[ { "id": "carrier-save-1100-jobs", "title": "Save the Carrier jobs in Indianapolis", "quote": "[paraphrase] We're keeping 1,100 jobs at Carrier in Indiana that were going to Mexico.", "date_promised": "2016-12-01", "venue": "Carrier plant visit, Indianapolis, Indiana", "deadline_text": null, "deadline_days": null, "category": "economy", "era": "term-1", "status": "partial", "what_happened": "Carrier received up to $7 million in Indiana incentives to keep about 1,070 positions, roughly 300 of which were office jobs never slated to move. The company proceeded with moving its fan coil lines to Monterrey, Mexico, laying off about 340 workers in July 2017 and about 215 more in January 2018, roughly 500 jobs in total.", "repeat_count": 12, "sources": [ { "title": "Trump said he would save jobs at Carrier. The layoffs start July 20.", "outlet": "The Washington Post", "url": "https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/wonk/wp/2017/05/24/here-is-the-number-of-jobs-carrier-is-moving-to-mexico-after-trump-said-hed-save-them/", "date": "2017-05-24" }, { "title": "Carrier to lay off 215 more workers from Indiana plant despite Trump's vows to save jobs", "outlet": "Newsweek", "url": "https://www.newsweek.com/carrier-plant-layoff-215-more-workers-indiana-trump-778040", "date": "2017-11-30" }, { "title": "Trump didn't save all 1,100 Carrier jobs", "outlet": "WRTV Indianapolis", "url": "https://www.wrtv.com/news/local-news/carrier-roughly-600-jobs-still-moving-to-mexico-by-end-of-2017", "date": "2017-05-24" } ] }, { "id": "separate-from-business-no-foreign-deals", "title": "\"No new foreign deals\" and foreign profits donated to the Treasury", "quote": "[paraphrase] I will sign no new foreign deals while in office — I turned down a $2 billion Dubai golf deal — and the Trump Organization will donate all profits from foreign government payments to the U.S. Treasury.", "date_promised": "2017-01-11", "venue": "Trump Tower press conference, nine days before the inauguration, with a stack of folders presented as divestment documents", "deadline_text": null, "deadline_days": null, "category": "ethics", "era": "term-1", "status": "broken", "what_happened": "Trump never divested; he moved assets into a revocable trust he could draw from and his sons ran the company. Ethics experts noted the foreign-profits pledge excluded resorts and let Trump define \"profit\" himself, and that he already had two existing Dubai golf deals with the same developer. When the Trump Organization said in 2018 it had donated foreign profits, it refused to disclose the amount or any country-by-country breakdown; House Oversight Democrats demanded proof and got none.", "repeat_count": 3, "sources": [ { "title": "Trump promised to donate profits from foreign governments to the Treasury. House Democrats want proof", "outlet": "CNBC", "url": "https://www.cnbc.com/2018/01/11/democrats-want-proof-trump-donated-profits-from-foreign-governments.html", "date": "2018-01-11" }, { "title": "After A Year In Office, Questions About Trump's Foreign Deals Go On. And On", "outlet": "NPR", "url": "https://www.npr.org/sections/parallels/2018/01/15/577326163/after-a-year-in-office-questions-about-trumps-foreign-deals-go-on-and-on", "date": "2018-01-15" }, { "title": "Trump Organization says it has donated foreign profits to Treasury", "outlet": "NBC News", "url": "https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/politics-news/trump-organization-donates-foreign-profits-treasury-won-t-disclose-amounts-n851316", "date": "2018-02-26" }, { "title": "Oversight Committee Requests Documents on Trump Organization's Treatment of Foreign Government Payments", "outlet": "House Oversight Committee", "url": "https://oversight.house.gov/release/oversight-committee-requests-documents-trump-organizations-treatment-foreign-government-payments", "date": "2017-04-21" } ] }, { "id": "insurance-for-everybody", "title": "\"Insurance for everybody\" in the Obamacare replacement", "quote": "We're going to have insurance for everybody. There was a philosophy in some circles that if you can't pay for it, you don't get it. That's not going to happen with us.", "date_promised": "2017-01-15", "venue": "Interview with The Washington Post", "deadline_text": null, "deadline_days": null, "category": "healthcare", "era": "term-1", "status": "never-delivered", "what_happened": "No replacement plan providing universal coverage was ever produced. The Congressional Budget Office estimated the House-passed AHCA would increase the number of uninsured by 23 million by 2026. FactCheck.org reported the number of uninsured Americans rose by about 3 million during Trump's term, to roughly 28 million.", "repeat_count": 3, "sources": [ { "title": "Trump vows 'insurance for everybody' in Obamacare replacement plan", "outlet": "The Washington Post", "url": "https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/trump-vows-insurance-for-everybody-in-obamacare-replacement-plan/2017/01/15/5f2b1e18-db5d-11e6-ad42-f3375f271c9c_story.html", "date": "2017-01-15" }, { "title": "Trump promises his Obamacare replacement plan will cover everybody", "outlet": "CNN", "url": "https://www.cnn.com/2017/01/15/politics/trump-obamacare/index.html", "date": "2017-01-15" }, { "title": "Trump's Final Numbers", "outlet": "FactCheck.org", "url": "https://www.factcheck.org/2021/10/trumps-final-numbers/", "date": "2021-10-08" } ] }, { "id": "put-america-first-allies", "title": "Put America first and get tough with adversaries", "quote": "[paraphrase] From this day forward, it's going to be only America first.", "date_promised": "2017-01-20", "venue": "Inaugural address, U.S. Capitol", "deadline_text": null, "deadline_days": null, "category": "foreign-policy", "era": "term-1", "status": "broken", "what_happened": "The American Prospect and the House Majority Leader's office both catalogued outcomes at odds with the pledge, including the July 2018 Helsinki news conference in which Trump sided with Vladimir Putin's denial over U.S. intelligence findings on election interference, strained relations with NATO allies, and the withdrawal from northern Syria in October 2019 that left Kurdish partners exposed.", "repeat_count": 100, "sources": [ { "title": "Trump's 40 Biggest Broken Promises", "outlet": "The American Prospect", "url": "https://prospect.org/2020/08/27/trumps-40-biggest-broken-promises/", "date": "2020-08-27" }, { "title": "President Trump's Broken Promises to the American People", "outlet": "Office of the House Majority Leader (Hoyer)", "url": "https://leaderarchive-hoyer.house.gov/content/president-trump%E2%80%99s-broken-promises-american-people", "date": "2020-02-04" } ] }, { "id": "voter-fraud-major-investigation-2017", "title": "A 