[ { "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" } ] }, { "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" } ] }, { "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" } ] }, { "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" } ] }, { "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" } ] }, { "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" } ] }, { "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" } ] }, { "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" } ] }, { "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" } ] }, { "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" } ] }, { "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" } ] }, { "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" } ] }, { "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" } ] }, { "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" } ] }, { "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" } ] }, { "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" } ] }, { "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" } ] }, { "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" } ] }, { "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" } ] }, { "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" } ] }, { "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" } ] }, { "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" } ] }, { "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" } ] }, { "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" } ] }, { "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" } ] }, { "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" } ] }, { "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" } ] }, { "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" } ] }, { "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. Jason Crow", "url": "https://crow.house.gov/media/press-releases/crow-introduces-war-powers-resolution-to-rein-in-trump-military-action-in-venezuela", "date": "2026-01-08" }, { "title": "Trump promised he'd end forever wars. 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" } ] }, { "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" } ] }, { "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" } ] }, { "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" } ] }, { "id": "second-debate-harris-2024", "title": "Demanded three debates, then refused a second one with Harris", "quote": "It is very late in the process, (early) voting has already begun — there will be no rematch!", "date_promised": "2024-08", "venue": "Truth Social; earlier in August 2024 Trump had publicly pushed for three debates against Harris", "deadline_text": null, "deadline_days": null, "category": "elections", "era": "campaign-2024", "status": "broken", "what_happened": "Trump spent August 2024 demanding multiple debates and made participation contingent on Harris agreeing to three. 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" } ] }, { "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" } ] }, { "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. Our MAGA-Meter disagrees", "outlet": "PolitiFact", "url": "https://politifact.com/article/2026/may/12/trump-promises-tariffs-taxes-immigration-deport/", "date": "2026-05-12" } ] }, { "id": "paper-ballots-only", "title": "Require paper ballots only", "quote": "[paraphrase] We want one-day voting, paper ballots only.", "date_promised": "2024-08", "venue": "Campaign rallies and Truth Social posts", "deadline_text": null, "deadline_days": null, "category": "elections", "era": "campaign-2024", "status": "never-delivered", "what_happened": "No federal paper-ballot mandate exists and none is possible without Congress. 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" } ] }, { "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" } ] }, { "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" } ] }, { "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. Lloyd Doggett", "url": "https://doggett.house.gov/issues/trumps-economic-promises-timeline", "date": "2025-02-01" }, { "title": "Trump Just Publicly Abandoned 1 Of His Biggest 'Day 1' Promises", "outlet": "HuffPost", "url": "https://www.huffpost.com/entry/trump-inflation-promise_n_67b589fae4b04f1801af34e5", "date": "2025-02-19" }, { "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": "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" } ] }, { "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. Lloyd Doggett", "url": "https://doggett.house.gov/issues/trumps-economic-promises-timeline", "date": "2025-02-01" } ] }, { "id": "universal-baseline-tariff", "title": "A 10%–20% tariff on all imported goods", "quote": "[paraphrase] We will put a ring around the country — a tariff of 10 to 20 percent on all foreign goods sold in America.", "date_promised": "2024-08-14", "venue": "Campaign rally, Asheville, North Carolina; repeated through the campaign", "deadline_text": null, "deadline_days": null, "category": "trade", "era": "campaign-2024", "status": "broken", "what_happened": "The universal tariff was imposed by emergency decree rather than by law and then collapsed. 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" } ] }, { "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" } ] }, { "id": "government-pays-for-ivf", "title": "The government or insurers will pay for all IVF treatment", "quote": "We're going to be paying for that treatment... or we're going to be mandating that the insurance company pay.", "date_promised": "2024-08-29", "venue": "NBC News interview, Potterville, Michigan", "deadline_text": null, "deadline_days": null, "category": "healthcare", "era": "campaign-2024", "status": "broken", "what_happened": "No mandate and no federal payment materialized. 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" } ] }, { "id": "two-percent-mortgage-rates", "title": "Drive mortgage rates back down to 2%", "quote": "We will drive down the rates so you will be able to pay 2 percent again.", "date_promised": "2024-09", "venue": "Campaign rally, Tucson, Arizona", "deadline_text": null, "deadline_days": null, "category": "economy", "era": "campaign-2024", "status": "never-delivered", "what_happened": "Thirty-year mortgage rates never came close to 2%. 