title":"Ban federal workers from taking jobs at companies they regulated","quote":"[paraphrase] I will ban federal bureaucrats from taking jobs at the companies they deal with and regulate.","date_promised":"2023-12-16","venue":"Agenda 47 'Drain the Swamp' policy video","deadline_text":null,"deadline_days":null,"category":"ethics","era":"campaign-2024","status":"broken","what_happened":"No such ban was enacted. PolitiFact rated the promise Promise Broken in its January 2026 review; the administration instead rescinded existing ethics pledges and staffed agencies with former industry officials, with departing officials moving into regulated industries without restriction.","repeat_count":4,"sources":[{"title":"MAGA-Meter: Ban federal workers from taking jobs at companies they regulated","outlet":"PolitiFact","url":"https://politifact.com/truth-o-meter/promises/maga-meter-tracking-donald-trumps-2024-promises/promise/387656/","date":"2026-01-20"},{"title":"MAGA-Meter: Trump's Second Term","outlet":"PolitiFact","url":"https://www.politifact.com/truth-o-meter/promises/maga-meter-tracking-donald-trumps-2024-promises/","date":"2026-01-20"}],"file":"campaign-2024.json","year":2023,"deadline_date":null,"days_since_promise":1011,"days_overdue":null,"two_weeks":false,"url":"/promise/ban-federal-worker-revolving-door/","sort_key":"2023-12-16","number":187},{"id":"section-230-reform-bill","title":"Sign a bill revisiting Section 230 for tech platforms","quote":"[paraphrase] We will revisit Section 230 and hold the big tech platforms accountable.","date_promised":"2023-12","venue":"Agenda 47 free speech policy video","deadline_text":null,"deadline_days":null,"category":"other","era":"campaign-2024","status":"never-delivered","what_happened":"No Section 230 legislation reached Trump's desk. PolitiFact still had the promise unfulfilled at the January 2026 one-year review, and no bill advanced in either chamber during 2026.","repeat_count":4,"sources":[{"title":"MAGA-Meter: Sign a bill revisiting Section 230 for tech platforms","outlet":"PolitiFact","url":"https://politifact.com/truth-o-meter/promises/maga-meter-tracking-donald-trumps-2024-promises/promise/387705/","date":"2026-01-20"},{"title":"MAGA-Meter: Trump's Second Term","outlet":"PolitiFact","url":"https://www.politifact.com/truth-o-meter/promises/maga-meter-tracking-donald-trumps-2024-promises/","date":"2026-01-20"}],"file":"campaign-2024.json","year":2023,"deadline_date":null,"days_since_promise":1026,"days_overdue":null,"two_weeks":false,"url":"/promise/section-230-reform-bill/","sort_key":"2023-12","number":186},{"id":"testify-own-defense-civil-fraud-trial","title":"Announced he would testify in his own defense at the NY fraud trial","quote":"I will not be testifying on Monday. I have already testified to everything & have nothing more to say.","date_promised":"2023-11","venue":"Truth Social, after his lawyers had told the court he would take the stand on December 11, 2023","deadline_text":"Monday, December 11, 2023","deadline_days":null,"category":"justice","era":"between-terms","status":"never-delivered","what_happened":"Trump's team had scheduled him to testify under friendly questioning to rebut New York AG Letitia James's claim that he fraudulently inflated property values. On December 10, 2023 he cancelled in an all-caps Truth Social post calling the case a \"witch hunt.\" He had testified once, under hostile questioning, on November 6, 2023. Judge Arthur Engoron ruled against him in February 2024 with a judgment exceeding $450 million with interest.","repeat_count":2,"sources":[{"title":"Trump will not testify in his civil fraud trial","outlet":"NPR","url":"https://www.npr.org/2023/12/11/1218495285/trump-will-not-testify-in-his-civil-fraud-trial","date":"2023-12-11"},{"title":"What to know about Trump's decision to not testify again in New York civil fraud trial","outlet":"CNN","url":"https://www.cnn.com/2023/12/10/politics/trump-not-testifying-new-york-civil-fraud-trial/index.html","date":"2023-12-10"},{"title":"Trump will no longer testify in his own defense in N.Y. civil fraud case","outlet":"Axios","url":"https://www.axios.com/2023/12/10/trump-testify-new-york-civil-fraud-trial","date":"2023-12-10"},{"title":"Trump Cancels Planned Testimony In Fraud Trial","outlet":"Forbes","url":"https://www.forbes.com/sites/saradorn/2023/12/10/trump-cancels-testimony-planned-for-monday-in-fraud-trial/","date":"2023-12-10"}],"file":"between-terms.json","year":2023,"deadline_date":null,"days_since_promise":1056,"days_overdue":null,"two_weeks":false,"url":"/promise/testify-own-defense-civil-fraud-trial/","sort_key":"2023-11","number":185},{"id":"finish-the-border-wall","title":"Finish the border wall","quote":"[paraphrase] We will finish the wall — we're going to finish it quickly.","date_promised":"2023-11","venue":"Campaign rallies throughout 2023-2024","deadline_text":null,"deadline_days":null,"category":"immigration","era":"campaign-2024","status":"still-waiting","what_happened":"About 700 miles of primary barrier exist along the roughly 2,000-mile border, with dozens of new miles added since January 2025 and a $2.6 billion contract awarded by June 2026. CBP Commissioner Rodney Scott said in June 2026 the primary wall would not be complete until the end of 2027, with technology in place by mid-2028 — after Trump's stated timeline. Mexico has still never paid for any of it; U.S. taxpayers fund it.","repeat_count":40,"sources":[{"title":"What's the Status of Trump's Border Wall?","outlet":"TIME","url":"https://time.com/article/2026/08/06/trump-border-wall-immigration/","date":"2026-08-06"},{"title":"MAGA-Meter: Finish the border wall","outlet":"PolitiFact","url":"https://politifact.com/truth-o-meter/promises/maga-meter-tracking-donald-trumps-2024-promises/promise/387370/","date":"2026-01-20"},{"title":"Build a wall, and make Mexico pay for it","outlet":"PolitiFact","url":"https://www.politifact.com/truth-o-meter/promises/trumpometer/promise/1397/build-wall-and-make-mexico-pay-it/article/2693/","date":"2021-01-20"}],"file":"campaign-2024.json","year":2023,"deadline_date":null,"days_since_promise":1056,"days_overdue":null,"two_weeks":false,"url":"/promise/finish-the-border-wall/","sort_key":"2023-11","number":184},{"id":"eradicate-veteran-homelessness","title":"Totally eradicate veteran homelessness","quote":"I will make it a personal mission to totally eradicate veterans' homelessness in America by the end of the next term.","date_promised":"2023-11","venue":"Campaign website policy video","deadline_text":"by the end of the next term","deadline_days":1461,"category":"veterans","era":"campaign-2024","status":"still-waiting","what_happened":"An executive order promised housing for 6,000 veterans at a new National Center for Warrior Independence on the West LA VA campus, but the April 2026 budget request included zero dollars to build any of that housing. The administration instead pursued encampment removal, civil commitment and a VA-DOJ arrangement letting officials seek legal guardianship over 'vulnerable' veterans — an approach the National Homelessness Law Center said takes rights away rather than providing housing.","repeat_count":6,"sources":[{"title":"Trump pledged to house 6,000 homeless vets. His budget funds zero","outlet":"NPR","url":"https://www.npr.org/2026/05/28/nx-s1-5836556/trump-homeless-veterans-la","date":"2026-05-28"},{"title":"Trump is pushing to institutionalize homeless people. That may include veterans","outlet":"NPR","url":"https://www.npr.org/2026/06/25/nx-s1-5866754/trump-institutionalize-homeless-veterans","date":"2026-06-25"},{"title":"Trump administration unveils new plan for some homeless veterans: legal guardianship","outlet":"Smart Cities Dive","url":"https://www.smartcitiesdive.com/news/trump-admin-homeless-veterans-legal-guardianship/814561/","date":"2026-03-10"},{"title":"MAGA-Meter: End veteran homelessness","outlet":"PolitiFact","url":"https://www.politifact.com/truth-o-meter/promises/maga-meter-tracking-donald-trumps-2024-promises/promise/1650/end-veteran-homelessness/article/3247","date":"2026-01-20"}],"file":"campaign-2024.json","year":2023,"deadline_date":"2027-11-01","days_since_promise":1056,"days_overdue":-405,"two_weeks":false,"url":"/promise/eradicate-veteran-homelessness/","sort_key":"2023-11","number":183},{"id":"steele-dossier-uk-lawsuit","title":"The London suit against the Steele dossier author, tossed with a costs bill","quote":"[paraphrase] Trump said he would go after Christopher Steele over the dossier and filed a data-protection claim against Orbis Business Intelligence in the High Court in London.","date_promised":"2023-10-16","venue":"High Court of Justice, London","deadline_text":null,"deadline_days":null,"category":"justice","era":"between-terms","status":"broken","what_happened":"The High Court dismissed the claim on February 1, 2024, largely on limitation grounds, finding Trump had waited far too long to bring it. In March 2024 he was ordered to pay Orbis roughly £300,000 in legal costs. It was one of a run of Trump-as-plaintiff media suits — CNN, Clinton, Orbis — that ended in dismissal and cost orders against him.","repeat_count":1,"sources":[{"title":"Personal and business legal affairs of Donald Trump","outlet":"Wikipedia","url":"https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Personal_and_business_legal_affairs_of_Donald_Trump","date":"2025-01-01"}],"file":"between-terms.json","year":2023,"deadline_date":null,"days_since_promise":1072,"days_overdue":null,"two_weeks":false,"url":"/promise/steele-dossier-uk-lawsuit/","sort_key":"2023-10-16","number":182},{"id":"restore-expand-travel-ban","title":"Restore and expand the travel ban","quote":"[paraphrase] On day one I will restore the travel ban, and we'll expand it.","date_promised":"2023-10-16","venue":"Campaign rally, Clive, Iowa","deadline_text":"day one","deadline_days":1,"category":"immigration","era":"campaign-2024","status":"partial","what_happened":"A proclamation covering a list of countries came in June 2025 rather than day one, and PolitiFact still rated the promise Stalled in its January 2026 review because the sweeping 'expanded' ban — including the promised ideological screening and country list Trump described on the trail — was never fully implemented and parts have been narrowed in litigation.","repeat_count":12,"sources":[{"title":"MAGA-Meter: Restore and expand the travel ban","outlet":"PolitiFact","url":"https://politifact.com/truth-o-meter/promises/maga-meter-tracking-donald-trumps-2024-promises/promise/387376/","date":"2026-01-20"},{"title":"MAGA-Meter: Trump's Second Term","outlet":"PolitiFact","url":"https://www.politifact.com/truth-o-meter/promises/maga-meter-tracking-donald-trumps-2024-promises/","date":"2026-01-20"}],"file":"campaign-2024.json","year":2023,"deadline_date":"2023-10-17","days_since_promise":1072,"days_overdue":1071,"two_weeks":true,"url":"/promise/restore-expand-travel-ban/","sort_key":"2023-10-16","number":181},{"id":"abolish-the-education-department","title":"Abolish the Department of Education","quote":"We're going to be returning education back to the states where it belongs.","date_promised":"2023-09","venue":"Agenda 47 education video and repeated campaign rallies","deadline_text":null,"deadline_days":null,"category":"education","era":"campaign-2024","status":"still-waiting","what_happened":"A March 2025 executive order directed Secretary Linda McMahon to wind the department down and cut nearly half of its 4,100-person workforce, with more layoffs in October 2025 and grant programs shifted to six other agencies by December 2025. But only Congress can abolish it and a Senate filibuster makes that impossible with the current majority; Reason reported in February 2026 that Trump's own bill funded the department at $79 billion and barred parts of it from being downsized or decentralized. The department still exists in September 2026.","repeat_count":20,"sources":[{"title":"So much for abolishing the Department of Education","outlet":"Reason","url":"https://reason.com/2026/02/05/so-much-for-abolishing-the-department-of-education/","date":"2026-02-05"},{"title":"The Plan to Abolish the Education Department—One Year Later","outlet":"NEA Today","url":"https://www.nea.org/nea-today/all-news-articles/plan-abolish-education-department-one-year-later","date":"2026-03-01"},{"title":"Tracking Trump's first year promises","outlet":"MS NOW","url":"https://www.ms.now/news/tracking-trumps-first-year-promises-what-he-delivered-what-he-didnt","date":"2026-01-05"},{"title":"MAGA-Meter: Abolish the Education Department","outlet":"PolitiFact","url":"https://politifact.com/truth-o-meter/promises/maga-meter-tracking-donald-trumps-2024-promises/promise/387528/","date":"2026-01-20"}],"file":"campaign-2024.json","year":2023,"deadline_date":null,"days_since_promise":1117,"days_overdue":null,"two_weeks":false,"url":"/promise/abolish-the-education-department/","sort_key":"2023-09","number":180},{"id":"require-voter-id-at-the-polls","title":"Require voter ID at the polls nationwide","quote":"[paraphrase] We will pass a law requiring voter ID for all elections.","date_promised":"2023-09","venue":"Agenda 47 election integrity policy video","deadline_text":null,"deadline_days":null,"category":"elections","era":"campaign-2024","status":"still-waiting","what_happened":"No national voter ID law exists. Election administration is a state power and the necessary federal legislation never cleared the Senate. PolitiFact rated the promise Stalled in its January 2026 one-year review.","repeat_count":10,"sources":[{"title":"MAGA-Meter: Require voter ID at the polls","outlet":"PolitiFact","url":"https://politifact.com/truth-o-meter/promises/maga-meter-tracking-donald-trumps-2024-promises/promise/387584/","date":"2026-01-20"},{"title":"MAGA-Meter: Trump's Second Term","outlet":"PolitiFact","url":"https://www.politifact.com/truth-o-meter/promises/maga-meter-tracking-donald-trumps-2024-promises/","date":"2026-01-20"}],"file":"campaign-2024.json","year":2023,"deadline_date":null,"days_since_promise":1117,"days_overdue":null,"two_weeks":false,"url":"/promise/require-voter-id-at-the-polls/","sort_key":"2023-09","number":179},{"id":"irrefutable-georgia-report-monday-2023","title":"An 'Irrefutable REPORT' on Georgia election fraud, promised for Monday","quote":"A Large, Complex, Detailed but Irrefutable REPORT on the Presidential Election Fraud which took place in Georgia... will be presented at a major News Conference on Monday.","date_promised":"2023-08-17","venue":"Truth Social, two days after his Fulton County indictment; the conference was to be held at Bedminster, New Jersey","deadline_text":"Monday (August 21, 2023)","deadline_days":4,"category":"elections","era":"between-terms","status":"never-delivered","what_happened":"He cancelled on August 20, 2023, writing that his lawyers would prefer to put the evidence in 'formal Legal Filings' and that 'the News Conference is no longer necessary!' No such report was ever released, publicly or in any court filing. As late as a July 2026 primetime speech on election security, experts said the documents he cited still showed no evidence of the fraud he alleges.","repeat_count":2,"sources":[{"title":"Trump cancels press conference on 2020 election fraud claims, citing attorneys' advice","outlet":"PBS NewsHour / AP","url":"https://www.pbs.org/newshour/politics/trump-cancels-press-conference-on-2020-election-fraud-claims-citing-attorneys-advice","date":"2023-08-20"},{"title":"Trump promised evidence of election fraud. Experts say there was none","outlet":"NPR","url":"https://www.npr.org/2026/07/17/nx-s1-5897446/trump-promised-evidence-of-election-fraud-experts-say-there-was-none","date":"2026-07-17"}],"file":"between-terms.json","year":2023,"deadline_date":"2023-08-21","days_since_promise":1132,"days_overdue":1128,"two_weeks":true,"url":"/promise/irrefutable-georgia-report-monday-2023/","sort_key":"2023-08-17","number":178},{"id":"reciprocal-tariff-policy","title":"A permanent reciprocal tariff law (the Trump Reciprocal Trade Act)","quote":"[paraphrase] An eye for an eye, a tariff for a tariff — whatever they charge us, we charge them.","date_promised":"2023-08","venue":"Agenda 47 policy platform","deadline_text":null,"deadline_days":null,"category":"trade","era":"campaign-2024","status":"broken","what_happened":"Congress never passed the Reciprocal Trade Act. Trump instead imposed 'reciprocal' rates by emergency decree on April 2, 2025, and the Supreme Court voided that authority on Feb. 20, 2026. PolitiFact rated the promise Stalled; as of September 2026 the reciprocal schedule exists only in improvised, litigated form under substitute statutes.","repeat_count":10,"sources":[{"title":"MAGA-Meter: Institute a reciprocal tariff policy","outlet":"PolitiFact","url":"https://politifact.com/truth-o-meter/promises/maga-meter-tracking-donald-trumps-2024-promises/promise/387422/","date":"2026-01-20"},{"title":"The Supreme Court Ends IEEPA Tariffs, Bringing Fresh Uncertainty for Companies","outlet":"Skadden","url":"https://www.skadden.com/insights/publications/2026/02/the-supreme-court-ends-ieepa-tariffs","date":"2026-02-24"}],"file":"campaign-2024.json","year":2023,"deadline_date":null,"days_since_promise":1148,"days_overdue":null,"two_weeks":false,"url":"/promise/reciprocal-tariff-policy/","sort_key":"2023-08","number":177},{"id":"largest-deportation-operation","title":"The largest domestic deportation operation in American history","quote":"[paraphrase] We will carry out the largest domestic deportation operation in American history — 15 to 20 million people.","date_promised":"2023-07-08","venue":"Campaign rally, Council Bluffs, Iowa; repeated at nearly every rally through Election Day","deadline_text":null,"deadline_days":null,"category":"immigration","era":"campaign-2024","status":"partial","what_happened":"Removals rose but fell far short of the scale promised and of the 1 million-a-year target. DHS claimed 605,000 deportations from Jan. 20, 2025 to Dec. 10, 2025, while the Deportation Data Project counted roughly 350,000. Trump's second term averaged about 14,700 deportations a month, well under the roughly 36,000 monthly average of Obama's second term. PolitiFact rated the promise Stalled in January 2026.","repeat_count":100,"sources":[{"title":"Immigration after one year under Trump: Where do mass deportation efforts stand?","outlet":"PolitiFact","url":"https://politifact.com/article/2026/jan/20/Trump-mass-deportations-1-year-immigration-ICE/","date":"2026-01-20"},{"title":"MAGA-Meter: Carry out the largest domestic deportation operation in American history","outlet":"PolitiFact","url":"https://politifact.com/truth-o-meter/promises/maga-meter-tracking-donald-trumps-2024-promises/promise/387364/","date":"2026-01-20"},{"title":"US immigration tracker: arrests, detentions, border crossings","outlet":"NBC News","url":"https://www.nbcnews.com/data-graphics/us-immigration-tracker-follow-arrests-detentions-border-crossings-rcna189148","date":"2026-09-01"}],"file":"campaign-2024.json","year":2023,"deadline_date":null,"days_since_promise":1172,"days_overdue":null,"two_weeks":false,"url":"/promise/largest-deportation-operation/","sort_key":"2023-07-08","number":176},{"id":"abolish-teacher-tenure-k12","title":"Incentivize states to abolish teacher tenure for K-12","quote":"[paraphrase] We will take funding away from schools that don't end teacher tenure and adopt merit pay.","date_promised":"2023-07","venue":"Agenda 47 education policy video","deadline_text":null,"deadline_days":null,"category":"education","era":"campaign-2024","status":"never-delivered","what_happened":"No federal incentive program targeting teacher tenure was created, and tenure remains a matter of state law and collective bargaining. PolitiFact rated the promise Stalled in its January 2026 one-year review.","repeat_count":3,"sources":[{"title":"MAGA-Meter: Incentivize abolishing teacher tenure for grades K-12","outlet":"PolitiFact","url":"https://politifact.com/truth-o-meter/promises/maga-meter-tracking-donald-trumps-2024-promises/promise/387544/","date":"2026-01-20"},{"title":"MAGA-Meter: Trump's Second Term","outlet":"PolitiFact","url":"https://www.politifact.com/truth-o-meter/promises/maga-meter-tracking-donald-trumps-2024-promises/","date":"2026-01-20"}],"file":"campaign-2024.json","year":2023,"deadline_date":null,"days_since_promise":1179,"days_overdue":null,"two_weeks":false,"url":"/promise/abolish-teacher-tenure-k12/","sort_key":"2023-07","number":175},{"id":"birthright-citizenship-day-one","title":"Ending birthright citizenship by executive order 'on day one'","quote":"I will sign an executive order on day one of my new term in office making clear to federal agencies that under the correct interpretation of the law, going forward, the future children of illegal aliens will not receive automatic US citizenship.","date_promised":"2023-05-30","venue":"Campaign policy video released by the Trump campaign","deadline_text":"on day one","deadline_days":1,"category":"immigration","era":"campaign-2024","status":"broken","what_happened":"Trump did sign the order on January 20, 2025, but a federal judge blocked it three days later on January 23, 2025, calling it 'blatantly unconstitutional.' The policy remained enjoined through subsequent litigation and no child was denied citizenship under it.","repeat_count":4,"sources":[{"title":"Did Donald Trump make these 27 campaign promises? Fact-checking this viral list","outlet":"PolitiFact","url":"https://www.politifact.com/article/2023/oct/26/did-donald-trump-make-these-27-campaign-promises-f/","date":"2023-10-26"},{"title":"Tracking Donald Trump's campaign promises: week 1 of the second term","outlet":"PolitiFact","url":"https://www.politifact.com/article/2025/jan/27/trump-campaign-promises-week-1-second-term/","date":"2025-01-27"},{"title":"Agenda47: Day One Executive Order Ending Citizenship for Children of Illegals and Outlawing Birth Tourism","outlet":"donaldjtrump.com","url":"https://www.donaldjtrump.com/agenda47/agenda47-day-one-executive-order-ending-citizenship-for-children-of-illegals-and-outlawing-birth-tourism","date":"2023-05-30"},{"title":"Trump signs new orders targeting birthright citizenship, weeks after Supreme Court ruling","outlet":"NPR","url":"https://www.npr.org/2026/08/06/g-s1-137686/trump-birthright-citizenship-immigration-curb","date":"2026-08-06"}],"file":"campaign-2024.json","year":2023,"deadline_date":"2023-05-31","days_since_promise":1211,"days_overdue":1210,"two_weeks":true,"url":"/promise/birthright-citizenship-day-one/","sort_key":"2023-05-30","number":174},{"id":"ukraine-war-24-hours","title":"End the Russia-Ukraine war 'in 24 hours'","quote":"If I'm president, I will have that war settled in one day, 24 hours.","date_promised":"2023-05-10","venue":"CNN town hall, Goffstown, New Hampshire","deadline_text":"in 24 hours / before I even take office","deadline_days":1,"category":"ukraine","era":"campaign-2024","status":"broken","what_happened":"CNN counted at least 53 occasions on which Trump said he would end the war within 24 hours or before taking office. The war was still going on when he was inaugurated on January 20, 2025, and continued through 2025 and into 2026 despite repeated two-week deadlines, a 50-day ultimatum, the August 2025 Alaska summit and the cancelled Budapest summit. On March 14, 2025 Trump said the 24-hour pledge had been 'a little bit sarcastic.'","repeat_count":53,"sources":[{"title":"Fact check: It wasn't 'in jest.' Here are 53 times Trump said he'd end Ukraine war within 24 hours or before taking office","outlet":"CNN","url":"https://www.cnn.com/2025/04/25/politics/fact-check-trump-ukraine-war","date":"2025-04-25"},{"title":"Ukraine: Trump won't commit to backing ally in war with Russia","outlet":"CNN","url":"https://www.cnn.com/2023/05/10/politics/ukraine-russia-putin-trump-town-hall/index.html","date":"2023-05-10"},{"title":"Trump says promise to end Ukraine war in 24 hours was 'little bit sarcastic'","outlet":"Anadolu Agency","url":"https://www.aa.com.tr/en/americas/trump-says-promise-to-end-ukraine-war-in-24-hours-was-little-bit-sarcastic-/3510536","date":"2025-03-14"},{"title":"End the Russia-Ukraine war within 24 hours","outlet":"PolitiFact (MAGA-Meter)","url":"https://www.politifact.com/truth-o-meter/promises/maga-meter-tracking-donald-trumps-2024-promises/promise/1641/end-the-russia-ukraine-war-within-24-hours/article/3135/","date":"2025-04-28"},{"title":"Trump vowed to end the Ukraine war in 24 hours, but the conflict still rages","outlet":"NBC News","url":"https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/politics-news/trump-vowed-end-ukraine-war-24-hours-conflict-still-rages-rcna203085","date":"2025-04-28"}],"file":"campaign-2024.json","year":2023,"deadline_date":"2023-05-11","days_since_promise":1231,"days_overdue":1230,"two_weeks":true,"url":"/promise/ukraine-war-24-hours/","sort_key":"2023-05-10","number":173},{"id":"homeschool-10000-tax-credit","title":"$10,000 per child tax-free for homeschooling families","quote":"[paraphrase] Homeschooling families will be able to use up to $10,000 per child, tax free, for their educational expenses.","date_promised":"2023-05","venue":"Agenda 47 education policy video","deadline_text":null,"deadline_days":null,"category":"education","era":"campaign-2024","status":"still-waiting","what_happened":"The 2025 tax law created a federal scholarship tax credit for donations to scholarship-granting organizations, not the promised $10,000-per-child tax-free homeschool benefit. PolitiFact still had the specific pledge unfulfilled in its January 2026 review.","repeat_count":4,"sources":[{"title":"MAGA-Meter: Provide $10,000 per child tax-free to homeschoolers","outlet":"PolitiFact","url":"https://politifact.com/truth-o-meter/promises/maga-meter-tracking-donald-trumps-2024-promises/promise/387540/","date":"2026-01-20"},{"title":"MAGA-Meter: Trump's Second Term","outlet":"PolitiFact","url":"https://www.politifact.com/truth-o-meter/promises/maga-meter-tracking-donald-trumps-2024-promises/","date":"2026-01-20"}],"file":"campaign-2024.json","year":2023,"deadline_date":null,"days_since_promise":1240,"days_overdue":null,"two_weeks":false,"url":"/promise/homeschool-10000-tax-credit/","sort_key":"2023-05","number":172},{"id":"national-garden-of-american-heroes","title":"Build the National Garden of American Heroes","quote":"[paraphrase] We will build the National Garden of American Heroes — a vast outdoor park with statues of the greatest Americans who ever lived.","date_promised":"2023-05","venue":"Agenda 47 policy platform (a revival of his 2020 executive order)","deadline_text":"in time for the 250th anniversary, July 4, 2026","deadline_days":null,"category":"other","era":"campaign-2024","status":"late","what_happened":"Trump signed the order again in January 2025 and tied the garden to the nation's 250th anniversary on July 4, 2026. That date passed with no garden built: a site in South Dakota was still under discussion, funding remained partial, and statue commissions were only beginning. PolitiFact kept the promise in the unfulfilled column.","repeat_count":5,"sources":[{"title":"MAGA-Meter: Sign an order to construct the National Garden of American Heroes","outlet":"PolitiFact","url":"https://politifact.com/truth-o-meter/promises/maga-meter-tracking-donald-trumps-2024-promises/promise/387713/","date":"2026-01-20"},{"title":"MAGA-Meter: Trump's Second Term","outlet":"PolitiFact","url":"https://www.politifact.com/truth-o-meter/promises/maga-meter-tracking-donald-trumps-2024-promises/","date":"2026-01-20"}],"file":"campaign-2024.json","year":2023,"deadline_date":null,"days_since_promise":1240,"days_overdue":null,"two_weeks":false,"url":"/promise/national-garden-of-american-heroes/","sort_key":"2023-05","number":171},{"id":"tent-cities-for-homeless","title":"Build federal 'tent cities' with doctors and social workers","quote":"[paraphrase] We will open up large parcels of inexpensive land, bring in doctors, psychiatrists, social workers and drug rehab specialists, and create tent cities where the homeless can be relocated.","date_promised":"2023-04-18","venue":"Agenda 47 policy video on ending the homeless crisis","deadline_text":null,"deadline_days":null,"category":"other","era":"campaign-2024","status":"never-delivered","what_happened":"No federally supported tent city with services has been created. PolitiFact found that 11 months into the term the administration had shifted to enforcement instead: a July 24, 2025 executive order focused on clearing encampments from public spaces and expanding forced treatment and civil commitment, without the promised medical and rehabilitation infrastructure.","repeat_count":5,"sources":[{"title":"MAGA-Meter: Create 'tent cities' where the homeless can be moved","outlet":"PolitiFact","url":"https://www.politifact.com/truth-o-meter/promises/maga-meter-tracking-donald-trumps-2024-promises/promise/1649/create-tent-cities-where-the-homeless-can-be-moved/article/3222/","date":"2025-12-18"},{"title":"Trump admin takes away rights from homeless veterans; ignores causes of and solutions to homelessness","outlet":"National Homelessness Law Center","url":"https://homelesslaw.org/statement03112026/","date":"2026-03-11"}],"file":"campaign-2024.json","year":2023,"deadline_date":null,"days_since_promise":1253,"days_overdue":null,"two_weeks":false,"url":"/promise/tent-cities-for-homeless/","sort_key":"2023-04-18","number":170},{"id":"freedom-cities-on-federal-land","title":"Build 10 deregulated 'Freedom Cities' on federal land","quote":"[paraphrase] We will hold a contest to charter up to 10 new Freedom Cities on federal land.","date_promised":"2023-03-03","venue":"Agenda 47 'Quantum Leap' policy video","deadline_text":null,"deadline_days":null,"category":"infrastructure","era":"campaign-2024","status":"never-delivered","what_happened":"No Freedom City has been chartered, no contest held and no site selected. PolitiFact rated the promise Stalled in its January 2026 one-year review, more than three years after Trump announced it.","repeat_count":5,"sources":[{"title":"MAGA-Meter: Create deregulated 'freedom cities' on federal land","outlet":"PolitiFact","url":"https://politifact.com/truth-o-meter/promises/maga-meter-tracking-donald-trumps-2024-promises/promise/387472/","date":"2026-01-20"},{"title":"MAGA-Meter: Trump's Second Term","outlet":"PolitiFact","url":"https://www.politifact.com/truth-o-meter/promises/maga-meter-tracking-donald-trumps-2024-promises/","date":"2026-01-20"}],"file":"campaign-2024.json","year":2023,"deadline_date":null,"days_since_promise":1299,"days_overdue":null,"two_weeks":false,"url":"/promise/freedom-cities-on-federal-land/","sort_key":"2023-03-03","number":169},{"id":"flying-cars-research","title":"A national push for vertical-takeoff flying cars","quote":"[paraphrase] We will lead the world in the development of vertical-takeoff-and-landing vehicles — flying cars.","date_promised":"2023-03-03","venue":"Agenda 47 'Quantum Leap' policy video","deadline_text":null,"deadline_days":null,"category":"infrastructure","era":"campaign-2024","status":"never-delivered","what_happened":"No dedicated federal flying-car program was created. Poynter's January 2026 review listed the pledge among the stalled promises, and PolitiFact kept it in the unfulfilled column 20 months into the term.","repeat_count":3,"sources":[{"title":"MAGA-Meter: Promote research and development for vertical-takeoff flying cars","outlet":"PolitiFact","url":"https://politifact.com/truth-o-meter/promises/maga-meter-tracking-donald-trumps-2024-promises/promise/387709/","date":"2026-01-20"},{"title":"Donald Trump says he kept his campaign promises. The record is more complicated.","outlet":"Poynter","url":"https://www.poynter.org/fact-checking/2026/has-trump-kept-campaign-promises/","date":"2026-01-20"}],"file":"campaign-2024.json","year":2023,"deadline_date":null,"days_since_promise":1299,"days_overdue":null,"two_weeks":false,"url":"/promise/flying-cars-research/","sort_key":"2023-03-03","number":168},{"id":"phase-out-chinese-imports","title":"Four-year plan to phase out all essential Chinese imports","quote":"[paraphrase] We will adopt a four-year plan to phase out all Chinese imports of essential goods — electronics, steel, pharmaceuticals.","date_promised":"2023-01","venue":"Agenda 47 policy video, 'President Trump's Plan to End Reliance on China'","deadline_text":"four-year plan","deadline_days":1460,"category":"trade","era":"campaign-2024","status":"never-delivered","what_happened":"No phase-out plan was adopted. PolitiFact rated the promise Stalled through the January 2026 one-year review, and the Supreme Court's February 2026 tariff ruling removed the main legal tool the administration had been using against Chinese imports.","repeat_count":4,"sources":[{"title":"MAGA-Meter: Adopt a four-year plan to phase out Chinese imports","outlet":"PolitiFact","url":"https://politifact.com/truth-o-meter/promises/maga-meter-tracking-donald-trumps-2024-promises/promise/387428/","date":"2026-01-20"},{"title":"Trump said he kept all of his promises. Our MAGA-Meter disagrees","outlet":"PolitiFact","url":"https://politifact.com/article/2026/may/12/trump-promises-tariffs-taxes-immigration-deport/","date":"2026-05-12"}],"file":"campaign-2024.json","year":2023,"deadline_date":"2026-12-31","days_since_promise":1360,"days_overdue":-100,"two_weeks":false,"url":"/promise/phase-out-chinese-imports/","sort_key":"2023-01","number":167},{"id":"stop-china-buying-american-land","title":"Stop China from buying American farmland and infrastructure","quote":"[paraphrase] We will stop China from buying up American farmland and American infrastructure.","date_promised":"2023-01","venue":"Agenda 47 policy video on ending reliance on China","deadline_text":null,"deadline_days":null,"category":"trade","era":"campaign-2024","status":"still-waiting","what_happened":"No federal ban was enacted. USDA announced a farmland action plan in July 2025 but it depended on state laws and future rulemaking, and PolitiFact still rated the promise Stalled in its January 2026 one-year review.","repeat_count":6,"sources":[{"title":"MAGA-Meter: Stop China from buying land in the U.S.","outlet":"PolitiFact","url":"https://politifact.com/truth-o-meter/promises/maga-meter-tracking-donald-trumps-2024-promises/promise/387468/","date":"2026-01-20"},{"title":"MAGA-Meter: Trump's Second Term","outlet":"PolitiFact","url":"https://www.politifact.com/truth-o-meter/promises/maga-meter-tracking-donald-trumps-2024-promises/","date":"2026-01-20"}],"file":"campaign-2024.json","year":2023,"deadline_date":null,"days_since_promise":1360,"days_overdue":null,"two_weeks":false,"url":"/promise/stop-china-buying-american-land/","sort_key":"2023-01","number":166},{"id":"major-announcement-nft-cards-2022","title":"'MAJOR ANNOUNCEMENT TOMORROW' — which turned out to be NFT trading cards","quote":"AMERICA NEEDS A SUPERHERO!... I will be making a MAJOR ANNOUNCEMENT TOMORROW.","date_promised":"2022-12-14","venue":"Truth Social video post","deadline_text":"TOMORROW","deadline_days":1,"category":"other","era":"between-terms","status":"partial","what_happened":"He met the one-day deadline, but the 'major announcement' on December 15, 2022 — three weeks after launching his 2024 campaign — was a $99 line of 45,000 digital trading cards depicting him as an astronaut, cowboy and superhero, with fine print noting they had 'no inherent monetary value.' The run sold out in roughly twelve hours for about $4.45 million and secondary-market volume collapsed by January 2023.","repeat_count":1,"sources":[{"title":"Trump Announces NFT Trading Card Collection","outlet":"Rolling Stone","url":"https://www.rollingstone.com/politics/politics-news/trump-announces-nft-trading-card-collection-1234648014/amp","date":"2022-12-15"},{"title":"Donald