'major investigation into VOTER FRAUD' — evidence never came", "quote": "I will be asking for a major investigation into VOTER FRAUD, including those registered to vote in two states, those who are illegal and... even, those registered to vote who are dead.", "date_promised": "2017-01-25", "venue": "Twitter, two days after telling congressional leaders that 3 to 5 million illegal votes cost him the popular vote", "deadline_text": "imminently — 'I will be asking'", "deadline_days": 14, "category": "elections", "era": "term-1", "status": "never-delivered", "what_happened": "The commission was not created until May 11, 2017 and was disbanded on January 3, 2018 without ever issuing a report. Documents later obtained in litigation showed it had found no evidence of widespread fraud. Evidence for the 3 to 5 million claim was never produced by Trump, Sean Spicer or anyone else.", "repeat_count": 4, "sources": [ { "title": "Disbanded: Trump's Voter Fraud Commission", "outlet": "Brennan Center for Justice", "url": "https://www.brennancenter.org/our-work/research-reports/disbanded-trumps-voter-fraud-commission", "date": "2018-01-04" }, { "title": "Trump voting commission had no evidence of widespread voter fraud, documents show", "outlet": "CNN", "url": "https://www.cnn.com/2018/08/03/politics/trump-voter-fraud-commission-evidence-documents", "date": "2018-08-03" }, { "title": "Trump Dissolves Controversial Election Commission", "outlet": "NPR", "url": "https://www.npr.org/2018/01/03/575524512/trump-dissolves-controversial-election-commission", "date": "2018-01-03" } ] }, { "id": "phenomenal-tax-announcement-2017", "title": "'Phenomenal' tax announcement in two or three weeks", "quote": "We're going to be announcing something I would say over the next two or three weeks that will be phenomenal in terms of tax and developing our aviation infrastructure.", "date_promised": "2017-02-09", "venue": "White House meeting with airline executives", "deadline_text": "over the next two or three weeks", "deadline_days": 18, "category": "taxes", "era": "term-1", "status": "late", "what_happened": "Markets and the dollar jumped on the promise. Nothing came in two or three weeks. Eleven weeks later, on April 26, 2017, the White House released a single-page, roughly 200-word bullet outline of tax principles. Bloomberg noted on June 6, 2017 that it had been fifteen weeks since Trump promised an aviation infrastructure proposal in two weeks. Actual tax legislation was not signed until December 22, 2017.", "repeat_count": 2, "sources": [ { "title": "Where Is The 'Phenomenal' Tax Plan President Trump Promised?", "outlet": "Forbes", "url": "https://www.forbes.com/sites/anthonynitti/2017/03/06/where-is-the-phenomenal-tax-plan-president-trump-promised", "date": "2017-03-06" }, { "title": "Trump's 'phenomenal' tax plan promise boosts dollar and shares", "outlet": "Euronews", "url": "https://www.euronews.com/2017/02/09/trump-s-phenomenal-tax-plan-promise-boosts-dollar-and-shares", "date": "2017-02-09" }, { "title": "Two weeks' notice: Trump's deadline on Iran is a familiar one", "outlet": "NBC News", "url": "https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/donald-trump/two-weeks-notice-trumps-deadline-iran-familiar-one-rcna214089", "date": "2025-06-20" }, { "title": "Trump promises a major tax announcement in a few weeks", "outlet": "CNBC", "url": "https://www.cnbc.com/2017/02/09/trump-says-he-will-make-tax-announcement-in-a-few-weeks.html", "date": "2017-02-09" }, { "title": "Trump promises 'phenomenal' announcement on taxes in coming weeks", "outlet": "The Hill", "url": "https://thehill.com/policy/finance/318736-trump-expect-phenomenal-announcement-on-taxes-in-coming-weeks", "date": "2017-02-09" }, { "title": "In Trump's White House, Everything's Coming in 'Two Weeks'", "outlet": "Bloomberg", "url": "https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2017-06-06/in-trump-s-white-house-everything-s-coming-in-two-weeks", "date": "2017-06-06" } ] }, { "id": "replacement-travel-ban-next-week-2017", "title": "A replacement travel ban 'sometime next week'", "quote": "We'll be doing something very rapidly having to do with additional security for our country. You'll be seeing that sometime next week.", "date_promised": "2017-02-10", "venue": "Joint press conference with Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe; repeated on February 16 at his first solo press conference", "deadline_text": "sometime next week", "deadline_days": 7, "category": "immigration", "era": "term-1", "status": "late", "what_happened": "Nothing was signed the following week. A senior official then said 'later in the week'; on February 21 Sean Spicer said the order was 'finalized' and 'awaiting implementation.' A March 1 signing was scrapped so the February 28 joint address to Congress could 'breathe.' Executive Order 13780 was finally signed on March 6, 2017, about three weeks after the deadline.", "repeat_count": 3, "sources": [ { "title": "Donald Trump Expected to Sign New Immigration Order: A Timeline", "outlet": "NBC News", "url": "https://www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news/donald-trump-expected-sign-new-immigration-order-timeline-n729186", "date": "2017-03-01" }, { "title": "Read the full transcript of Trump's first solo press conference", "outlet": "CNBC", "url": "https://www.cnbc.com/2017/02/16/click-for-a-full-transcript-of-trumps-first-solo-press-conference.html", "date": "2017-02-16" } ] }, { "id": "daca-deal-with-heart", "title": "Handle DACA \"with heart\" and protect Dreamers", "quote": "We are going to deal with DACA with heart.", "date_promised": "2017-02-16", "venue": "White House press conference", "deadline_text": null, "deadline_days": null, "category": "immigration", "era": "term-1", "status": "broken", "what_happened": "The administration announced the rescission of DACA on September 5, 2017 and rejected bipartisan legislative compromises in early 2018. On June 18, 2020 the Supreme Court ruled 5-4 in DHS v. Regents that the rescission was arbitrary and capricious. A federal court ordered full reinstatement of the program in December 2020. No permanent protection for roughly 650,000 to 700,000 recipients was enacted.", "repeat_count": 15, "sources": [ { "title": "Supreme Court blocks Trump from ending DACA in big win for Dreamers", "outlet": "NBC News", "url": "https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/supreme-court/supreme-court-rules-trump-cannot-end-daca-big-win-dreamer-n1115116", "date": "2020-06-18" }, { "title": "Terminate Barack Obama's immigration executive orders 'immediately'", "outlet": "PolitiFact