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.' The economy got a 'big yawn' housing bill", "outlet": "Fortune", "url": "https://fortune.com/2026/08/01/trump-big-yawn-housing-bill-mortgage-rates/", "date": "2026-08-01" }, { "title": "Donald Trump broke campaign promise to lower mortgage rates", "outlet": "Wonderwall", "url": "https://www.wonderwall.com/politics/president-donald-trump-breaks-campaign-promise-lower-mortgage-rates-borrowing-costs", "date": "2026-07-01" } ] }, { "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" } ] }, { "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.' The economy got a 'big yawn' housing bill and higher debt than defense costs instead", "outlet": "Fortune", "url": "https://fortune.com/2026/08/01/trump-big-yawn-housing-bill-mortgage-rates/", "date": "2026-08-01" }, { "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" } ] }, { "id": "corporate-tax-rate-15-percent", "title": "Cut the corporate tax rate to 15% for U.S. manufacturers", "quote": "[paraphrase] We will reduce the corporate tax rate to 15 percent, but only for companies that make their product in America.", "date_promised": "2024-09-05", "venue": "Economic Club of New York", "deadline_text": null, "deadline_days": null, "category": "taxes", "era": "campaign-2024", "status": "partial", "what_happened": "The 2025 tax law left the statutory corporate rate at 21%. 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. Lloyd Doggett", "url": "https://doggett.house.gov/issues/trumps-economic-promises-timeline", "date": "2025-02-01" } ] }, { "id": "auto-manufacturing-37-year-high", "title": "Restore auto manufacturing to a 37-year high with tariffs", "quote": "[paraphrase] Tariffs will bring auto manufacturing back to levels we haven't seen in 37 years.", "date_promised": "2024-09-05", "venue": "Economic Club of New York", "deadline_text": null, "deadline_days": null, "category": "trade", "era": "campaign-2024", "status": "never-delivered", "what_happened": "Auto and parts employment did not surge. 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. Is it?", "outlet": "Marketplace", "url": "https://www.marketplace.org/story/2026/07/28/is-trumps-aggressive-trade-policy-reshoring-factory-jobs", "date": "2026-07-28" }, { "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" } ] }, { "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" } ] }, { "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" } ] }, { "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" } ] }, { "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" } ] }, { "id": "deport-worst-of-the-worst", "title": "Deport only 'the worst of the worst' — criminals first", "quote": "[paraphrase] We're getting the criminals out first — murderers, drug dealers, the worst of the worst.", "date_promised": "2024-10", "venue": "Campaign rallies and post-election interviews", "deadline_text": null, "deadline_days": null, "category": "immigration", "era": "campaign-2024", "status": "broken", "what_happened": "Nonpublic ICE data obtained by the Cato Institute in June 2025 showed a majority of detainees had no criminal conviction and 93% had no violent conviction. 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" } ] }, { "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. Technically, he can't", "outlet": "PBS NewsHour / AP", "url": "https://www.pbs.org/newshour/politics/trump-says-he-would-fire-special-counsel-jack-smith-within-2-seconds-of-taking-office-technically-he-cant", "date": "2024-10-24" } ] }, { "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" } ] }, { "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" } ] }, { "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. Kennedy Jr.)", "deadline_text": null, "deadline_days": null, "category": "healthcare", "era": "campaign-2024", "status": "still-waiting", "what_happened": "PolitiFact rated the promise Stalled in its January 2026 one-year review. 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" } ] }, { "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. Lloyd Doggett", "url": "https://doggett.house.gov/issues/trumps-economic-promises-timeline", "date": "2025-02-01" } ] }, { "id": "egg-prices-will-come-down", "title": "Egg prices will come down", "quote": "[paraphrase] We're going to bring down the price of eggs — the groceries, the eggs, everything.", "date_promised": "2024-11-04", "venue": "Campaign rallies in the closing week, including Pittsburgh", "deadline_text": null, "deadline_days": null, "category": "economy", "era": "campaign-2024", "status": "broken", "what_happened": "By day seven of the term eggs were more expensive, not cheaper, and prices set records through early 2025 amid avian flu. FactCheck.org documented false administration claims about egg and gas prices in April 2025, and CBS News fact-checked similar claims again in September 2025. 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" } ] }, { "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" } ] }, { "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" } ] }, { "id": "jan6-pardons-case-by-case", "title": "Jan. 6 pardons would be case-by-case and exclude the violent", "quote": "[paraphrase] We'll look at each individual case — if somebody was out of control, we'd look at that differently.", "date_promised": "2024-12-08", "venue": "NBC 'Meet the Press' interview", "deadline_text": null, "deadline_days": null, "category": "justice", "era": "campaign-2024", "status": "broken", "what_happened": "On Jan. 20, 2025 — his first day — Trump issued blanket clemency to more than 1,500 people charged in the Capitol attack, including people convicted of assaulting police officers and seditious conspiracy, rather than the case-by-case review he had described. 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" } ] }, { "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. 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 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": "2025-09-01" } ] } ]