Trump Announces $99 Digital Trading Card NFTs","outlet":"CoinDesk","url":"https://www.coindesk.com/web3/2022/12/15/trump-announces-99-digital-trading-card-nfts","date":"2022-12-15"},{"title":"Trump's 'MAJOR ANNOUNCEMENT' was a line of $99 NFT trading cards","outlet":"The Week","url":"https://theweek.com/donald-trump/1019361/trumps-major-announcement-was-a-line-of-99-nft-trading-cards-with-no-inherent","date":"2022-12-15"}],"file":"between-terms.json","year":2022,"deadline_date":"2022-12-15","days_since_promise":1378,"days_overdue":1377,"two_weeks":true,"url":"/promise/major-announcement-nft-cards-2022/","sort_key":"2022-12-14","number":165},{"id":"pulitzer-board-lawsuit","title":"The Pulitzer Prize board lawsuit still unresolved after three years","quote":"[paraphrase] Trump promised to force the Pulitzer board to strip the 2018 prizes from The New York Times and The Washington Post for their Russia coverage, and sued in Florida state court.","date_promised":"2022-12-13","venue":"Complaint filed in Okeechobee County, Florida","deadline_text":null,"deadline_days":null,"category":"justice","era":"between-terms","status":"still-waiting","what_happened":"Trump demanded the board revoke the 2018 National Reporting prize; the board has never done so. A Florida appeals court declined to dismiss the case in February 2025, and discovery did not begin until December 11, 2025 — three years after filing. No prize has been revoked and no judgment has been entered.","repeat_count":3,"sources":[{"title":"Personal and business legal affairs of Donald Trump","outlet":"Wikipedia","url":"https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Personal_and_business_legal_affairs_of_Donald_Trump","date":"2025-01-01"}],"file":"between-terms.json","year":2022,"deadline_date":null,"days_since_promise":1379,"days_overdue":null,"two_weeks":false,"url":"/promise/pulitzer-board-lawsuit/","sort_key":"2022-12-13","number":164},{"id":"jan-6-committee-testimony-subpoena","title":"Promised to testify to the January 6 committee, then sued to avoid it","quote":"[paraphrase] Trump said he would like to testify — even \"live\" — to the January 6 committee, then fought the subpoena in court until the committee expired.","date_promised":"2022-10-14","venue":"Truth Social posts responding to the committee's October 13, 2022 subpoena vote","deadline_text":"testimony under oath by November 14, 2022","deadline_days":31,"category":"justice","era":"between-terms","status":"never-delivered","what_happened":"The committee voted unanimously on October 13, 2022 to subpoena Trump for documents and sworn testimony by November 14. Instead of appearing, Trump sued the committee on November 11-12, 2022, calling the subpoena overly broad and a First Amendment violation. He never testified. The committee withdrew the subpoena and dissolved at the end of the 117th Congress, releasing its final report in December 2022.","repeat_count":2,"sources":[{"title":"Trump sues the Jan. 6 House committee to avoid a subpoena","outlet":"NPR","url":"https://www.npr.org/2022/11/12/1136282088/trump-lawsuit-jan-6-committee-subpoena","date":"2022-11-12"},{"title":"Jan. 6 panel issues subpoena to Donald Trump, demanding he testify","outlet":"PBS NewsHour","url":"https://www.pbs.org/newshour/amp/politics/jan-6-panel-issues-subpoena-to-donald-trump-demanding-he-testify","date":"2022-10-21"},{"title":"Donald Trump files lawsuit to avoid Jan. 6 committee subpoena","outlet":"PBS NewsHour","url":"https://www.pbs.org/newshour/politics/donald-trump-files-lawsuit-to-avoid-jan-6-committee-subpoena","date":"2022-11-12"}],"file":"between-terms.json","year":2022,"deadline_date":"2022-11-14","days_since_promise":1439,"days_overdue":1408,"two_weeks":false,"url":"/promise/jan-6-committee-testimony-subpoena/","sort_key":"2022-10-14","number":163},{"id":"cnn-defamation-lawsuit-dismissed","title":"The $475 million CNN lawsuit thrown out by his own appointee","quote":"[paraphrase] Trump promised to sue CNN for defamation over its use of \"the Big Lie,\" and filed for $475 million in punitive damages.","date_promised":"2022-10-03","venue":"Complaint filed in U.S. District Court, Fort Lauderdale, Florida","deadline_text":null,"deadline_days":null,"category":"justice","era":"between-terms","status":"broken","what_happened":"On July 28-29, 2023 U.S. District Judge Raag Singhal — a Trump appointee — dismissed the suit, ruling that every CNN statement Trump cited was protected opinion. Singhal wrote that \"no reasonable viewer could (or should)\" read \"the Big Lie\" as accusing Trump of advocating genocide. Trump recovered nothing.","repeat_count":2,"sources":[{"title":"A federal judge has dismissed Trump's defamation case against CNN over 'the Big Lie'","outlet":"NPR","url":"https://www.npr.org/2023/07/30/1190983801/a-federal-judge-has-dismissed-trumps-defamation-case-against-cnn-over-the-big-li","date":"2023-07-30"},{"title":"Trump's defamation lawsuit against CNN over 'the Big Lie' dismissed in Florida","outlet":"NBC News","url":"https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/donald-trump/trumps-defamation-lawsuit-cnn-big-lie-dismissed-florida-rcna97172","date":"2023-07-29"},{"title":"Trump Loses $475 Million Suit Against CNN—Latest Defeat In Multiple Media Faceoffs","outlet":"Forbes","url":"https://www.forbes.com/sites/tylerroush/2023/07/29/trump-loses-475-million-suit-against-cnn-latest-defeat-in-multiple-media-faceoffs/","date":"2023-07-29"},{"title":"Judge says CNN's use of 'Big Lie' regarding Trump isn't defamation","outlet":"CNN","url":"https://www.cnn.com/2023/07/29/politics/trump-cnn-big-lie-defamation-lawsuit/index.html","date":"2023-07-29"}],"file":"between-terms.json","year":2022,"deadline_date":null,"days_since_promise":1450,"days_overdue":null,"two_weeks":false,"url":"/promise/cnn-defamation-lawsuit-dismissed/","sort_key":"2022-10-03","number":162},{"id":"clinton-rico-lawsuit-sanctioned","title":"The racketeering suit against Hillary Clinton that drew a $938,000 sanction","quote":"[paraphrase] Trump promised to sue Hillary Clinton, the DNC and dozens of others for conspiring to fabricate the Russia collusion story — and filed a 193-page RICO complaint.","date_promised":"2022-03-24","venue":"Complaint filed in the U.S. District Court for the Southern District of Florida","deadline_text":null,"deadline_days":null,"category":"justice","era":"between-terms","status":"broken","what_happened":"Judge Donald Middlebrooks dismissed the amended complaint as a \"shotgun pleading\" whose claims were \"foreclosed by existing law,\" writing that \"this case should never have been brought\" and \"no reasonable lawyer would have filed it.\" In January 2023 he sanctioned Trump and attorney Alina Habba nearly $1 million — $937,989 — for a \"continuing pattern\" of misusing the courts. The 11th Circuit upheld both the dismissal and the penalty, calling the arguments \"frivolous.\"","repeat_count":2,"sources":[{"title":"Trump attempts to reverse losses in hush money case and RICO lawsuit against Hillary Clinton","outlet":"CNN","url":"https://www.cnn.com/2023/07/28/politics/trump-hush-money-rico/index.html","date":"2023-07-28"},{"title":"'Arguments were indeed frivolous': Appeals court savages and dashes Trump's RICO lawsuit against Hillary Clinton","outlet":"Law & Crime","url":"https://lawandcrime.com/high-profile/arguments-were-indeed-frivolous-appeals-court-savages-and-dashes-trumps-rico-lawsuit-against-hillary-clinton-upholds-full-dismissal-and-nearly-1-million-penalty/","date":"2024-01-01"},{"title":"DONALD TRUMP v. HILLARY CLINTON (2023)","outlet":"FindLaw","url":"https://caselaw.findlaw.com/court/us-dis-crt-sd-flo/2181258.html","date":"2023-01-19"},{"title":"Personal and business legal affairs of Donald Trump","outlet":"Wikipedia","url":"https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Personal_and_business_legal_affairs_of_Donald_Trump","date":"2025-01-01"}],"file":"between-terms.json","year":2022,"deadline_date":null,"days_since_promise":1643,"days_overdue":null,"two_weeks":false,"url":"/promise/clinton-rico-lawsuit-sanctioned/","sort_key":"2022-03-24","number":161},{"id":"jan-6-anniversary-press-conference-cancelled","title":"The January 6 anniversary press conference he announced and then cancelled","quote":"[paraphrase] Trump announced a news conference at Mar-a-Lago for January 6, 2022 to address the anniversary and his election claims, then called it off two days beforehand.","date_promised":"2021-12-21","venue":"Announcement via his Save America PAC for an event at Mar-a-Lago","deadline_text":"January 6, 2022","deadline_days":16,"category":"elections","era":"between-terms","status":"never-delivered","what_happened":"On January 4, 2022 Trump cancelled the event, blaming \"total bias\" from the media and the House January 6 committee, and said he would make the same points at a January 15 rally in Arizona. CNN reported that advisers, including lawyers worried about his legal exposure, had pushed him to call it off. It would have been only his second press conference since leaving office.","repeat_count":1,"sources":[{"title":"Trump cancels press conference on January 6 anniversary at urging of advisers","outlet":"CNN","url":"https://www.cnn.com/2022/01/05/politics/trump-cancels-press-conference-january-6/index.html","date":"2022-01-05"},{"title":"Trump cancels Jan. 6 news conference at Mar-a-Lago, blames news media and House committee","outlet":"The Washington Post","url":"https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/trump-cancels-jan-6-news-conference-at-mar-a-lago-blames-news-media-and-house-committee-investigating-attack-on-capitol/2022/01/04/7dac1d9e-6db4-11ec-aaa8-35d1865a6977_story.html","date":"2022-01-04"},{"title":"Trump cancels Jan. 6 press conference at Mar-a-Lago","outlet":"Spectrum News","url":"https://spectrumnews1.com/ky/louisville/politics/2022/01/05/trump-cancels-jan--6-speech-at-mar-a-lago","date":"2022-01-05"}],"file":"between-terms.json","year":2021,"deadline_date":"2022-01-06","days_since_promise":1736,"days_overdue":1720,"two_weeks":false,"url":"/promise/jan-6-anniversary-press-conference-cancelled/","sort_key":"2021-12-21","number":160},{"id":"jan-6-legal-fees","title":"Promises to pay January 6 defendants' legal bills","quote":"[paraphrase] Trump said he was looking at paying the legal fees of January 6 defendants and told a Bedminster fundraiser he would contribute to their legal fund.","date_promised":"2021-11","venue":"Interviews and a September 2022 / 2023 fundraiser for January 6 defendants at Trump National Golf Club, Bedminster","deadline_text":null,"deadline_days":null,"category":"justice","era":"between-terms","status":"never-delivered","what_happened":"FEC records showed that through the first half of 2021 Trump's committees had paid none of the January 6 defendants' legal costs, despite sitting on roughly $100 million; HuffPost calculated he could have funded every defendant's defense at about $156,000 each and had spent zero. His alleged co-conspirators in other cases also reported never being paid. After returning to office he pardoned or commuted January 6 sentences in January 2025 and talked about federal \"reimbursement\" instead of personal payment; defendants are now pursuing Federal Tort Claims Act payouts.","repeat_count":4,"sources":[{"title":"Trump Could Pay $156,000 For Every Jan. 6 Rioter's Defense, But So Far Has Spent Zero","outlet":"HuffPost","url":"https://www.huffpost.com/entry/trump-legal-funds_n_619eb5cde4b0451e5503421f","date":"2021-11-24"},{"title":"Trump alleged co-conspirators never got paid by Trump team","outlet":"CNBC","url":"https://www.cnbc.com/2023/08/15/trump-alleged-co-conspirators-never-got-paid-by-trump-team.html","date":"2023-08-15"},{"title":"Trump spoke at a fundraiser for Jan. 6 defendants","outlet":"NBC News","url":"https://www.nbcnews.com/news/amp/rcna90806","date":"2023-06-17"},{"title":"'They should be reimbursed': Jan. 6 defendants still eyeing payouts, despite scrapped $1.8B fund","outlet":"ABC News","url":"https://abcnews.com/Politics/reimbursed-jan-6-defendants-eyeing-payouts-despite-scrapped/story?id=133565302","date":"2025-11-01"}],"file":"between-terms.json","year":2021,"deadline_date":null,"days_since_promise":1786,"days_overdue":null,"two_weeks":false,"url":"/promise/jan-6-legal-fees/","sort_key":"2021-11","number":159},{"id":"truth-social-launch-timeline","title":"Truth Social's promised launch dates came and went","quote":"[paraphrase] Beta launch for invited guests in November 2021, with a full nationwide rollout in the first quarter of 2022.","date_promised":"2021-10-20","venue":"Trump Media & Technology Group announcement of Truth Social","deadline_text":"beta in November 2021; full rollout in the first quarter of 2022","deadline_days":162,"category":"other","era":"between-terms","status":"late","what_happened":"The November 2021 iOS beta missed its schedule. The app reached the App Store on February 21, 2022 but immediately put tens of thousands of users on a waitlist amid glitches; CEO Devin Nunes conceded it would not be \"fully functional\" until the end of March. A web version followed in May 2022 with geographic restrictions, and Google Play approval did not come until October 12, 2022 — nearly a year after the promised beta.","repeat_count":3,"sources":[{"title":"Truth Social","outlet":"Wikipedia","url":"https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Truth_Social","date":"2024-01-01"},{"title":"Trump announces Truth Social network will be rolled out nationwide in first quarter of 2022","outlet":"Fox News","url":"https://www.foxnews.com/politics/trump-announces-truth-social-network-will-be-rolled-out-nationwide-in-first-quarter-of-2022","date":"2021-12-01"},{"title":"Truth Social launches in App Store but still puts users on waitlist","outlet":"Axios","url":"https://www.axios.com/2022/02/21/truth-social-app-store-donald-trump","date":"2022-02-21"},{"title":"Glitchy Start For Trump's 'Truth Social' App As Thousands End Up On Waitlist","outlet":"Forbes","url":"https://www.forbes.com/sites/siladityaray/2022/02/21/donald-trumps-twitter-alternative-truth-social-launches-on-apple-app-store/","date":"2022-02-21"},{"title":"Trump's Truth Social gets off to a rocky start","outlet":"The Hill","url":"https://thehill.com/policy/technology/597413-trumps-truth-social-gets-off-to-a-rocky-start/","date":"2022-02-22"}],"file":"between-terms.json","year":2021,"deadline_date":"2022-03-31","days_since_promise":1798,"days_overdue":1636,"two_weeks":false,"url":"/promise/truth-social-launch-timeline/","sort_key":"2021-10-20","number":158},{"id":"reinstated-by-august-2021","title":"Trump told people he would be \"reinstated\" as president by August 2021","quote":"Trump has been telling a number of people he's in contact with that he expects he will get reinstated by August.","date_promised":"2021-06-01","venue":"Reported by New York Times correspondent Maggie Haberman, based on Trump's private conversations","deadline_text":"by August","deadline_days":61,"category":"elections","era":"between-terms","status":"never-delivered","what_happened":"There is no constitutional mechanism for reinstating a president. August 2021 came and went with Joe Biden in office. The claim was tied to the Arizona \"audit\" and similar state reviews Trump was promoting, none of which changed a single certified result; the Cyber Ninjas review released in September 2021 actually found Biden with slightly more votes. The belief circulated widely among supporters and produced nothing.","repeat_count":1,"sources":[{"title":"Maggie Haberman: Trump Telling People He Expects To Be 'Reinstated' As President By August","outlet":"Forbes","url":"https://www.forbes.com/sites/markjoyella/2021/06/01/maggie-haberman-trump-telling-people-he-expects-to-be-reinstated-by-august/","date":"2021-06-01"},{"title":"National Review senior writer: 'Maggie Haberman is right' that Trump expects to be 'reinstated'","outlet":"Poynter","url":"https://www.poynter.org/reporting-editing/2021/national-review-senior-writer-maggie-haberman-is-right-that-trump-expects-to-be-reinstated/","date":"2021-06-02"},{"title":"Trump Is Reportedly Making Claims About Being 'Reinstated'","outlet":"Newser","url":"https://www.newser.com/story/306834/nyt-trump-telling-people-hell-be-reinstated.html","date":"2021-06-01"}],"file":"between-terms.json","year":2021,"deadline_date":"2021-08-01","days_since_promise":1939,"days_overdue":1878,"two_weeks":false,"url":"/promise/reinstated-by-august-2021/","sort_key":"2021-06-01","number":157},{"id":"own-social-platform-two-three-months","title":"\"His own platform\" promised in two or three months","quote":"I do think that we're going to see President Trump returning to social media in probably about two or three months here, with his own platform. ... It's going to completely redefine the game.","date_promised":"2021-03-21","venue":"Jason Miller on Fox News' \"MediaBuzz,\" speaking for Trump","deadline_text":"about two or three months","deadline_days":75,"category":"other","era":"between-terms","status":"late","what_happened":"What actually appeared in early May 2021 was a blog, \"From the Desk of Donald J. Trump,\" which drew almost no traffic and was shut down on June 2, 2021 — 29 days after launch — with Miller teasing that it was a precursor to the real platform. That platform, Truth Social, did not arrive until February 2022, about eleven months after the two-to-three-month promise.","repeat_count":3,"sources":[{"title":"Trump returning to social media with 'his own platform' in 2-3 months: adviser","outlet":"Fox News","url":"https://www.foxnews.com/politics/trump-social-media-platform-return-adviser","date":"2021-03-21"},{"title":"Trump to Launch 'His Own' Social Media Platform According to Spokesperson Jason Miller","outlet":"The Daily Beast","url":"https://www.thedailybeast.com/trump-to-launch-his-own-social-media-platform-according-to-spokesperson-jason-miller/","date":"2021-03-21"},{"title":"'Stay Tuned!': Trump Shuts Down Personal Blog, Teases Appearance On New Social Media Platform","outlet":"The Daily Caller","url":"https://dailycaller.com/2021/06/02/trump-blog-jason-miller-social-media/","date":"2021-06-02"}],"file":"between-terms.json","year":2021,"deadline_date":"2021-06-04","days_since_promise":2011,"days_overdue":1936,"two_weeks":false,"url":"/promise/own-social-platform-two-three-months/","sort_key":"2021-03-21","number":156},{"id":"patriot-party-2021","title":"The \"Patriot Party\" third party floated and dropped within days","quote":"[paraphrase] Trump told advisers he wanted to start a new party — the Patriot Party — to punish Republicans who blamed him for January 6.","date_promised":"2021-01-19","venue":"Reported conversations with advisers in his final days in office; first reported by The Wall Street Journal","deadline_text":null,"deadline_days":6,"category":"elections","era":"between-terms","status":"never-delivered","what_happened":"The idea lasted less than a week. On January 25, 2021 Trump's own campaign committee formally disavowed groups using the Patriot Party name, and adviser Jason Miller told CNN Trump was not considering a third party. Supporters filed their own FEC paperwork and built Telegram groups around a party that never existed. Trump stayed inside the Republican Party and took it over instead.","repeat_count":1,"sources":[{"title":"Donald Trump's political team disavows \"Patriot Party\" groups","outlet":"Axios","url":"https://www.axios.com/2021/01/25/trump-political-team-disavows-patriot-party-groups","date":"2021-01-25"},{"title":"Trump Campaign Distances Itself From Rogue 'Patriot Party'","outlet":"Forbes","url":"https://www.forbes.com/sites/jackbrewster/2021/01/25/trump-campaign-distances-itself-from-rogue-patriot-party/","date":"2021-01-25"},{"title":"Did Trump Start a New Political Party Called the 'Patriot Party'?","outlet":"Snopes","url":"https://www.snopes.com/fact-check/patriot-party-trump/","date":"2021-01-26"},{"title":"Inside a 'Patriot Party' rally where Trump loyalists search for a movement","outlet":"CNN","url":"https://www.cnn.com/2021/02/23/politics/patriot-party-trump/index.html","date":"2021-02-23"}],"file":"between-terms.json","year":2021,"deadline_date":"2021-01-25","days_since_promise":2072,"days_overdue":2066,"two_weeks":true,"url":"/promise/patriot-party-2021/","sort_key":"2021-01-19","number":155},{"id":"two-thousand-dollar-checks-2020","title":"$2,000 relief checks 'immediately' after a Monday vote","quote":"[paraphrase] The $600 payments are ridiculously low. Congress must raise them to $2,000 — the House votes Monday and the Senate will start the process.","date_promised":"2020-12-22","venue":"Video statement posted to Twitter, repeated in his December 27 signing statement","deadline_text":"Monday / immediately","deadline_days":3,"category":"economy","era":"term-1","status":"broken","what_happened":"His six-day delay in signing lapsed unemployment benefits for millions. He signed on December 27, 2020. The House did pass the $2,000 increase on December 28 by 275-134, but Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell blocked a standalone vote and the increase died. Americans received $600, not $2,000.","repeat_count":2,"sources":[{"title":"Trump Signs COVID-19 Relief Deal After His Criticism Threatened To Derail It","outlet":"NPR","url":"https://www.npr.org/2020/12/27/950133658/trump-signs-covid-19-relief-package-after-threatening-to-derail-it","date":"2020-12-27"},{"title":"House votes on $2,000 stimulus checks after Trump signs relief bill","outlet":"CNBC","url":"https://www.cnbc.com/2020/12/28/house-votes-on-2000-stimulus-checks-after-trump-signs-relief-bill.html","date":"2020-12-28"}],"file":"term-1.json","year":2020,"deadline_date":"2020-12-25","days_since_promise":2100,"days_overdue":2097,"two_weeks":true,"url":"/promise/two-thousand-dollar-checks-2020/","sort_key":"2020-12-22","number":154},{"id":"vaccine-doses-within-24-hours-2020","title":"'Tens of millions of doses' within 24 hours of FDA authorization","quote":"[paraphrase] Within 24 hours of the FDA's emergency authorization, tens of millions of doses will be distributed.","date_promised":"2020-12-08","venue":"Operation Warp Speed Vaccine Summit at the White House","deadline_text":"within 24 hours","deadline_days":1,"category":"covid","era":"term-1","status":"broken","what_happened":"Within 24 hours of Pfizer's December 11, 2020 authorization the government began releasing 6.4 million doses in two stages, not tens of millions. Pfizer had already cut its 2020 manufacturing projection from 100 million to 50 million doses. About 2.8 million people had been vaccinated in the US by December 31, 2020, against a stated goal of 20 million.","repeat_count":2,"sources":[{"title":"Remarks by President Trump at the Operation Warp Speed Vaccine Summit","outlet":"Trump White House Archives","url":"https://trumpwhitehouse.archives.gov/briefings-statements/remarks-president-trump-operation-warp-speed-vaccine-summit/","date":"2020-12-08"},{"title":"Trump's Operation Warp Speed promised a flood of covid vaccines. Instead, states are expecting a trickle","outlet":"Washington Post (via House Energy & Commerce hearing documents)","url":"https://www.congress.gov/117/meeting/house/111136/documents/HHRG-117-IF14-20210203-SD014.pdf","date":"2021-02-03"}],"file":"term-1.json","year":2020,"deadline_date":"2020-12-09","days_since_promise":2114,"days_overdue":2113,"two_weeks":true,"url":"/promise/vaccine-doses-within-24-hours-2020/","sort_key":"2020-12-08","number":153},{"id":"election-fraud-evidence-coming-2020","title":"Proof of 2020 election fraud, always days away — and the 'Kraken'","quote":"[paraphrase] Big news coming. We have tremendous evidence and you'll see it very soon. / Sidney Powell: 'I'm going to release the Kraken.'","date_promised":"2020-11","venue":"Trump tweets and campaign statements; Sidney Powell on Fox Business's 'Lou Dobbs Tonight'","deadline_text":"coming soon / within days","deadline_days":7,"category":"elections","era":"term-1","status":"never-delivered","what_happened":"The evidence never materialised. A promised fraud press conference was cancelled on his attorneys' advice. Attorney General Bill Barr said on December 1, 2020 that the Justice Department had found no fraud on a scale that would change the outcome. Trump and his allies lost or withdrew roughly 60 of 62 post-election lawsuits, and the Supreme Court rejected the Texas case on December 11, 2020. Powell's 'Kraken' suits in Georgia, Michigan, Wisconsin and Arizona were all dismissed; she pleaded guilty to misdemeanour conspiracy charges in Fulton County in October 2023.","repeat_count":8,"sources":[{"title":"Trump cancels press conference on 2020 election fraud claims, citing attorneys' advice","outlet":"PBS NewsHour","url":"https://www.pbs.org/newshour/politics/trump-cancels-press-conference-on-2020-election-fraud-claims-citing-attorneys-advice","date":"2020-12-01"},{"title":"Sidney Powell vowed to 'release the Kraken' to help Donald Trump. She may now testify against him","outlet":"Associated Press (via KSL)","url":"https://www.ksl.com/article/50758479/sidney-powell-vowed-to-release-the-kraken-to-help-donald-trump-she-may-now-testify-against-him","date":"2023-10-19"},{"title":"Fact-checking Trump's falsehood-filled weekend","outlet":"CNN","url":"https://www.cnn.com/2020/11/30/politics/trump-post-election-fox-news-interview-fact-check/index.html","date":"2020-11-30"}],"file":"term-1.json","year":2020,"deadline_date":"2020-11-08","days_since_promise":2151,"days_overdue":2144,"two_weeks":true,"url":"/promise/election-fraud-evidence-coming-2020/","sort_key":"2020-11","number":152},{"id":"afghanistan-troops-home-by-christmas","title":"All troops home from Afghanistan by Christmas","quote":"We should have the small remaining number of our BRAVE Men and Women serving in Afghanistan home by Christmas!","date_promised":"2020-10-07","venue":"Twitter","deadline_text":"by Christmas","deadline_days":79,"category":"foreign-policy","era":"term-1","status":"never-delivered","what_happened":"About 4,500 to 5,000 troops were in Afghanistan when the tweet was posted. The drawdown reached roughly 2,500 by mid-January 2021, and U.S. forces were still there when Trump left office. The final withdrawal took place in August 2021.","repeat_count":8,"sources":[{"title":"Trump says he wants troops in Afghanistan 'home by Christmas,' but it's unclear that will happen","outlet":"CNBC","url":"https://www.cnbc.com/2020/10/08/trump-says-us-troops-in-afghanistan-should-be-home-by-christmas.html","date":"2020-10-08"},{"title":"All US troops in Afghanistan to withdraw by Christmas, Trump tweets","outlet":"Defense One","url":"https://www.defenseone.com/policy/2020/10/all-us-troops-afghanistan-withdraw-christmas-trump-tweets/169105/","date":"2020-10-08"}],"file":"term-1.json","year":2020,"deadline_date":"2020-12-25","days_since_promise":2176,"days_overdue":2097,"two_weeks":false,"url":"/promise/afghanistan-troops-home-by-christmas/","sort_key":"2020-10-07","number":151},{"id":"total-declassification-no-redactions-2020","title":"'Total Declassification' of Russia and Clinton email files — 'No redactions!'","quote":"I have fully authorized the total Declassification of any & all documents pertaining to the single greatest political CRIME in American History, the Russia Hoax. Likewise, the Hillary Clinton Email Scandal. No redactions!","date_promised":"2020-10-06","venue":"Twitter","deadline_text":"immediately / 'fully authorized'","deadline_days":1,"category":"transparency","era":"term-1","status":"never-delivered","what_happened":"The blanket release never happened. DNI John Ratcliffe declassified a handful of selected items but no unredacted dump followed. In mid-January 2021, days before leaving office, Trump again ordered 'Obamagate' material declassified with reporting that it would be out within days; the promised material was not publicly released before January 20, 2021.","repeat_count":3,"sources":[{"title":"Trump says he has declassified documents on Russia, Clinton emails","outlet":"Gulf News","url":"https://gulfnews.com/world/americas/trump-says-he-has-declassified-documents-on-russia-clinton-emails-1.1602034418182","date":"2020-10-07"},{"title":"Trump authorizes declassification of Russia probe documents","outlet":"Fox News","url":"https://www.foxnews.com/politics/gregg-jarrett-russia-investigation-hillary-clinton","date":"2020-10-07"}],"file":"term-1.json","year":2020,"deadline_date":"2020-10-07","days_since_promise":2177,"days_overdue":2176,"two_weeks":true,"url":"/promise/total-declassification-no-redactions-2020/","sort_key":"2020-10-06","number":150},{"id":"stimulus-immediately-after-i-win-2020","title":"'Immediately after I win, we will pass a major Stimulus Bill'","quote":"I have instructed my representatives to stop negotiating until after the election when, immediately after I win, we will pass a major Stimulus Bill that focuses on hardworking Americans and Small Business.","date_promised":"2020-10-06","venue":"Twitter","deadline_text":"immediately after I win","deadline_days":1,"category":"economy","era":"term-1","status":"broken","what_happened":"The tweet killed relief talks and the Dow fell 376 points that day. Trump reversed within about 24 hours and began demanding piecemeal relief, but nothing passed before the election, and he lost. No further relief became law until the $900 billion package Congress approved on December 21, 2020, more than eleven weeks later.","repeat_count":2,"sources":[{"title":"Trump kills stimulus talks, tweets no deal until after 'I win'","outlet":"NBC News","url":"https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/donald-trump/trump-kills-stimulus-talks-tweets-no-deal-until-after-i-n1242312","date":"2020-10-06"},{"title":"Trump says stimulus relief negotiations over until after election","outlet":"Washington Post","url":"https://www.washingtonpost.com/us-policy/2020/10/06/trump-kills-stimulus-talks/","date":"2020-10-06"}],"file":"term-1.json","year":2020,"deadline_date":"2020-10-07","days_since_promise":2177,"days_overdue":2176,"two_weeks":true,"url":"/promise/stimulus-immediately-after-i-win-2020/","sort_key":"2020-10-06","number":149},{"id":"vaccine-before-election-day","title":"A COVID-19 vaccine before Election Day","quote":"[paraphrase] We'll have a vaccine before a very special date — I'm talking about November 3rd.","date_promised":"2020-09-07","venue":"White House press conference, Labor Day","deadline_text":"before November 3, 2020","deadline_days":57,"category":"covid","era":"term-1","status":"late","what_happened":"No vaccine was authorized before the election. Pfizer announced interim efficacy results on November 9, 2020, six days after Election Day. The FDA granted emergency use authorization to the Pfizer-BioNTech vaccine on December 11, 2020 and to Moderna's on December 18, 2020.","repeat_count":10,"sources":[{"title":"Did Trump promise a COVID-19 vaccine by Election Day?","outlet":"Snopes","url":"https://www.snopes.com/fact-check/trump-promise-vaccine-election-day/","date":"2020-09-08"},{"title":"Fact check: Will there be a coronavirus vaccine by November?","outlet":"CNN","url":"https://amp.cnn.com/cnn/2020/08/07/politics/donald-trump-coronavirus-vaccine-november-fact-check/index.html","date":"2020-08-07"}],"file":"term-1.json","year":2020,"deadline_date":"2020-11-03","days_since_promise":2206,"days_overdue":2149,"two_weeks":false,"url":"/promise/vaccine-before-election-day/","sort_key":"2020-09-07","number":148},{"id":"preexisting-conditions-eo-two-weeks-2020","title":"Executive order on pre-existing conditions 'over the next two weeks'","quote":"[paraphrase] Over the next two weeks I'll be pursuing a major executive order requiring health insurance companies to cover all pre-existing conditions for all customers.","date_promised":"2020-08-07","venue":"News conference at Trump National Golf Club, Bedminster, New Jersey","deadline_text":"over the next two weeks","deadline_days":14,"category":"healthcare","era":"term-1","status":"late","what_happened":"Pre-existing conditions were already covered by the Affordable Care Act, which Trump's administration was simultaneously asking the Supreme Court to strike down. The order finally came on September 24, 2020 — seven weeks late — and PolitiFact and other fact-checkers found it created no enforceable protection, merely declaring it 'the policy of the United States.'","repeat_count":3,"sources":[{"title":"Donald Trump's executive order on pre-existing conditions doesn't do what he says","outlet":"PolitiFact","url":"https://www.politifact.com/article/2020/sep/25/donald-trumps-executive-order-preexisting-conditio","date":"2020-09-25"},{"title":"Trump to sign executive orders protecting preexisting conditions","outlet":"CNBC","url":"https://www.cnbc.com/2020/09/24/trump-to-sign-executive-orders-on-preexisting-conditions-surprise-medical-billing.html","date":"2020-09-24"},{"title":"Viral Post Overstates Effect of Trump's Order on Preexisting Conditions","outlet":"FactCheck.org","url":"https://www.factcheck.org/2020/10/viral-post-overstates-effect-of-trumps-order-on-preexisting-conditions/","date":"2020-10-02"}],"file":"term-1.json","year":2020,"deadline_date":"2020-08-21","days_since_promise":2237,"days_overdue":2223,"two_weeks":true,"url":"/promise/preexisting-conditions-eo-two-weeks-2020/","sort_key":"2020-08-07","number":147},{"id":"healthcare-end-of-august-2020","title":"'A tremendous health care plan... hopefully prior to the end of the month'","quote":"I do want to say that we're going to be introducing a tremendous health care plan sometime prior — hopefully, prior to the end of the month. It's just completed now.","date_promised":"2020-08-03","venue":"White House press briefing","deadline_text":"prior to the end of the month","deadline_days":28,"category":"healthcare","era":"term-1","status":"never-delivered","what_happened":"August 2020 ended with no plan. CNN's September 5, 2020 headline read 'Trump promised a health care plan before the end of August. It never came.' PolitiFact counted this as at least the fifth Obamacare-replacement promise of 2020 alone. A recognisable 'Great Healthcare Plan' was not announced until January 15, 2026, and even that required Congress to act.","repeat_count":12,"sources":[{"title":"Trump promised a health care plan before the end of August. It never came","outlet":"CNN","url":"https://www.cnn.com/2020/09/05/politics/trump-health-care-plan","date":"2020-09-05"},{"title":"Trump vows health care overhaul by end of August","outlet":"Fox News","url":"https://www.foxnews.com/politics/trump-vows-health-care-overhaul-by-end-of-august","date":"2020-08-03"},{"title":"Trump announces health care plan to cut costs, but it needs Congress' approval","outlet":"NBC News","url":"https://www.nbcnews.com/health/health-news/trump-health-care-plan-direct-payments-obamacare-congress-rcna254232","date":"2026-01-15"}],"file":"term-1.json","year":2020,"deadline_date":"2020-08-31","days_since_promise":2241,"days_overdue":2213,"two_weeks":false,"url":"/promise/healthcare-end-of-august-2020/","sort_key":"2020-08-03","number":146},{"id":"tiktok-september-15-deadline-2020","title":"TikTok sold by September 15 'or it's out of business'","quote":"[paraphrase] I set a date of around Sept. 15, at which point it's going to be out of business in the United States.","date_promised":"2020-08-03","venue":"Remarks to reporters at the White House, followed by the August 6, 2020 executive order setting a 45-day clock","deadline_text":"around September 15 / 45 days","deadline_days":43,"category":"other","era":"term-1","status":"broken","what_happened":"September 15, 2020 passed with no completed sale. Trump gave preliminary blessing on September 19 to an Oracle/Walmart 'TikTok Global' structure and Commerce