Trump-O-Meter", "url": "https://www.politifact.com/truth-o-meter/promises/trumpometer/promise/386681/terminate-barack-obamas-immigration-executive-orde/", "date": "2021-01-04" }, { "title": "President Trump's Broken Promises to the American People", "outlet": "Office of the House Majority Leader (Hoyer)", "url": "https://leaderarchive-hoyer.house.gov/content/president-trump%E2%80%99s-broken-promises-american-people", "date": "2020-02-04" } ] }, { "id": "wiretap-evidence-two-weeks-2017", "title": "Proof of Obama 'wiretapping' coming 'over the next two weeks'", "quote": "I think you're going to find some very interesting items coming to the forefront over the next two weeks.", "date_promised": "2017-03-15", "venue": "Fox News interview with Tucker Carlson", "deadline_text": "over the next two weeks", "deadline_days": 14, "category": "justice", "era": "term-1", "status": "never-delivered", "what_happened": "Nothing was ever submitted. On March 20, 2017 FBI Director James Comey and NSA Director Mike Rogers told the House Intelligence Committee there was no evidence supporting the claim. A Justice Department court filing on September 1, 2017 said both the FBI and the National Security Division 'have no records related to wiretaps as described by the March 4, 2017 tweets.' In an April 2019 Hannity call Trump said he had made the claim 'just on a little bit of a hunch and a little bit of wisdom maybe.'", "repeat_count": 2, "sources": [ { "title": "Asked For Wiretapping Proof, Trump Cites Reports That Don't Prove His Claim", "outlet": "Talking Points Memo", "url": "https://talkingpointsmemo.com/livewire/trump-wiretapping-proof-tucker-carlson", "date": "2017-03-16" }, { "title": "Trump Says He'll Have More on 'Wiretapping' Claim Soon", "outlet": "NBC News", "url": "https://www.nbcnews.com/news/amp/ncna734186", "date": "2017-03-16" }, { "title": "Trump talks to Fox News' Tucker Carlson about Obama wiretap claim", "outlet": "Slate", "url": "http://www.slate.com/blogs/the_slatest/2017/03/15/trump_talks_to_fox_news_tucker_carlson_about_obama_wiretap_claim.html", "date": "2017-03-15" } ] }, { "id": "davis-bacon-announcement-two-weeks-2017", "title": "Davis-Bacon prevailing-wage announcement 'in two weeks'", "quote": "We're going to make an announcement in two weeks. It's going to be good.", "date_promised": "2017-04-05", "venue": "Interview with The New York Times, asked his position on the Davis-Bacon Act", "deadline_text": "in two weeks", "deadline_days": 14, "category": "economy", "era": "term-1", "status": "never-delivered", "what_happened": "Two months later Bloomberg reported that 'the Trump administration has made no announcement on the Davis-Bacon law.' No announcement was ever made, and prevailing-wage rules on federally funded construction were left untouched for the rest of the term.", "repeat_count": 1, "sources": [ { "title": "In Trump's White House, Everything's Coming in 'Two Weeks'", "outlet": "Bloomberg", "url": "https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2017-06-06/in-trump-s-white-house-everything-s-coming-in-two-weeks", "date": "2017-06-06" }, { "title": "In Trump's White House, Everything's Coming in 'Two Weeks' (syndicated)", "outlet": "Newsmax", "url": "https://www.newsmax.com/Politics/trump-white-house-two-weeks/2017/06/06/id/794346/", "date": "2017-06-06" }, { "title": "Trump's timeline? Always 'two weeks'", "outlet": "Axios", "url": "https://www.axios.com/2017/12/15/trumps-timeline-always-two-weeks-1513302785", "date": "2017-12-15" } ] }, { "id": "massive-tax-plan-next-week-2017", "title": "'Massive' tax plan coming 'next week'", "quote": "I shouldn't tell you this, but we're going to be announcing, probably on Wednesday, tax reform... it'll be a massive tax cut.", "date_promised": "2017-04-21", "venue": "Oval Office interview with the Associated Press and remarks at the Treasury Department the same day", "deadline_text": "Wednesday / next week", "deadline_days": 5, "category": "taxes", "era": "term-1", "status": "partial", "what_happened": "Partly kept and heavily deflated. By April 24 the White House was saying Trump would be 'outlining principles' and Mick Mulvaney said there would be no bill language. What arrived on April 26, 2017 was a one-page outline presented by Steven Mnuchin and Gary Cohn, not a plan or a bill. Legislation did not pass until December 2017.", "repeat_count": 2, "sources": [ { "title": "Trump says his 'massive' tax plan is coming next week", "outlet": "AOL/Reuters", "url": "https://www.aol.com/article/news/2017/04/21/trump-says-his-massive-tax-plan-is-coming-next-week/22049781", "date": "2017-04-21" }, { "title": "Where Is The 'Phenomenal' Tax Plan President Trump Promised?", "outlet": "Forbes", "url": "https://www.forbes.com/sites/anthonynitti/2017/03/06/where-is-the-phenomenal-tax-plan-president-trump-promised", "date": "2017-03-06" }, { "title": "Trump's 'big announcement' on tax reform this week won't be that big", "outlet": "Los Angeles Times", "url": "https://www.latimes.com/la-na-app-pol-trump-big-announcement-20170424-story.html", "date": "2017-04-24" }, { "title": "Trump to AP: Tax plan with 'massive tax cut' to be unveiled next week", "outlet": "CNBC", "url": "https://www.cnbc.com/video/2017/04/21/trump-to-ap-tax-plan-with-massive-tax-cut-to-be-unveiled-next-week.html", "date": "2017-04-21" } ] }, { "id": "paris-accord-decision-two-weeks-2017", "title": "Decision on the Paris climate accord 'in the next two weeks'", "quote": "And I'll be making a big decision on the Paris accord over the next two weeks.", "date_promised": "2017-04-29", "venue": "100-days rally, Harrisburg, Pennsylvania", "deadline_text": "over the next two weeks", "deadline_days": 14, "category": "other", "era": "term-1", "status": "late", "what_happened": "Two weeks passed with no decision. At the G7 in Taormina on May 26-27 Trump refused to endorse the accord and tweeted that he would announce his decision 'next week.' He announced withdrawal on June 1, 2017, roughly a month after the two-week pledge. Formal withdrawal notice did not come until November 4, 2019 and took effect November 4, 2020.", "repeat_count": 2, "sources": [ { "title": "Trump is no stranger to setting 2-week deadlines. Here's how others have played out", "outlet": "NPR", "url": "https://www.npr.org/2025/06/20/nx-s1-5440143/trump-two-weeks-deadline-pattern", "date": "2025-06-20" }, { "title": "In Trump's White House, Everything's Coming in 'Two Weeks'", "outlet": "Bloomberg", "url": "https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2017-06-06/in-trump-s-white-house-everything-s-coming-in-two-weeks", "date": "2017-06-06" }, { "title": "Paris Agreement: Donald Trump Leaves G7 Without Decision", "outlet": "TIME", "url": "https://time.com/4796621/paris-agreement-donald-trump-g7-summit/", "date": "2017-05-27" }, { "title": "Trump delays decision on Paris climate agreement at G7 summit", "outlet": "CBS News", "url": "https://www.cbsnews.com/news/trump-delays-decision-on-paris-climate-agreement-at-g7-summit/", "date": "2017-05-27" } ] }, { "id": "infrastructure-filing-two-three-weeks-2017", "title": "Infrastructure bill to be 'filed over the next two or three weeks'", "quote": "We've got the plan largely completed and we'll be filing over the next two or three weeks — maybe sooner.", "date_promised": "2017-04-29", "venue": "CBS News interview around his 100th day in office", "deadline_text": "over the next two or three weeks", "deadline_days": 18, "category": "infrastructure", "era": "term-1", "status": "never-delivered", "what_happened": "Nothing was filed. Bloomberg reported on June 6, 2017 that 'no legislation has been filed' and that the White House had 'yet to outline the plan, beyond broad principles.' An actual infrastructure outline did not appear until February 2018, about nine months later, and it never passed.", "repeat_count": 7, "sources": [ { "title": "In Trump's White House, Everything's Coming in 'Two Weeks'", "outlet": "Bloomberg", "url": "https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2017-06-06/in-trump-s-white-house-everything-s-coming-in-two-weeks", "date": "2017-06-06" }, { "title": "'Infrastructure Week' has become a running joke on the Trump administration", "outlet": "CNN", "url": "https://www.cnn.com/2019/05/23/politics/donald-trump-infrastructure-week", "date": "2019-05-23" }, { "title": "Trump: Infrastructure plan 'largely completed,' coming in 2-3 weeks", "outlet": "CNN", "url": "https://www.cnn.com/2017/05/01/politics/donald-trump-infrastructure-plan/index.html", "date": "2017-05-01" } ] }, { "id": "isis-news-conference-two-weeks-2017", "title": "News conference on the war against ISIS 'in about two weeks'", "quote": "We're going to be having a news conference in about two weeks to let everybody know how well we're doing.", "date_promised": "2017-05-21", "venue": "Remarks during the Middle East trip on May 21, 2017, repeated at a televised Cabinet meeting on June 12, 2017", "deadline_text": "in about two weeks", "deadline_days": 14, "category": "foreign-policy", "era": "term-1", "status": "never-delivered", "what_happened": "No news conference was ever held. Vox tracked it: the first deadline passed, Trump repeated the promise at his June 12 Cabinet meeting, and the second deadline passed on June 26 without the administration organising or even scheduling one.", "repeat_count": 2, "sources": [ { "title": "In Trump's White House, Everything's Coming in 'Two Weeks'", "outlet": "Bloomberg", "url": "https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2017-06-06/in-trump-s-white-house-everything-s-coming-in-two-weeks", "date": "2017-06-06" }, { "title": "A timeline of Trump's clearly made-up 'secret plan' to fight ISIS", "outlet": "Vox", "url": "https://www.vox.com/world/2017/7/3/15904646/trump-syria-assad-russia-iran-secret-generals-military-isis-terrorism", "date": "2017-07-03" }, { "title": "Trump pledges to hold news conference on ISIS fight in 'two weeks'", "outlet": "Politico", "url": "https://www.politico.com/story/2017/06/12/trump-isis-news-conference-239427", "date": "2017-06-12" } ] }, { "id": "infrastructure-week-saga", "title": "'Infrastructure Week' — declared at least seven times, never delivered", "quote": "[paraphrase] The infrastructure plan is coming in the next two or three weeks / this is Infrastructure Week.", "date_promised": "2017-06-05", "venue": "White House 'Infrastructure Week' rollout, first announced by NEC director Gary Cohn", "deadline_text": "this week / over the next two or three weeks", "deadline_days": 14, "category": "infrastructure", "era": "term-1", "status": "never-delivered", "what_happened": "The White House declared an 'Infrastructure Week' at least seven separate times between June 2017 and May 2019, each derailed — the June 2017 launch by the Comey testimony, the August 2017 permitting push by Trump's 'very fine people on both sides' remarks after Charlottesville, the February 2018 rollout of a $1.3 trillion public-private plan by the Michael Cohen and Stormy Daniels payment story, and the spring 2019 effort by Trump walking out of a meeting with Pelosi and Schumer. No infrastructure bill ever passed under Trump, and 'Infrastructure Week' became a Washington punchline for something permanently two weeks away.", "repeat_count": 7, "sources": [ { "title": "'Infrastructure Week' has become a running joke on the Trump administration", "outlet": "CNN", "url": "https://www.cnn.com/2019/05/23/politics/donald-trump-infrastructure-week", "date": "2019-05-23" }, { "title": "Why It's Infrastructure Week. Again.", "outlet": "NPR", "url": "https://www.npr.org/2018/05/15/611389675/why-its-infrastructure-week-again", "date": "2018-05-15" }, { "title": "Infrastructure Week Became a Joke. Now It's for Real.", "outlet": "Route Fifty", "url": "https://www.route-fifty.com/infrastructure/2019/05/infrastructure-week-became-joke-now-its-real/156759/", "date": "2019-05-22" }, { "title": "How 'Infrastructure Week' Became a Long-Running Joke", "outlet": "The New York Times", "url": "https://www.nytimes.com/2019/05/22/us/politics/trump-infrastructure-week.html", "date": "2019-05-22" } ] }, { "id": "comey-tapes-very-short-period-2017", "title": "Answer on the Comey 'tapes' in 'a very short period of time'", "quote": "I am not hinting at anything. I will tell you about it over a very short period of time.", "date_promised": "2017-06-09", "venue": "Rose Garden news conference with Romanian President Klaus Iohannis", "deadline_text": "over a very short period of time", "deadline_days": 7, "category": "justice", "era": "term-1", "status": "late", "what_happened": "He twice refused to elaborate and told reporters 'you're going to be very disappointed.' The House Intelligence Committee set a June 23 deadline for the White House to say whether tapes existed. Thirteen days later, on June 22, 2017, Trump tweeted that he had 'no idea' whether tapes existed 'but I did not make, and do not have, any such recordings.' The White House response to Congress the next day simply pasted the tweet.", "repeat_count": 2, "sources": [ { "title": "Donald Trump Stalls For Time When Asked About Comey Tapes At News Conference", "outlet": "Deadline", "url": "https://deadline.com/2017/06/donald-trump-james-comey-liar-testimony-1202110179/", "date": "2017-06-09" }, { "title": "Trump: 'I Did Not Make, And Do Not Have' Recordings Of