postponed the app-store ban by a week. A federal judge enjoined the ban on September 27, 2020, and a second injunction followed on December 7. The deal was never consummated and TikTok kept operating — a pattern that repeated with serial extensions in his second term.","repeat_count":3,"sources":[{"title":"Donald Trump's TikTok Ban Halted With Just Hours Until It Went Into Effect","outlet":"Deadline","url":"https://deadline.com/2020/09/tiktok-ban-halted-donald-trump-oracle-walmart-bytedance-judge-1234586018/","date":"2020-09-27"},{"title":"Floor left open to Oracle as TikTok rejects Microsoft offer","outlet":"Al Jazeera","url":"https://www.aljazeera.com/amp/economy/2020/9/14/floor-left-open-to-oracle-as-tiktok-rejects-microsoft-offer","date":"2020-09-14"}],"file":"term-1.json","year":2020,"deadline_date":"2020-09-15","days_since_promise":2241,"days_overdue":2198,"two_weeks":false,"url":"/promise/tiktok-september-15-deadline-2020/","sort_key":"2020-08-03","number":145},{"id":"drug-pricing-30-day-ultimatum-2020","title":"30-day ultimatum to drugmakers on 'most favored nation' pricing","quote":"[paraphrase] I am giving the pharmaceutical companies until August 24 to come up with something better, or the most favored nation order takes effect.","date_promised":"2020-07-24","venue":"White House drug-pricing executive order signing ceremony","deadline_text":"30 days / by August 24","deadline_days":31,"category":"healthcare","era":"term-1","status":"broken","what_happened":"The August 24, 2020 midnight deadline passed with no deal and no order, and the White House would not say whether it would proceed. A replacement order was issued on September 13, 2020 that merely directed HHS to develop a rulemaking plan. The resulting interim final rule was blocked by federal courts in December 2020 and later withdrawn.","repeat_count":2,"sources":[{"title":"Executive Order on Lowering Drug Prices by Putting America First","outlet":"Trump White House Archives","url":"https://trumpwhitehouse.archives.gov/presidential-actions/executive-order-lowering-drug-prices-putting-america-first-2/","date":"2020-07-24"},{"title":"Trump deadline for drug pricing order passes with no action","outlet":"The Hill","url":"https://thehill.com/policy/healthcare/513518-trump-deadline-for-drug-pricing-order-passes-with-no-action/","date":"2020-08-25"}],"file":"term-1.json","year":2020,"deadline_date":"2020-08-24","days_since_promise":2251,"days_overdue":2220,"two_weeks":false,"url":"/promise/drug-pricing-30-day-ultimatum-2020/","sort_key":"2020-07-24","number":144},{"id":"healthcare-plan-two-weeks-wallace-2020","title":"'We're signing a health care plan within two weeks'","quote":"We're signing a health care plan within two weeks, a full and complete health care plan.","date_promised":"2020-07-19","venue":"Fox News Sunday interview with Chris Wallace","deadline_text":"within two weeks","deadline_days":14,"category":"healthcare","era":"term-1","status":"never-delivered","what_happened":"The two weeks expired on August 2, 2020 with nothing signed. On July 31 Trump said it was coming 'sometime very soon'; on August 3 'hopefully, prior to the end of the month'; on August 7 he promised a major executive order 'in two weeks.' What eventually appeared on September 24, 2020 was the 'America First Healthcare Plan' executive order that fact-checkers described as largely symbolic. No comprehensive replacement plan was ever signed.","repeat_count":12,"sources":[{"title":"Back to the future: Trump's history of promising a health plan that never comes","outlet":"PolitiFact / KFF Health News","url":"https://www.politifact.com/article/2020/aug/13/back-future-trumps-history-promising-health-plan-n/","date":"2020-08-13"},{"title":"Trump keeps promising an overhaul of the nation's health-care system that never arrives","outlet":"Washington Post","url":"https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/trump-obamacare-promise/2020/08/01/856ce250-d348-11ea-8d32-1ebf4e9d8e0d_story.html","date":"2020-08-01"},{"title":"Donald Trump's new health care plan has been 2 months away for 15 months now","outlet":"CNN","url":"https://www.cnn.com/2020/09/16/politics/donald-trump-health-care/index.html","date":"2020-09-16"}],"file":"term-1.json","year":2020,"deadline_date":"2020-08-02","days_since_promise":2256,"days_overdue":2242,"two_weeks":true,"url":"/promise/healthcare-plan-two-weeks-wallace-2020/","sort_key":"2020-07-19","number":143},{"id":"immigration-order-four-weeks-2020","title":"Merit-based immigration order and a DACA fix 'in four weeks'","quote":"[paraphrase] We're going to have a road to citizenship... I'm going to be signing a big immigration bill in about four weeks.","date_promised":"2020-07-11","venue":"Telemundo interview with Jose Diaz-Balart","deadline_text":"in about four weeks","deadline_days":28,"category":"immigration","era":"term-1","status":"never-delivered","what_happened":"The White House walked back 'road to citizenship' within days. Four weeks passed with no bill and no executive order, and none ever appeared before Trump left office. What DHS did issue, on July 28, 2020, was a memo restricting new DACA applications, which federal courts later struck down.","repeat_count":3,"sources":[{"title":"H-1B Visas And Trump's Next 'Merit-Based' Immigration Plan","outlet":"Forbes","url":"https://www.forbes.com/sites/stuartanderson/2020/08/06/h-1b-visas-and-trumps-next-merit-based-immigration-plan/","date":"2020-08-06"},{"title":"Trump offers confusion, contradictions on immigration order","outlet":"WUSA9 / AP","url":"https://www.wusa9.com/article/news/nation-world/trump-offers-confusion-contradictions-on-immigration-order/507-9e7f11c7-cfda-4324-a700-33aa0153cb6c","date":"2020-07-14"}],"file":"term-1.json","year":2020,"deadline_date":"2020-08-08","days_since_promise":2264,"days_overdue":2236,"two_weeks":false,"url":"/promise/immigration-order-four-weeks-2020/","sort_key":"2020-07-11","number":142},{"id":"five-million-tests-a-day-very-soon","title":"'We're going to be there very soon' on 5 million tests a day","quote":"We're going to be there very soon... [capacity] will increase by much more than that in the very near future.","date_promised":"2020-04-28","venue":"Oval Office remarks","deadline_text":"very soon / the very near future","deadline_days":14,"category":"covid","era":"term-1","status":"never-delivered","what_happened":"Hours earlier testing czar Adm. Brett Giroir had said there was 'absolutely no way on Earth, on this planet or any other planet' the US could run 5 million tests a day. Trump reversed within a day, denying he had said it and blaming a 'media trap.' The single-day peak at that point was 314,182 tests, and the US never reached 5 million tests a day.","repeat_count":1,"sources":[{"title":"Coronavirus testing chief says 'no way on Earth' US can test 5 million a day, despite what Trump says","outlet":"CNBC","url":"https://www.cnbc.com/2020/04/29/coronavirus-testing-chief-says-no-way-on-earth-us-can-test-5-million-a-day.html","date":"2020-04-29"},{"title":"AP FACT CHECK: Testing czar rebuts Trump","outlet":"PBS NewsHour","url":"https://www.pbs.org/newshour/nation/ap-fact-check-testing-czar-rebuts-trump-vet-care-hyped","date":"2020-04-30"}],"file":"term-1.json","year":2020,"deadline_date":"2020-05-12","days_since_promise":2338,"days_overdue":2324,"two_weeks":true,"url":"/promise/five-million-tests-a-day-very-soon/","sort_key":"2020-04-28","number":141},{"id":"covid-open-by-easter","title":"'I would love to have the country opened up by Easter'","quote":"I would love to have it open by Easter... You'll have packed churches all over our country. I think it'll be a beautiful time.","date_promised":"2020-03-24","venue":"Fox News virtual town hall from the White House Rose Garden","deadline_text":"by Easter (April 12, 2020)","deadline_days":19,"category":"covid","era":"term-1","status":"broken","what_happened":"Dr. Anthony Fauci and Dr. Deborah Birx pushed back hard. Five days later, on March 29, 2020, Trump abandoned the Easter target and extended social distancing guidelines to April 30. Easter Sunday 2020 fell in one of the deadliest stretches of the first wave and churches held services online or in parking lots.","repeat_count":2,"sources":[{"title":"Trump Sets Easter Goal For Reopening American Economy","outlet":"NPR","url":"https://www.npr.org/2020/03/24/820774378/trump-id-love-for-u-s-to-be-opened-up-by-easter-amidst-pandemic-response","date":"2020-03-24"},{"title":"Trump wants 'packed churches' and economy open again on Easter despite the deadly threat of coronavirus","outlet":"CNBC","url":"https://www.cnbc.com/2020/03/24/coronavirus-response-trump-wants-to-reopen-us-economy-by-easter.html","date":"2020-03-24"}],"file":"term-1.json","year":2020,"deadline_date":"2020-04-12","days_since_promise":2373,"days_overdue":2354,"two_weeks":false,"url":"/promise/covid-open-by-easter/","sort_key":"2020-03-24","number":140},{"id":"hydroxychloroquine-almost-immediately","title":"Hydroxychloroquine 'available almost immediately'","quote":"We're going to be able to make that drug available almost immediately.","date_promised":"2020-03-19","venue":"White House Coronavirus Task Force briefing","deadline_text":"almost immediately","deadline_days":1,"category":"covid","era":"term-1","status":"broken","what_happened":"FDA Commissioner Stephen Hahn corrected Trump at the same briefing, saying more study was needed. The FDA issued a narrow emergency use authorization on March 28, 2020 for stockpiled product in certain hospitalized patients, then revoked it on June 15, 2020 after trials showed no benefit and possible cardiac harm. The promotion caused shortages for lupus and rheumatoid arthritis patients.","repeat_count":4,"sources":[{"title":"Trump announces potential 'game changer' on drugs to treat COVID-19, but FDA says more study is needed","outlet":"ABC News","url":"https://abcnews.com/Politics/trump-announces-potential-game-changer-drugs-treat-covid19/story?id=69693560","date":"2020-03-19"},{"title":"Timeline: Tracking Trump alongside scientific developments on hydroxychloroquine","outlet":"ABC News","url":"https://abcnews.com/Health/timeline-tracking-trump-alongside-scientific-developments-hydroxychloroquine/story?id=72170553","date":"2020-08-08"}],"file":"term-1.json","year":2020,"deadline_date":"2020-03-20","days_since_promise":2378,"days_overdue":2377,"two_weeks":true,"url":"/promise/hydroxychloroquine-almost-immediately/","sort_key":"2020-03-19","number":139},{"id":"stimulus-checks-within-two-weeks-2020","title":"$1,000 stimulus checks in people's accounts 'within two weeks'","quote":"[paraphrase] The IRS will ensure that within two weeks the first money will be in people's accounts.","date_promised":"2020-03-17","venue":"White House briefing announcing the $1.2 trillion stimulus proposal (Treasury Secretary Steven Mnuchin, alongside Trump)","deadline_text":"within two weeks","deadline_days":14,"category":"economy","era":"term-1","status":"late","what_happened":"The CARES Act was not signed until March 27, 2020. On March 29 Mnuchin revised the estimate to 'within three weeks.' The first roughly 60 million direct deposits landed around the week of April 13 — about four weeks after the promise — and paper checks began going out the week of May 4 at roughly 5 million a week, with an internal memo warning some Americans might wait until August.","repeat_count":2,"sources":[{"title":"Trump Pushes $1.2 Trillion Stimulus, $1,000 Checks in Two Weeks","outlet":"Bloomberg","url":"https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2020-03-17/mnuchin-says-trump-wants-money-sent-to-americans-in-two-weeks","date":"2020-03-17"},{"title":"Treasury Secretary says Americans can expect checks to be direct deposited within 3 weeks","outlet":"CNN","url":"https://www.cnn.com/2020/03/29/politics/treasury-secretary-steve-mnuchin-stimulus-checks/index.html","date":"2020-03-29"},{"title":"Some in US May Not Get Stimulus Checks Until August, Memo Says","outlet":"NBC10 Philadelphia","url":"https://www.nbcphiladelphia.com/news/national-international/many-americans-may-have-to-wait-months-for-coronavirus-relief-checks/2350368/","date":"2020-04-16"}],"file":"term-1.json","year":2020,"deadline_date":"2020-03-31","days_since_promise":2380,"days_overdue":2366,"two_weeks":true,"url":"/promise/stimulus-checks-within-two-weeks-2020/","sort_key":"2020-03-17","number":138},{"id":"covid-15-days-to-slow-the-spread","title":"'15 Days to Slow the Spread'","quote":"[paraphrase] Fifteen days of avoiding gatherings of more than 10 people, discretionary travel, bars, restaurants and food courts.","date_promised":"2020-03-16","venue":"White House briefing, issued as federal guidance","deadline_text":"15 days","deadline_days":15,"category":"covid","era":"term-1","status":"late","what_happened":"On March 29, 2020, with the fifteen days about to expire and after pushing to reopen by Easter, Trump extended the guidelines by another 30 days to April 30 — NPR's headline was 'How 15 Days Became 45.' The guidelines then lapsed into a phased 'Opening Up America Again' framework. The phrase became shorthand for a deadline that never ends.","repeat_count":2,"sources":[{"title":"15 Days to Slow the Spread","outlet":"Trump White House Archives","url":"https://trumpwhitehouse.archives.gov/articles/15-days-slow-spread/","date":"2020-03-16"},{"title":"How 15 Days Became 45: Trump Extends Guidelines To Slow Coronavirus","outlet":"NPR","url":"https://www.npr.org/2020/03/30/822448199/how-15-days-became-45-trump-extends-guidelines-to-slow-coronavirus","date":"2020-03-30"},{"title":"Trump extends federal social distancing guidelines to April 30","outlet":"CNN","url":"https://www.cnn.com/2020/03/29/politics/trump-coronavirus-press-conference/index.html","date":"2020-03-29"}],"file":"term-1.json","year":2020,"deadline_date":"2020-03-31","days_since_promise":2381,"days_overdue":2366,"two_weeks":false,"url":"/promise/covid-15-days-to-slow-the-spread/","sort_key":"2020-03-16","number":137},{"id":"covid-google-1700-engineers","title":"Google's '1,700 engineers' and a national testing website by Sunday night","quote":"Google is helping to develop a website. It's going to be very quickly done... Google has 1,700 engineers working on this right now. They've made tremendous progress.","date_promised":"2020-03-13","venue":"Rose Garden national emergency declaration","deadline_text":"very quickly / locations announced 'probably on Sunday night'","deadline_days":3,"category":"covid","era":"term-1","status":"broken","what_happened":"Google publicly corrected the record the same day. The project belonged to Alphabet's Verily, not Google, and launched March 15-16, 2020 as a pilot limited to two San Francisco Bay Area counties, with appointment slots filling almost immediately. Verily ultimately helped about 1.6 million people get tested in 2020 — under 1% of all US tests that year.","repeat_count":1,"sources":[{"title":"Remarks by President Trump, Vice President Pence, and Members of the Coronavirus Task Force in a Press Conference","outlet":"Trump White House Archives","url":"https://trumpwhitehouse.archives.gov/briefings-statements/remarks-president-trump-vice-president-pence-members-coronavirus-task-force-press-conference-3/","date":"2020-03-13"},{"title":"Trump: 1,700 Google Engineers Working On Coronavirus Site. Google Says... Actually, No","outlet":"Forbes","url":"https://www.forbes.com/sites/johnkoetsier/2020/03/13/trump-1700-google-engineers-working-on-coronavirus-site-google-says--actually-no/","date":"2020-03-13"},{"title":"Google and Verily scrambled after Trump announced a coronavirus website","outlet":"Washington Post","url":"https://www.washingtonpost.com/technology/2020/03/16/google-verily-coronavirus-website-trump/","date":"2020-03-16"}],"file":"term-1.json","year":2020,"deadline_date":"2020-03-16","days_since_promise":2384,"days_overdue":2381,"two_weeks":true,"url":"/promise/covid-google-1700-engineers/","sort_key":"2020-03-13","number":136},{"id":"covid-14-million-tests-next-week","title":"'1.4 million tests on board next week and 5 million within a month'","quote":"We'll have 1.4 million tests on board next week and 5 million within a month.","date_promised":"2020-03-13","venue":"Rose Garden national emergency declaration","deadline_text":"next week","deadline_days":7,"category":"covid","era":"term-1","status":"never-delivered","what_happened":"Roughly 894,000 tests in total had been run nationwide by March 29-30, 2020, well behind the promised weekly volumes. Asked about the gap between tests 'distributed' and tests actually performed, Trump replied, 'I cannot explain the gap.'","repeat_count":2,"sources":[{"title":"Remarks by President Trump, Vice President Pence, and Members of the Coronavirus Task Force in a Press Conference","outlet":"Trump White House Archives","url":"https://trumpwhitehouse.archives.gov/briefings-statements/remarks-president-trump-vice-president-pence-members-coronavirus-task-force-press-conference-3/","date":"2020-03-13"},{"title":"White House Promised 27 Million Coronavirus Tests By End of March, But U.S. Just Hit 1 Million","outlet":"Newsweek","url":"https://www.newsweek.com/white-house-promised-27-million-coronavirus-tests-end-march-us-just-hit-1-million-1495356","date":"2020-03-30"},{"title":"Trump, Pence Promised Millions Of Tests","outlet":"Talking Points Memo","url":"https://talkingpointsmemo.com/news/trump-pence-coronavirus-tests","date":"2020-03-30"}],"file":"term-1.json","year":2020,"deadline_date":"2020-03-20","days_since_promise":2384,"days_overdue":2377,"two_weeks":true,"url":"/promise/covid-14-million-tests-next-week/","sort_key":"2020-03-13","number":135},{"id":"covid-4-million-tests-this-week","title":"'Before the end of this week, another 4 million tests will be distributed'","quote":"Over a million tests have been distributed... 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In late April Pence said the public had 'misunderstood' him and that he had meant tests available rather than tests completed.","repeat_count":1,"sources":[{"title":"Trump, Pence Promised Millions Of Tests — So Why Have Less Than 900K Been Used?","outlet":"Talking Points Memo","url":"https://talkingpointsmemo.com/news/trump-pence-coronavirus-tests","date":"2020-03-30"},{"title":"Pence Says His Earlier Comments About Testing Were Misunderstood","outlet":"NPR","url":"https://www.npr.org/sections/coronavirus-live-updates/2020/04/28/847331060/pence-says-his-earlier-comments-about-testing-were-misunderstood","date":"2020-04-28"},{"title":"Misleading by omission: Pence's rosy comments on testing have not matched reality","outlet":"CNN","url":"https://www.cnn.com/2020/04/28/politics/pence-comments-testing-misunderstanding","date":"2020-04-28"}],"file":"term-1.json","year":2020,"deadline_date":"2020-03-16","days_since_promise":2388,"days_overdue":2381,"two_weeks":true,"url":"/promise/covid-4-million-tests-this-week/","sort_key":"2020-03-09","number":134},{"id":"covid-anybody-can-get-a-test","title":"'Anybody that wants a test can get a test'","quote":"Anybody that wants a test can get a test. 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Testing on demand did not exist for months.","repeat_count":2,"sources":[{"title":"Donald Trump's wrong claim that 'anybody' can get tested for coronavirus","outlet":"PolitiFact","url":"https://www.politifact.com/factchecks/2020/mar/11/donald-trump/donald-trumps-wrong-claim-anybody-can-get-tested-c/","date":"2020-03-11"},{"title":"Remarks by President Trump After Tour of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention","outlet":"Trump White House Archives","url":"https://trumpwhitehouse.archives.gov/briefings-statements/remarks-president-trump-tour-centers-disease-control-prevention-atlanta-ga/","date":"2020-03-06"},{"title":"The Facts on Coronavirus Testing","outlet":"FactCheck.org","url":"https://www.factcheck.org/2020/03/the-facts-on-coronavirus-testing/","date":"2020-03-13"}],"file":"term-1.json","year":2020,"deadline_date":"2020-03-07","days_since_promise":2391,"days_overdue":2390,"two_weeks":true,"url":"/promise/covid-anybody-can-get-a-test/","sort_key":"2020-03-06","number":133},{"id":"covid-disappear-like-a-miracle","title":"'One day — it's like a miracle — it will disappear'","quote":"It's going to disappear. One day — it's like a miracle — it will disappear.","date_promised":"2020-02-27","venue":"White House meeting with African American leaders","deadline_text":"One day / around the corner","deadline_days":14,"category":"covid","era":"term-1","status":"never-delivered","what_happened":"Rolling Stone counted at least 22 separate occasions on which Trump predicted the virus would simply go away, including earlier claims that heat would kill it 'in April.' The US passed 100,000 deaths by late May 2020 and roughly 400,000 by the time he left office in January 2021.","repeat_count":22,"sources":[{"title":"Trump Has Said Covid-19 Would Go Away At Least 22 Times","outlet":"Rolling Stone","url":"https://www.rollingstone.com/politics/politics-news/trump-said-the-coronavirus-would-go-away-1054585/","date":"2020-10-31"},{"title":"A timeline of what Trump has said on coronavirus","outlet":"CBS News","url":"https://www.cbsnews.com/news/timeline-president-donald-trump-changing-statements-on-coronavirus/","date":"2020-04-03"},{"title":"Trump's Statements About the Coronavirus","outlet":"FactCheck.org","url":"https://www.factcheck.org/2020/03/trumps-statements-about-the-coronavirus/","date":"2020-03-18"}],"file":"term-1.json","year":2020,"deadline_date":"2020-03-12","days_since_promise":2399,"days_overdue":2385,"two_weeks":true,"url":"/promise/covid-disappear-like-a-miracle/","sort_key":"2020-02-27","number":132},{"id":"covid-15-cases-close-to-zero","title":"'Within a couple of days' 15 COVID cases would be 'close to zero'","quote":"And again, when you have 15 people, and the 15 within a couple of days is going to be down to close to zero, that's a pretty good job we've done.","date_promised":"2020-02-26","venue":"White House press conference with the Coronavirus Task Force","deadline_text":"within a couple of days","deadline_days":2,"category":"covid","era":"term-1","status":"never-delivered","what_happened":"Cases did not fall to zero. The first US community-transmission case was confirmed the same day and the first reported US death came on February 29, 2020. By late March the US had the most confirmed cases in the world, and by the first anniversary of the remark the American death toll had passed 500,000.","repeat_count":1,"sources":[{"title":"Remarks by President Trump, Vice President Pence, and Members of the Coronavirus Task Force in Press Conference","outlet":"Trump White House Archives","url":"https://trumpwhitehouse.archives.gov/briefings-statements/remarks-president-trump-vice-president-pence-members-coronavirus-task-force-press-conference/","date":"2020-02-26"},{"title":"It's Been 1 Year Since Trump Boasted 15 COVID-19 Cases Would Soon Be 'Close To Zero'","outlet":"HuffPost","url":"https://www.huffpost.com/entry/donald-trump-15-covid-19-cases-anniversary_n_6039a526c5b601179ebd8ccc","date":"2021-02-26"},{"title":"Trump's Statements About the Coronavirus","outlet":"FactCheck.org","url":"https://www.factcheck.org/2020/03/trumps-statements-about-the-coronavirus/","date":"2020-03-18"}],"file":"term-1.json","year":2020,"deadline_date":"2020-02-28","days_since_promise":2400,"days_overdue":2398,"two_weeks":true,"url":"/promise/covid-15-cases-close-to-zero/","sort_key":"2020-02-26","number":131},{"id":"china-phase-one-200-billion","title":"China will buy $200 billion more in U.S. goods","quote":"[paraphrase] Under the Phase One deal China will purchase an additional $200 billion of American goods and services over two years.","date_promised":"2020-01-15","venue":"Phase One trade deal signing, White House East Room","deadline_text":"over 2020 and 2021","deadline_days":730,"category":"trade","era":"term-1","status":"never-delivered","what_happened":"Peterson Institute analysis by Chad Bown found China bought none of the additional $200 billion. Purchases of covered products in 2020 fell more than 40 percent short of the year's target, and over the full two-year period China reached only about 57 percent of commitments.","repeat_count":10,"sources":[{"title":"China bought none of the extra $200 billion of US exports in Trump's trade deal","outlet":"Peterson Institute for International Economics","url":"https://www.piie.com/blogs/realtime-economics/2022/china-bought-none-extra-200-billion-us-exports-trumps-trade-deal","date":"2022-07-19"},{"title":"Anatomy of a flop: Why Trump's US-China phase one trade deal fell short","outlet":"Peterson Institute for International Economics","url":"https://www.piie.com/blogs/trade-and-investment-policy-watch/2021/anatomy-flop-why-trumps-us-china-phase-one-trade-deal","date":"2021-02-08"}],"file":"term-1.json","year":2020,"deadline_date":"2022-01-14","days_since_promise":2442,"days_overdue":1712,"two_weeks":false,"url":"/promise/china-phase-one-200-billion/","sort_key":"2020-01-15","number":130},{"id":"first-ukraine-call-transcript-2019","title":"'I'll release that too, if it's important to you' — the first Zelensky call","quote":"I'll release that too, if it's important to you.","date_promised":"2019-09-25","venue":"News conference at the UN General Assembly, the day the White House released the July 25 Zelensky call memo","deadline_text":"immediately / on request","deadline_days":7,"category":"transparency","era":"term-1","status":"late","what_happened":"It took 51 days. The April 21, 2019 call memo was finally released on November 15, 2019, timed to land on the second day of the public impeachment hearings and read into the record by Devin Nunes. Adam Schiff noted the White House was still refusing all subpoenaed documents and records.","repeat_count":1,"sources":[{"title":"Trump Releases Rough Transcript Of First April Call With Zelenskiy","outlet":"NPR","url":"https://www.npr.org/2019/11/15/778497217/the-white-house-just-released-a-log-of-trumps-first-call-with-zelenskiy","date":"2019-11-15"},{"title":"White House releases notes of 1st Trump-Zelenskiy call","outlet":"PBS NewsHour","url":"https://www.pbs.org/newshour/politics/white-house-releases-notes-of-1st-trump-zelenskiy-call","date":"2019-11-15"},{"title":"Rough Transcript of Trump's First Phone Call With Ukrainian Leader Is Released","outlet":"The New York Times","url":"https://www.nytimes.com/2019/11/15/us/politics/trump-phone-call-transcript.html","date":"2019-11-15"}],"file":"term-1.json","year":2019,"deadline_date":"2019-10-02","days_since_promise":2554,"days_overdue":2547,"two_weeks":true,"url":"/promise/first-ukraine-call-transcript-2019/","sort_key":"2019-09-25","number":129},{"id":"background-checks-2019","title":"'Very meaningful background checks' after El Paso and Dayton","quote":"[paraphrase] We're going to have very meaningful background checks. There is a great appetite for background checks.","date_promised":"2019-08-05","venue":"Early-morning tweet on August 5, then remarks to reporters on August 7 before visiting El Paso and Dayton","deadline_text":"immediately / 'there is a great appetite' for it now","deadline_days":14,"category":"guns","era":"term-1","status":"never-delivered","what_happened":"Reversed inside two weeks. After an August 20, 2019 phone call with NRA chief Wayne LaPierre, Trump said on August 20-21 that 'we have very, very strong background checks right now' and warned of a 'slippery slope,' pivoting to mental health and noting that 'a lot of the people that put me where I am are strong believers in the Second Amendment.' No background-check legislation was ever advanced; House-passed bills died in the Senate. He had made and abandoned a near-identical promise after Parkland in February 2018.","repeat_count":3,"sources":[{"title":"Trump Calls For 'Strong Background Checks' Following El Paso And Dayton","outlet":"NPR","url":"https://www.npr.org/2019/08/05/748190808/trump-calls-for-strong-background-checks-following-el-paso-and-dayton-shootings","date":"2019-08-05"},{"title":"Donald Trump backs expanded background checks after Dayton, El Paso mass shootings","outlet":"Washington Times","url":"https://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2019/aug/7/donald-trump-backs-expanded-background-checks-afte/","date":"2019-08-07"},{"title":"After two more mass shootings, Trump again appears to back away from gun background checks","outlet":"Longview News-Journal","url":"https://news-journal.com/2019/08/19/after-two-more-mass-shootings-trump-again-appears-to-back-away-from-gun-background-checks/","date":"2019-08-19"},{"title":"Donald Trump calls for 'strong background checks' after El Paso shooting","outlet":"Texas Tribune","url":"https://www.texastribune.org/2019/08/05/donald-trump-calls-strong-background-checks-after-el-paso-shooting","date":"2019-08-05"},{"title":"Trump Reverses Support Toward Expanding Background Checks","outlet":"NPR","url":"https://www.npr.org/2019/08/21/753040814/trump-reverses-support-toward-expanding-background-checks","date":"2019-08-21"},{"title":"Trump cements stance on wide-ranging background checks in call with NRA's LaPierre","outlet":"CNN","url":"https://www.cnn.com/2019/08/21/politics/donald-trump-background-checks-national-rifle-association-wayne-lapierre","date":"2019-08-21"}],"file":"term-1.json","year":2019,"deadline_date":"2019-08-19","days_since_promise":2605,"days_overdue":2591,"two_weeks":true,"url":"/promise/background-checks-2019/","sort_key":"2019-08-05","number":128},{"id":"ice-raids-two-week-ultimatum-2019","title":"ICE deportation raids delayed 'for two weeks' as an ultimatum to Congress","quote":"At the request of Democrats, I have delayed the Illegal Immigration Removal Process (Deportation) for two weeks to see if the Democrats and Republicans can get together and work out a solution to the Asylum and Loophole problems at the Southern Border. If not, Deportations start!","date_promised":"2019-06-22","venue":"Twitter, the day before nationwide ICE raids were to begin in about ten cities","deadline_text":"for two weeks","deadline_days":14,"category":"immigration","era":"term-1","status":"broken","what_happened":"Congress did not change asylum law; it passed a $4.5 billion humanitarian border supplemental instead. The two weeks lapsed in early July with no raids and no enforcement of the ultimatum. The operation finally launched on July 14, 2019 and produced only about 35 arrests nationwide, against the 'millions' Trump had advertised on June 17.","repeat_count":2,"sources":[{"title":"Trump Delays Immigration Raids, Gives Democrats 2 Weeks For Asylum Law Changes","outlet":"NPR","url":"https://www.npr.org/2019/06/22/735083190/trump-delays-immigration-raids-giving-democrats-two-weeks-to-reform-asylum-laws","date":"2019-06-22"},{"title":"Trump says he will delay deportation raids for two weeks","outlet":"CNBC","url":"https://www.cnbc.com/2019/06/22/trump-says-he-will-delay-deportation-raids-for-two-weeks-to-give-lawmakers-time-to-work-out-a-solution.html","date":"2019-06-22"},{"title":"Houston immigration raids delayed after Trump calls off planned ICE action","outlet":"Texas Tribune","url":"https://www.texastribune.org/2019/06/22/houston-immigration-raids-delayed-after-trump-calls-planned-ice-action/","date":"2019-06-22"}],"file":"term-1.json","year":2019,"deadline_date":"2019-07-06","days_since_promise":2649,"days_overdue":2635,"two_weeks":true,"url":"/promise/ice-raids-two-week-ultimatum-2019/","sort_key":"2019-06-22","number":127},{"id":"healthcare-plan-two-months-2019","title":"'Phenomenal' health care plan 'in about two months. Maybe less.'","quote":"We're going to produce phenomenal health care. And we already have the concept of the plan... we'll be announcing that in two months, maybe less.","date_promised":"2019-06-16","venue":"ABC News interview with George Stephanopoulos, aired June 16, 2019","deadline_text":"in about two months, maybe less","deadline_days":60,"category":"healthcare","era":"term-1","status":"never-delivered","what_happened":"Senior White House officials told ABC at the time that no bill existed, only 'high-level principles.' Two months came and went. By October 2019 Trump had shifted to saying the plan would come after the 2020 election. This was the opening move of the sequence that ran through the July 2020 'two weeks' pledge.","repeat_count":12,"sources":[{"title":"Trump vows 'phenomenal' health care plan","outlet":"ABC News","url":"https://abcnews.com/Politics/trump-vows-phenomenal-health-care-plan/story?id=63763995","date":"2019-06-12"},{"title":"Back to the Future: Trump's History of Promising a Health Plan That Never Comes","outlet":"KFF Health News","url":"https://kffhealthnews.org/courts/back-to-the-future-trumps-history-of-promising-a-health-plan-that-never-comes/","date":"2020-08-13"},{"title":"Trump says he will announce 'phenomenal' new healthcare plan within the next two months","outlet":"Business Insider","url":"https://www.businessinsider.com/trump-healthcare-plan-to-be-rolled-out-2019-6","date":"2019-06-17"}],"file":"term-1.json","year":2019,"deadline_date":"2019-08-15","days_since_promise":2655,"days_overdue":2595,"two_weeks":false,"url":"/promise/healthcare-plan-two-months-2019/","sort_key":"2019-06-16","number":126},{"id":"two-trillion-infrastructure-three-weeks-2019","title":"$2 trillion infrastructure deal — 'come back in three weeks'","quote":"[paraphrase] We've agreed on $2 trillion. Come back in three weeks and I'll tell you how we pay for it.","date_promised":"2019-04-30","venue":"Oval Office meeting with Nancy Pelosi and Chuck Schumer","deadline_text":"in three weeks","deadline_days":21,"category":"infrastructure","era":"term-1","status":"never-delivered","what_happened":"At the scheduled follow-up on May 22, 2019 Trump walked into the Cabinet Room, refused to sit down, said he could not work with Democrats 'under these circumstances' while they were investigating him, and left after about three minutes — then went straight to the Rose Garden to a pre-printed sign. No infrastructure bill was ever agreed, and the New York Times marked the day with 'How Infrastructure Week Became a Long-Running Joke.'","repeat_count":7,"sources":[{"title":"Trump, angry over House investigations, blows up infrastructure meeting","outlet":"Los Angeles Times","url":"https://www.latimes.com/politics/la-na-pol-trump-infrastructure-pelosi-schumer-meeting-20190522-story.html","date":"2019-05-22"},{"title":"How 'Infrastructure Week' Became a Long-Running Joke","outlet":"The New York Times","url":"https://www.nytimes.com/2019/05/22/us/politics/trump-infrastructure-week.html","date":"2019-05-22"},{"title":"Trump-Pelosi-Schumer Infrastructure Meeting Implodes","outlet":"Eno Center for Transportation","url":"https://enotrans.org/article/trump-pelosi-schumer-infrastructure-meeting-implodes/","date":"2019-05-23"}],"file":"term-1.json","year":2019,"deadline_date":"2019-05-21","days_since_promise":2702,"days_overdue":2681,"two_weeks":false,"url":"/promise/two-trillion-infrastructure-three-weeks-2019/","sort_key":"2019-04-30","number":125},{"id":"khashoggi-full-report-two-days-2018","title":"A 'full report' on Khashoggi's murder 'Monday or Tuesday'","quote":"[paraphrase] We'll have a full report on Khashoggi's death Monday or Tuesday — what we think the overall impact was, who caused it and who did it.","date_promised":"2018-11-17","venue":"Remarks to reporters on the South Lawn before boarding Marine One en route to California","deadline_text":"Monday or Tuesday","deadline_days":3,"category":"foreign-policy","era":"term-1","status":"broken","what_happened":"No report was released on the promised day. On November 20, 2018 the White House instead issued Trump's 'Standing with Saudi Arabia' statement, which declined to blame Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman — 'maybe he did and maybe he didn't!' — and emphasised arms sales. The intelligence assessment naming the crown prince was not declassified until February 2021, under Biden.","repeat_count":1,"sources":[{"title":"Trump promises intel report on Khashoggi murder 'over the next two days'","outlet":"Politico","url":"https://www.politico.com/story/2018/11/17/trump-saudis-khashoggi-cia-gulen-1000487","date":"2018-11-17"},{"title":"Trump says final report on Khashoggi killing expected in a few days","outlet":"NBC News","url":"https://www.nbcnews.com/news/world/trump-says-final-report-khashoggi-killing-expected-few-days-n937606","date":"2018-11-17"},{"title":"Trump says report on Khashoggi's death coming in 2 days","outlet":"PBS NewsHour","url":"https://www.pbs.org/newshour/nation/trump-says-report-on-khashoggis-death-coming-in-2-days","date":"2018-11-17"}],"file":"term-1.json","year":2018,"deadline_date":"2018-11-20","days_since_promise":2866,"days_overdue":2863,"two_weeks":true,"url":"/promise/khashoggi-full-report-two-days-2018/","sort_key":"2018-11-17","number":124},{"id":"protect-pre-existing-conditions","title":"Always protect people with pre-existing conditions","quote":"[paraphrase] We will always protect patients with pre-existing conditions.","date_promised":"2018-10-24","venue":"Twitter and repeated rallies; also stated during the 2016 campaign","deadline_text":null,"deadline_days":null,"category":"healthcare","era":"term-1","status":"broken","what_happened":"In June 2018 the Justice Department declined to defend the ACA's pre-existing condition protections in Texas v. United States, and in a brief filed June 25, 2020 the administration asked the Supreme Court to strike down the entire law, including those protections. The Supreme Court rejected the challenge in California v. Texas in June 2021. No replacement protection was ever enacted.","repeat_count":40,"sources":[{"title":"Fact sheet on Trump lawsuit to overturn the ACA","outlet":"Protect Our Care","url":"https://www.protectourcare.org/fact-sheet-on-trump-lawsuit-to-overturn-aca/","date":"2020-06-26"},{"title":"What is the California v. Texas lawsuit?","outlet":"healthinsurance.org","url":"https://www.healthinsurance.org/glossary/texas-v-azar/","date":"2021-06-17"},{"title":"Chairman Neal statement on Trump administration's support of California v. Texas","outlet":"U.S. House Ways and Means Committee","url":"https://neal.house.gov/2020/06/26/news-documentsingle-aspx-documentid-1952/","date":"2020-06-26"}],"file":"term-1.json","year":2018,"deadline_date":null,"days_since_promise":2890,"days_overdue":null,"two_weeks":false,"url":"/promise/protect-pre-existing-conditions/","sort_key":"2018-10-24","number":123},{"id":"ten-percent-middle-class-tax-cut-2018","title":"A 10% middle-class tax cut 'in the next week and a half to two weeks'","quote":"We're putting in a resolution some time in the next week and a half to two weeks [and] we're giving a middle-income tax reduction of about 10 percent.","date_promised":"2018-10-22","venue":"Remarks to reporters at the White House, two weeks before the midterm elections","deadline_text":"in the next week and a half to two weeks","deadline_days":12,"category":"taxes","era":"term-1","status":"never-delivered","what_happened":"The resolution did not exist. Congress was in recess until after the November 6 election and never returned before it; Paul Ryan's office referred questions back to the White House and congressional leaders said they knew nothing about it. CNBC noted it was 'unclear what type of resolution Trump was talking about.' No such resolution was ever introduced and no 10% middle-class cut was ever enacted.","repeat_count":3,"sources":[{"title":"Trump repeats dubious pledge to introduce middle-class tax cut before midterms","outlet":"CNBC","url":"https://www.cnbc.com/2018/10/22/trump-repeats-dubious-pledge-to-introduce-middle-class-tax-cut-before-midterms.html","date":"2018-10-22"}],"file":"term-1.json","year":2018,"deadline_date":"2018-11-03","days_since_promise":2892,"days_overdue":2880,"two_weeks":true,"url":"/promise/ten-percent-middle-class-tax-cut-2018/","sort_key":"2018-10-22","number":122},{"id":"tariffs-paid-by-china-not-consumers","title":"China, not Americans, will pay for the tariffs","quote":"[paraphrase] China is paying us billions of dollars in tariffs.","date_promised":"2018-07-06","venue":"Twitter and rallies through 2018-2020","deadline_text":null,"deadline_days":null,"category":"trade","era":"term-1","status":"broken","what_happened":"Studies by the Federal Reserve Bank of New York, Princeton and Columbia economists found the cost of the tariffs was borne almost entirely by U.S. importers and consumers. The American Prospect cited an estimated consumer cost of roughly $34 billion a year and an estimated 300,000 jobs lost to the trade war.","repeat_count":50,"sources":[{"title":"Trump's 40 Biggest Broken Promises","outlet":"The American Prospect","url":"https://prospect.org/2020/08/27/trumps-40-biggest-broken-promises/","date":"2020-08-27"}],"file":"term-1.json","year":2018,"deadline_date":null,"days_since_promise":3000,"days_overdue":null,"two_weeks":false,"url":"/promise/tariffs-paid-by-china-not-consumers/","sort_key":"2018-07-06","number":121},{"id":"north-korea-denuclearization","title":"North Korea is \"no longer a nuclear threat\"","quote":"There is no longer a Nuclear Threat from North Korea. Everybody can now feel much safer than the day I took office.","date_promised":"2018-06-13","venue":"Twitter, after the Singapore summit with Kim Jong Un","deadline_text":null,"deadline_days":null,"category":"foreign-policy","era":"term-1","status":"never-delivered","what_happened":"The Singapore statement contained no verification terms or timetable. The Hanoi summit collapsed in February 2019. North Korea continued producing fissile material and testing short-range missiles, and independent estimates put its warhead stockpile higher at the end of the term than in 2018. No weapons or facilities were dismantled.","repeat_count":12,"sources":[{"title":"Trump declares North Korea 'no longer a nuclear threat'","outlet":"CNN","url":"https://www.cnn.com/2018/06/13/politics/trump-north-korea-nuclear-threat","date":"2018-06-13"},{"title":"Donald Trump: North Korea no longer a nuclear threat?","outlet":"PolitiFact","url":"https://www.politifact.com/article/2018/jun/13/donald-trump-north-korea-no-longer-nuclear-threat","date":"2018-06-13"},{"title":"Trump's 40 Biggest Broken Promises","outlet":"The American Prospect","url":"https://prospect.org/2020/08/27/trumps-40-biggest-broken-promises/","date":"2020-08-27"}],"file":"term-1.json","year":2018,"deadline_date":null,"days_since_promise":3023,"days_overdue":null,"two_weeks":false,"url":"/promise/north-korea-denuclearization/","sort_key":"2018-06-13","number":120},{"id":"save-the-steel-industry","title":"Tariffs will bring back steel jobs","quote":"[paraphrase] Steel is coming back; our steelworkers are going back to work.","date_promised":"2018-03-08","venue":"Section 232 steel tariff proclamation signing, White House","deadline_text":null,"deadline_days":null,"category":"trade","era":"term-1","status":"never-delivered","what_happened":"Steel employment rose modestly in 2018 then fell back. U.S. Steel idled blast furnaces in Michigan and announced layoffs in 2019, and the industry shed jobs again in 2019 and 2020. The American Prospect cited continued losses in listing this among the broken promises.","repeat_count":15,"sources":[{"title":"Trump's 40 Biggest Broken Promises","outlet":"The American Prospect","url":"https://prospect.org/2020/08/27/trumps-40-biggest-broken-promises/","date":"2020-08-27"}],"file":"term-1.json","year":2018,"deadline_date":null,"days_since_promise":3120,"days_overdue":null,"two_weeks":false,"url":"/promise/save-the-steel-industry/","sort_key":"2018-03-08","number":119},{"id":"mueller-interview-two-to-three-weeks-2018","title":"Sitting down with Mueller 'within the next two to three weeks'","quote":"I'm looking forward to it, actually... I would love to do it... I would do it under oath.","date_promised":"2018-01-24","venue":"Impromptu remarks to reporters at the White House before leaving for Davos; his lawyers indicated an interview could come within two to three weeks","deadline_text":"within the next two to three weeks","deadline_days":18,"category":"justice","era":"term-1","status":"never-delivered","what_happened":"White House special counsel Ty Cobb immediately qualified the offer as 'subject to the terms being negotiated by his personal counsel.' Negotiations dragged on for more than a year and Trump never sat for an interview. In November 2018 he submitted written answers only, which the Mueller report in April 2019 described as inadequate.","repeat_count":2,"sources":[{"title":"Trump says he is willing to speak to Mueller 'under oath'","outlet":"NBC News","url":"https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/politics-news/trump-says-he-willing-speak-mueller-under-oath-n840826","date":"2018-01-24"},{"title":"Trump says he would 'love to' answer questions in special counsel's Russia probe under oath","outlet":"PBS NewsHour","url":"https://www.pbs.org/newshour/politics/trump-says-he-would-love-to-answer-questions-in-special-counsels-russia-probe-under-oath","date":"2018-01-24"},{"title":"Trump says he would speak to Mueller under oath in Russia investigation","outlet":"Washington Post","url":"https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/trump-says-he-would-speak-to-mueller-under-oath-in-russia-investigation/2018/01/24/edb33750-015a-11e8-8acf-ad2991367d9d_story.html","date":"2018-01-24"}],"file":"term-1.json","year":2018,"deadline_date":"2018-02-11","days_since_promise":3163,"days_overdue":3145,"two_weeks":false,"url":"/promise/mueller-interview-two-to-three-weeks-2018/","sort_key":"2018-01-24","number":118},{"id":"jfk-files-full-release-2017","title":"Promise to open 'the long blocked and classified JFK FILES'","quote":"Subject to the receipt of further information, I will be allowing, as President, the long blocked and classified JFK FILES to be opened.","date_promised":"2017-10-21","venue":"Twitter, five days before the statutory October 26, 2017 deadline","deadline_text":"by October 26 (five days)","deadline_days":5,"category":"transparency","era":"term-1","status":"partial","what_happened":"On October 26, 2017, hours before the statutory deadline, about 2,800 records were released but roughly 300 were withheld at the request of the CIA and FBI. Trump's memo said he had 'no choice — today — but to accept those redactions rather than allow potentially irreversible harm to our nation's security,' and ordered a review to release as much as possible by April 26, 2018. Further batches trickled out for years and full release never happened in his first term.","repeat_count":2,"sources":[{"title":"Final batch of JFK files released under Trump directive","outlet":"The Hill","url":"https://thehill.com/blogs/ballot-box/384993-final-batch-of-jfk-files-released-under-trump-directive/","date":"2018-04-26"},{"title":"New Group of JFK Assassination Documents Available to the Public","outlet":"National Archives","url":"https://www.archives.gov/press/press-releases/2018/nr18-45","date":"2018-04-26"},{"title":"Trump releasing trove of JFK files, withholding others temporarily","outlet":"Axios","url":"https://www.axios.com/2017/12/15/trump-releasing-trove-of-jfk-files-withholding-others-temporarily-1513306481","date":"2017-10-26"},{"title":"Trump blocks release of some JFK assassination records","outlet":"Politico","url":"https://www.politico.com/story/2017/10/26/trump-blocks-release-of-some-jfk-assassination-records-244223","date":"2017-10-26"},{"title":"Thousands of JFK assassination documents are released, though some are withheld","outlet":"Los Angeles Times","url":"https://www.latimes.com/nation/nationnow/la-na-jfk-files-20171026-story.html","date":"2017-10-26"}],"file":"term-1.json","year":2017,"deadline_date":"2017-10-26","days_since_promise":3258,"days_overdue":3253,"two_weeks":true,"url":"/promise/jfk-files-full-release-2017/","sort_key":"2017-10-21","number":117},{"id":"opioid-national-emergency-next-week-2017","title":"Opioid 'national emergency' declaration promised for 'next week'","quote":"We are going to be doing that next week. By the way, you know that's a big step... It's a very important step, and to get to that step, a lot of work has to be done.","date_promised":"2017-10-16","venue":"Remarks to reporters at the White House, asked about declaring a written national emergency","deadline_text":"next week","deadline_days":7,"category":"healthcare","era":"term-1","status":"partial","what_happened":"Ten days later, on October 26, 2017, he did not declare a national emergency. He directed HHS to declare a narrower 90-day public health emergency under the Public Health Service Act, a tool with no new money attached. USA TODAY tallied 77 days of repeated promises. It followed an August 10, 2017 pledge in which he said 'I'm saying officially right now, it is an emergency' and nothing was signed.","repeat_count":2,"sources":[{"title":"Trump Administration Declares Opioid Crisis A Public Health Emergency","outlet":"NPR","url":"https://www.npr.org/2017/10/26/560083795/president-trump-may-declare-opioid-epidemic-national-emergency","date":"2017-10-26"},{"title":"Trump's Emergency Declaration on Opioid Crisis Will Require Further Funding","outlet":"NBC News","url":"https://www.nbcnews.com/storyline/americas-heroin-epidemic/trump-s-emergency-declaration-opioid-crisis-will-require-further-funding-n814416","date":"2017-10-26"},{"title":"Trump Says Opioid Epidemic Is a National Emergency","outlet":"Fortune","url":"https://fortune.com/2017/08/11/trump-opioid-epidemic-national-emergency","date":"2017-08-11"},{"title":"Trump's opioids announcement was not the declaration some wanted","outlet":"USA TODAY","url":"https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/politics/2017/10/26/trump-says-opioids-emergency-but-its-not-declaration-some-were-looking/804420001/","date":"2017-10-26"},{"title":"Trump Still Hasn't Fulfilled Promise To Declare Opioid Epidemic A National Emergency","outlet":"NPR","url":"https://www.npr.org/2017/10/17/558390562/trump-still-hasnt-fulfilled-promise-to-declare-opioid-epidemic-as-a-national-eme","date":"2017-10-17"}],"file":"term-1.json","year":2017,"deadline_date":"2017-10-23","days_since_promise":3263,"days_overdue":3256,"two_weeks":true,"url":"/promise/opioid-national-emergency-next-week-2017/","sort_key":"2017-10-16","number":116},{"id":"4000-dollar-raise-from-tax-cuts","title":"Corporate tax cut would raise average household income $4,000","quote":"[paraphrase] Cutting the corporate tax rate from 35 percent to 20 percent would raise average household income by $4,000 a year.","date_promised":"2017-10-16","venue":"White House Council of Economic Advisers report","deadline_text":null,"deadline_days":null,"category":"taxes","era":"term-1","status":"never-delivered","what_happened":"The promised wage gain did not appear. Real hourly wages for production and nonsupervisory workers grew about 1.2 percent in 2018. A Congressional Research Service review found the 2017 law had little measurable effect on wages, and much of the corporate windfall went to share buybacks, which exceeded $800 billion in 2018.","repeat_count":8,"sources":[{"title":"The average American family will get $4,000 from tax cuts, Trump team claims","outlet":"The Washington Post","url":"https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/wonk/wp/2017/10/16/the-average-american-family-will-get-4000-from-tax-cuts-trump-team-claims/","date":"2017-10-16"},{"title":"Can Americans expect a $4,000 raise from Donald Trump's tax plan?","outlet":"PolitiFact","url":"https://www.politifact.com/truth-o-meter/article/2017/oct/26/can-americans-expect-4000-raise-donald-trumps-tax-","date":"2017-10-26"}],"file":"term-1.json","year":2017,"deadline_date":null,"days_since_promise":3263,"days_overdue":null,"two_weeks":false,"url":"/promise/4000-dollar-raise-from-tax-cuts/","sort_key":"2017-10-16","number":115},{"id":"cut-taxes-for-everyone","title":"A tax cut for everyone, aimed at the middle class","quote":"[paraphrase] This is a middle-class tax cut; the rich will not benefit.","date_promised":"2017-09-13","venue":"Remarks in Bismarck, North Dakota, and repeated during the tax debate","deadline_text":null,"deadline_days":null,"category":"taxes","era":"term-1","status":"partial","what_happened":"The Tax Cuts and Jobs Act cut taxes for most but not all filers, and the individual provisions expire after 2025 while the corporate cut is permanent. The Tax Policy Center estimated that by 2027 the top 1 percent would receive roughly 83 percent of the benefits. PolitiFact rated the promise a compromise on December 21, 2017.","repeat_count":30,"sources":[{"title":"Cut taxes for everyone","outlet":"PolitiFact Trump-O-Meter","url":"https://www.politifact.com/truth-o-meter/promises/trumpometer/promise/386595/cut-taxes-everyone/","date":"2017-12-21"},{"title":"Trump's 40 Biggest Broken Promises","outlet":"The American Prospect","url":"https://prospect.org/2020/08/27/trumps-40-biggest-broken-promises/","date":"2020-08-27"}],"file":"term-1.json","year":2017,"deadline_date":null,"days_since_promise":3296,"days_overdue":null,"two_weeks":false,"url":"/promise/cut-taxes-for-everyone/","sort_key":"2017-09-13","number":114},{"id":"opioid-national-emergency-august-2017","title":"'I'm saying officially right now, it is an emergency' — and then nothing","quote":"The opioid crisis is an emergency, and I'm saying officially right now, it is an emergency. It's a national emergency. We're going to draw it up and we're going to make it a national emergency.","date_promised":"2017-08-10","venue":"Impromptu remarks to reporters at his Bedminster, New Jersey golf club, ten days after his opioid commission urged a declaration","deadline_text":"officially right now / papers being drawn up","deadline_days":7,"category":"healthcare","era":"term-1","status":"never-delivered","what_happened":"Nothing was signed. NPR reported on October 17, 2017 that 'in the more than two months since Trump made that pronouncement, no emergency declaration has been signed.' Senators Murkowski and Warren pressed him in writing on October 12. What eventually came on October 26 was a narrower 90-day public health emergency with no new money attached.","repeat_count":3,"sources":[{"title":"Trump says he will declare opioid crisis a 'national emergency'","outlet":"Politico","url":"https://www.politico.com/story/2017/08/10/trump-opioid-abuse-national-emergency-241493","date":"2017-08-10"},{"title":"Trump Still Hasn't Fulfilled Promise To Declare Opioid Epidemic A National Emergency","outlet":"NPR","url":"https://www.npr.org/2017/10/17/558390562/trump-still-hasnt-fulfilled-promise-to-declare-opioid-epidemic-as-a-national-eme","date":"2017-10-17"},{"title":"Donald Trump yet to make opioid national emergency official two weeks on","outlet":"The Independent","url":"https://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/americas/us-politics/trump-opioid-crisis-announcement-still-not-official-two-weeks-a7911266.html","date":"2017-08-24"}],"file":"term-1.json","year":2017,"deadline_date":"2017-08-17","days_since_promise":3330,"days_overdue":3323,"two_weeks":true,"url":"/promise/opioid-national-emergency-august-2017/","sort_key":"2017-08-10","number":113},{"id":"comey-tapes-very-short-period-2017","title":"Answer on the Comey 'tapes' in 'a very short period of time'","quote":"I am not hinting at anything. I will tell you about it over a very short period of time.","date_promised":"2017-06-09","venue":"Rose Garden news conference with Romanian President Klaus Iohannis","deadline_text":"over a very short period of time","deadline_days":7,"category":"justice","era":"term-1","status":"late","what_happened":"He twice refused to elaborate and told reporters 'you're going to be very disappointed.' The House Intelligence Committee set a June 23 deadline for the White House to say whether tapes existed. Thirteen days later, on June 22, 2017, Trump tweeted that he had 'no idea' whether tapes existed 'but I did not make, and do not have, any such recordings.' The White House response to Congress the next day simply pasted the tweet.","repeat_count":2,"sources":[{"title":"Donald Trump Stalls For Time When Asked About Comey Tapes At News Conference","outlet":"Deadline","url":"https://deadline.com/2017/06/donald-trump-james-comey-liar-testimony-1202110179/","date":"2017-06-09"},{"title":"Trump: 'I Did Not Make, And Do Not Have' Recordings Of Comey","outlet":"NPR","url":"https://www.npr.org/2017/06/22/533965746/trump-i-did-not-make-and-do-not-have-recordings-of-comey","date":"2017-06-22"},{"title":"What the White House said about Comey tapes","outlet":"CNN","url":"https://www.cnn.com/2017/06/22/politics/timeline-of-donald-trumps-comments-about-the-james-comey-tapes/","date":"2017-06-22"},{"title":"Trump Says He Did Not Tape Comey Conversations","outlet":"The New York Times","url":"https://www.nytimes.com/2017/06/22/us/politics/trump-comey-tapes.html","date":"2017-06-22"},{"title":"White House responds to Comey tape inquiry with Trump tweet","outlet":"CNN","url":"https://edition.cnn.com/2017/06/23/politics/white-house-comey-tapes-trump-tweet/index.html","date":"2017-06-23"}],"file":"term-1.json","year":2017,"deadline_date":"2017-06-16","days_since_promise":3392,"days_overdue":3385,"two_weeks":true,"url":"/promise/comey-tapes-very-short-period-2017/","sort_key":"2017-06-09","number":112},{"id":"infrastructure-week-saga","title":"'Infrastructure Week' — declared at least seven times, never delivered","quote":"[paraphrase] The infrastructure plan is coming in the next two or three weeks / this is Infrastructure Week.","date_promised":"2017-06-05","venue":"White House 'Infrastructure Week' rollout, first announced by NEC director Gary Cohn","deadline_text":"this week / over the next two or three weeks","deadline_days":14,"category":"infrastructure","era":"term-1","status":"never-delivered","what_happened":"The White House declared an 'Infrastructure Week' at least seven separate times between June 2017 and May 2019, each derailed — the June 2017 launch by the Comey testimony, the August 2017 permitting push by Trump's 'very fine people on both sides' remarks after Charlottesville, the February 2018 rollout of a $1.3 trillion public-private plan by the Michael Cohen and Stormy Daniels payment story, and the spring 2019 effort by Trump walking out of a meeting with Pelosi and Schumer. No infrastructure bill ever passed under Trump, and 'Infrastructure Week' became a Washington punchline for something permanently two weeks away.","repeat_count":7,"sources":[{"title":"'Infrastructure Week' has become a running joke on the Trump administration","outlet":"CNN","url":"https://www.cnn.com/2019/05/23/politics/donald-trump-infrastructure-week","date":"2019-05-23"},{"title":"Why It's Infrastructure Week. Again.","outlet":"NPR","url":"https://www.npr.org/2018/05/15/611389675/why-its-infrastructure-week-again","date":"2018-05-15"},{"title":"Infrastructure Week Became a Joke. Now It's for Real.","outlet":"Route Fifty","url":"https://www.route-fifty.com/infrastructure/2019/05/infrastructure-week-became-joke-now-its-real/156759/","date":"2019-05-22"},{"title":"How 'Infrastructure Week' Became a Long-Running Joke","outlet":"The New York Times","url":"https://www.nytimes.com/2019/05/22/us/politics/trump-infrastructure-week.html","date":"2019-05-22"}],"file":"term-1.json","year":2017,"deadline_date":"2017-06-19","days_since_promise":3396,"days_overdue":3382,"two_weeks":true,"url":"/promise/infrastructure-week-saga/","sort_key":"2017-06-05","number":111},{"id":"isis-news-conference-two-weeks-2017","title":"News conference on the war against ISIS 'in about two weeks'","quote":"We're going to be having a news conference in about two weeks to let everybody know how well we're doing.","date_promised":"2017-05-21","venue":"Remarks during the Middle East trip on May 21, 2017, repeated at a televised Cabinet meeting on June 12, 2017","deadline_text":"in about two weeks","deadline_days":14,"category":"foreign-policy","era":"term-1","status":"never-delivered","what_happened":"No news conference was ever held. Vox tracked it: the first deadline passed, Trump repeated the promise at his June 12 Cabinet meeting, and the second deadline passed on June 26 without the administration organising or even scheduling one.","repeat_count":2,"sources":[{"title":"In Trump's White House, Everything's Coming in 'Two Weeks'","outlet":"Bloomberg","url":"https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2017-06-06/in-trump-s-white-house-everything-s-coming-in-two-weeks","date":"2017-06-06"},{"title":"A timeline of Trump's clearly made-up 'secret plan' to fight ISIS","outlet":"Vox","url":"https://www.vox.com/world/2017/7/3/15904646/trump-syria-assad-russia-iran-secret-generals-military-isis-terrorism","date":"2017-07-03"},{"title":"Trump pledges to hold news conference on ISIS fight in 'two weeks'","outlet":"Politico","url":"https://www.politico.com/story/2017/06/12/trump-isis-news-conference-239427","date":"2017-06-12"}],"file":"term-1.json","year":2017,"deadline_date":"2017-06-04","days_since_promise":3411,"days_overdue":3397,"two_weeks":true,"url":"/promise/isis-news-conference-two-weeks-2017/","sort_key":"2017-05-21","number":110},{"id":"paris-accord-decision-two-weeks-2017","title":"Decision on the Paris climate accord 'in the next two weeks'","quote":"And I'll be making a big decision on the Paris accord over the next two weeks.","date_promised":"2017-04-29","venue":"100-days rally, Harrisburg, Pennsylvania","deadline_text":"over the next two weeks","deadline_days":14,"category":"other","era":"term-1","status":"late","what_happened":"Two weeks passed with no decision. At the G7 in Taormina on May 26-27 Trump refused to endorse the accord and tweeted that he would announce his decision 'next week.' He announced withdrawal on June 1, 2017, roughly a month after the two-week pledge. Formal withdrawal notice did not come until November 4, 2019 and took effect November 4, 2020.","repeat_count":2,"sources":[{"title":"Trump is no stranger to setting 2-week deadlines. Here's how others have played out","outlet":"NPR","url":"https://www.npr.org/2025/06/20/nx-s1-5440143/trump-two-weeks-deadline-pattern","date":"2025-06-20"},{"title":"In Trump's White House, Everything's Coming in 'Two Weeks'","outlet":"Bloomberg","url":"https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2017-06-06/in-trump-s-white-house-everything-s-coming-in-two-weeks","date":"2017-06-06"},{"title":"Paris Agreement: Donald Trump Leaves G7 Without Decision","outlet":"TIME","url":"https://time.com/4796621/paris-agreement-donald-trump-g7-summit/","date":"2017-05-27"},{"title":"Trump delays decision on Paris climate agreement at G7 summit","outlet":"CBS News","url":"https://www.cbsnews.com/news/trump-delays-decision-on-paris-climate-agreement-at-g7-summit/","date":"2017-05-27"}],"file":"term-1.json","year":2017,"deadline_date":"2017-05-13","days_since_promise":3433,"days_overdue":3419,"two_weeks":true,"url":"/promise/paris-accord-decision-two-weeks-2017/","sort_key":"2017-04-29","number":109},{"id":"infrastructure-filing-two-three-weeks-2017","title":"Infrastructure bill to be 'filed over the next two or three weeks'","quote":"We've got the plan largely completed and we'll be filing over the next two or three weeks — maybe sooner.","date_promised":"2017-04-29","venue":"CBS News interview around his 100th day in office","deadline_text":"over the next two or three weeks","deadline_days":18,"category":"infrastructure","era":"term-1","status":"never-delivered","what_happened":"Nothing was filed. Bloomberg reported on June 6, 2017 that 'no legislation has been filed' and that the White House had 'yet to outline the plan, beyond broad principles.' An actual infrastructure outline did not appear until February 2018, about nine months later, and it never passed.","repeat_count":7,"sources":[{"title":"In Trump's White House, Everything's Coming in 'Two Weeks'","outlet":"Bloomberg","url":"https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2017-06-06/in-trump-s-white-house-everything-s-coming-in-two-weeks","date":"2017-06-06"},{"title":"'Infrastructure Week' has become a running joke on the Trump administration","outlet":"CNN","url":"https://www.cnn.com/2019/05/23/politics/donald-trump-infrastructure-week","date":"2019-05-23"},{"title":"Trump: Infrastructure plan 'largely completed,' coming in 2-3 weeks","outlet":"CNN","url":"https://www.cnn.com/2017/05/01/politics/donald-trump-infrastructure-plan/index.html","date":"2017-05-01"}],"file":"term-1.json","year":2017,"deadline_date":"2017-05-17","days_since_promise":3433,"days_overdue":3415,"two_weeks":false,"url":"/promise/infrastructure-filing-two-three-weeks-2017/","sort_key":"2017-04-29","number":108},{"id":"massive-tax-plan-next-week-2017","title":"'Massive' tax plan coming 'next week'","quote":"I shouldn't tell you this, but we're going to be announcing, probably on Wednesday, tax reform... it'll be a massive tax cut.","date_promised":"2017-04-21","venue":"Oval Office interview with the Associated Press and remarks at the Treasury Department the same day","deadline_text":"Wednesday / next week","deadline_days":5,"category":"taxes","era":"term-1","status":"partial","what_happened":"Partly kept and heavily deflated. By April 24 the White House was saying Trump would be 'outlining principles' and Mick Mulvaney said there would be no bill language. What arrived on April 26, 2017 was a one-page outline presented by Steven Mnuchin and Gary Cohn, not a plan or a bill. Legislation did not pass until December 2017.","repeat_count":2,"sources":[{"title":"Trump says his 'massive' tax plan is coming next week","outlet":"AOL/Reuters","url":"https://www.aol.com/article/news/2017/04/21/trump-says-his-massive-tax-plan-is-coming-next-week/22049781","date":"2017-04-21"},{"title":"Where Is The 'Phenomenal' Tax Plan President Trump Promised?","outlet":"Forbes","url":"https://www.forbes.com/sites/anthonynitti/2017/03/06/where-is-the-phenomenal-tax-plan-president-trump-promised","date":"2017-03-06"},{"title":"Trump's 'big announcement' on tax reform this week won't be that big","outlet":"Los Angeles Times","url":"https://www.latimes.com/la-na-app-pol-trump-big-announcement-20170424-story.html","date":"2017-04-24"},{"title":"Trump to AP: Tax plan with 'massive tax cut' to be unveiled next week","outlet":"CNBC","url":"https://www.cnbc.com/video/2017/04/21/trump-to-ap-tax-plan-with-massive-tax-cut-to-be-unveiled-next-week.html","date":"2017-04-21"}],"file":"term-1.json","year":2017,"deadline_date":"2017-04-26","days_since_promise":3441,"days_overdue":3436,"two_weeks":true,"url":"/promise/massive-tax-plan-next-week-2017/","sort_key":"2017-04-21","number":107},{"id":"davis-bacon-announcement-two-weeks-2017","title":"Davis-Bacon prevailing-wage announcement 'in two weeks'","quote":"We're going to make an announcement in two weeks. It's going to be good.","date_promised":"2017-04-05","venue":"Interview with The New York Times, asked his position on the Davis-Bacon Act","deadline_text":"in two weeks","deadline_days":14,"category":"economy","era":"term-1","status":"never-delivered","what_happened":"Two months later Bloomberg reported that 'the Trump administration has made no announcement on the Davis-Bacon law.' No announcement was ever made, and prevailing-wage rules on federally funded construction were left untouched for the rest of the term.","repeat_count":1,"sources":[{"title":"In Trump's White House, Everything's Coming in 'Two Weeks'","outlet":"Bloomberg","url":"https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2017-06-06/in-trump-s-white-house-everything-s-coming-in-two-weeks","date":"2017-06-06"},{"title":"In Trump's White House, Everything's Coming in 'Two Weeks' (syndicated)","outlet":"Newsmax","url":"https://www.newsmax.com/Politics/trump-white-house-two-weeks/2017/06/06/id/794346/","date":"2017-06-06"},{"title":"Trump's timeline? Always 'two weeks'","outlet":"Axios","url":"https://www.axios.com/2017/12/15/trumps-timeline-always-two-weeks-1513302785","date":"2017-12-15"}],"file":"term-1.json","year":2017,"deadline_date":"2017-04-19","days_since_promise":3457,"days_overdue":3443,"two_weeks":true,"url":"/promise/davis-bacon-announcement-two-weeks-2017/","sort_key":"2017-04-05","number":106},{"id":"wiretap-evidence-two-weeks-2017","title":"Proof of Obama 'wiretapping' coming 'over the next two weeks'","quote":"I think you're going to find some very interesting items coming to the forefront over the next two weeks.","date_promised":"2017-03-15","venue":"Fox News interview with Tucker Carlson","deadline_text":"over the next two weeks","deadline_days":14,"category":"justice","era":"term-1","status":"never-delivered","what_happened":"Nothing was ever submitted. On March 20, 2017 FBI Director James Comey and NSA Director Mike Rogers told the House Intelligence Committee there was no evidence supporting the claim. A Justice Department court filing on September 1, 2017 said both the FBI and the National Security Division 'have no records related to wiretaps as described by the March 4, 2017 tweets.' In an April 2019 Hannity call Trump said he had made the claim 'just on a little bit of a hunch and a little bit of wisdom maybe.'","repeat_count":2,"sources":[{"title":"Asked For Wiretapping Proof, Trump Cites Reports That Don't Prove His Claim","outlet":"Talking Points Memo","url":"https://talkingpointsmemo.com/livewire/trump-wiretapping-proof-tucker-carlson","date":"2017-03-16"},{"title":"Trump Says He'll Have More on 'Wiretapping' Claim Soon","outlet":"NBC News","url":"https://www.nbcnews.com/news/amp/ncna734186","date":"2017-03-16"},{"title":"Trump talks to Fox News' Tucker Carlson about Obama wiretap claim","outlet":"Slate","url":"http://www.slate.com/blogs/the_slatest/2017/03/15/trump_talks_to_fox_news_tucker_carlson_about_obama_wiretap_claim.html","date":"2017-03-15"}],"file":"term-1.json","year":2017,"deadline_date":"2017-03-29","days_since_promise":3478,"days_overdue":3464,"two_weeks":true,"url":"/promise/wiretap-evidence-two-weeks-2017/","sort_key":"2017-03-15","number":105},{"id":"daca-deal-with-heart","title":"Handle DACA \"with heart\" and protect Dreamers","quote":"We are going to deal with DACA with heart.","date_promised":"2017-02-16","venue":"White House press conference","deadline_text":null,"deadline_days":null,"category":"immigration","era":"term-1","status":"broken","what_happened":"The administration announced the rescission of DACA on September 5, 2017 and rejected bipartisan legislative compromises in early 2018. On June 18, 2020 the Supreme Court ruled 5-4 in DHS v. Regents that the rescission was arbitrary and capricious. A federal court ordered full reinstatement of the program in December 2020. No permanent protection for roughly 650,000 to 700,000 recipients was enacted.","repeat_count":15,"sources":[{"title":"Supreme Court blocks Trump from ending DACA in big win for Dreamers","outlet":"NBC News","url":"https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/supreme-court/supreme-court-rules-trump-cannot-end-daca-big-win-dreamer-n1115116","date":"2020-06-18"},{"title":"Terminate Barack Obama's immigration executive orders 'immediately'","outlet":"PolitiFact Trump-O-Meter","url":"https://www.politifact.com/truth-o-meter/promises/trumpometer/promise/386681/terminate-barack-obamas-immigration-executive-orde/","date":"2021-01-04"},{"title":"President Trump's Broken Promises to the American People","outlet":"Office of the House Majority Leader (Hoyer)","url":"https://leaderarchive-hoyer.house.gov/content/president-trump%E2%80%99s-broken-promises-american-people","date":"2020-02-04"}],"file":"term-1.json","year":2017,"deadline_date":null,"days_since_promise":3505,"days_overdue":null,"two_weeks":false,"url":"/promise/daca-deal-with-heart/","sort_key":"2017-02-16","number":104},{"id":"replacement-travel-ban-next-week-2017","title":"A replacement travel ban 'sometime next week'","quote":"We'll be doing something very rapidly having to do with additional security for our country. You'll be seeing that sometime next week.","date_promised":"2017-02-10","venue":"Joint press conference with Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe; repeated on February 16 at his first solo press conference","deadline_text":"sometime next week","deadline_days":7,"category":"immigration","era":"term-1","status":"late","what_happened":"Nothing was signed the following week. A senior official then said 'later in the week'; on February 21 Sean Spicer said the order was 'finalized' and 'awaiting implementation.' A March 1 signing was scrapped so the February 28 joint address to Congress could 'breathe.' Executive Order 13780 was finally signed on March 6, 2017, about three weeks after the deadline.","repeat_count":3,"sources":[{"title":"Donald Trump Expected to Sign New Immigration Order: A Timeline","outlet":"NBC News","url":"https://www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news/donald-trump-expected-sign-new-immigration-order-timeline-n729186","date":"2017-03-01"},{"title":"Read the full transcript of Trump's first solo press conference","outlet":"CNBC","url":"https://www.cnbc.com/2017/02/16/click-for-a-full-transcript-of-trumps-first-solo-press-conference.html","date":"2017-02-16"}],"file":"term-1.json","year":2017,"deadline_date":"2017-02-17","days_since_promise":3511,"days_overdue":3504,"two_weeks":true,"url":"/promise/replacement-travel-ban-next-week-2017/","sort_key":"2017-02-10","number":103},{"id":"phenomenal-tax-announcement-2017","title":"'Phenomenal' tax announcement in two or three weeks","quote":"We're going to be announcing something I would say over the next two or three weeks that will be phenomenal in terms of tax and developing our aviation infrastructure.","date_promised":"2017-02-09","venue":"White House meeting with airline executives","deadline_text":"over the next two or three weeks","deadline_days":18,"category":"taxes","era":"term-1","status":"late","what_happened":"Markets and the dollar jumped on the promise. Nothing came in two or three weeks. Eleven weeks later, on April 26, 2017, the White House released a single-page, roughly 200-word bullet outline of tax principles. Bloomberg noted on June 6, 2017 that it had been fifteen weeks since Trump promised an aviation infrastructure proposal in two weeks. Actual tax legislation was not signed until December 22, 2017.","repeat_count":2,"sources":[{"title":"Where Is The 'Phenomenal' Tax Plan President Trump Promised?","outlet":"Forbes","url":"https://www.forbes.com/sites/anthonynitti/2017/03/06/where-is-the-phenomenal-tax-plan-president-trump-promised","date":"2017-03-06"},{"title":"Trump's 'phenomenal' tax plan promise boosts dollar and shares","outlet":"Euronews","url":"https://www.euronews.com/2017/02/09/trump-s-phenomenal-tax-plan-promise-boosts-dollar-and-shares","date":"2017-02-09"},{"title":"Two weeks' notice: Trump's deadline on Iran is a familiar one","outlet":"NBC News","url":"https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/donald-trump/two-weeks-notice-trumps-deadline-iran-familiar-one-rcna214089","date":"2025-06-20"},{"title":"Trump promises a major tax announcement in a few weeks","outlet":"CNBC","url":"https://www.cnbc.com/2017/02/09/trump-says-he-will-make-tax-announcement-in-a-few-weeks.html","date":"2017-02-09"},{"title":"Trump promises 'phenomenal' announcement on taxes in coming weeks","outlet":"The Hill","url":"https://thehill.com/policy/finance/318736-trump-expect-phenomenal-announcement-on-taxes-in-coming-weeks","date":"2017-02-09"},{"title":"In Trump's White House, Everything's Coming in 'Two Weeks'","outlet":"Bloomberg","url":"https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2017-06-06/in-trump-s-white-house-everything-s-coming-in-two-weeks","date":"2017-06-06"}],"file":"term-1.json","year":2017,"deadline_date":"2017-02-27","days_since_promise":3512,"days_overdue":3494,"two_weeks":false,"url":"/promise/phenomenal-tax-announcement-2017/","sort_key":"2017-02-09","number":102},{"id":"voter-fraud-major-investigation-2017","title":"A 'major investigation into VOTER FRAUD' — evidence never came","quote":"I will be asking for a major investigation into VOTER FRAUD, including those registered to vote in two states, those who are illegal and... even, those registered to vote who are dead.","date_promised":"2017-01-25","venue":"Twitter, two days after telling congressional leaders that 3 to 5 million illegal votes cost him the popular vote","deadline_text":"imminently — 'I will be asking'","deadline_days":14,"category":"elections","era":"term-1","status":"never-delivered","what_happened":"The commission was not created until May 11, 2017 and was disbanded on January 3, 2018 without ever issuing a report. Documents later obtained in litigation showed it had found no evidence of widespread fraud. Evidence for the 3 to 5 million claim was never produced by Trump, Sean Spicer or anyone else.","repeat_count":4,"sources":[{"title":"Disbanded: Trump's Voter Fraud Commission","outlet":"Brennan Center for Justice","url":"https://www.brennancenter.org/our-work/research-reports/disbanded-trumps-voter-fraud-commission","date":"2018-01-04"},{"title":"Trump voting commission had no evidence of widespread voter fraud, documents show","outlet":"CNN","url":"https://www.cnn.com/2018/08/03/politics/trump-voter-fraud-commission-evidence-documents","date":"2018-08-03"},{"title":"Trump Dissolves Controversial Election Commission","outlet":"NPR","url":"https://www.npr.org/2018/01/03/575524512/trump-dissolves-controversial-election-commission","date":"2018-01-03"}],"file":"term-1.json","year":2017,"deadline_date":"2017-02-08","days_since_promise":3527,"days_overdue":3513,"two_weeks":true,"url":"/promise/voter-fraud-major-investigation-2017/","sort_key":"2017-01-25","number":101},{"id":"put-america-first-allies","title":"Put America first and get tough with adversaries","quote":"[paraphrase] From this day forward, it's going to be only America first.","date_promised":"2017-01-20","venue":"Inaugural address, U.S. Capitol","deadline_text":null,"deadline_days":null,"category":"foreign-policy","era":"term-1","status":"broken","what_happened":"The American Prospect and the House Majority Leader's office both catalogued outcomes at odds with the pledge, including the July 2018 Helsinki news conference in which Trump sided with Vladimir Putin's denial over U.S. intelligence findings on election interference, strained relations with NATO allies, and the withdrawal from northern Syria in October 2019 that left Kurdish partners exposed.","repeat_count":100,"sources":[{"title":"Trump's 40 Biggest Broken Promises","outlet":"The American Prospect","url":"https://prospect.org/2020/08/27/trumps-40-biggest-broken-promises/","date":"2020-08-27"},{"title":"President Trump's Broken Promises to the American People","outlet":"Office of the House Majority Leader (Hoyer)","url":"https://leaderarchive-hoyer.house.gov/content/president-trump%E2%80%99s-broken-promises-american-people","date":"2020-02-04"}],"file":"term-1.json","year":2017,"deadline_date":null,"days_since_promise":3532,"days_overdue":null,"two_weeks":false,"url":"/promise/put-america-first-allies/","sort_key":"2017-01-20","number":100},{"id":"insurance-for-everybody","title":"\"Insurance for everybody\" in the Obamacare replacement","quote":"We're going to have insurance for everybody. 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FactCheck.org reported the number of uninsured Americans rose by about 3 million during Trump's term, to roughly 28 million.","repeat_count":3,"sources":[{"title":"Trump vows 'insurance for everybody' in Obamacare replacement plan","outlet":"The Washington Post","url":"https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/trump-vows-insurance-for-everybody-in-obamacare-replacement-plan/2017/01/15/5f2b1e18-db5d-11e6-ad42-f3375f271c9c_story.html","date":"2017-01-15"},{"title":"Trump promises his Obamacare replacement plan will cover everybody","outlet":"CNN","url":"https://www.cnn.com/2017/01/15/politics/trump-obamacare/index.html","date":"2017-01-15"},{"title":"Trump's Final Numbers","outlet":"FactCheck.org","url":"https://www.factcheck.org/2021/10/trumps-final-numbers/","date":"2021-10-08"}],"file":"term-1.json","year":2017,"deadline_date":null,"days_since_promise":3537,"days_overdue":null,"two_weeks":false,"url":"/promise/insurance-for-everybody/","sort_key":"2017-01-15","number":99},{"id":"separate-from-business-no-foreign-deals","title":"\"No new foreign deals\" and foreign profits donated to the Treasury","quote":"[paraphrase] I will sign no new foreign deals while in office — I turned down a $2 billion Dubai golf deal — and the Trump Organization will donate all profits from foreign government payments to the U.S. Treasury.","date_promised":"2017-01-11","venue":"Trump Tower press conference, nine days before the inauguration, with a stack of folders presented as divestment documents","deadline_text":null,"deadline_days":null,"category":"ethics","era":"term-1","status":"broken","what_happened":"Trump never divested; he moved assets into a revocable trust he could draw from and his sons ran the company. Ethics experts noted the foreign-profits pledge excluded resorts and let Trump define \"profit\" himself, and that he already had two existing Dubai golf deals with the same developer. When the Trump Organization said in 2018 it had donated foreign profits, it refused to disclose the amount or any country-by-country breakdown; House Oversight Democrats demanded proof and got none.","repeat_count":3,"sources":[{"title":"Trump promised to donate profits from foreign governments to the Treasury. House Democrats want proof","outlet":"CNBC","url":"https://www.cnbc.com/2018/01/11/democrats-want-proof-trump-donated-profits-from-foreign-governments.html","date":"2018-01-11"},{"title":"After A Year In Office, Questions About Trump's Foreign Deals Go On. And On","outlet":"NPR","url":"https://www.npr.org/sections/parallels/2018/01/15/577326163/after-a-year-in-office-questions-about-trumps-foreign-deals-go-on-and-on","date":"2018-01-15"},{"title":"Trump Organization says it has donated foreign profits to Treasury","outlet":"NBC News","url":"https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/politics-news/trump-organization-donates-foreign-profits-treasury-won-t-disclose-amounts-n851316","date":"2018-02-26"},{"title":"Oversight Committee Requests Documents on Trump Organization's Treatment of Foreign Government Payments","outlet":"House Oversight Committee","url":"https://oversight.house.gov/release/oversight-committee-requests-documents-trump-organizations-treatment-foreign-government-payments","date":"2017-04-21"}],"file":"term-1.json","year":2017,"deadline_date":null,"days_since_promise":3541,"days_overdue":null,"two_weeks":false,"url":"/promise/separate-from-business-no-foreign-deals/","sort_key":"2017-01-11","number":98},{"id":"hacking-secret-tuesday-or-wednesday-2016","title":"'You'll find out on Tuesday or Wednesday' about the hacking","quote":"I also know things that other people don't know, and so they cannot be sure of the situation... You'll find out on Tuesday or Wednesday.","date_promised":"2016-12-31","venue":"Remarks to reporters before his New Year's Eve party at Mar-a-Lago, Palm Beach","deadline_text":"on Tuesday or Wednesday","deadline_days":4,"category":"elections","era":"campaign-2016","status":"never-delivered","what_happened":"Nothing was revealed on that Tuesday or Wednesday. Trump was briefed by intelligence chiefs on January 6, 2017 and at his January 11 press conference conceded 'I think it was Russia' — the opposite of the inside-knowledge tease. No separate disclosure was ever made.","repeat_count":1,"sources":[{"title":"Trump: I 'know things that other people don't know' about hacking","outlet":"The Hill","url":"https://thehill.com/blogs/blog-briefing-room/news/312335-trump-i-know-things-about-hacking-that-other-people-dont/","date":"2016-12-31"},{"title":"Trump Vows New Revelations on Hacking: 'I Know Things Other People Don't'","outlet":"Slate","url":"https://slate.com/news-and-politics/2017/01/trump-vows-new-revelations-on-hacking-claims-to-know-things-others-don-t.html","date":"2017-01-01"},{"title":"Trump still not sold on Russian link to hacking","outlet":"PBS NewsHour / AP","url":"https://www.pbs.org/newshour/politics/trump-still-not-sold-russian-link-hacking","date":"2016-12-31"}],"file":"campaign-2016.json","year":2016,"deadline_date":"2017-01-04","days_since_promise":3552,"days_overdue":3548,"two_weeks":true,"url":"/promise/hacking-secret-tuesday-or-wednesday-2016/","sort_key":"2016-12-31","number":97},{"id":"death-penalty-for-cop-killers","title":"Mandatory death penalty for killers of police officers","quote":"[paraphrase] Anyone who kills a police officer will get the death penalty.","date_promised":"2016-12-01","venue":"Campaign and post-election rallies","deadline_text":null,"deadline_days":null,"category":"justice","era":"campaign-2016","status":"never-delivered","what_happened":"No legislation or executive action establishing a mandatory death penalty for killing a police officer was pursued. PolitiFact rated the promise broken, noting Trump made no move on it.","repeat_count":4,"sources":[{"title":"Impose death penalty for cop killers","outlet":"PolitiFact Trump-O-Meter","url":"https://www.politifact.com/truth-o-meter/promises/trumpometer/promise/386148/impose-death-penalty-cop-killers/","date":"2020-07-15"}],"file":"campaign-2016.json","year":2016,"deadline_date":null,"days_since_promise":3582,"days_overdue":null,"two_weeks":false,"url":"/promise/death-penalty-for-cop-killers/","sort_key":"2016-12-01","number":96},{"id":"carrier-save-1100-jobs","title":"Save the Carrier jobs in Indianapolis","quote":"[paraphrase] We're keeping 1,100 jobs at Carrier in Indiana that were going to Mexico.","date_promised":"2016-12-01","venue":"Carrier plant visit, Indianapolis, Indiana","deadline_text":null,"deadline_days":null,"category":"economy","era":"term-1","status":"partial","what_happened":"Carrier received up to $7 million in Indiana incentives to keep about 1,070 positions, roughly 300 of which were office jobs never slated to move. The company proceeded with moving its fan coil lines to Monterrey, Mexico, laying off about 340 workers in July 2017 and about 215 more in January 2018, roughly 500 jobs in total.","repeat_count":12,"sources":[{"title":"Trump said he would save jobs at Carrier. The layoffs start July 20.","outlet":"The Washington Post","url":"https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/wonk/wp/2017/05/24/here-is-the-number-of-jobs-carrier-is-moving-to-mexico-after-trump-said-hed-save-them/","date":"2017-05-24"},{"title":"Carrier to lay off 215 more workers from Indiana plant despite Trump's vows to save jobs","outlet":"Newsweek","url":"https://www.newsweek.com/carrier-plant-layoff-215-more-workers-indiana-trump-778040","date":"2017-11-30"},{"title":"Trump didn't save all 1,100 Carrier jobs","outlet":"WRTV Indianapolis","url":"https://www.wrtv.com/news/local-news/carrier-roughly-600-jobs-still-moving-to-mexico-by-end-of-2017","date":"2017-05-24"}],"file":"term-1.json","year":2016,"deadline_date":null,"days_since_promise":3582,"days_overdue":null,"two_weeks":false,"url":"/promise/carrier-save-1100-jobs/","sort_key":"2016-12-01","number":95},{"id":"december-15-business-press-conference-2016","title":"A 'major news conference' on December 15 about leaving his business","quote":"[paraphrase] I will hold a major news conference in New York with my children on December 15 to discuss the fact that I will be leaving my great business in total order.","date_promised":"2016-11-30","venue":"Twitter, during the presidential transition","deadline_text":"December 15 (a 15-day self-set deadline)","deadline_days":15,"category":"transparency","era":"campaign-2016","status":"late","what_happened":"He cancelled on December 12, 2016 and pushed it to January. The press conference finally happened on January 11, 2017, where he announced he would hand management to his sons via a trust but would not divest — an arrangement the director of the Office of Government Ethics publicly called inadequate that same day.","repeat_count":2,"sources":[{"title":"Donald Trump Delays Announcement on Business to January","outlet":"TIME","url":"https://time.com/4598673/donald-trump-postpones-business-january/","date":"2016-12-12"},{"title":"President-Elect Trump Postpones Business Conflicts Announcement","outlet":"NPR","url":"https://www.npr.org/sections/thetwo-way/2016/12/12/505331646/president-elect-trump-postpones-business-conflicts-announcement","date":"2016-12-12"},{"title":"Donald Trump postpones news conference until January","outlet":"CNN Money","url":"https://money.cnn.com/2016/12/12/media/donald-trump-news-conference-postponed/","date":"2016-12-12"}],"file":"campaign-2016.json","year":2016,"deadline_date":"2016-12-15","days_since_promise":3583,"days_overdue":3568,"two_weeks":false,"url":"/promise/december-15-business-press-conference-2016/","sort_key":"2016-11-30","number":94},{"id":"middle-east-ultimate-deal","title":"Broker the \"ultimate deal\" between Israel and the Palestinians","quote":"[paraphrase] Israeli-Palestinian peace is the ultimate deal, and as a deal maker I would love to be the one to do it.","date_promised":"2016-11-11","venue":"Interview with The Wall Street Journal after the election","deadline_text":null,"deadline_days":null,"category":"foreign-policy","era":"campaign-2016","status":"never-delivered","what_happened":"The \"Peace to Prosperity\" plan was released January 28, 2020 after repeated delays. Palestinian leaders rejected it outright and boycotted the announcement. No Israeli-Palestinian agreement was reached. The administration instead brokered normalization deals between Israel and the UAE, Bahrain, Sudan and Morocco in late 2020.","repeat_count":10,"sources":[{"title":"Palestinian leaders reject Trump's Middle East peace plan","outlet":"NPR","url":"https://www.npr.org/2020/01/29/800725882/palestinian-leaders-reject-trumps-middle-east-peace-plan","date":"2020-01-29"},{"title":"Trump says Netanyahu 'never wanted peace' with the Palestinians","outlet":"Axios","url":"https://www.axios.com/2021/12/13/trump-middle-east-peace-netanyahu","date":"2021-12-13"}],"file":"campaign-2016.json","year":2016,"deadline_date":null,"days_since_promise":3602,"days_overdue":null,"two_weeks":false,"url":"/promise/middle-east-ultimate-deal/","sort_key":"2016-11-11","number":93},{"id":"sue-the-accusers-after-the-election-2016","title":"'All of these liars will be sued after the election is over'","quote":"Every woman lied when they came forward to hurt my campaign. Total fabrication. The events never happened. Never. All of these liars will be sued after the election is over.","date_promised":"2016-10-22","venue":"'Closing argument' and first-100-days speech, Eisenhower Hotel, Gettysburg, Pennsylvania","deadline_text":"after the election is over (17 days away)","deadline_days":17,"category":"justice","era":"campaign-2016","status":"never-delivered","what_happened":"He never sued a single accuser. The litigation ran the other way: E. Jean Carroll sued him and juries awarded her $5 million on May 9, 2023 and $83.3 million on January 26, 2024. Summer Zervos's suit was dropped in 2021 after Trump issued a statement.","repeat_count":1,"sources":[{"title":"Donald Trump Vows to Sue Sexual Assault Accusers, Lays Out Plan for First 100 Days in Office","outlet":"ABC News","url":"https://abcnews.com/Politics/donald-trump-vows-sue-sexual-assault-accusers-speaks/story?id=42986687","date":"2016-10-22"},{"title":"Trump vows to sue female accusers","outlet":"PBS NewsHour","url":"https://www.pbs.org/newshour/politics/trump-sue-female-accusers","date":"2016-10-22"}],"file":"campaign-2016.json","year":2016,"deadline_date":"2016-11-08","days_since_promise":3622,"days_overdue":3605,"two_weeks":false,"url":"/promise/sue-the-accusers-after-the-election-2016/","sort_key":"2016-10-22","number":92},{"id":"contract-with-american-voter-day-one","title":"The 'Contract with the American Voter': eighteen things on day one","quote":"On the first day of my term of office, my administration will immediately pursue the following six measures to clean up the corruption and special interest collusion in Washington, DC.","date_promised":"2016-10-22","venue":"Gettysburg, Pennsylvania speech releasing the written 'Contract with the American Voter'","deadline_text":"on the first day of my term of office","deadline_days":1,"category":"economy","era":"campaign-2016","status":"partial","what_happened":"Mostly late or never. The federal hiring freeze and TPP withdrawal were signed on day four, January 23, 2017, not day one. The constitutional amendment imposing congressional term limits was never proposed. China was not labelled a currency manipulator on day one; the administration reversed that pledge in April 2017, briefly applied the label in August 2019 and removed it in January 2020. Sanctuary-city defunding was ordered but repeatedly blocked in court.","repeat_count":18,"sources":[{"title":"Donald J. Trump 'Contract with the American Voter' Speech in Gettysburg, PA (full text)","outlet":"Democracy in Action / P2016","url":"https://p2016.org/trump/trump102216sp.html","date":"2016-10-22"},{"title":"Here Is What Donald Trump Wants To Do In His First 100 Days","outlet":"NPR","url":"https://www.npr.org/2016/11/09/501451368/here-is-what-donald-trump-wants-to-do-in-his-first-100-days","date":"2016-11-09"},{"title":"Read President-elect Donald Trump's plan for his first 100 days","outlet":"PBS NewsHour","url":"https://www.pbs.org/newshour/politics/president-elect-donald-trumps-plan-first-100-days","date":"2016-11-09"}],"file":"campaign-2016.json","year":2016,"deadline_date":"2016-10-23","days_since_promise":3622,"days_overdue":3621,"two_weeks":true,"url":"/promise/contract-with-american-voter-day-one/","sort_key":"2016-10-22","number":91},{"id":"repeal-and-replace-obamacare","title":"Repeal and replace Obamacare","quote":"Real change begins with immediately repealing and replacing the disaster known as Obamacare.","date_promised":"2016-10-22","venue":"\"Contract with the American Voter\" speech, Gettysburg, Pennsylvania","deadline_text":"within the first 100 days","deadline_days":100,"category":"healthcare","era":"campaign-2016","status":"never-delivered","what_happened":"The House passed the American Health Care Act in May 2017, but Senate repeal efforts failed. On July 28, 2017, the Senate rejected a scaled-back repeal bill 49-51 after Republicans John McCain, Susan Collins and Lisa Murkowski voted no. A further attempt (Graham-Cassidy) collapsed in September 2017. The ACA was still law when Trump left office, with 8.2 million people enrolled through healthcare.gov for 2021.","repeat_count":100,"sources":[{"title":"Repeal Obamacare: No repeal, no replace","outlet":"PolitiFact Trump-O-Meter","url":"https://www.politifact.com/truth-o-meter/promises/trumpometer/promise/386376/repeal-obamacare/","date":"2020-07-15"},{"title":"Trump's term ends with half his campaign promises unachieved","outlet":"PolitiFact","url":"https://www.politifact.com/article/2021/jan/19/trumps-term-ends-half-his-campaign-promises-unachi/","date":"2021-01-19"}],"file":"campaign-2016.json","year":2016,"deadline_date":"2017-01-30","days_since_promise":3622,"days_overdue":3522,"two_weeks":false,"url":"/promise/repeal-and-replace-obamacare/","sort_key":"2016-10-22","number":90},{"id":"one-trillion-infrastructure","title":"A $1 trillion infrastructure program","quote":"The Trump Plan will invest $550 billion in infrastructure and create an infrastructure fund.","date_promised":"2016-10-22","venue":"Campaign platform and \"Contract with the American Voter,\" Gettysburg, Pennsylvania","deadline_text":"American Energy and Infrastructure Act within first 100 days","deadline_days":100,"category":"infrastructure","era":"campaign-2016","status":"never-delivered","what_happened":"No infrastructure bill was introduced in the first 100 days or passed at any point in the term. A $1 trillion plan was rolled out in June 2017 and a $1.5 trillion version in February 2018; neither advanced. Talks with congressional Democrats collapsed on May 22, 2019, when Trump walked out of a White House meeting. \"Infrastructure Week\" became a recurring joke in Washington.","repeat_count":25,"sources":[{"title":"Invest $550 billion in infrastructure and create an infrastructure fund","outlet":"PolitiFact Trump-O-Meter","url":"https://www.politifact.com/truth-o-meter/promises/trumpometer/promise/386170/","date":"2020-07-15"},{"title":"'Infrastructure Week' has become a running joke on the Trump administration","outlet":"CNN","url":"https://www.cnn.com/2019/05/23/politics/donald-trump-infrastructure-week","date":"2019-05-23"},{"title":"Checking in on Trump's 'Contract With the American Voter'","outlet":"Washington Monthly","url":"https://washingtonmonthly.com/2017/03/17/checking-in-on-trumps-contract-with-the-american-voter/","date":"2017-03-17"}],"file":"campaign-2016.json","year":2016,"deadline_date":"2017-01-30","days_since_promise":3622,"days_overdue":3522,"two_weeks":false,"url":"/promise/one-trillion-infrastructure/","sort_key":"2016-10-22","number":89},{"id":"drain-the-swamp-ethics-pledge","title":"Drain the swamp with a five-year lobbying ban","quote":"[paraphrase] A five-year ban on executive branch officials lobbying the government after they leave, and a lifetime ban on lobbying for a foreign government.","date_promised":"2016-10-22","venue":"\"Contract with the American Voter,\" Gettysburg, Pennsylvania","deadline_text":"first day in office","deadline_days":1,"category":"ethics","era":"campaign-2016","status":"broken","what_happened":"Executive Order 13770, signed January 28, 2017, contained the pledge but with exemptions, and the lifetime foreign-lobbying ban applied only to lobbying registered under FARA, not to broader foreign consulting. Trump revoked the order entirely on January 19-20, 2021, hours before leaving office, releasing all appointees from the pledge.","repeat_count":50,"sources":[{"title":"Trump revokes lobbying ban he signed at the beginning of his presidency","outlet":"Forbes","url":"https://www.forbes.com/sites/andrewsolender/2021/01/20/trump-revokes-lobbying-ban-he-signed-at-the-beginning-of-his-presidency/","date":"2021-01-20"},{"title":"Trump frees former aides from ethics pledge, lobbying ban","outlet":"Federal News Network / AP","url":"https://federalnewsnetwork.com/agency-oversight/2021/01/trump-frees-former-aides-from-ethics-pledge-lobbying-ban/","date":"2021-01-20"},{"title":"Enact 5-year ban on White House and congressional officials from lobbying","outlet":"PolitiFact Trump-O-Meter","url":"https://www.politifact.com/truth-o-meter/promises/trumpometer/promise/386676/enact-5-year-ban-white-house-and-congressional-off/","date":"2020-07-15"},{"title":"Revisiting President Trump's forgotten five-point ethics plan","outlet":"Campaign Legal Center","url":"https://campaignlegal.org/update/revisiting-president-trumps-forgotten-five-point-ethics-plan","date":"2020-10-20"}],"file":"campaign-2016.json","year":2016,"deadline_date":"2016-10-23","days_since_promise":3622,"days_overdue":3621,"two_weeks":true,"url":"/promise/drain-the-swamp-ethics-pledge/","sort_key":"2016-10-22","number":88},{"id":"child-care-tax-credit-expansion","title":"New tax deductions and credits for child and elder care","quote":"[paraphrase] The Middle Class Tax Relief and Simplification Act will let Americans deduct childcare and elder care from their taxes and create Dependent Care Savings Accounts.","date_promised":"2016-10-22","venue":"\"Contract with the American Voter,\" Gettysburg, Pennsylvania","deadline_text":"within the first 100 days","deadline_days":100,"category":"taxes","era":"campaign-2016","status":"never-delivered","what_happened":"The December 2017 tax law did not create the promised child and elder care deduction or Dependent Care Savings Accounts, and did not increase the dependent care deduction. PolitiFact rated the promise broken on December 21, 2017.","repeat_count":5,"sources":[{"title":"Create targeted child care tax credits","outlet":"PolitiFact Trump-O-Meter","url":"https://www.politifact.com/truth-o-meter/promises/trumpometer/promise/386591/create-targeted-child-care-tax-credits/","date":"2017-12-21"}],"file":"campaign-2016.json","year":2016,"deadline_date":"2017-01-30","days_since_promise":3622,"days_overdue":3522,"two_weeks":false,"url":"/promise/child-care-tax-credit-expansion/","sort_key":"2016-10-22","number":87},{"id":"declare-china-currency-manipulator","title":"Label China a currency manipulator on day one","quote":"[paraphrase] I will direct the Treasury Secretary to label China a currency manipulator on day one.","date_promised":"2016-10-22","venue":"\"Contract with the American Voter,\" Gettysburg, Pennsylvania","deadline_text":"day one","deadline_days":1,"category":"trade","era":"campaign-2016","status":"late","what_happened":"Treasury declined to make the designation through 2017, 2018 and most of 2019. It finally labeled China a currency manipulator on August 5, 2019, then reversed the designation on January 13, 2020, ahead of the Phase One signing. PolitiFact rated the promise a compromise.","repeat_count":15,"sources":[{"title":"Declare China a currency manipulator","outlet":"PolitiFact Trump-O-Meter","url":"https://www.politifact.com/truth-o-meter/promises/trumpometer/promise/386539/declare-china-currency-manipulator/","date":"2020-07-15"}],"file":"campaign-2016.json","year":2016,"deadline_date":"2016-10-23","days_since_promise":3622,"days_overdue":3621,"two_weeks":true,"url":"/promise/declare-china-currency-manipulator/","sort_key":"2016-10-22","number":86},{"id":"stop-att-time-warner-merger","title":"Block the AT&T-Time Warner merger","quote":"[paraphrase] AT&T's purchase of Time Warner is too much concentration of power; my administration will not approve it.","date_promised":"2016-10-22","venue":"\"Contract with the American Voter\" speech, Gettysburg, Pennsylvania","deadline_text":null,"deadline_days":null,"category":"economy","era":"campaign-2016","status":"never-delivered","what_happened":"The Justice Department sued to stop the merger in November 2017 and lost in district court in June 2018. The D.C. Circuit affirmed in February 2019 and the deal closed. PolitiFact rated the promise broken.","repeat_count":3,"sources":[{"title":"Stop the AT&T Time Warner merger","outlet":"PolitiFact Trump-O-Meter","url":"https://www.politifact.com/truth-o-meter/promises/trumpometer/promise/386640/stop-t-time-warner-merger/","date":"2020-07-15"}],"file":"campaign-2016.json","year":2016,"deadline_date":null,"days_since_promise":3622,"days_overdue":null,"two_weeks":false,"url":"/promise/stop-att-time-warner-merger/","sort_key":"2016-10-22","number":85},{"id":"eliminate-wasteful-spending-every-department","title":"Eliminate wasteful spending in every federal department","quote":"[paraphrase] We will go through the budget of every department and eliminate wasteful spending.","date_promised":"2016-10-22","venue":"\"Contract with the American Voter,\" Gettysburg, Pennsylvania","deadline_text":null,"deadline_days":null,"category":"economy","era":"campaign-2016","status":"never-delivered","what_happened":"A March 2017 executive order directed a government reorganization plan; the resulting June 2018 proposal required congressional action that never came. PolitiFact rated the promise broken, noting the president cannot unilaterally reorganize every department.","repeat_count":3,"sources":[{"title":"Eliminate wasteful spending in every department","outlet":"PolitiFact Trump-O-Meter","url":"https://www.politifact.com/truth-o-meter/promises/trumpometer/promise/386254/eliminate-wasteful-spending-every-department/","date":"2020-07-15"}],"file":"campaign-2016.json","year":2016,"deadline_date":null,"days_since_promise":3622,"days_overdue":null,"two_weeks":false,"url":"/promise/eliminate-wasteful-spending-every-department/","sort_key":"2016-10-22","number":84},{"id":"mandatory-minimums-illegal-reentry","title":"Mandatory minimum sentences for illegal re-entry","quote":"[paraphrase] The End Illegal Immigration Act will establish a mandatory two-year minimum federal prison sentence for illegally re-entering the U.S. after a prior deportation.","date_promised":"2016-10-22","venue":"\"Contract with the American Voter,\" Gettysburg, Pennsylvania","deadline_text":"within the first 100 days","deadline_days":100,"category":"immigration","era":"campaign-2016","status":"never-delivered","what_happened":"The End Illegal Immigration Act was never introduced in the first 100 days and no mandatory minimum for re-entry was enacted during the term. PolitiFact rated the promise broken.","repeat_count":5,"sources":[{"title":"Have mandatory minimum sentences for criminals caught trying to re-enter the United States illegally","outlet":"PolitiFact Trump-O-Meter","url":"https://www.politifact.com/truth-o-meter/promises/trumpometer/promise/386499/have-mandatory-minimum-sentences-criminals-caught/","date":"2020-07-15"},{"title":"Checking in on Trump's 'Contract With the American Voter'","outlet":"Washington Monthly","url":"https://washingtonmonthly.com/2017/03/17/checking-in-on-trumps-contract-with-the-american-voter/","date":"2017-03-17"}],"file":"campaign-2016.json","year":2016,"deadline_date":"2017-01-30","days_since_promise":3622,"days_overdue":3522,"two_weeks":false,"url":"/promise/mandatory-minimums-illegal-reentry/","sort_key":"2016-10-22","number":83},{"id":"federal-hiring-freeze","title":"Permanent hiring freeze on federal employees","quote":"[paraphrase] A hiring freeze on all federal employees to reduce the federal workforce through attrition, exempting military, public safety and public health.","date_promised":"2016-10-22","venue":"\"Contract with the American Voter,\" Gettysburg, Pennsylvania","deadline_text":"day one","deadline_days":1,"category":"other","era":"campaign-2016","status":"broken","what_happened":"A hiring freeze was imposed on January 23, 2017 but lifted on April 12, 2017, replaced by agency-by-agency workforce plans. Federal civilian employment was higher at the end of the term than at the start. PolitiFact rated the promise broken, noting no movement since April 2017.","repeat_count":4,"sources":[{"title":"Impose a hiring freeze on federal employees","outlet":"PolitiFact Trump-O-Meter","url":"https://www.politifact.com/truth-o-meter/promises/trumpometer/promise/386193/impose-hiring-freeze-federal-employees/","date":"2020-07-15"}],"file":"campaign-2016.json","year":2016,"deadline_date":"2016-10-23","days_since_promise":3622,"days_overdue":3621,"two_weeks":true,"url":"/promise/federal-hiring-freeze/","sort_key":"2016-10-22","number":82},{"id":"contract-ten-bills-first-100-days","title":"Pass ten named bills in the first 100 days","quote":"I will work with Congress to introduce the following broader legislative measures and fight for their passage within the first 100 days of my Administration.","date_promised":"2016-10-22","venue":"\"Contract with the American Voter,\" Gettysburg, Pennsylvania","deadline_text":"within the first 100 days","deadline_days":100,"category":"other","era":"campaign-2016","status":"never-delivered","what_happened":"By day 55, nine of the ten named bills had not been introduced: the Middle Class Tax Relief and Simplification Act, End the Offshoring Act, American Energy and Infrastructure Act, School Choice and Education Opportunity Act, Affordable Childcare and Eldercare Act, End Illegal Immigration Act, Restoring Community Safety Act, Restoring National Security Act and Clean Up Corruption in Washington Act. Only a repeal-and-replace bill was introduced, and it did not pass. By April 2017 Trump called the 100-day benchmark a \"ridiculous standard.