Comey", "outlet": "NPR", "url": "https://www.npr.org/2017/06/22/533965746/trump-i-did-not-make-and-do-not-have-recordings-of-comey", "date": "2017-06-22" }, { "title": "What the White House said about Comey tapes", "outlet": "CNN", "url": "https://www.cnn.com/2017/06/22/politics/timeline-of-donald-trumps-comments-about-the-james-comey-tapes/", "date": "2017-06-22" }, { "title": "Trump Says He Did Not Tape Comey Conversations", "outlet": "The New York Times", "url": "https://www.nytimes.com/2017/06/22/us/politics/trump-comey-tapes.html", "date": "2017-06-22" }, { "title": "White House responds to Comey tape inquiry with Trump tweet", "outlet": "CNN", "url": "https://edition.cnn.com/2017/06/23/politics/white-house-comey-tapes-trump-tweet/index.html", "date": "2017-06-23" } ] }, { "id": "opioid-national-emergency-august-2017", "title": "'I'm saying officially right now, it is an emergency' — and then nothing", "quote": "The opioid crisis is an emergency, and I'm saying officially right now, it is an emergency. It's a national emergency. We're going to draw it up and we're going to make it a national emergency.", "date_promised": "2017-08-10", "venue": "Impromptu remarks to reporters at his Bedminster, New Jersey golf club, ten days after his opioid commission urged a declaration", "deadline_text": "officially right now / papers being drawn up", "deadline_days": 7, "category": "healthcare", "era": "term-1", "status": "never-delivered", "what_happened": "Nothing was signed. NPR reported on October 17, 2017 that 'in the more than two months since Trump made that pronouncement, no emergency declaration has been signed.' Senators Murkowski and Warren pressed him in writing on October 12. What eventually came on October 26 was a narrower 90-day public health emergency with no new money attached.", "repeat_count": 3, "sources": [ { "title": "Trump says he will declare opioid crisis a 'national emergency'", "outlet": "Politico", "url": "https://www.politico.com/story/2017/08/10/trump-opioid-abuse-national-emergency-241493", "date": "2017-08-10" }, { "title": "Trump Still Hasn't Fulfilled Promise To Declare Opioid Epidemic A National Emergency", "outlet": "NPR", "url": "https://www.npr.org/2017/10/17/558390562/trump-still-hasnt-fulfilled-promise-to-declare-opioid-epidemic-as-a-national-eme", "date": "2017-10-17" }, { "title": "Donald Trump yet to make opioid national emergency official two weeks on", "outlet": "The Independent", "url": "https://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/americas/us-politics/trump-opioid-crisis-announcement-still-not-official-two-weeks-a7911266.html", "date": "2017-08-24" } ] }, { "id": "cut-taxes-for-everyone", "title": "A tax cut for everyone, aimed at the middle class", "quote": "[paraphrase] This is a middle-class tax cut; the rich will not benefit.", "date_promised": "2017-09-13", "venue": "Remarks in Bismarck, North Dakota, and repeated during the tax debate", "deadline_text": null, "deadline_days": null, "category": "taxes", "era": "term-1", "status": "partial", "what_happened": "The Tax Cuts and Jobs Act cut taxes for most but not all filers, and the individual provisions expire after 2025 while the corporate cut is permanent. The Tax Policy Center estimated that by 2027 the top 1 percent would receive roughly 83 percent of the benefits. PolitiFact rated the promise a compromise on December 21, 2017.", "repeat_count": 30, "sources": [ { "title": "Cut taxes for everyone", "outlet": "PolitiFact Trump-O-Meter", "url": "https://www.politifact.com/truth-o-meter/promises/trumpometer/promise/386595/cut-taxes-everyone/", "date": "2017-12-21" }, { "title": "Trump's 40 Biggest Broken Promises", "outlet": "The American Prospect", "url": "https://prospect.org/2020/08/27/trumps-40-biggest-broken-promises/", "date": "2020-08-27" } ] }, { "id": "opioid-national-emergency-next-week-2017", "title": "Opioid 'national emergency' declaration promised for 'next week'", "quote": "We are going to be doing that next week. By the way, you know that's a big step... It's a very important step, and to get to that step, a lot of work has to be done.", "date_promised": "2017-10-16", "venue": "Remarks to reporters at the White House, asked about declaring a written national emergency", "deadline_text": "next week", "deadline_days": 7, "category": "healthcare", "era": "term-1", "status": "partial", "what_happened": "Ten days later, on October 26, 2017, he did not declare a national emergency. He directed HHS to declare a narrower 90-day public health emergency under the Public Health Service Act, a tool with no new money attached. USA TODAY tallied 77 days of repeated promises. It followed an August 10, 2017 pledge in which he said 'I'm saying officially right now, it is an emergency' and nothing was signed.", "repeat_count": 2, "sources": [ { "title": "Trump Administration Declares Opioid Crisis A Public Health Emergency", "outlet": "NPR", "url": "https://www.npr.org/2017/10/26/560083795/president-trump-may-declare-opioid-epidemic-national-emergency", "date": "2017-10-26" }, { "title": "Trump's Emergency Declaration on Opioid Crisis Will Require Further Funding", "outlet": "NBC News", "url": "https://www.nbcnews.com/storyline/americas-heroin-epidemic/trump-s-emergency-declaration-opioid-crisis-will-require-further-funding-n814416", "date": "2017-10-26" }, { "title": "Trump Says Opioid Epidemic Is a National Emergency", "outlet": "Fortune", "url": "https://fortune.com/2017/08/11/trump-opioid-epidemic-national-emergency", "date": "2017-08-11" }, { "title": "Trump's opioids announcement was not the declaration some wanted", "outlet": "USA TODAY", "url": "https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/politics/2017/10/26/trump-says-opioids-emergency-but-its-not-declaration-some-were-looking/804420001/", "date": "2017-10-26" }, { "title": "Trump Still Hasn't Fulfilled Promise To Declare Opioid Epidemic A National Emergency", "outlet": "NPR", "url": "https://www.npr.org/2017/10/17/558390562/trump-still-hasnt-fulfilled-promise-to-declare-opioid-epidemic-as-a-national-eme", "date": "2017-10-17" } ] }, { "id": "4000-dollar-raise-from-tax-cuts", "title": "Corporate tax cut would raise average household income $4,000", "quote": "[paraphrase] Cutting the corporate tax rate from 35 percent to 20 percent would raise average household income by $4,000 a year.", "date_promised": "2017-10-16", "venue": "White House Council of Economic Advisers report", "deadline_text": null, "deadline_days": null, "category": "taxes", "era": "term-1", "status": "never-delivered", "what_happened": "The promised wage gain did not appear. Real hourly wages for production and nonsupervisory workers grew about 1.2 percent in 2018. A Congressional Research Service review