\"","repeat_count":5,"sources":[{"title":"Checking in on Trump's 'Contract With the American Voter'","outlet":"Washington Monthly","url":"https://washingtonmonthly.com/2017/03/17/checking-in-on-trumps-contract-with-the-american-voter/","date":"2017-03-17"},{"title":"Donald Trump's 100 days flip-flop","outlet":"Salon","url":"https://www.salon.com/2017/04/21/donald-trumps-100-days-flip-flop-after-campaigning-on-a-100-day-plan-trump-now-calls-it-a-ridiculous-standard/","date":"2017-04-21"},{"title":"In Gettysburg speech, Trump made 100 days of promises. Did he keep them?","outlet":"KENS 5 / TEGNA","url":"https://www.kens5.com/article/news/nation-now/in-gettysburg-speech-trump-made-100-days-of-promises-did-he-keep-them/65-434928688","date":"2017-04-28"}],"file":"campaign-2016.json","year":2016,"deadline_date":"2017-01-30","days_since_promise":3622,"days_overdue":3522,"two_weeks":false,"url":"/promise/contract-ten-bills-first-100-days/","sort_key":"2016-10-22","number":81},{"id":"cancel-obama-executive-actions","title":"Cancel every unconstitutional Obama executive action immediately","quote":"[paraphrase] On day one I will cancel every unconstitutional executive action, memorandum and order issued by President Obama.","date_promised":"2016-10-22","venue":"\"Contract with the American Voter,\" Gettysburg, Pennsylvania","deadline_text":"day one","deadline_days":1,"category":"immigration","era":"campaign-2016","status":"partial","what_happened":"Many Obama-era regulations were rolled back, but the central immigration target, DACA, survived. The Supreme Court blocked its rescission in June 2020 and a federal court ordered full reinstatement of the program in December 2020. PolitiFact rated the promise a compromise on January 4, 2021.","repeat_count":10,"sources":[{"title":"Terminate Barack Obama's immigration executive orders 'immediately'","outlet":"PolitiFact Trump-O-Meter","url":"https://www.politifact.com/truth-o-meter/promises/trumpometer/promise/386681/terminate-barack-obamas-immigration-executive-orde/","date":"2021-01-04"}],"file":"campaign-2016.json","year":2016,"deadline_date":"2016-10-23","days_since_promise":3622,"days_overdue":3621,"two_weeks":true,"url":"/promise/cancel-obama-executive-actions/","sort_key":"2016-10-22","number":80},{"id":"temporary-ban-on-new-regulations","title":"Temporary moratorium on all new federal regulations","quote":"[paraphrase] A requirement that for every new federal regulation, two existing regulations must be eliminated, and a temporary moratorium on new regulations.","date_promised":"2016-10-22","venue":"\"Contract with the American Voter,\" Gettysburg, Pennsylvania","deadline_text":"day one","deadline_days":1,"category":"economy","era":"campaign-2016","status":"partial","what_happened":"A January 20, 2017 memo froze pending rules and Executive Order 13771 of January 30, 2017 imposed the two-for-one requirement, but no blanket moratorium on new regulations was maintained and agencies continued issuing rules. PolitiFact rated the promise a compromise, finding Trump essentially held the line.","repeat_count":6,"sources":[{"title":"Enact a temporary ban on new regulations","outlet":"PolitiFact Trump-O-Meter","url":"https://www.politifact.com/truth-o-meter/promises/trumpometer/promise/386160/enact-temporary-ban-new-regulations/","date":"2020-07-15"}],"file":"campaign-2016.json","year":2016,"deadline_date":"2016-10-23","days_since_promise":3622,"days_overdue":3621,"two_weeks":true,"url":"/promise/temporary-ban-on-new-regulations/","sort_key":"2016-10-22","number":79},{"id":"congressional-term-limits","title":"Constitutional amendment imposing term limits on Congress","quote":"If I'm elected president, I will push for a constitutional amendment to impose term limits on all members of Congress.","date_promised":"2016-10-18","venue":"Campaign rally, Colorado Springs, later item one of the Gettysburg contract","deadline_text":"first item of the 100-day contract","deadline_days":100,"category":"ethics","era":"campaign-2016","status":"never-delivered","what_happened":"No term-limits amendment was proposed by the White House or brought to a vote in either chamber during the term. Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell said in November 2016 there was no chance of it passing, and the administration did not pursue it further.","repeat_count":6,"sources":[{"title":"Enact term limits: No immediate path seen for congressional term-limits","outlet":"PolitiFact Trump-O-Meter","url":"https://www.politifact.com/truth-o-meter/promises/trumpometer/promise/386144/enact-term-limits/","date":"2020-07-15"},{"title":"Checking in on Trump's 'Contract With the American Voter'","outlet":"Washington Monthly","url":"https://washingtonmonthly.com/2017/03/17/checking-in-on-trumps-contract-with-the-american-voter/","date":"2017-03-17"}],"file":"campaign-2016.json","year":2016,"deadline_date":"2017-01-26","days_since_promise":3626,"days_overdue":3526,"two_weeks":false,"url":"/promise/congressional-term-limits/","sort_key":"2016-10-18","number":78},{"id":"lifetime-foreign-lobbying-ban","title":"Lifetime ban on White House officials lobbying for foreign governments","quote":"[paraphrase] A lifetime ban on White House officials lobbying on behalf of a foreign government.","date_promised":"2016-10-17","venue":"Campaign rally, Green Bay, Wisconsin; restated in the Gettysburg contract","deadline_text":"day one","deadline_days":1,"category":"ethics","era":"campaign-2016","status":"broken","what_happened":"Executive Order 13770 of January 28, 2017 included a lifetime ban limited to activity requiring FARA registration. Trump revoked the order on January 19-20, 2021, eliminating the ban. A companion promise to ban foreign lobbyists from raising money in American elections was never implemented; PolitiFact rated both broken.","repeat_count":8,"sources":[{"title":"Place lifetime ban on White House officials lobbying for foreign government","outlet":"PolitiFact Trump-O-Meter","url":"https://www.politifact.com/truth-o-meter/promises/trumpometer/promise/386202/","date":"2020-07-15"},{"title":"Place lifetime ban on foreign lobbyists raising money for American elections","outlet":"PolitiFact Trump-O-Meter","url":"https://www.politifact.com/truth-o-meter/promises/trumpometer/promise/386207/","date":"2020-07-15"},{"title":"Trump revokes lobbying ban he signed at the beginning of his presidency","outlet":"Forbes","url":"https://www.forbes.com/sites/andrewsolender/2021/01/20/trump-revokes-lobbying-ban-he-signed-at-the-beginning-of-his-presidency/","date":"2021-01-20"}],"file":"campaign-2016.json","year":2016,"deadline_date":"2016-10-18","days_since_promise":3627,"days_overdue":3626,"two_weeks":true,"url":"/promise/lifetime-foreign-lobbying-ban/","sort_key":"2016-10-17","number":77},{"id":"end-the-opioid-epidemic","title":"End the opioid epidemic","quote":"We are going to stop the inflow of drugs into New Hampshire and into our country 100 percent.","date_promised":"2016-10-15","venue":"Campaign speech, Portsmouth, New Hampshire","deadline_text":null,"deadline_days":null,"category":"healthcare","era":"campaign-2016","status":"never-delivered","what_happened":"Trump declared a public health emergency on October 26, 2017. Overdose deaths topped 70,000 in 2017, dipped slightly in 2018, then hit a record above 70,000 in 2019 and about 93,000 in 2020 according to CDC provisional data. NPR reported in October 2020 that the epidemic had never been worse.","repeat_count":25,"sources":[{"title":"Opioid crisis: Critics say Trump fumbled response to another deadly epidemic","outlet":"NPR","url":"https://www.npr.org/2020/10/29/927859091/opioid-crisis-critics-say-trump-fumbled-response-to-another-deadly-epidemic","date":"2020-10-29"},{"title":"Trump's 40 Biggest Broken Promises","outlet":"The American Prospect","url":"https://prospect.org/2020/08/27/trumps-40-biggest-broken-promises/","date":"2020-08-27"}],"file":"campaign-2016.json","year":2016,"deadline_date":null,"days_since_promise":3629,"days_overdue":null,"two_weeks":false,"url":"/promise/end-the-opioid-epidemic/","sort_key":"2016-10-15","number":76},{"id":"cut-college-tuition-costs","title":"Bring down the cost of college","quote":"[paraphrase] We will work with colleges to reduce the cost of tuition.","date_promised":"2016-10-13","venue":"Campaign speech, Columbus, Ohio","deadline_text":null,"deadline_days":null,"category":"education","era":"campaign-2016","status":"never-delivered","what_happened":"No federal action reduced tuition. The Education Department rescinded the gainful employment rule in 2019 and weakened borrower defense to repayment rules, which The American Prospect cited as easing conditions for for-profit colleges rather than lowering costs.","repeat_count":4,"sources":[{"title":"Trump's 40 Biggest Broken Promises","outlet":"The American Prospect","url":"https://prospect.org/2020/08/27/trumps-40-biggest-broken-promises/","date":"2020-08-27"}],"file":"campaign-2016.json","year":2016,"deadline_date":null,"days_since_promise":3631,"days_overdue":null,"two_weeks":false,"url":"/promise/cut-college-tuition-costs/","sort_key":"2016-10-13","number":75},{"id":"special-prosecutor-hillary-clinton","title":"Appoint a special prosecutor to investigate Hillary Clinton","quote":"If I win, I am going to instruct my attorney general to get a special prosecutor to look into your situation... you'd be in jail.","date_promised":"2016-10-09","venue":"Second presidential debate, Washington University, St. Louis","deadline_text":null,"deadline_days":null,"category":"justice","era":"campaign-2016","status":"never-delivered","what_happened":"No special counsel was ever appointed to investigate Clinton. Attorney General Jeff Sessions had a federal prosecutor review the matter in 2017 and 2018 without appointing a special counsel, and no charges followed. Trump later said he felt it \"would be a terrible thing\" to pursue.","repeat_count":40,"sources":[{"title":"Appoint a special prosecutor to investigate Hillary Clinton","outlet":"PolitiFact Trump-O-Meter","url":"https://www.politifact.com/truth-o-meter/promises/trumpometer/promise/386153/","date":"2020-07-15"},{"title":"Trump now denies saying 'Lock her up.' He said Clinton should go to jail at least 7 times","outlet":"PolitiFact","url":"https://www.politifact.com/factchecks/2024/jun/03/donald-trump/fact-check-trump-falsely-said-he-didnt-say-lock-he/","date":"2024-06-03"},{"title":"Presidential Candidates Debate, October 9, 2016","outlet":"C-SPAN","url":"https://www.c-span.org/program/campaign-2016/presidential-candidates-debate/452373","date":"2016-10-09"}],"file":"campaign-2016.json","year":2016,"deadline_date":null,"days_since_promise":3635,"days_overdue":null,"two_weeks":false,"url":"/promise/special-prosecutor-hillary-clinton/","sort_key":"2016-10-09","number":74},{"id":"tax-returns-after-the-audit","title":"Tax returns to be released 'as soon as the audit is finished'","quote":"I'm under a routine audit and it'll be released, and as soon as the audit is finished it will be released.","date_promised":"2016-09-26","venue":"First 2016 presidential debate, Hofstra University","deadline_text":"as soon as the audit is finished","deadline_days":14,"category":"transparency","era":"campaign-2016","status":"never-delivered","what_happened":"Trump repeated the 'after the audit' line from 2015 onward and abandoned it once in office. Nothing in law bars releasing returns under audit. A 2022 House Ways and Means report found the mandatory presidential audit was not even started until 2019. Six years of returns became public only in December 2022 after the House Ways and Means Committee forced their release.","repeat_count":6,"sources":[{"title":"Release his tax returns after an audit is completed","outlet":"PolitiFact (Trump-O-Meter)","url":"https://www.politifact.com/truth-o-meter/promises/trumpometer/promise/1421/release-his-tax-returns-after-audit-completed/article/2341/","date":"2017-01-23"},{"title":"Trump's tax returns released by House committee","outlet":"NBC News","url":"https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/donald-trump/trumps-tax-returns-released-house-committee-years-legal-battles-rcna62408","date":"2022-12-30"},{"title":"How Donald Trump Politicized Releasing Tax Returns","outlet":"TIME","url":"https://time.com/6243071/trump-tax-returns-history-house/","date":"2022-12-21"},{"title":"Donald Trump: I'll release tax returns after audit","outlet":"CNN","url":"https://www.cnn.com/2016/05/11/politics/donald-trump-tax-returns","date":"2016-05-11"}],"file":"campaign-2016.json","year":2016,"deadline_date":"2016-10-10","days_since_promise":3648,"days_overdue":3634,"two_weeks":true,"url":"/promise/tax-returns-after-the-audit/","sort_key":"2016-09-26","number":73},{"id":"national-right-to-carry-reciprocity","title":"National concealed carry reciprocity in all 50 states","quote":"[paraphrase] A concealed carry permit should be valid in all 50 states.","date_promised":"2016-09-18","venue":"Campaign Second Amendment position paper","deadline_text":null,"deadline_days":null,"category":"guns","era":"campaign-2016","status":"never-delivered","what_happened":"The House passed a concealed carry reciprocity bill in December 2017, but the Senate never took it up and it did not become law. PolitiFact rated the promise broken.","repeat_count":6,"sources":[{"title":"Expand national right to carry to all 50 states","outlet":"PolitiFact Trump-O-Meter","url":"https://www.politifact.com/truth-o-meter/promises/trumpometer/promise/386245/","date":"2020-07-15"}],"file":"campaign-2016.json","year":2016,"deadline_date":null,"days_since_promise":3656,"days_overdue":null,"two_weeks":false,"url":"/promise/national-right-to-carry-reciprocity/","sort_key":"2016-09-18","number":72},{"id":"expand-mental-health-programs","title":"Expand mental health programs","quote":"[paraphrase] We have to expand treatment for the mentally ill; the halfway houses and institutions need to come back.","date_promised":"2016-09-18","venue":"Campaign Second Amendment and public safety materials","deadline_text":null,"deadline_days":null,"category":"healthcare","era":"campaign-2016","status":"partial","what_happened":"Some funding increased through the 21st Century Cures Act and opioid response grants, but the administration's budgets repeatedly proposed cuts to SAMHSA programs and to Medicaid, the largest payer for mental health care. PolitiFact rated the record mixed and the promise a compromise.","repeat_count":4,"sources":[{"title":"Expand mental health programs","outlet":"PolitiFact Trump-O-Meter","url":"https://www.politifact.com/truth-o-meter/promises/trumpometer/promise/386240/expand-mental-health-programs/","date":"2020-07-15"}],"file":"campaign-2016.json","year":2016,"deadline_date":null,"days_since_promise":3656,"days_overdue":null,"two_weeks":false,"url":"/promise/expand-mental-health-programs/","sort_key":"2016-09-18","number":71},{"id":"gdp-growth-4-to-6-percent","title":"Grow the economy 4 percent a year (and maybe 5 or 6)","quote":"We're bringing it from 1 percent up to 4 percent. And I actually think we can go higher than 4 percent. I think you can go to 5 percent or 6 percent.","date_promised":"2016-09-15","venue":"Economic Club of New York speech","deadline_text":null,"deadline_days":null,"category":"economy","era":"campaign-2016","status":"never-delivered","what_happened":"Annual real GDP growth peaked at 2.9 percent in 2018, matching the best year of Obama's second term, and never reached 3 percent in any calendar year. Real GDP fell 2.2 percent in 2020 during the pandemic recession, the largest drop since the Great Recession.","repeat_count":30,"sources":[{"title":"Grow the economy by 4 percent a year","outlet":"PolitiFact Trump-O-Meter","url":"https://www.politifact.com/truth-o-meter/promises/trumpometer/promise/386548/","date":"2020-07-15"},{"title":"Trump's economic policies failed to deliver promised 3% growth in 2018","outlet":"CNBC","url":"https://www.cnbc.com/2019/02/28/trumps-economic-policies-failed-to-deliver-promised-3percent-growth-in-2018.html","date":"2019-02-28"},{"title":"The promise: the economy will grow by 4%, 5%, or 6%","outlet":"Americans for Tax Fairness","url":"https://americansfortaxfairness.org/chartbook/promise-economy-will-grow-4-5-6/","date":"2020-01-01"}],"file":"campaign-2016.json","year":2016,"deadline_date":null,"days_since_promise":3659,"days_overdue":null,"two_weeks":false,"url":"/promise/gdp-growth-4-to-6-percent/","sort_key":"2016-09-15","number":70},{"id":"25-million-jobs","title":"Create 25 million jobs over ten years","quote":"I am going to be the greatest jobs president that God ever created... we will produce 25 million jobs over 10 years.","date_promised":"2016-09-15","venue":"Economic Club of New York speech (jobs boast from June 16, 2015 launch)","deadline_text":"10 years","deadline_days":3653,"category":"economy","era":"campaign-2016","status":"never-delivered","what_happened":"The United States finished Trump's term with a net loss of about 2.7 million jobs, the first net job loss under any president since records began in 1939. Even before the pandemic, job growth from January 2017 to February 2020 trailed the pace of Obama's second term.","repeat_count":10,"sources":[{"title":"Trump's Final Numbers","outlet":"FactCheck.org","url":"https://www.factcheck.org/2021/10/trumps-final-numbers/","date":"2021-10-08"},{"title":"Trump's jobs record fell short of promises even before the virus","outlet":"Houston Chronicle / Bloomberg","url":"https://www.houstonchronicle.com/politics/us/article/Trump-s-Jobs-Record-Fell-Short-of-Promises-Even-15605543.php","date":"2020-09-04"}],"file":"campaign-2016.json","year":2016,"deadline_date":"2026-09-16","days_since_promise":3659,"days_overdue":6,"two_weeks":false,"url":"/promise/25-million-jobs/","sort_key":"2016-09-15","number":69},{"id":"repeal-alternative-minimum-tax","title":"Repeal the alternative minimum tax","quote":"[paraphrase] The tax plan will eliminate the alternative minimum tax.","date_promised":"2016-09-15","venue":"Campaign tax plan","deadline_text":null,"deadline_days":null,"category":"taxes","era":"campaign-2016","status":"never-delivered","what_happened":"The 2017 law repealed the corporate AMT but retained the individual AMT with higher exemption amounts through 2025. The 3.8 percent net investment income tax also remained. PolitiFact rated the promise broken on December 20, 2017.","repeat_count":4,"sources":[{"title":"Repeal the alternative minimum tax","outlet":"PolitiFact Trump-O-Meter","url":"https://www.politifact.com/truth-o-meter/promises/trumpometer/promise/386615/repeal-alternative-minimum-tax/","date":"2017-12-20"}],"file":"campaign-2016.json","year":2016,"deadline_date":null,"days_since_promise":3659,"days_overdue":null,"two_weeks":false,"url":"/promise/repeal-alternative-minimum-tax/","sort_key":"2016-09-15","number":68},{"id":"simplify-tax-brackets-to-three","title":"Cut the number of income tax brackets","quote":"[paraphrase] Reduce the seven tax brackets to three and simplify the code so most Americans can file on a single page.","date_promised":"2016-09-15","venue":"Campaign tax plan","deadline_text":null,"deadline_days":null,"category":"taxes","era":"campaign-2016","status":"never-delivered","what_happened":"The final 2017 law kept seven brackets, changing only the rates and thresholds. PolitiFact rated the promise broken on December 20, 2017.","repeat_count":5,"sources":[{"title":"Cut the number of tax brackets","outlet":"PolitiFact Trump-O-Meter","url":"https://www.politifact.com/truth-o-meter/promises/trumpometer/promise/386607/simplify-tax-code/","date":"2017-12-20"}],"file":"campaign-2016.json","year":2016,"deadline_date":null,"days_since_promise":3659,"days_overdue":null,"two_weeks":false,"url":"/promise/simplify-tax-brackets-to-three/","sort_key":"2016-09-15","number":67},{"id":"fifteen-percent-corporate-rate","title":"Cut the corporate tax rate to 15 percent","quote":"[paraphrase] Lower the business tax rate from 35 percent to 15 percent.","date_promised":"2016-09-15","venue":"Campaign tax plan and Economic Club of New York speech","deadline_text":null,"deadline_days":null,"category":"taxes","era":"campaign-2016","status":"partial","what_happened":"The December 2017 law cut the corporate rate to 21 percent, not the promised 15 percent. PolitiFact rated the promise a compromise on December 20, 2017. The estate tax was likewise not eliminated; the exemption was roughly doubled instead.","repeat_count":12,"sources":[{"title":"Lower the business tax rate","outlet":"PolitiFact Trump-O-Meter","url":"https://www.politifact.com/truth-o-meter/promises/trumpometer/promise/386601/lower-business-tax-rate/","date":"2017-12-20"},{"title":"Eliminate the estate tax","outlet":"PolitiFact Trump-O-Meter","url":"https://www.politifact.com/truth-o-meter/promises/trumpometer/promise/386655/eliminate-estate-tax/","date":"2017-12-20"}],"file":"campaign-2016.json","year":2016,"deadline_date":null,"days_since_promise":3659,"days_overdue":null,"two_weeks":false,"url":"/promise/fifteen-percent-corporate-rate/","sort_key":"2016-09-15","number":66},{"id":"penny-plan-spending-cuts","title":"Adopt the penny plan: cut 1 percent of spending a year","quote":"[paraphrase] Cut 1 percent of non-defense discretionary spending every year.","date_promised":"2016-09-15","venue":"Campaign economic plan","deadline_text":"1 percent per year","deadline_days":null,"category":"economy","era":"campaign-2016","status":"never-delivered","what_happened":"Federal spending rose in every year of the term. Trump signed budget deals in 2018 and 2019 that raised discretionary spending caps, and fiscal 2020 outlays reached $6.55 trillion. PolitiFact rated the promise broken, finding Trump abandoned the pledge.","repeat_count":4,"sources":[{"title":"Adopt the penny plan: Trump abandons promise to cut spending 1% a year","outlet":"PolitiFact Trump-O-Meter","url":"https://www.politifact.com/truth-o-meter/promises/trumpometer/promise/386544/","date":"2020-07-15"}],"file":"campaign-2016.json","year":2016,"deadline_date":null,"days_since_promise":3659,"days_overdue":null,"two_weeks":false,"url":"/promise/penny-plan-spending-cuts/","sort_key":"2016-09-15","number":65},{"id":"six-week-paid-maternity-leave","title":"Six weeks of guaranteed paid maternity leave","quote":"[paraphrase] Provide six weeks of paid maternity leave to any mother with a newborn child whose employer does not provide the benefit.","date_promised":"2016-09-13","venue":"Child care policy speech, Aston, Pennsylvania","deadline_text":null,"deadline_days":null,"category":"other","era":"campaign-2016","status":"never-delivered","what_happened":"No national paid maternity leave program was enacted. Proposals appeared in budget documents but were not taken up by Congress. The 2019 defense authorization act gave 12 weeks of paid parental leave to federal employees only, which PolitiFact cited in rating the broader promise a compromise: the vast majority of private-sector workers still had no paid leave.","repeat_count":6,"sources":[{"title":"Guarantee 6-week paid leave","outlet":"PolitiFact Trump-O-Meter","url":"https://www.politifact.com/truth-o-meter/promises/trumpometer/promise/386369/","date":"2020-07-15"},{"title":"Trump, daughter Ivanka by side, calls for 6 weeks maternity leave","outlet":"ABC News","url":"https://www.goodmorningamerica.com/news/story/trump-roll-childcare-plan-daughter-ivanka-42054622","date":"2016-09-13"},{"title":"Trump to call for six weeks paid maternity leave","outlet":"The Hill","url":"https://thehill.com/policy/healthcare/295608-trump-to-call-for-six-weeks-paid-maternity-leave/","date":"2016-09-13"}],"file":"campaign-2016.json","year":2016,"deadline_date":null,"days_since_promise":3661,"days_overdue":null,"two_weeks":false,"url":"/promise/six-week-paid-maternity-leave/","sort_key":"2016-09-13","number":64},{"id":"school-choice-20-billion","title":"Add $20 billion in federal funding for school choice","quote":"[paraphrase] I am proposing to redirect $20 billion in existing federal dollars to school choice.","date_promised":"2016-09-08","venue":"Education speech, Cleveland, Ohio","deadline_text":null,"deadline_days":null,"category":"education","era":"campaign-2016","status":"never-delivered","what_happened":"Congress did not appropriate the $20 billion. Federal charter school program funding rose only modestly, and a proposed federal tax-credit scholarship never passed. 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PolitiFact rated the promise broken. Related pledges for a 350-ship Navy and 1,200 Air Force fighters were rated compromises, with numbers rising but falling well short.","repeat_count":4,"sources":[{"title":"Increase the size of the U.S. Army to 540,000 active duty soldiers","outlet":"PolitiFact Trump-O-Meter","url":"https://www.politifact.com/truth-o-meter/promises/trumpometer/promise/386338/increase-size-us-army-540000-active-duty-soldiers/","date":"2020-07-15"},{"title":"Rebuild the U.S. Navy toward the goal of 350 ships","outlet":"PolitiFact Trump-O-Meter","url":"https://www.politifact.com/truth-o-meter/promises/trumpometer/promise/386350/rebuild-us-navy-toward-goal-350-ships/","date":"2020-07-15"},{"title":"Provide the U.S. Air Force with 1,200 fighter aircraft","outlet":"PolitiFact Trump-O-Meter","url":"https://www.politifact.com/truth-o-meter/promises/trumpometer/promise/386346/provide-us-air-force-1200-fighter-aircrafts/","date":"2020-07-15"}],"file":"campaign-2016.json","year":2016,"deadline_date":null,"days_since_promise":3667,"days_overdue":null,"two_weeks":false,"url":"/promise/army-540000-active-duty/","sort_key":"2016-09-07","number":62},{"id":"marine-corps-36-battalions","title":"Rebuild the Marine Corps to 36 battalions","quote":"[paraphrase] We will rebuild the Marine Corps to 36 battalions.","date_promised":"2016-09-07","venue":"Military readiness speech, Philadelphia","deadline_text":null,"deadline_days":null,"category":"foreign-policy","era":"campaign-2016","status":"never-delivered","what_happened":"The Marine Corps did not expand to 36 battalions. Its 2020 Force Design 2030 plan instead cut infantry battalions and eliminated all tank units. 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Enforcement and Removal Operations staffing grew only modestly over the term. PolitiFact rated the promise broken.","repeat_count":5,"sources":[{"title":"Triple ICE enforcement","outlet":"PolitiFact Trump-O-Meter","url":"https://www.politifact.com/truth-o-meter/promises/trumpometer/promise/386666/triple-ice-enforcement/","date":"2020-07-15"}],"file":"campaign-2016.json","year":2016,"deadline_date":null,"days_since_promise":3674,"days_overdue":null,"two_weeks":false,"url":"/promise/triple-ice-enforcement/","sort_key":"2016-08-31","number":60},{"id":"defund-sanctuary-cities","title":"Cancel all federal funding to sanctuary cities","quote":"[paraphrase] We will cancel all federal funding to sanctuary cities.","date_promised":"2016-08-31","venue":"Immigration speech, Phoenix, Arizona","deadline_text":null,"deadline_days":null,"category":"immigration","era":"campaign-2016","status":"never-delivered","what_happened":"A January 25, 2017 executive order directing the cutoff was blocked by a federal judge in San Francisco in November 2017. Attempts to attach conditions to Byrne JAG grants produced conflicting appellate rulings and were largely enjoined. Funding was not cancelled. 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PolitiFact rated the promise a compromise.","repeat_count":4,"sources":[{"title":"Cancel visas to foreign countries that won't take undocumented immigrants back","outlet":"PolitiFact Trump-O-Meter","url":"https://www.politifact.com/truth-o-meter/promises/trumpometer/promise/386671/cancel-visas-foreign-countries-wont-take-undocumen/","date":"2020-07-15"}],"file":"campaign-2016.json","year":2016,"deadline_date":null,"days_since_promise":3674,"days_overdue":null,"two_weeks":false,"url":"/promise/cancel-visas-recalcitrant-countries/","sort_key":"2016-08-31","number":58},{"id":"isis-plan-30-days-2016","title":"Generals given '30 days to submit a plan' to defeat ISIS","quote":"We are going to convene my top generals and give them a simple instruction. They will have 30 days to submit to the Oval Office a plan for soundly and quickly defeating ISIS.","date_promised":"2016-08-15","venue":"Foreign policy speech, Youngstown, Ohio; restated on September 6, 2016 in North Carolina","deadline_text":"30 days after taking office","deadline_days":30,"category":"foreign-policy","era":"campaign-2016","status":"partial","what_happened":"He did start the clock: a presidential memorandum on January 28, 2017 gave the Pentagon 30 days, and Defense Secretary James Mattis delivered a preliminary framework around February 27, 2017. PolitiFact rated it a compromise — a plan was produced but it was largely a continuation of the Obama-era campaign, and ISIS's territorial defeat did not come until March 2019. Retired Lt. Gen. Mark Hertling called the 30-day order 'sophomoric.'","repeat_count":3,"sources":[{"title":"Develop a plan to defeat ISIS in 30 days","outlet":"PolitiFact (Trump-O-Meter)","url":"https://www.politifact.com/truth-o-meter/promises/trumpometer/promise/1375/develop-plan-defeat-isis-30-days/article/2695/","date":"2017-03-01"},{"title":"Retired general calls Trump's 30-day ISIS order 'sophomoric'","outlet":"CNN","url":"https://www.cnn.com/2016/09/07/politics/mark-hertling-trump-30-day-isis-plan/index.html","date":"2016-09-07"},{"title":"Trump: I don't give a specific ISIS plan because I don't want enemies to know it","outlet":"CNBC","url":"https://www.cnbc.com/2016/09/07/trump-i-dont-give-a-specific-isis-plan-because-i-dont-want-enemies-to-know-it.html","date":"2016-09-07"}],"file":"campaign-2016.json","year":2016,"deadline_date":"2016-09-14","days_since_promise":3690,"days_overdue":3660,"two_weeks":false,"url":"/promise/isis-plan-30-days-2016/","sort_key":"2016-08-15","number":57},{"id":"commission-on-radical-islam","title":"Establish a commission on radical Islam","quote":"[paraphrase] I am going to set up a commission on radical Islam to expose the networks in our society that support radicalization.","date_promised":"2016-08-15","venue":"Foreign policy speech, Youngstown, Ohio","deadline_text":null,"deadline_days":null,"category":"foreign-policy","era":"campaign-2016","status":"never-delivered","what_happened":"No such commission was created at any point in the term. PolitiFact rated the promise broken.","repeat_count":2,"sources":[{"title":"Establish a commission on radical Islam","outlet":"PolitiFact Trump-O-Meter","url":"https://www.politifact.com/truth-o-meter/promises/trumpometer/promise/386313/establish-commission-radical-islam/","date":"2020-07-15"}],"file":"campaign-2016.json","year":2016,"deadline_date":null,"days_since_promise":3690,"days_overdue":null,"two_weeks":false,"url":"/promise/commission-on-radical-islam/","sort_key":"2016-08-15","number":56},{"id":"international-conference-defeat-isis","title":"Convene an international conference to defeat ISIS","quote":"[paraphrase] I will call for an international conference focused on halting the spread of radical Islam.","date_promised":"2016-08-15","venue":"Foreign policy speech, Youngstown, Ohio","deadline_text":null,"deadline_days":null,"category":"foreign-policy","era":"campaign-2016","status":"never-delivered","what_happened":"No new international conference was convened. The administration continued meetings of the existing Global Coalition to Defeat ISIS, which PolitiFact counted as partial fulfillment in rating the promise a compromise.","repeat_count":2,"sources":[{"title":"Call for an international conference to defeat ISIS","outlet":"PolitiFact Trump-O-Meter","url":"https://www.politifact.com/truth-o-meter/promises/trumpometer/promise/386356/call-international-conference-defeat-isis/","date":"2020-07-15"}],"file":"campaign-2016.json","year":2016,"deadline_date":null,"days_since_promise":3690,"days_overdue":null,"two_weeks":false,"url":"/promise/international-conference-defeat-isis/","sort_key":"2016-08-15","number":55},{"id":"melania-immigration-press-conference-2016","title":"Melania Trump's promised press conference on her immigration history","quote":"She'll be holding a press conference over the next couple of weeks... she came in totally legally.","date_promised":"2016-08-09","venue":"Campaign remarks / interviews after reports questioned Melania Trump's early US work visas","deadline_text":"over the next couple of weeks","deadline_days":14,"category":"immigration","era":"campaign-2016","status":"never-delivered","what_happened":"Trump promised his wife would hold a news conference to produce documents proving she entered the US legally. The press conference never happened. In September 2016 her lawyer released a letter instead, and reporting later showed she had worked on a visitor visa before receiving a work visa.","repeat_count":2,"sources":[{"title":"Melania Trump will address immigration controversy, Donald Trump says","outlet":"CNN","url":"https://www.cnn.com/2016/08/09/politics/donald-trump-melania-immigration-controversy","date":"2016-08-09"},{"title":"Trump promises press conference on Melania's immigration story","outlet":"The Hill","url":"https://thehill.com/blogs/ballot-box/presidential-races/290935-trump-on-wifes-immigration-story-she-came-in-totally/","date":"2016-08-09"}],"file":"campaign-2016.json","year":2016,"deadline_date":"2016-08-23","days_since_promise":3696,"days_overdue":3682,"two_weeks":true,"url":"/promise/melania-immigration-press-conference-2016/","sort_key":"2016-08-09","number":54},{"id":"no-time-for-golf","title":"\"I'm not going to have time to play golf\"","quote":"I'm going to be working for you. I'm not going to have time to go play golf.","date_promised":"2016-08-02","venue":"Campaign rally in Virginia; repeated at rallies through 2016 alongside attacks on Obama's golfing","deadline_text":null,"deadline_days":null,"category":"other","era":"campaign-2016","status":"broken","what_happened":"Trump visited golf clubs on 92 days in his first year and on 237 of the first 1,022 days of his first term — roughly a quarter of his presidency. By 2020 he had golfed more than Obama had at the same point, while claiming the opposite. He kept the habit in his second term, spending 106 of his first 473 days back in office at golf courses.","repeat_count":15,"sources":[{"title":"Donald Trump's huge golf hypocrisy","outlet":"CNN","url":"https://www.cnn.com/2018/01/03/politics/donald-trump-golf-analysis/","date":"2018-01-03"},{"title":"Trump Has Visited Golf Clubs on 237 Days of His Presidency","outlet":"Newsweek","url":"https://www.newsweek.com/trump-has-visited-golf-clubs-237-days-his-presidencythats-23-percent-days-hes-been-office-1470392","date":"2019-11-09"},{"title":"One-fifth of Donald Trump's days as president spent golfing","outlet":"Global News","url":"https://globalnews.ca/news/3574724/one-fifth-of-donald-trumps-days-as-president-spent-golfing","date":"2017-08-08"}],"file":"campaign-2016.json","year":2016,"deadline_date":null,"days_since_promise":3703,"days_overdue":null,"two_weeks":false,"url":"/promise/no-time-for-golf/","sort_key":"2016-08-02","number":53},{"id":"no-government-shutdowns","title":"Fix the dysfunction in Washington","quote":"[paraphrase] I alone can fix it.","date_promised":"2016-07-21","venue":"Republican National Convention acceptance speech, Cleveland","deadline_text":null,"deadline_days":null,"category":"other","era":"campaign-2016","status":"broken","what_happened":"The federal government shut down three times during the term, including the longest shutdown in U.S. history, 35 days from December 22, 2018 to January 25, 2019, over border wall funding. Roughly 800,000 federal workers went without pay and the Congressional Budget Office estimated a $11 billion hit to GDP, $3 billion of it permanent.","repeat_count":10,"sources":[{"title":"Trump's 40 Biggest Broken Promises","outlet":"The American Prospect","url":"https://prospect.org/2020/08/27/trumps-40-biggest-broken-promises/","date":"2020-08-27"}],"file":"campaign-2016.json","year":2016,"deadline_date":null,"days_since_promise":3715,"days_overdue":null,"two_weeks":false,"url":"/promise/no-government-shutdowns/","sort_key":"2016-07-21","number":52},{"id":"champion-of-workers","title":"Be the champion of American workers","quote":"[paraphrase] I am going to be the greatest champion working people have ever had in the White House.","date_promised":"2016-07-21","venue":"Republican National Convention acceptance speech, Cleveland","deadline_text":null,"deadline_days":null,"category":"economy","era":"campaign-2016","status":"broken","what_happened":"The administration rescinded the Obama-era overtime rule expansion and issued a narrower version in 2019, narrowed the joint-employer standard, and rolled back workplace safety and tip-pooling protections. The American Prospect listed the worker-protection record among the broken promises.","repeat_count":20,"sources":[{"title":"Trump's 40 Biggest Broken Promises","outlet":"The American Prospect","url":"https://prospect.org/2020/08/27/trumps-40-biggest-broken-promises/","date":"2020-08-27"}],"file":"campaign-2016.json","year":2016,"deadline_date":null,"days_since_promise":3715,"days_overdue":null,"two_weeks":false,"url":"/promise/champion-of-workers/","sort_key":"2016-07-21","number":51},{"id":"bring-back-manufacturing","title":"Bring back manufacturing jobs","quote":"[paraphrase] We're going to bring back manufacturing and the factories that left.","date_promised":"2016-06-28","venue":"Speech at Alumisource, Monessen, Pennsylvania","deadline_text":null,"deadline_days":null,"category":"economy","era":"campaign-2016","status":"never-delivered","what_happened":"Manufacturing employment ended the term down about 178,000 jobs, according to FactCheck.org. The sector entered a technical recession in 2019, contracting for consecutive quarters before the pandemic. PolitiFact rated the promise broken in July 2020, finding no overall improvement for the sector.","repeat_count":50,"sources":[{"title":"Bring back manufacturing: No overall improvement for manufacturing sector under Trump","outlet":"PolitiFact Trump-O-Meter","url":"https://www.politifact.com/truth-o-meter/promises/trumpometer/promise/386647/","date":"2020-07-15"},{"title":"Trump's Final Numbers","outlet":"FactCheck.org","url":"https://www.factcheck.org/2021/10/trumps-final-numbers/","date":"2021-10-08"},{"title":"President Trump's Broken Promises to the American People","outlet":"Office of the House Majority Leader (Hoyer)","url":"https://leaderarchive-hoyer.house.gov/content/president-trump%E2%80%99s-broken-promises-american-people","date":"2020-02-04"}],"file":"campaign-2016.json","year":2016,"deadline_date":null,"days_since_promise":3738,"days_overdue":null,"two_weeks":false,"url":"/promise/bring-back-manufacturing/","sort_key":"2016-06-28","number":50},{"id":"shrink-the-trade-deficit","title":"Trade deals would shrink the trade deficit","quote":"[paraphrase] Renegotiated trade deals and tariffs will bring the trade deficit down.","date_promised":"2016-06-28","venue":"Trade policy speech, Monessen, Pennsylvania","deadline_text":null,"deadline_days":null,"category":"trade","era":"campaign-2016","status":"never-delivered","what_happened":"The total U.S. trade deficit in goods and services rose 36.3 percent from 2016 to 2020, reaching nearly $654 billion in 2020, according to FactCheck.org.","repeat_count":25,"sources":[{"title":"Trump's Final Numbers","outlet":"FactCheck.org","url":"https://www.factcheck.org/2021/10/trumps-final-numbers/","date":"2021-10-08"}],"file":"campaign-2016.json","year":2016,"deadline_date":null,"days_since_promise":3738,"days_overdue":null,"two_weeks":false,"url":"/promise/shrink-the-trade-deficit/","sort_key":"2016-06-28","number":49},{"id":"reverse-china-wto-entry","title":"Reverse China's entry into the World Trade Organization","quote":"[paraphrase] China's entry into the WTO was a disaster and should be undone.","date_promised":"2016-06-28","venue":"Trade policy speech, Monessen, Pennsylvania","deadline_text":null,"deadline_days":null,"category":"trade","era":"campaign-2016","status":"never-delivered","what_happened":"China remained a WTO member throughout the term. The administration blocked appointments to the WTO Appellate Body, paralyzing it in December 2019, but took no action to remove China from the organization. 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Labor Department data on trade-related layoffs showed offshoring continued, including by companies Trump had singled out.","repeat_count":25,"sources":[{"title":"Trump's 40 Biggest Broken Promises","outlet":"The American Prospect","url":"https://prospect.org/2020/08/27/trumps-40-biggest-broken-promises/","date":"2020-08-27"},{"title":"Checking in on Trump's 'Contract With the American Voter'","outlet":"Washington Monthly","url":"https://washingtonmonthly.com/2017/03/17/checking-in-on-trumps-contract-with-the-american-voter/","date":"2017-03-17"}],"file":"campaign-2016.json","year":2016,"deadline_date":null,"days_since_promise":3738,"days_overdue":null,"two_weeks":false,"url":"/promise/stop-companies-offshoring-jobs/","sort_key":"2016-06-28","number":47},{"id":"keystone-xl-profits","title":"Approve Keystone XL and take a share of the profits","quote":"[paraphrase] I'll approve Keystone XL, but I want a piece of the profits for the United States.","date_promised":"2016-05-26","venue":"Energy policy speech, Bismarck, North Dakota","deadline_text":null,"deadline_days":null,"category":"environment","era":"campaign-2016","status":"never-delivered","what_happened":"Trump issued a presidential permit in March 2017 and a replacement permit in March 2019, but no profit-sharing arrangement was ever negotiated and the pipeline was not completed. It remained tied up in litigation through the term, and the permit was revoked on January 20, 2021.","repeat_count":6,"sources":[{"title":"Approve the Keystone XL project and reap the profits","outlet":"PolitiFact Trump-O-Meter","url":"https://www.politifact.com/truth-o-meter/promises/trumpometer/promise/386224/","date":"2020-07-15"}],"file":"campaign-2016.json","year":2016,"deadline_date":null,"days_since_promise":3771,"days_overdue":null,"two_weeks":false,"url":"/promise/keystone-xl-profits/","sort_key":"2016-05-26","number":46},{"id":"cut-global-warming-payments-un","title":"Cancel all U.S. payments to U.N. climate programs","quote":"[paraphrase] We're going to cancel billions in global warming payments to the United Nations.","date_promised":"2016-05-26","venue":"Energy policy speech, Bismarck, North Dakota","deadline_text":"within 100 days","deadline_days":100,"category":"environment","era":"campaign-2016","status":"partial","what_happened":"The administration withheld the remaining $2 billion pledged to the Green Climate Fund and began Paris Agreement withdrawal, effective November 4, 2020, but continued other U.N. climate-related contributions. PolitiFact rated the promise a compromise, finding spending lower than under Obama but still significant.","repeat_count":4,"sources":[{"title":"Cancel global warming payments to the United Nations","outlet":"PolitiFact Trump-O-Meter","url":"https://www.politifact.com/truth-o-meter/promises/trumpometer/promise/386269/cancel-global-warming-payments-united-nations/","date":"2020-07-15"}],"file":"campaign-2016.json","year":2016,"deadline_date":"2016-09-03","days_since_promise":3771,"days_overdue":3671,"two_weeks":false,"url":"/promise/cut-global-warming-payments-un/","sort_key":"2016-05-26","number":45},{"id":"bring-back-coal-jobs","title":"Bring back the coal industry and coal jobs","quote":"Get ready because you're going to be working your asses off.","date_promised":"2016-05-05","venue":"Campaign rally, Charleston, West Virginia","deadline_text":null,"deadline_days":null,"category":"environment","era":"campaign-2016","status":"never-delivered","what_happened":"Coal production fell 26.5 percent over the term and coal mining employment fell about 25 percent, according to FactCheck.org. Coal-fired plant retirements averaged about 12 gigawatts a year from 2017 to 2020, a higher rate than under Obama's second term. PolitiFact rated the promise a compromise in July 2020, finding the decline was slowed but no comeback occurred.","repeat_count":40,"sources":[{"title":"Save the coal industry","outlet":"PolitiFact Trump-O-Meter","url":"https://www.politifact.com/truth-o-meter/promises/trumpometer/promise/386632/save-coal-industry/","date":"2020-07-15"},{"title":"More coal plants have closed under Trump than in Obama's last term","outlet":"CNN","url":"https://www.cnn.com/2019/01/07/politics/pennsylvania-coal-plants-weir-wxc/index.html","date":"2019-01-07"},{"title":"Trump's Final Numbers","outlet":"FactCheck.org","url":"https://www.factcheck.org/2021/10/trumps-final-numbers/","date":"2021-10-08"}],"file":"campaign-2016.json","year":2016,"deadline_date":null,"days_since_promise":3792,"days_overdue":null,"two_weeks":false,"url":"/promise/bring-back-coal-jobs/","sort_key":"2016-05-05","number":44},{"id":"raise-visa-fees-to-pay-for-wall","title":"Raise visa fees on Mexico to help pay for the wall","quote":"[paraphrase] Increase fees on all temporary visas issued to Mexican CEOs and diplomats, on border crossing cards and at ports of entry.","date_promised":"2016-04-05","venue":"Campaign memo on making Mexico pay for the wall","deadline_text":null,"deadline_days":null,"category":"immigration","era":"campaign-2016","status":"never-delivered","what_happened":"No increase in visa fees aimed at Mexico was implemented during the term, and the related plan to seize remittances was never pursued. PolitiFact rated the promise broken.","repeat_count":3,"sources":[{"title":"Increase visa fees","outlet":"PolitiFact Trump-O-Meter","url":"https://www.politifact.com/truth-o-meter/promises/trumpometer/promise/386516/increase-visa-fees/","date":"2020-07-15"}],"file":"campaign-2016.json","year":2016,"deadline_date":null,"days_since_promise":3822,"days_overdue":null,"two_weeks":false,"url":"/promise/raise-visa-fees-to-pay-for-wall/","sort_key":"2016-04-05","number":43},{"id":"balance-the-budget-fairly-quickly","title":"Balance the federal budget \"fairly quickly\"","quote":"[paraphrase] We can balance the budget fairly quickly.","date_promised":"2016-04-01","venue":"Campaign interviews","deadline_text":"fairly quickly","deadline_days":null,"category":"economy","era":"campaign-2016","status":"never-delivered","what_happened":"The deficit grew every year of the term, from $585 billion in fiscal 2016 to $984 billion in fiscal 2019 and $3.1 trillion in fiscal 2020. PolitiFact rated the promise broken, noting the deficit was growing rather than shrinking.","repeat_count":8,"sources":[{"title":"Balance the federal budget 'fairly quickly'","outlet":"PolitiFact Trump-O-Meter","url":"https://www.politifact.com/truth-o-meter/promises/trumpometer/promise/386623/balance-federal-budget-fairly-quickly/","date":"2020-07-15"},{"title":"Trump's Final Numbers","outlet":"FactCheck.org","url":"https://www.factcheck.org/2021/10/trumps-final-numbers/","date":"2021-10-08"}],"file":"campaign-2016.json","year":2016,"deadline_date":null,"days_since_promise":3826,"days_overdue":null,"two_weeks":false,"url":"/promise/balance-the-budget-fairly-quickly/","sort_key":"2016-04-01","number":42},{"id":"eliminate-national-debt-8-years","title":"Eliminate the entire national debt in eight years","quote":"[On paying off the $19 trillion national debt] Over a period of eight years.","date_promised":"2016-03-31","venue":"Interview with Bob Woodward and Robert Costa, The Washington Post","deadline_text":"eight years","deadline_days":2922,"category":"economy","era":"campaign-2016","status":"never-delivered","what_happened":"Debt rose throughout the term. FactCheck.org calculated that federal debt held by the public rose 50 percent under Trump, from $14.4 trillion to $21.6 trillion, and the fiscal 2020 deficit reached $3.1 trillion. Gross national debt went from roughly $19 trillion to about $27.75 trillion by January 2021.","repeat_count":5,"sources":[{"title":"In a revealing interview, Trump predicts a 'massive recession' but intends to eliminate the national debt in 8 years","outlet":"The Washington Post","url":"https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/in-turmoil-or-triumph-donald-trump-stands-alone/2016/04/02/8c0619b6-f8d6-11e5-a3ce-f06b5ba21f33_story.html","date":"2016-04-02"},{"title":"Eliminate the federal debt in 8 years: Federal debt is up, not down, under Trump's watch","outlet":"PolitiFact Trump-O-Meter","url":"https://www.politifact.com/truth-o-meter/promises/trumpometer/promise/386567/eliminate-federal-debt-8-years/","date":"2020-07-15"},{"title":"Trump's Final Numbers","outlet":"FactCheck.org","url":"https://www.factcheck.org/2021/10/trumps-final-numbers/","date":"2021-10-08"}],"file":"campaign-2016.json","year":2016,"deadline_date":"2024-03-31","days_since_promise":3827,"days_overdue":905,"two_weeks":false,"url":"/promise/eliminate-national-debt-8-years/","sort_key":"2016-03-31","number":41},{"id":"renegotiate-iran-deal","title":"Renegotiate the Iran nuclear deal into a better one","quote":"[paraphrase] My number one priority is to dismantle the disastrous deal with Iran and negotiate a better one.","date_promised":"2016-03-21","venue":"Speech to AIPAC, Washington, D.C.","deadline_text":null,"deadline_days":null,"category":"iran","era":"campaign-2016","status":"never-delivered","what_happened":"The United States withdrew from the JCPOA on May 8, 2018 and reimposed sanctions, but no replacement agreement was reached. Iran began exceeding the deal's limits in 2019, enriching to 20 percent purity by January 2021 and expanding its uranium stockpile well beyond the 300-kilogram cap. PolitiFact rated the promise broken, at a standstill as the 2020 election approached.","repeat_count":20,"sources":[{"title":"Renegotiate the Iran deal","outlet":"PolitiFact Trump-O-Meter","url":"https://www.politifact.com/truth-o-meter/promises/trumpometer/promise/386274/","date":"2020-07-15"},{"title":"United States withdrawal from the Iran nuclear deal","outlet":"Wikipedia","url":"https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States_withdrawal_from_the_Iran_nuclear_deal","date":"2018-05-08"},{"title":"Fact sheet: The Iran deal, then and now","outlet":"Center for Arms Control and Non-Proliferation","url":"https://armscontrolcenter.org/the-iran-deal-then-and-now/","date":"2021-01-01"}],"file":"campaign-2016.json","year":2016,"deadline_date":null,"days_since_promise":3837,"days_overdue":null,"two_weeks":false,"url":"/promise/renegotiate-iran-deal/","sort_key":"2016-03-21","number":40},{"id":"health-insurance-across-state-lines","title":"Let insurers sell health plans across state lines","quote":"[paraphrase] Get Congress to allow the sale of health insurance across state lines.","date_promised":"2016-03-03","venue":"Campaign health care plan and Republican primary debates","deadline_text":null,"deadline_days":null,"category":"healthcare","era":"campaign-2016","status":"never-delivered","what_happened":"Congress never passed legislation permitting interstate sale of health plans. States continued to regulate insurance under the McCarran-Ferguson Act, and PolitiFact rated the promise broken in July 2020, noting that states still oversee insurance rules.","repeat_count":12,"sources":[{"title":"Get Congress to allow health insurance across state lines","outlet":"PolitiFact Trump-O-Meter","url":"https://www.politifact.com/truth-o-meter/promises/trumpometer/promise/386396/","date":"2020-07-15"}],"file":"campaign-2016.json","year":2016,"deadline_date":null,"days_since_promise":3855,"days_overdue":null,"two_weeks":false,"url":"/promise/health-insurance-across-state-lines/","sort_key":"2016-03-03","number":39},{"id":"deduct-health-premiums-and-hsas","title":"Health premium tax deduction and expanded Health Savings Accounts","quote":"[paraphrase] Allow individuals to fully deduct health insurance premiums from their tax returns and create tax-free Health Savings Accounts.","date_promised":"2016-03-02","venue":"Campaign health care position paper","deadline_text":null,"deadline_days":null,"category":"healthcare","era":"campaign-2016","status":"never-delivered","what_happened":"Neither element became law. The 2017 tax law did not create a premium deduction for individuals, and PolitiFact found Health Savings Accounts were substantially unchanged from when Trump took office. Both promises were rated broken in July 2020.","repeat_count":5,"sources":[{"title":"Allow individuals to deduct health care insurance premiums from taxes","outlet":"PolitiFact Trump-O-Meter","url":"https://www.politifact.com/truth-o-meter/promises/trumpometer/promise/386402/","date":"2020-07-15"},{"title":"Create a health savings account","outlet":"PolitiFact Trump-O-Meter","url":"https://www.politifact.com/truth-o-meter/promises/trumpometer/promise/386406/","date":"2020-07-15"}],"file":"campaign-2016.json","year":2016,"deadline_date":null,"days_since_promise":3856,"days_overdue":null,"two_weeks":false,"url":"/promise/deduct-health-premiums-and-hsas/","sort_key":"2016-03-02","number":38},{"id":"medicaid-block-grants","title":"Convert Medicaid to block grants","quote":"[paraphrase] Administer Medicaid through block grants to the states.","date_promised":"2016-03-02","venue":"Campaign health care position paper","deadline_text":null,"deadline_days":null,"category":"healthcare","era":"campaign-2016","status":"never-delivered","what_happened":"Congress never enacted block grants. A January 2020 CMS initiative called Healthy Adult Opportunity invited states to accept capped funding voluntarily; Oklahoma's application was the only one approved and the state withdrew it in 2020. PolitiFact rated the promise broken.","repeat_count":4,"sources":[{"title":"Administer Medicaid through block grants","outlet":"PolitiFact Trump-O-Meter","url":"https://www.politifact.com/truth-o-meter/promises/trumpometer/promise/386414/","date":"2020-07-15"}],"file":"campaign-2016.json","year":2016,"deadline_date":null,"days_since_promise":3856,"days_overdue":null,"two_weeks":false,"url":"/promise/medicaid-block-grants/","sort_key":"2016-03-02","number":37},{"id":"price-transparency-health-care","title":"Require price transparency from health care providers","quote":"[paraphrase] Require price transparency from all health care providers so patients can shop for the best price.","date_promised":"2016-03-02","venue":"Campaign health care position paper","deadline_text":null,"deadline_days":null,"category":"healthcare","era":"campaign-2016","status":"partial","what_happened":"A June 2019 executive order led to a rule requiring hospitals to publish standard charges starting January 1, 2021, and a separate insurer rule phased in from 2022. Hospital compliance was low in the first year and the rules covered only part of the health system. PolitiFact rated the promise a compromise on January 15, 2021.","repeat_count":5,"sources":[{"title":"Require price transparency from health care providers","outlet":"PolitiFact Trump-O-Meter","url":"https://www.politifact.com/truth-o-meter/promises/trumpometer/promise/386410/require-price-transparency-health-care-providers/","date":"2021-01-15"}],"file":"campaign-2016.json","year":2016,"deadline_date":null,"days_since_promise":3856,"days_overdue":null,"two_weeks":false,"url":"/promise/price-transparency-health-care/","sort_key":"2016-03-02","number":36},{"id":"allow-drug-reimportation","title":"Allow free access to imported prescription drugs","quote":"[paraphrase] Allow consumers access to imported, safe and dependable drugs from overseas.","date_promised":"2016-03-02","venue":"Campaign health care position paper","deadline_text":null,"deadline_days":null,"category":"healthcare","era":"campaign-2016","status":"partial","what_happened":"A final rule allowing state-run Canadian importation programs was issued September 24, 2020 and took effect November 30, 2020, but no state program was approved and no drugs were imported during the term. PolitiFact rated the promise a compromise, with more progress for some drug categories than others.","repeat_count":6,"sources":[{"title":"Allow free access to the drug market","outlet":"PolitiFact Trump-O-Meter","url":"https://www.politifact.com/truth-o-meter/promises/trumpometer/promise/386418/allow-free-access-drug-market/","date":"2020-07-15"}],"file":"campaign-2016.json","year":2016,"deadline_date":null,"days_since_promise":3856,"days_overdue":null,"two_weeks":false,"url":"/promise/allow-drug-reimportation/","sort_key":"2016-03-02","number":35},{"id":"trump-university-never-settle","title":"\"I don't settle lawsuits\" — then a $25 million Trump University settlement","quote":"I don't settle lawsuits — very rare — because once you settle lawsuits, everybody sues you. ... I could have settled but won't out of principle!","date_promised":"2016-02-27","venue":"Campaign rallies and Trump's Twitter account throughout the 2016 primaries","deadline_text":null,"deadline_days":null,"category":"justice","era":"campaign-2016","status":"broken","what_happened":"Ten days after winning the election, on November 18, 2016, Trump agreed to pay $25 million to settle two federal class actions in California and the New York attorney general's civil fraud case over Trump University, with no admission of wrongdoing. He said on Twitter he settled \"for a small fraction of the potential award because as President I have to focus on our country.\" New York AG Eric Schneiderman called it \"a stunning reversal.\" A judge finalized the settlement in April 2018.","repeat_count":8,"sources":[{"title":"Trump agrees to $25 million settlement in Trump U lawsuits","outlet":"PBS NewsHour","url":"https://www.pbs.org/newshour/politics/trump-agrees-25-million-settlement-trump-u-lawsuits","date":"2016-11-18"},{"title":"Trump Defends His $25 Million Settlement of Trump University Lawsuits","outlet":"ABC News","url":"https://abcnews.com/Politics/trump-defends-25-million-settlement-trump-university-lawsuits/story?id=43654491","date":"2016-11-19"},{"title":"Donald 'Never Settle' Trump Settles Trump University Fraud Lawsuit for $25 Million","outlet":"The Daily Beast","url":"https://www.thedailybeast.com/donald-never-settle-trump-settles-trump-university-fraud-lawsuit-for-dollar25-million/","date":"2016-11-18"},{"title":"Federal court approves $25 million Trump University settlement","outlet":"NBC News","url":"https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/white-house/federal-court-approves-25-million-trump-university-settlement-n845181","date":"2018-04-10"}],"file":"campaign-2016.json","year":2016,"deadline_date":null,"days_since_promise":3860,"days_overdue":null,"two_weeks":false,"url":"/promise/trump-university-never-settle/","sort_key":"2016-02-27","number":34},{"id":"open-up-libel-laws","title":"Open up the libel laws to sue news organizations","quote":"I'm going to open up our libel laws so when they write purposely negative and horrible and false articles, we can sue them and win lots of money.","date_promised":"2016-02-26","venue":"Campaign rally, Fort Worth, Texas","deadline_text":null,"deadline_days":null,"category":"transparency","era":"campaign-2016","status":"never-delivered","what_happened":"Libel law is set by state law and Supreme Court precedent, chiefly New York Times v. Sullivan, and no federal statute or ruling changed it during the term. PolitiFact rated the promise broken.","repeat_count":12,"sources":[{"title":"Open up libel laws: Trump failed to 'open up our libel laws'","outlet":"PolitiFact Trump-O-Meter","url":"https://www.politifact.com/truth-o-meter/promises/trumpometer/promise/386258/","date":"2020-07-15"}],"file":"campaign-2016.json","year":2016,"deadline_date":null,"days_since_promise":3861,"days_overdue":null,"two_weeks":false,"url":"/promise/open-up-libel-laws/","sort_key":"2016-02-26","number":33},{"id":"scale-back-education-department","title":"Dramatically scale back or eliminate the Education Department","quote":"[paraphrase] We're going to cut the Department of Education way, way down.","date_promised":"2016-02-26","venue":"Campaign interviews and rallies","deadline_text":null,"deadline_days":null,"category":"education","era":"campaign-2016","status":"never-delivered","what_happened":"Congress rejected the administration's proposed cuts each year and appropriated more for the department than it requested. The department was neither eliminated nor significantly reduced in funding. PolitiFact rated the promise broken.","repeat_count":10,"sources":[{"title":"Dramatically scale back the U.S. Education Department","outlet":"PolitiFact Trump-O-Meter","url":"https://www.politifact.com/truth-o-meter/promises/trumpometer/promise/386662/","date":"2020-07-15"}],"file":"campaign-2016.json","year":2016,"deadline_date":null,"days_since_promise":3861,"days_overdue":null,"two_weeks":false,"url":"/promise/scale-back-education-department/","sort_key":"2016-02-26","number":32},{"id":"bring-back-waterboarding","title":"Bring back waterboarding and worse","quote":"I would bring back waterboarding, and I'd bring back a hell of a lot worse than waterboarding.","date_promised":"2016-02-06","venue":"Republican primary debate, Manchester, New Hampshire","deadline_text":null,"deadline_days":null,"category":"justice","era":"campaign-2016","status":"never-delivered","what_happened":"Waterboarding was not reinstated. Defense Secretary James Mattis and CIA Director Mike Pompeo opposed it, and a 2015 statute limiting interrogations to the Army Field Manual remained in force. PolitiFact rated the promise broken.","repeat_count":20,"sources":[{"title":"Bring back waterboarding","outlet":"PolitiFact Trump-O-Meter","url":"https://www.politifact.com/truth-o-meter/promises/trumpometer/promise/386304/bring-back-waterboarding/","date":"2020-07-15"}],"file":"campaign-2016.json","year":2016,"deadline_date":null,"days_since_promise":3881,"days_overdue":null,"two_weeks":false,"url":"/promise/bring-back-waterboarding/","sort_key":"2016-02-06","number":31},{"id":"medicare-negotiate-drug-prices","title":"Let Medicare negotiate drug prices","quote":"When it comes time to negotiate the cost of drugs, we are going to negotiate like crazy.","date_promised":"2016-02-01","venue":"Campaign rally, New Hampshire; repeated at January 11, 2017 press conference","deadline_text":null,"deadline_days":null,"category":"healthcare","era":"campaign-2016","status":"never-delivered","what_happened":"No law allowing Medicare to negotiate drug prices was enacted during the term. The administration dropped a proposed rule on drug rebates in 2019 and did not back House-passed legislation (H.R. 3) in 2019 that would have created negotiating authority. Medicare negotiation was authorized later, in the 2022 Inflation Reduction Act.","repeat_count":15,"sources":[{"title":"Harris correct that Trump fell short on promise to negotiate Medicare drug prices","outlet":"KFF Health News","url":"https://kffhealthnews.org/news/article/trump-harris-medicare-drug-price-negotiation-fact-check/","date":"2024-08-16"},{"title":"President Trump's Broken Promises to the American People","outlet":"Office of the House Majority Leader (Hoyer)","url":"https://leaderarchive-hoyer.house.gov/content/president-trump%E2%80%99s-broken-promises-american-people","date":"2020-02-04"}],"file":"campaign-2016.json","year":2016,"deadline_date":null,"days_since_promise":3886,"days_overdue":null,"two_weeks":false,"url":"/promise/medicare-negotiate-drug-prices/","sort_key":"2016-02-01","number":30},{"id":"veterans-fundraiser-money-2016","title":"$6 million raised 'for the vets' — then four months of silence","quote":"[paraphrase] We raised $6 million for the veterans, including $1 million of my own money, and it's going out to veterans' charities right away.","date_promised":"2016-01-28","venue":"Televised veterans' benefit at Drake University, Des Moines, held instead of a Fox News primary debate","deadline_text":"right away / immediately","deadline_days":7,"category":"other","era":"campaign-2016","status":"late","what_happened":"By March 2016 the Washington Post found much of the money unaccounted for and charities said they had not received it. Trump only wrote his own $1 million cheque on May 24, 2016 — nearly four months later, and only after Post reporter David Fahrenthold pressed him publicly. The related Trump Foundation reporting contributed to the foundation's court-ordered dissolution and a $2 million payment in 2019.","repeat_count":2,"sources":[{"title":"What ever happened to all that money Trump raised for the veterans?","outlet":"Washington Post","url":"https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/what-ever-happened-to-all-that-money-trump-raised-for-the-veterans/2016/03/03/fbafd9a0-e0b2-11e5-8d98-4b3d9215ade1_story.html","date":"2016-03-03"},{"title":"Four months after fundraiser, Trump says he gave $1 million to veterans group","outlet":"Washington Post","url":"https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/post-politics/wp/2016/05/24/four-months-later-donald-trump-says-he-gave-1-million-to-veterans-group/","date":"2016-05-24"},{"title":"Veterans' Charities Say Trump Hasn't Handed Out Donations","outlet":"TIME","url":"https://time.com/4286473/donald-trump-veterans-charity/","date":"2016-04-26"}],"file":"campaign-2016.json","year":2016,"deadline_date":"2016-02-04","days_since_promise":3890,"days_overdue":3883,"two_weeks":true,"url":"/promise/veterans-fundraiser-money-2016/","sort_key":"2016-01-28","number":29},{"id":"trump-foundation-charity","title":"The Trump Foundation: shut down by court order, $2 million judgment","quote":"[paraphrase] Trump repeatedly presented the Donald J. Trump Foundation as the vehicle through which he would deliver his publicly pledged charitable giving.","date_promised":"2016-01-28","venue":"The January 2016 Iowa veterans fundraiser and repeated campaign-trail charity pledges","deadline_text":null,"deadline_days":null,"category":"ethics","era":"campaign-2016","status":"broken","what_happened":"New York's attorney general sued in June 2018. On November 7, 2019, a judge ordered Trump to pay $2 million in damages for misusing foundation money, finding his campaign had \"orchestrated\" the veterans fundraiser to further his political campaign; Trump admitted to things including a $10,000 charity payment for a six-foot portrait of himself. The foundation was dissolved, its remaining $1.7 million distributed to eight charities, and the Trump children were required to take compulsory training.","repeat_count":4,"sources":[{"title":"President Trump Ordered To Pay $2 Million For Misusing Trump Foundation Funds","outlet":"NPR","url":"https://www.npr.org/2019/11/07/777287610/judge-says-trump-must-pay-2-million-over-misuse-of-foundation-funds","date":"2019-11-07"},{"title":"Judge orders Trump to pay $2 million for misusing his foundation","outlet":"NBC News","url":"https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/donald-trump/judge-orders-trump-pay-2-million-misusing-his-foundation-n1078306","date":"2019-11-07"},{"title":"Trump ordered to pay $2 million to settle suit claiming Trump Foundation misused funds","outlet":"CNBC","url":"https://www.cnbc.com/2019/11/07/trump-ordered-to-pay-2-million-to-settle-trump-foundation-suit.html","date":"2019-11-07"},{"title":"Trump pays $2 million judgment for misusing his charity","outlet":"NBC News","url":"https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/politics-news/trump-pays-2-million-judgment-misusing-his-charity-new-york-n1099296","date":"2019-12-10"}],"file":"campaign-2016.json","year":2016,"deadline_date":null,"days_since_promise":3890,"days_overdue":null,"two_weeks":false,"url":"/promise/trump-foundation-charity/","sort_key":"2016-01-28","number":28},{"id":"eliminate-gun-free-zones","title":"Eliminate gun-free zones at schools and military bases","quote":"[paraphrase] My first day, gun-free zones on military bases and in schools — they're gone.","date_promised":"2016-01-08","venue":"Campaign rally, Burlington, Vermont","deadline_text":"first day","deadline_days":1,"category":"guns","era":"campaign-2016","status":"never-delivered","what_happened":"No order or law eliminating gun-free school zones was issued. The Pentagon issued limited 2016 guidance allowing some service members to carry on base, which predated the term. PolitiFact found scant progress and rated the promise broken.","repeat_count":8,"sources":[{"title":"Eliminate gun-free zones at schools and military bases","outlet":"PolitiFact Trump-O-Meter","url":"https://www.politifact.com/truth-o-meter/promises/trumpometer/promise/386212/eliminate-gun-free-zones-schools-and-military-base/","date":"2020-07-15"}],"file":"campaign-2016.json","year":2016,"deadline_date":"2016-01-09","days_since_promise":3910,"days_overdue":3909,"two_weeks":true,"url":"/promise/eliminate-gun-free-zones/","sort_key":"2016-01-08","number":27},{"id":"bornstein-health-letter-2015","title":"The \"healthiest individual ever elected\" medical letter Trump wrote himself","quote":"If elected, Mr. Trump, I can state unequivocally, will be the healthiest individual ever elected to the presidency.","date_promised":"2015-12-14","venue":"Letter released by the Trump campaign, signed by Dr. Harold Bornstein","deadline_text":null,"deadline_days":null,"category":"transparency","era":"campaign-2016","status":"broken","what_happened":"Trump offered the four-paragraph letter in place of the detailed medical records other candidates release. In May 2018 Bornstein told CNN and NPR that Trump had dictated the letter himself: \"He dictated that whole letter. I didn't write that letter.