found the 2017 law had little measurable effect on wages, and much of the corporate windfall went to share buybacks, which exceeded $800 billion in 2018.", "repeat_count": 8, "sources": [ { "title": "The average American family will get $4,000 from tax cuts, Trump team claims", "outlet": "The Washington Post", "url": "https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/wonk/wp/2017/10/16/the-average-american-family-will-get-4000-from-tax-cuts-trump-team-claims/", "date": "2017-10-16" }, { "title": "Can Americans expect a $4,000 raise from Donald Trump's tax plan?", "outlet": "PolitiFact", "url": "https://www.politifact.com/truth-o-meter/article/2017/oct/26/can-americans-expect-4000-raise-donald-trumps-tax-", "date": "2017-10-26" } ] }, { "id": "jfk-files-full-release-2017", "title": "Promise to open 'the long blocked and classified JFK FILES'", "quote": "Subject to the receipt of further information, I will be allowing, as President, the long blocked and classified JFK FILES to be opened.", "date_promised": "2017-10-21", "venue": "Twitter, five days before the statutory October 26, 2017 deadline", "deadline_text": "by October 26 (five days)", "deadline_days": 5, "category": "transparency", "era": "term-1", "status": "partial", "what_happened": "On October 26, 2017, hours before the statutory deadline, about 2,800 records were released but roughly 300 were withheld at the request of the CIA and FBI. Trump's memo said he had 'no choice — today — but to accept those redactions rather than allow potentially irreversible harm to our nation's security,' and ordered a review to release as much as possible by April 26, 2018. Further batches trickled out for years and full release never happened in his first term.", "repeat_count": 2, "sources": [ { "title": "Final batch of JFK files released under Trump directive", "outlet": "The Hill", "url": "https://thehill.com/blogs/ballot-box/384993-final-batch-of-jfk-files-released-under-trump-directive/", "date": "2018-04-26" }, { "title": "New Group of JFK Assassination Documents Available to the Public", "outlet": "National Archives", "url": "https://www.archives.gov/press/press-releases/2018/nr18-45", "date": "2018-04-26" }, { "title": "Trump releasing trove of JFK files, withholding others temporarily", "outlet": "Axios", "url": "https://www.axios.com/2017/12/15/trump-releasing-trove-of-jfk-files-withholding-others-temporarily-1513306481", "date": "2017-10-26" }, { "title": "Trump blocks release of some JFK assassination records", "outlet": "Politico", "url": "https://www.politico.com/story/2017/10/26/trump-blocks-release-of-some-jfk-assassination-records-244223", "date": "2017-10-26" }, { "title": "Thousands of JFK assassination documents are released, though some are withheld", "outlet": "Los Angeles Times", "url": "https://www.latimes.com/nation/nationnow/la-na-jfk-files-20171026-story.html", "date": "2017-10-26" } ] }, { "id": "mueller-interview-two-to-three-weeks-2018", "title": "Sitting down with Mueller 'within the next two to three weeks'", "quote": "I'm looking forward to it, actually... I would love to do it... I would do it under oath.", "date_promised": "2018-01-24", "venue": "Impromptu remarks to reporters at the White House before leaving for Davos; his lawyers indicated an interview could come within two to three weeks", "deadline_text": "within the next two to three weeks", "deadline_days": 18, "category": "justice", "era": "term-1", "status": "never-delivered", "what_happened": "White House special counsel Ty Cobb immediately qualified the offer as 'subject to the terms being negotiated by his personal counsel.' Negotiations dragged on for more than a year and Trump never sat for an interview. In November 2018 he submitted written answers only, which the Mueller report in April 2019 described as inadequate.", "repeat_count": 2, "sources": [ { "title": "Trump says he is willing to speak to Mueller 'under oath'", "outlet": "NBC News", "url": "https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/politics-news/trump-says-he-willing-speak-mueller-under-oath-n840826", "date": "2018-01-24" }, { "title": "Trump says he would 'love to' answer questions in special counsel's Russia probe under oath", "outlet": "PBS NewsHour", "url": "https://www.pbs.org/newshour/politics/trump-says-he-would-love-to-answer-questions-in-special-counsels-russia-probe-under-oath", "date": "2018-01-24" }, { "title": "Trump says he would speak to Mueller under oath in Russia investigation", "outlet": "Washington Post", "url": "https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/trump-says-he-would-speak-to-mueller-under-oath-in-russia-investigation/2018/01/24/edb33750-015a-11e8-8acf-ad2991367d9d_story.html", "date": "2018-01-24" } ] }, { "id": "save-the-steel-industry", "title": "Tariffs will bring back steel jobs", "quote": "[paraphrase] Steel is coming back; our steelworkers are going back to work.", "date_promised": "2018-03-08", "venue": "Section 232 steel tariff proclamation signing, White House", "deadline_text": null, "deadline_days": null, "category": "trade", "era": "term-1", "status": "never-delivered", "what_happened": "Steel employment rose modestly in 2018 then fell back. U.S. Steel idled blast furnaces in Michigan and announced layoffs in 2019, and the industry shed jobs again in 2019 and 2020. The American Prospect cited continued losses in listing this among the broken promises.", "repeat_count": 15, "sources": [ { "title": "Trump's 40 Biggest Broken Promises", "outlet": "The American Prospect", "url": "https://prospect.org/2020/08/27/trumps-40-biggest-broken-promises/", "date": "2020-08-27" } ] }, { "id": "north-korea-denuclearization", "title": "North Korea is \"no longer a nuclear threat\"", "quote": "There is no longer a Nuclear Threat from North Korea. Everybody can now feel much safer than the day I took office.", "date_promised": "2018-06-13", "venue": "Twitter, after the Singapore summit with Kim Jong Un", "deadline_text": null, "deadline_days": null, "category": "foreign-policy", "era": "term-1", "status": "never-delivered", "what_happened": "The Singapore statement contained no verification terms or timetable. The Hanoi summit collapsed in February 2019. North Korea continued producing fissile material and testing short-range missiles, and independent estimates put its warhead stockpile higher at the end of the term than in 2018. No weapons or facilities were dismantled.", "repeat_count": 12, "sources": [ { "title": "Trump declares North Korea 'no longer a nuclear threat'", "outlet": "CNN", "url": "https://www.cnn.com/2018/06/13/politics/trump-north-korea-nuclear-threat", "date": "2018-06-13" }, { "title": "Donald Trump: North