\" Bornstein said Trump read out the language over the phone and then sent a car to collect it. No comprehensive medical records were ever released in 2016.","repeat_count":1,"sources":[{"title":"Exclusive: Bornstein claims Trump dictated the glowing health letter","outlet":"CNN","url":"https://www.cnn.com/2018/05/01/politics/harold-bornstein-trump-letter","date":"2018-05-01"},{"title":"Doctor: Trump Dictated Letter Attesting To His 'Extraordinary' Health","outlet":"NPR","url":"https://www.npr.org/sections/thetwo-way/2018/05/02/607638733/doctor-trump-dictated-letter-attesting-to-his-extraordinary-health","date":"2018-05-02"},{"title":"Harold Bornstein","outlet":"Wikipedia","url":"https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Harold_Bornstein","date":"2024-01-01"}],"file":"campaign-2016.json","year":2015,"deadline_date":null,"days_since_promise":3935,"days_overdue":null,"two_weeks":false,"url":"/promise/bornstein-health-letter-2015/","sort_key":"2015-12-14","number":26},{"id":"muslim-ban","title":"Total and complete shutdown of Muslims entering the U.S.","quote":"[paraphrase] A total and complete shutdown of Muslims entering the United States until our country's representatives can figure out what is going on.","date_promised":"2015-12-07","venue":"Campaign statement, Mount Pleasant, South Carolina","deadline_text":null,"deadline_days":null,"category":"immigration","era":"campaign-2016","status":"partial","what_happened":"The first travel ban executive order of January 27, 2017 was enjoined, as was a March 2017 revision. A third version was upheld by the Supreme Court in Trump v. Hawaii on June 26, 2018, but it covered a limited list of countries including non-Muslim-majority Venezuela and North Korea. PolitiFact rated the original promise broken because the restrictions fell short of a religion-based ban.","repeat_count":30,"sources":[{"title":"Establish a ban on Muslims entering the U.S.","outlet":"PolitiFact Trump-O-Meter","url":"https://www.politifact.com/truth-o-meter/promises/trumpometer/promise/386465/establish-ban-muslims-entering-us/","date":"2018-11-14"}],"file":"campaign-2016.json","year":2015,"deadline_date":null,"days_since_promise":3942,"days_overdue":null,"two_weeks":false,"url":"/promise/muslim-ban/","sort_key":"2015-12-07","number":25},{"id":"close-parts-of-the-internet","title":"Close parts of the internet where ISIS operates","quote":"[paraphrase] We should be talking to Bill Gates about closing that internet up in some way.","date_promised":"2015-12-07","venue":"Campaign rally, Mount Pleasant, South Carolina","deadline_text":null,"deadline_days":null,"category":"foreign-policy","era":"campaign-2016","status":"never-delivered","what_happened":"No action was taken to restrict internet access for counterterrorism purposes. PolitiFact rated the promise broken.","repeat_count":3,"sources":[{"title":"Close parts of the Internet where ISIS is","outlet":"PolitiFact Trump-O-Meter","url":"https://www.politifact.com/truth-o-meter/promises/trumpometer/promise/386288/","date":"2020-07-15"}],"file":"campaign-2016.json","year":2015,"deadline_date":null,"days_since_promise":3942,"days_overdue":null,"two_weeks":false,"url":"/promise/close-parts-of-the-internet/","sort_key":"2015-12-07","number":24},{"id":"scale-back-the-epa","title":"Dramatically scale back or eliminate the EPA","quote":"[paraphrase] We are going to get rid of the EPA in almost every form, leaving little tidbits.","date_promised":"2015-10-18","venue":"Fox News Sunday interview","deadline_text":null,"deadline_days":null,"category":"environment","era":"campaign-2016","status":"partial","what_happened":"The EPA was not eliminated. Congress rejected proposed budget cuts of about 31 percent and kept funding roughly flat, though agency staffing fell to its lowest level since the 1980s and more than 100 environmental rules were rolled back or targeted. PolitiFact rated the promise a compromise on July 17, 2020.","repeat_count":8,"sources":[{"title":"Dramatically scale back the EPA","outlet":"PolitiFact Trump-O-Meter","url":"https://www.politifact.com/truth-o-meter/promises/trumpometer/promise/386651/dramatically-scale-back-epa/","date":"2020-07-17"}],"file":"campaign-2016.json","year":2015,"deadline_date":null,"days_since_promise":3992,"days_overdue":null,"two_weeks":false,"url":"/promise/scale-back-the-epa/","sort_key":"2015-10-18","number":23},{"id":"syria-safe-zone","title":"Build a safe zone in Syria for refugees","quote":"[paraphrase] Build a safe zone in Syria, paid for by the Gulf states, so refugees can stay in the region.","date_promised":"2015-10-01","venue":"Campaign interviews and rallies","deadline_text":null,"deadline_days":null,"category":"foreign-policy","era":"campaign-2016","status":"never-delivered","what_happened":"A January 2017 executive order directed a plan for safe zones, but none was established. A 2019 U.S.-Turkey agreement created a limited buffer arrangement in northeast Syria after the U.S. troop withdrawal, not a refugee safe zone. PolitiFact rated the promise broken.","repeat_count":8,"sources":[{"title":"Build a safe zone for Syrian refugees","outlet":"PolitiFact Trump-O-Meter","url":"https://www.politifact.com/truth-o-meter/promises/trumpometer/promise/386282/build-safe-zone-syrian-refugees/","date":"2020-07-15"}],"file":"campaign-2016.json","year":2015,"deadline_date":null,"days_since_promise":4009,"days_overdue":null,"two_weeks":false,"url":"/promise/syria-safe-zone/","sort_key":"2015-10-01","number":22},{"id":"eliminate-common-core","title":"Eliminate Common Core","quote":"[paraphrase] Common Core is a disaster and we will end it.","date_promised":"2015-10-01","venue":"Campaign rallies and interviews","deadline_text":null,"deadline_days":null,"category":"education","era":"campaign-2016","status":"never-delivered","what_happened":"Common Core standards are adopted by states, not the federal government, and the Every Student Succeeds Act of 2015 already barred federal mandates on standards. Most states retained standards based on Common Core throughout the term. PolitiFact rated the promise broken.","repeat_count":20,"sources":[{"title":"Eliminate Common Core: Common Core isn't leaving anytime soon","outlet":"PolitiFact Trump-O-Meter","url":"https://www.politifact.com/truth-o-meter/promises/trumpometer/promise/386188/","date":"2020-07-15"}],"file":"campaign-2016.json","year":2015,"deadline_date":null,"days_since_promise":4009,"days_overdue":null,"two_weeks":false,"url":"/promise/eliminate-common-core/","sort_key":"2015-10-01","number":21},{"id":"remove-existing-syrian-refugees","title":"Send existing Syrian refugees back","quote":"[paraphrase] If I win, they're going back.","date_promised":"2015-09-30","venue":"Campaign rally, Keene, New Hampshire","deadline_text":null,"deadline_days":null,"category":"immigration","era":"campaign-2016","status":"never-delivered","what_happened":"Syrian refugees already admitted to the United States were not deported. Refugee admissions were sharply reduced, with the annual ceiling cut to 15,000 for fiscal 2021, but no removals of resettled Syrians took place. PolitiFact rated the promise broken.","repeat_count":5,"sources":[{"title":"Remove existing Syrian refugees","outlet":"PolitiFact Trump-O-Meter","url":"https://www.politifact.com/truth-o-meter/promises/trumpometer/promise/386506/remove-existing-syrian-refugees/","date":"2020-07-15"}],"file":"campaign-2016.json","year":2015,"deadline_date":null,"days_since_promise":4010,"days_overdue":null,"two_weeks":false,"url":"/promise/remove-existing-syrian-refugees/","sort_key":"2015-09-30","number":20},{"id":"change-childhood-vaccination-schedule","title":"Change the childhood vaccination schedule","quote":"[paraphrase] Give smaller doses over a longer period of time.","date_promised":"2015-09-16","venue":"Republican primary debate, Simi Valley, California","deadline_text":null,"deadline_days":null,"category":"healthcare","era":"campaign-2016","status":"never-delivered","what_happened":"The CDC childhood immunization schedule was not changed during the term. A vaccine safety commission discussed with Robert F. Kennedy Jr. in January 2017 was never established. PolitiFact rated the promise broken.","repeat_count":5,"sources":[{"title":"Change the vaccination schedule for children","outlet":"PolitiFact Trump-O-Meter","url":"https://www.politifact.com/truth-o-meter/promises/trumpometer/promise/386392/","date":"2020-07-15"}],"file":"campaign-2016.json","year":2015,"deadline_date":null,"days_since_promise":4024,"days_overdue":null,"two_weeks":false,"url":"/promise/change-childhood-vaccination-schedule/","sort_key":"2015-09-16","number":19},{"id":"rnc-loyalty-pledge-2015","title":"The RNC loyalty pledge he signed on camera and tore up seven months later","quote":"[paraphrase] I will support the Republican nominee and I will not run as an independent.","date_promised":"2015-09-03","venue":"Trump Tower, after meeting RNC chairman Reince Priebus; signed pledge displayed to cameras","deadline_text":null,"deadline_days":209,"category":"elections","era":"campaign-2016","status":"broken","what_happened":"Trump signed the RNC's written loyalty pledge on September 3, 2015 and waved it at reporters, using it to defuse the threat of a third-party run. On March 29-30, 2016, at a CNN town hall, he said he no longer felt bound by it: \"No, I don't anymore.\" The pledge was dead 209 days after he signed it. He again refused to sign the RNC's 2024 primary pledge.","repeat_count":2,"sources":[{"title":"Donald Trump Signs Loyalty Pledge Ruling Out 3rd Party Run","outlet":"NPR","url":"https://www.npr.org/2015/09/03/437291778/donald-trump-signs-loyalty-pledge-ruling-out-3rd-party-run","date":"2015-09-03"},{"title":"Trump Abandons Pledge To Support Republican Nominee","outlet":"NPR","url":"https://www.npr.org/sections/thetwo-way/2016/03/30/472363315/trump-abandons-pledge-to-support-republican-nominee","date":"2016-03-30"},{"title":"Trump's party loyalty pledge ends one GOP problem, brings others","outlet":"The Washington Post","url":"https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/trump-to-sign-gop-pledge-commit-to-back-party-nominee/2015/09/03/c5d9ea7c-5242-11e5-9812-92d5948a40f8_story.html","date":"2015-09-03"},{"title":"The Rise and Fall of the GOP Loyalty Pledge","outlet":"ABC News","url":"https://abcnews.com/Politics/rise-fall-gop-loyalty-pledge/story?id=38028755","date":"2016-03-30"}],"file":"campaign-2016.json","year":2015,"deadline_date":"2016-03-30","days_since_promise":4037,"days_overdue":3828,"two_weeks":false,"url":"/promise/rnc-loyalty-pledge-2015/","sort_key":"2015-09-03","number":18},{"id":"rename-denali-mount-mckinley","title":"Change Denali's name back to Mount McKinley","quote":"President Obama has renamed Mt. McKinley to Denali after more than 100 years. Great insult to Ohio. I will change back!","date_promised":"2015-09-01","venue":"Twitter","deadline_text":null,"deadline_days":null,"category":"other","era":"campaign-2016","status":"never-delivered","what_happened":"The name was not changed during the first term; Alaska's congressional delegation opposed a reversal. PolitiFact rated the promise broken in July 2020. The mountain was renamed Mount McKinley by executive order in January 2025, during the second term.","repeat_count":2,"sources":[{"title":"Change the name of Mount Denali back to Mount McKinley","outlet":"PolitiFact Trump-O-Meter","url":"https://www.politifact.com/truth-o-meter/promises/trumpometer/promise/386636/change-name-mount-denali-back-mount-mckinley/","date":"2020-07-15"}],"file":"campaign-2016.json","year":2015,"deadline_date":null,"days_since_promise":4039,"days_overdue":null,"two_weeks":false,"url":"/promise/rename-denali-mount-mckinley/","sort_key":"2015-09-01","number":17},{"id":"carried-interest-loophole","title":"Eliminate the carried interest loophole","quote":"[paraphrase] Hedge fund managers are getting away with murder; the carried interest loophole will be eliminated.","date_promised":"2015-08-23","venue":"CBS \"Face the Nation\" interview and subsequent campaign tax plan","deadline_text":null,"deadline_days":null,"category":"taxes","era":"campaign-2016","status":"never-delivered","what_happened":"The 2017 tax law kept the carried interest provision, only lengthening the required holding period from one year to three years for the preferential rate. PolitiFact rated the promise broken on December 20, 2017.","repeat_count":10,"sources":[{"title":"Eliminate the carried interest loophole","outlet":"PolitiFact Trump-O-Meter","url":"https://www.politifact.com/truth-o-meter/promises/trumpometer/promise/386619/eliminate-carried-interest-loophole/","date":"2017-12-20"}],"file":"campaign-2016.json","year":2015,"deadline_date":null,"days_since_promise":4048,"days_overdue":null,"two_weeks":false,"url":"/promise/carried-interest-loophole/","sort_key":"2015-08-23","number":16},{"id":"deport-all-undocumented-immigrants","title":"Deport all 11 million undocumented immigrants","quote":"[paraphrase] They have to go. We're going to have a deportation force and everyone who is here illegally will leave.","date_promised":"2015-08-16","venue":"NBC \"Meet the Press\" interview","deadline_text":null,"deadline_days":null,"category":"immigration","era":"campaign-2016","status":"never-delivered","what_happened":"No mass deportation force was created and the undocumented population remained roughly 10.5 to 11 million. ICE removals over the term ran below the peak years of the Obama administration. PolitiFact rated the promise broken in July 2020.","repeat_count":60,"sources":[{"title":"Remove all undocumented immigrants","outlet":"PolitiFact Trump-O-Meter","url":"https://www.politifact.com/truth-o-meter/promises/trumpometer/promise/386448/","date":"2020-07-15"}],"file":"campaign-2016.json","year":2015,"deadline_date":null,"days_since_promise":4055,"days_overdue":null,"two_weeks":false,"url":"/promise/deport-all-undocumented-immigrants/","sort_key":"2015-08-16","number":15},{"id":"end-birthright-citizenship","title":"End birthright citizenship","quote":"[paraphrase] Birthright citizenship is the biggest magnet for illegal immigration and it will end.","date_promised":"2015-08-16","venue":"Immigration position paper and NBC \"Meet the Press\"","deadline_text":"reportedly by executive order","deadline_days":null,"category":"immigration","era":"campaign-2016","status":"never-delivered","what_happened":"Trump said in an Axios interview on October 30, 2018 that he would sign an executive order ending birthright citizenship. No such order was issued during the first term and the Fourteenth Amendment guarantee remained in force. PolitiFact rated the promise broken.","repeat_count":10,"sources":[{"title":"End birthright citizenship","outlet":"PolitiFact Trump-O-Meter","url":"https://www.politifact.com/truth-o-meter/promises/trumpometer/promise/386511/end-birthright-citizenship/","date":"2020-07-15"}],"file":"campaign-2016.json","year":2015,"deadline_date":null,"days_since_promise":4055,"days_overdue":null,"two_weeks":false,"url":"/promise/end-birthright-citizenship/","sort_key":"2015-08-16","number":14},{"id":"j-1-visa-inner-city-resume-bank","title":"Replace the J-1 visa with an inner-city resume bank","quote":"[paraphrase] We will replace the J-1 visa jobs program for foreign youth with a resume bank for inner-city youth.","date_promised":"2015-08-16","venue":"Campaign immigration position paper","deadline_text":null,"deadline_days":null,"category":"immigration","era":"campaign-2016","status":"never-delivered","what_happened":"The J-1 exchange visitor program was not replaced. A June 2020 proclamation temporarily suspended some J-1 categories during the pandemic, but no inner-city resume bank was created. PolitiFact rated the promise broken.","repeat_count":2,"sources":[{"title":"Replace J-1 visa with inner city resume bank","outlet":"PolitiFact Trump-O-Meter","url":"https://www.politifact.com/truth-o-meter/promises/trumpometer/promise/386563/replace-j-1-visa-inner-city-resume-bank/","date":"2020-07-15"}],"file":"campaign-2016.json","year":2015,"deadline_date":null,"days_since_promise":4055,"days_overdue":null,"two_weeks":false,"url":"/promise/j-1-visa-inner-city-resume-bank/","sort_key":"2015-08-16","number":13},{"id":"self-funding-campaign-pledge","title":"\"I'm self-funding my own campaign\" — he funded about a fifth of it","quote":"I'm self-funding my own campaign. It's my money. ... I don't need anybody's money.","date_promised":"2015-06-16","venue":"Campaign launch and repeatedly at rallies and debates through the 2016 primaries","deadline_text":null,"deadline_days":null,"category":"ethics","era":"campaign-2016","status":"broken","what_happened":"Trump passively accepted small-dollar contributions from the day he announced; by May 2016 supporters had given his campaign roughly $14 million. After clinching the nomination he began fundraising in earnest with the RNC and from major donors. In the end he personally funded about 20 percent of the 2016 effort — the other 80 percent was other people's money — and by 2020 and 2024 he was running conventional donor-funded campaigns.","repeat_count":12,"sources":[{"title":"Donald Trump's big money bait-and-switch","outlet":"Center for Public Integrity","url":"https://publicintegrity.org/politics/donald-trumps-big-money-bait-and-switch/","date":"2016-11-01"},{"title":"Is Donald Trump self-funding his campaign? Sort of","outlet":"PolitiFact","url":"https://www.politifact.com/factchecks/2016/feb/10/donald-trump/donald-trump-self-funding-his-campaign-sort","date":"2016-02-10"},{"title":"Trump isn't paying to save his campaign","outlet":"CNN","url":"https://www.cnn.com/2016/10/28/politics/donald-trump-checkbook-campaign-contribution/","date":"2016-10-28"},{"title":"Trump Called The $10 Million A Loan. His Campaign Called It A Donation.","outlet":"BuzzFeed News","url":"https://www.buzzfeednews.com/article/kenbensinger/trump-campaign-10-million-2016","date":"2020-01-01"}],"file":"campaign-2016.json","year":2015,"deadline_date":null,"days_since_promise":4116,"days_overdue":null,"two_weeks":false,"url":"/promise/self-funding-campaign-pledge/","sort_key":"2015-06-16","number":12},{"id":"mexico-pays-for-the-wall","title":"Mexico will pay for the border wall","quote":"I will build a great, great wall on our southern border, and I will have Mexico pay for that wall.","date_promised":"2015-06-16","venue":"Campaign launch speech, Trump Tower, New York","deadline_text":null,"deadline_days":null,"category":"immigration","era":"campaign-2016","status":"never-delivered","what_happened":"Mexico never contributed money for the barrier. Construction was funded by U.S. appropriations plus roughly $10 billion diverted from Defense Department accounts after Trump declared a national emergency in February 2019. By January 2021 about 452 miles of barrier had been built, of which roughly 40 miles was in locations where no barrier previously existed.","repeat_count":200,"sources":[{"title":"Build a wall, and make Mexico pay for it","outlet":"PolitiFact Trump-O-Meter","url":"https://www.politifact.com/truth-o-meter/promises/trumpometer/promise/386428/build-wall-and-make-mexico-pay-it/","date":"2020-07-15"},{"title":"Trump's term ends with half his campaign promises unachieved","outlet":"PolitiFact","url":"https://www.politifact.com/article/2021/jan/19/trumps-term-ends-half-his-campaign-promises-unachi/","date":"2021-01-19"}],"file":"campaign-2016.json","year":2015,"deadline_date":null,"days_since_promise":4116,"days_overdue":null,"two_weeks":false,"url":"/promise/mexico-pays-for-the-wall/","sort_key":"2015-06-16","number":11},{"id":"hire-only-the-best-people","title":"Hire only \"the best people\"","quote":"[paraphrase] I'm going to surround myself only with the best and most serious people.","date_promised":"2015-06-16","venue":"Campaign launch and repeated throughout the campaign","deadline_text":null,"deadline_days":null,"category":"ethics","era":"campaign-2016","status":"broken","what_happened":"The administration had record senior-staff turnover, with Brookings measuring roughly 92 percent turnover among A-team positions over four years. Six Trump associates, including campaign chairman Paul Manafort, national security adviser Michael Flynn, adviser Roger Stone and attorney Michael Cohen, were convicted or pleaded guilty to federal crimes.","repeat_count":20,"sources":[{"title":"Trump's 40 Biggest Broken Promises","outlet":"The American Prospect","url":"https://prospect.org/2020/08/27/trumps-40-biggest-broken-promises/","date":"2020-08-27"},{"title":"President Trump's Broken Promises to the American People","outlet":"Office of the House Majority Leader (Hoyer)","url":"https://leaderarchive-hoyer.house.gov/content/president-trump%E2%80%99s-broken-promises-american-people","date":"2020-02-04"}],"file":"campaign-2016.json","year":2015,"deadline_date":null,"days_since_promise":4116,"days_overdue":null,"two_weeks":false,"url":"/promise/hire-only-the-best-people/","sort_key":"2015-06-16","number":10},{"id":"no-cuts-social-security-medicare-medicaid","title":"No cuts to Social Security, Medicare or Medicaid","quote":"I was the first & only potential GOP candidate to state there will be no cuts to Social Security, Medicare & Medicaid.","date_promised":"2015-05-07","venue":"Twitter","deadline_text":null,"deadline_days":null,"category":"healthcare","era":"campaign-2016","status":"broken","what_happened":"Every Trump budget proposed reductions. The fiscal 2021 budget released February 10, 2020 proposed roughly $850 billion less in Medicare spending, about $900 billion less in Medicaid, and about $30 billion less in Social Security disability spending over ten years. The administration also approved state Medicaid work-requirement waivers, which PolitiFact cited in rating the Medicaid pledge broken.","repeat_count":30,"sources":[{"title":"Make no cuts to Medicaid: Work requirement waivers undermine pledge","outlet":"PolitiFact Trump-O-Meter","url":"https://www.politifact.com/truth-o-meter/promises/trumpometer/promise/386182/","date":"2020-07-15"},{"title":"Trump pledged to protect Medicare and Medicaid, but his 2020 budget calls for major spending cuts","outlet":"CNBC","url":"https://www.cnbc.com/2019/03/12/trump-2020-budget-proposes-reduced-medicare-and-medicaid-spending.html","date":"2019-03-12"},{"title":"Trump budget would cut Medicare, Medicaid and Social Security","outlet":"Salon","url":"https://www.salon.com/2020/02/10/trump-budget-would-cut-medicare-medicaid-and-social-security-while-expanding-tax-cuts-for-the-rich/","date":"2020-02-10"}],"file":"campaign-2016.json","year":2015,"deadline_date":null,"days_since_promise":4156,"days_overdue":null,"two_weeks":false,"url":"/promise/no-cuts-social-security-medicare-medicaid/","sort_key":"2015-05-07","number":9},{"id":"new-york-governor-tease-2014","title":"The New York governor run he said he'd decide on \"pretty soon\"","quote":"[paraphrase] It's a possibility — I'll make a decision at some time pretty soon, if the Republican Party unifies behind me.","date_promised":"2014-02","venue":"Interviews and a meeting with New York Republican lawmakers","deadline_text":"a decision at some time pretty soon","deadline_days":null,"category":"elections","era":"pre-politics","status":"never-delivered","what_happened":"Trump strung along New York Republicans recruiting him to challenge Governor Andrew Cuomo, setting a condition — party unity behind him — that he controlled the goalposts for. He never ran. Rob Astorino became the Republican nominee and lost to Cuomo in November 2014. The episode followed the same tease-then-decline pattern as 2000, 2011 and 2012.","repeat_count":2,"sources":[{"title":"Donald Trump Considering Run For NY Governor","outlet":"CBS New York","url":"https://www.cbsnews.com/amp/newyork/news/donald-trump-considering-run-for-ny-governor","date":"2014-02-14"},{"title":"Trump's considering NY gubernatorial run","outlet":"NBC News","url":"https://www.nbcnews.com/news/amp/wbna54291287","date":"2014-02-14"}],"file":"pre-politics.json","year":2014,"deadline_date":null,"days_since_promise":4616,"days_overdue":null,"two_weeks":false,"url":"/promise/new-york-governor-tease-2014/","sort_key":"2014-02","number":8},{"id":"obama-records-five-million-charity-2012","title":"The $5 million \"major announcement\" offer for Obama's records","quote":"If Barack Obama opens up and gives his college records and applications, and if he gives his passport applications and records, I will give to a charity of his choice ... a check immediately for five million dollars.","date_promised":"2012-10-24","venue":"Video posted to Trump's Twitter account, billed all week as a \"major announcement\"","deadline_text":"by October 31st, at 5 o'clock in the afternoon","deadline_days":7,"category":"transparency","era":"pre-politics","status":"never-delivered","what_happened":"Trump had spent the week teasing an election \"bombshell\" that would be \"very big\" and \"possibly bad for the President.\" The announcement turned out to be a publicity stunt: a conditional charity offer with a one-week deadline. Obama ignored it, the October 31, 2012 deadline passed, no money was ever paid, and the stunt produced nothing. Trump has never substantiated any claim about Obama's college or passport records.","repeat_count":2,"sources":[{"title":"Trump-October Surprise: Donald Trump offers $5 million for release of Obama's college records","outlet":"Slate","url":"https://slate.com/news-and-politics/2012/10/trump-october-surprise-donald-trump-offers-5-million-for-release-of-obama-s-college-records.html","date":"2012-10-24"},{"title":"Donald Trump's Big Obama Announcement: $5 Million In Exchange For Obama's College, Passport Records","outlet":"U.S. News & World Report","url":"https://www.usnews.com/news/blogs/washington-whispers/2012/10/24/donald-trumps-big-obama-announcement-5-million-in-exchange-for-obamas-college-passport-records","date":"2012-10-24"},{"title":"Donald 'Bombshell' Fails to Blow Up","outlet":"ABC News","url":"https://abcnews.com/Politics/OTUS/donald-trump-fails-drop-bombshell-offers-cash-obama/story?id=17553670","date":"2012-10-24"},{"title":"Donald Trump Tells Forbes Why He's Offering $5 Million For Obama's Records","outlet":"Forbes","url":"https://www.forbes.com/sites/clareoconnor/2012/10/24/trump-tells-forbes-why-hes-offered-5-million-for-obamas-records/","date":"2012-10-24"},{"title":"5 Years Ago Today Trump Offered $5 Million For Obama's College Records","outlet":"HuffPost","url":"https://www.huffpost.com/entry/today-marks-five-years-from-when-trump-offered-5-million_b_59ef8c58e4b04809c05011ae","date":"2017-10-24"}],"file":"pre-politics.json","year":2012,"deadline_date":"2012-10-31","days_since_promise":5081,"days_overdue":5074,"two_weeks":true,"url":"/promise/obama-records-five-million-charity-2012/","sort_key":"2012-10-24","number":7},{"id":"presidential-tease-2011","title":"The 2011 run that ended at an NBC advertiser presentation","quote":"I will not be running for president, as much as I'd like to. ... Ultimately, business is my greatest passion and I am not ready to leave the private sector.","date_promised":"2011-05-16","venue":"NBC upfront presentation to advertisers, Hilton Midtown, Manhattan","deadline_text":null,"deadline_days":null,"category":"elections","era":"pre-politics","status":"broken","what_happened":"For four months in 2011 Trump topped some Republican primary polls, told interviewers he was \"serious\" and repeatedly promised a decision by June. He announced he would not run at NBC's advertiser upfront on May 16, 2011, in the same breath as announcing another season of Celebrity Apprentice. CNN's write-up the same day was headlined \"Was he ever serious? How Trump strung the country along, again.\"","repeat_count":3,"sources":[{"title":"Donald Trump announces he won't run for president","outlet":"CNN","url":"https://www.cnn.com/2011/POLITICS/05/16/trump.president/","date":"2011-05-16"},{"title":"Was he ever serious? 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I may tie my tax returns into Obama's birth certificate.","date_promised":"2011-04-21","venue":"ABC News interview with George Stephanopoulos","deadline_text":"when Obama does his birth certificate","deadline_days":null,"category":"transparency","era":"pre-politics","status":"never-delivered","what_happened":"Obama released his long-form birth certificate six days later, on April 27, 2011. Trump did not release his tax returns, saying instead they would come out \"at the appropriate time.\" Fifteen years later he has still never voluntarily released a full return; six years of returns became public only when the House Ways and Means Committee forced their release in December 2022.","repeat_count":1,"sources":[{"title":"Trump In 2011: I'll Release My Tax Returns When Obama Releases His Birth Certificate","outlet":"BuzzFeed News","url":"https://www.buzzfeednews.com/article/andrewkaczynski/donald-trump-tax-returns-birth","date":"2016-05-11"},{"title":"Trump To Show Tax Returns If Obama Shows Birth Certificate","outlet":"Gothamist","url":"https://gothamist.com/news/trump-to-show-tax-returns-if-obama-shows-birth-certificate","date":"2011-04-21"},{"title":"Trump Promised To Release His Tax Returns With Obama's Birth Certificate — So Where Are They?","outlet":"The National Memo","url":"https://www.nationalmemo.com/trump-promised-release-tax-returns-obamas-birth-certificate","date":"2016-05-12"},{"title":"Tax returns of Donald Trump","outlet":"Wikipedia","url":"https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tax_returns_of_Donald_Trump","date":"2024-01-01"}],"file":"pre-politics.json","year":2011,"deadline_date":null,"days_since_promise":5633,"days_overdue":null,"two_weeks":false,"url":"/promise/tax-returns-for-birth-certificate-2011/","sort_key":"2011-04-21","number":5},{"id":"birther-hawaii-investigators-2011","title":"Birther 'investigators in Hawaii' who found something unbelievable","quote":"I have people that actually have been studying it and they cannot believe what they're finding.","date_promised":"2011-04-07","venue":"NBC 'Today' show interview with Meredith Vieira","deadline_text":"imminently / 'they cannot believe what they're finding'","deadline_days":14,"category":"transparency","era":"pre-politics","status":"never-delivered","what_happened":"Trump said he had dispatched private investigators to Honolulu who were about to reveal shocking findings about Barack Obama's birth certificate. Obama released his long-form birth certificate on April 27, 2011, and no findings were ever produced. Hawaii's state registrar said he had no record of Trump or any representative requesting the records, and in 2021 Michael Cohen said on MSNBC that Trump had simply made the investigators up.","repeat_count":3,"sources":[{"title":"Trump Sends Birther Investigators to Hawaii","outlet":"Honolulu Civil Beat","url":"https://www.civilbeat.org/2011/04/10184-trump-sends-birther-investigators-to-hawaii/","date":"2011-04-11"},{"title":"There's Still No Evidence That Trump Sent Investigators To Hawaii To Dig Up Dirt On Obama","outlet":"HuffPost","url":"https://www.huffpost.com/entry/donald-trump-hawaii-investigators_n_57dc3bffe4b04a1497b46da1","date":"2016-09-16"},{"title":"Michael Cohen says Trump lied about sending investigators to Hawaii","outlet":"The Week","url":"https://theweek.com/speedreads/936488/michael-cohen-says-trump-lied-about-sending-investigators-hawaii-look-into-obamas-birth-certificate","date":"2021-01-14"},{"title":"Interview: Donald Trump Interviewed by Meredith Vieira on NBC's The Today Show","outlet":"Roll Call Factba.se","url":"https://rollcall.com/factbase/trump/transcript/donald-trump-interview-nbc-the-today-show-april-7-2011/","date":"2011-04-07"}],"file":"pre-politics.json","year":2011,"deadline_date":"2011-04-21","days_since_promise":5647,"days_overdue":5633,"two_weeks":true,"url":"/promise/birther-hawaii-investigators-2011/","sort_key":"2011-04-07","number":4},{"id":"universal-healthcare-2000-book","title":"\"We must have universal health care\" — the 2000 book pledge he inverted","quote":"We must have universal healthcare. ... I'm a conservative on most issues but a liberal on this one. ... We need, as a nation, to reexamine the single-payer plan.","date_promised":"2000-01","venue":"Trump's book \"The America We Deserve\"","deadline_text":null,"deadline_days":null,"category":"healthcare","era":"pre-politics","status":"broken","what_happened":"Trump praised Canada's single-payer system in print in 2000 and told CNN in 1999 he believed health care was \"an entitlement\" from birth. By 2011 he had abandoned the position, and as president he spent 2017 trying to repeal the Affordable Care Act without a replacement, called single-payer a \"curse\" in September 2017, and in 2024 said he had only \"concepts of a plan.\" Universal coverage never came.","repeat_count":2,"sources":[{"title":"Donald Trump In 1999: \"I Believe In Universal Health Care...It's An Entitlement\" From Birth","outlet":"BuzzFeed News","url":"https://www.buzzfeednews.com/article/andrewkaczynski/donald-trump-in-1999-i-believe-in-universal-health-careits-a","date":"2015-07-01"},{"title":"The America We Deserve","outlet":"Wikipedia","url":"https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_America_We_Deserve","date":"2024-01-01"},{"title":"Conservative columnist: Trump once backed single-payer health care","outlet":"PolitiFact","url":"http://politifact.com/factchecks/2015/jul/24/erick-erickson/conservative-columnist-trump-once-backed-single-pa/","date":"2015-07-24"},{"title":"Trump calls single-payer a curse but it makes health care better","outlet":"CNBC","url":"https://www.cnbc.com/2017/09/15/trump-calls-single-payer-a-curse-but-it-makes-health-care-better.html","date":"2017-09-15"}],"file":"pre-politics.json","year":2000,"deadline_date":null,"days_since_promise":9761,"days_overdue":null,"two_weeks":false,"url":"/promise/universal-healthcare-2000-book/","sort_key":"2000-01","number":3},{"id":"wealth-tax-1999","title":"The 14.25% wealth tax Trump said would wipe out the national debt","quote":"[paraphrase] A one-time 14.25 percent tax on the net worth of Americans worth more than $10 million would raise $5.7 trillion and pay off the entire national debt.","date_promised":"1999-11","venue":"Reform Party presidential campaign proposal / Trump's policy rollout","deadline_text":null,"deadline_days":null,"category":"taxes","era":"pre-politics","status":"never-delivered","what_happened":"The arithmetic did not work: Trump's estimate of $50 trillion in total American wealth and the share held by the top 1 percent were both badly wrong, by trillions of dollars. Trump abandoned the campaign in February 2000 and never proposed a wealth tax again. As president he did the opposite, signing the 2017 tax law that cut rates on high earners and estates, and the national debt rose sharply on his watch.","repeat_count":1,"sources":[{"title":"Trump Had His Own Wealth Tax in 1999 — But the Math Was Wrong","outlet":"Bloomberg Tax","url":"https://news.bloombergtax.com/daily-tax-report/trump-had-his-own-wealth-tax-in-1999-but-the-math-was-wrong","date":"2019-11-06"},{"title":"Trump Had His Own Wealth Tax in 1999 - But the Math Was Wrong","outlet":"WealthManagement.com","url":"https://wealthmanagement.com/high-net-worth/trump-had-his-own-wealth-tax-1999-math-was-wrong","date":"2019-11-06"},{"title":"Donald Trump's Forgotten Plan to Tax Wealth","outlet":"Independent Institute","url":"https://www.independent.org/article/2024/07/26/donald-trumps-forgotten-tax-wealth-plan/","date":"2024-07-26"}],"file":"pre-politics.json","year":1999,"deadline_date":null,"days_since_promise":9822,"days_overdue":null,"two_weeks":false,"url":"/promise/wealth-tax-1999/","sort_key":"1999-11","number":2},{"id":"reform-party-2000-run","title":"The 1999 Reform Party campaign that ended before a single vote was cast","quote":"[paraphrase] Trump announced a presidential exploratory committee on Larry King Live, said he could win, and campaigned in Florida, California and Minnesota — then quit.","date_promised":"1999-10-07","venue":"CNN's Larry King Live","deadline_text":null,"deadline_days":null,"category":"elections","era":"pre-politics","status":"broken","what_happened":"Trump hired Roger Stone to run the exploratory committee, gave interviews as a candidate, and qualified for two Reform Party primaries. After Jesse Ventura — his loudest backer — left the party in February 2000, Trump ended the campaign on the February 14, 2000 broadcast of NBC's Today. He never expanded past the exploratory phase. It set the template for the 2011, 2012 and 2014 teases that followed.","repeat_count":4,"sources":[{"title":"Donald Trump 2000 presidential campaign","outlet":"Wikipedia","url":"https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Donald_Trump_2000_presidential_campaign","date":"2024-01-01"},{"title":"The Inside Story Of That Time Trump Almost Ran For President In 2000","outlet":"Talking Points Memo","url":"https://talkingpointsmemo.com/cafe/trump-reform-party-president-2000","date":"2016-02-01"}],"file":"pre-politics.json","year":1999,"deadline_date":null,"days_since_promise":9847,"days_overdue":null,"two_weeks":false,"url":"/promise/reform-party-2000-run/","sort_key":"1999-10-07","number":1}]