Korea no longer a nuclear threat?", "outlet": "PolitiFact", "url": "https://www.politifact.com/article/2018/jun/13/donald-trump-north-korea-no-longer-nuclear-threat", "date": "2018-06-13" }, { "title": "Trump's 40 Biggest Broken Promises", "outlet": "The American Prospect", "url": "https://prospect.org/2020/08/27/trumps-40-biggest-broken-promises/", "date": "2020-08-27" } ] }, { "id": "tariffs-paid-by-china-not-consumers", "title": "China, not Americans, will pay for the tariffs", "quote": "[paraphrase] China is paying us billions of dollars in tariffs.", "date_promised": "2018-07-06", "venue": "Twitter and rallies through 2018-2020", "deadline_text": null, "deadline_days": null, "category": "trade", "era": "term-1", "status": "broken", "what_happened": "Studies by the Federal Reserve Bank of New York, Princeton and Columbia economists found the cost of the tariffs was borne almost entirely by U.S. importers and consumers. The American Prospect cited an estimated consumer cost of roughly $34 billion a year and an estimated 300,000 jobs lost to the trade war.", "repeat_count": 50, "sources": [ { "title": "Trump's 40 Biggest Broken Promises", "outlet": "The American Prospect", "url": "https://prospect.org/2020/08/27/trumps-40-biggest-broken-promises/", "date": "2020-08-27" } ] }, { "id": "ten-percent-middle-class-tax-cut-2018", "title": "A 10% middle-class tax cut 'in the next week and a half to two weeks'", "quote": "We're putting in a resolution some time in the next week and a half to two weeks [and] we're giving a middle-income tax reduction of about 10 percent.", "date_promised": "2018-10-22", "venue": "Remarks to reporters at the White House, two weeks before the midterm elections", "deadline_text": "in the next week and a half to two weeks", "deadline_days": 12, "category": "taxes", "era": "term-1", "status": "never-delivered", "what_happened": "The resolution did not exist. Congress was in recess until after the November 6 election and never returned before it; Paul Ryan's office referred questions back to the White House and congressional leaders said they knew nothing about it. CNBC noted it was 'unclear what type of resolution Trump was talking about.' No such resolution was ever introduced and no 10% middle-class cut was ever enacted.", "repeat_count": 3, "sources": [ { "title": "Trump repeats dubious pledge to introduce middle-class tax cut before midterms", "outlet": "CNBC", "url": "https://www.cnbc.com/2018/10/22/trump-repeats-dubious-pledge-to-introduce-middle-class-tax-cut-before-midterms.html", "date": "2018-10-22" } ] }, { "id": "protect-pre-existing-conditions", "title": "Always protect people with pre-existing conditions", "quote": "[paraphrase] We will always protect patients with pre-existing conditions.", "date_promised": "2018-10-24", "venue": "Twitter and repeated rallies; also stated during the 2016 campaign", "deadline_text": null, "deadline_days": null, "category": "healthcare", "era": "term-1", "status": "broken", "what_happened": "In June 2018 the Justice Department declined to defend the ACA's pre-existing condition protections in Texas v. United States, and in a brief filed June 25, 2020 the administration asked the Supreme Court to strike down the entire law, including those protections. The Supreme Court rejected the challenge in California v. Texas in June 2021. No replacement protection was ever enacted.", "repeat_count": 40, "sources": [ { "title": "Fact sheet on Trump lawsuit to overturn the ACA", "outlet": "Protect Our Care", "url": "https://www.protectourcare.org/fact-sheet-on-trump-lawsuit-to-overturn-aca/", "date": "2020-06-26" }, { "title": "What is the California v. Texas lawsuit?", "outlet": "healthinsurance.org", "url": "https://www.healthinsurance.org/glossary/texas-v-azar/", "date": "2021-06-17" }, { "title": "Chairman Neal statement on Trump administration's support of California v. Texas", "outlet": "U.S. House Ways and Means Committee", "url": "https://neal.house.gov/2020/06/26/news-documentsingle-aspx-documentid-1952/", "date": "2020-06-26" } ] }, { "id": "khashoggi-full-report-two-days-2018", "title": "A 'full report' on Khashoggi's murder 'Monday or Tuesday'", "quote": "[paraphrase] We'll have a full report on Khashoggi's death Monday or Tuesday — what we think the overall impact was, who caused it and who did it.", "date_promised": "2018-11-17", "venue": "Remarks to reporters on the South Lawn before boarding Marine One en route to California", "deadline_text": "Monday or Tuesday", "deadline_days": 3, "category": "foreign-policy", "era": "term-1", "status": "broken", "what_happened": "No report was released on the promised day. On November 20, 2018 the White House instead issued Trump's 'Standing with Saudi Arabia' statement, which declined to blame Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman — 'maybe he did and maybe he didn't!' — and emphasised arms sales. The intelligence assessment naming the crown prince was not declassified until February 2021, under Biden.", "repeat_count": 1, "sources": [ { "title": "Trump promises intel report on Khashoggi murder 'over the next two days'", "outlet": "Politico", "url": "https://www.politico.com/story/2018/11/17/trump-saudis-khashoggi-cia-gulen-1000487", "date": "2018-11-17" }, { "title": "Trump says final report on Khashoggi killing expected in a few days", "outlet": "NBC News", "url": "https://www.nbcnews.com/news/world/trump-says-final-report-khashoggi-killing-expected-few-days-n937606", "date": "2018-11-17" }, { "title": "Trump says report on Khashoggi's death coming in 2 days", "outlet": "PBS NewsHour", "url": "https://www.pbs.org/newshour/nation/trump-says-report-on-khashoggis-death-coming-in-2-days", "date": "2018-11-17" } ] }, { "id": "two-trillion-infrastructure-three-weeks-2019", "title": "$2 trillion infrastructure deal — 'come back in three weeks'", "quote": "[paraphrase] We've agreed on $2 trillion. Come back in three weeks and I'll tell you how we pay for it.", "date_promised": "2019-04-30", "venue": "Oval Office meeting with Nancy Pelosi and Chuck Schumer", "deadline_text": "in three weeks", "deadline_days": 21, "category": "infrastructure", "era": "term-1", "status": "never-delivered", "what_happened": "At the scheduled follow-up on May 22, 2019 Trump walked into the Cabinet Room, refused to sit down, said he could not work with Democrats 'under these circumstances' while they were investigating him, and left after about three minutes — then went straight to the Rose Garden to a pre-printed sign. No infrastructure bill was ever agreed, and the New York Times marked the day with 'How Infrastructure Week Became a Long-Running Joke.'", "repeat_count": 7, "sources": [ { "title": "Trump, angry over House investigations, blows up infrastructure meeting", "outlet": "Los Angeles Times", "url": "https://www.latimes.com/politics/la-na-pol-trump-infrastructure-pelosi-schumer-meeting-20190522-story.html", "date": "2019-05-22" }, { "title": "How 'Infrastructure Week' Became a Long-Running Joke", "outlet": "The New York Times", "url": "https://www.nytimes.com/2019/05/22/us/politics/trump-infrastructure-week.html", "date": "2019-05-22" }, { "title": "Trump-Pelosi-Schumer Infrastructure Meeting Implodes", "outlet": "Eno Center for Transportation", "url": "https://enotrans.org/article/trump-pelosi-schumer-infrastructure-meeting-implodes/", "date": "2019-05-23" } ] }, { "id": "healthcare-plan-two-months-2019", "title": "'Phenomenal' health care plan 'in about two months. Maybe less.'", "quote": "We're going to produce phenomenal health care. And we already have the concept of the plan... we'll be announcing that in two months, maybe less.", "date_promised": "2019-06-16", "venue": "ABC News interview with George Stephanopoulos, aired June 16, 2019", "deadline_text": "in about two months, maybe less", "deadline_days": 60, "category": "healthcare", "era": "term-1", "status": "never-delivered", "what_happened": "Senior White House officials told ABC at the time that no bill existed, only 'high-level principles.' Two months came and went. By October 2019 Trump had shifted to saying the plan would come after the 2020 election. This was the opening move of the sequence that ran through the July 2020 'two weeks' pledge.", "repeat_count": 12, "sources": [ { "title": "Trump vows 'phenomenal' health care plan", "outlet": "ABC News", "url": "https://abcnews.com/Politics/trump-vows-phenomenal-health-care-plan/story?id=63763995", "date": "2019-06-12" }, { "title": "Back to the Future: Trump's History of Promising a Health Plan That Never Comes", "outlet": "KFF Health News", "url": "https://kffhealthnews.org/courts/back-to-the-future-trumps-history-of-promising-a-health-plan-that-never-comes/", "date": "2020-08-13" }, { "title": "Trump says he will announce 'phenomenal' new healthcare plan within the next two months", "outlet": "Business Insider", "url": "https://www.businessinsider.com/trump-healthcare-plan-to-be-rolled-out-2019-6", "date": "2019-06-17" } ] }, { "id": "ice-raids-two-week-ultimatum-2019", "title": "ICE deportation raids delayed 'for two weeks' as an ultimatum to Congress", "quote": "At the request of Democrats, I have delayed the Illegal Immigration Removal Process (Deportation) for two weeks to see if the Democrats and Republicans can get together and work out a solution to the Asylum and Loophole problems at the Southern Border. If not, Deportations start!", "date_promised": "2019-06-22", "venue": "Twitter, the day before nationwide ICE raids were to begin in about ten cities", "deadline_text": "for two weeks", "deadline_days": 14, "category": "immigration", "era": "term-1", "status": "broken", "what_happened": "Congress did not change asylum law; it passed a $4.5 billion humanitarian border supplemental instead. The two weeks lapsed in early July with no raids and no enforcement of the ultimatum. The operation finally launched on July 14, 2019 and produced only about 35 arrests nationwide, against the 'millions' Trump had advertised on June 17.", "repeat_count": 2, "sources": [ { "title": "Trump Delays Immigration Raids, Gives Democrats 2 Weeks For Asylum Law Changes", "outlet": "NPR", "url": "https://www.npr.org/2019/06/22/735083190/trump-delays-immigration-raids-giving-democrats-two-weeks-to-reform-asylum-laws", "date": "2019-06-22" }, { "title": "Trump says he will delay deportation raids for two weeks", "outlet": "CNBC", "url": "https://www.cnbc.com/2019/06/22/trump-says-he-will-delay-deportation-raids-for-two-weeks-to-give-lawmakers-time-to-work-out-a-solution.html", "date": "2019-06-22" }, { "title": "Houston immigration raids delayed after Trump calls off planned ICE action", "outlet": "Texas Tribune", "url": "https://www.texastribune.org/2019/06/22/houston-immigration-raids-delayed-after-trump-calls-planned-ice-action/", "date": "2019-06-22" } ] }, { "id": "background-checks-2019", "title": "'Very meaningful background checks' after El Paso and Dayton", "quote": "[paraphrase] We're going to have very meaningful background checks. There is a great appetite for background checks.", "date_promised": "2019-08-05", "venue": "Early-morning tweet on August 5, then remarks to reporters on August 7 before visiting El Paso and Dayton", "deadline_text": "immediately / 'there is a great appetite' for it now", "deadline_days": 14, "category": "guns", "era": "term-1", "status": "never-delivered", "what_happened": "Reversed inside two weeks. After an August 20, 2019 phone call with NRA chief Wayne LaPierre, Trump said on August 20-21 that 'we have very, very strong background checks right now' and warned of a 'slippery slope,' pivoting to mental health and noting that 'a lot of the people that put me where I am are strong believers in the Second Amendment.' No background-check legislation was ever advanced; House-passed bills died in the Senate. He had made and abandoned a near-identical promise after Parkland in February 2018.", "repeat_count": 3, "sources": [ { "title": "Trump Calls For 'Strong Background Checks' Following El Paso And Dayton", "outlet": "NPR", "url": "https://www.npr.org/2019/08/05/748190808/trump-calls-for-strong-background-checks-following-el-paso-and-dayton-shootings", "date": "2019-08-05" }, { "title": "Donald Trump backs expanded background checks after Dayton, El Paso mass shootings", "outlet": "Washington Times", "url": "https://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2019/aug/7/donald-trump-backs-expanded-background-checks-afte/", "date": "2019-08-07" }, { "title": "After two more mass shootings, Trump again appears to back away from gun background checks", "outlet": "Longview News-Journal", "url": "https://news-journal.com/2019/08/19/after-two-more-mass-shootings-trump-again-appears-to-back-away-from-gun-background-checks/", "date": "2019-08-19" }, { "title": "Donald Trump calls for 'strong background checks' after El Paso shooting", "outlet": "Texas Tribune", "url": "https://www.texastribune.org/2019/08/05/donald-trump-calls-strong-background-checks-after-el-paso-shooting", "date": "2019-08-05" }, { "title": "Trump Reverses Support Toward Expanding Background Checks", "outlet": "NPR", "url": "https://www.npr.org/2019/08/21/753040814/trump-reverses-support-toward-expanding-background-checks", "date": "2019-08-21" }, { "title": "Trump cements stance on wide-ranging background checks in call with NRA's LaPierre", "outlet": "CNN", "url": "https://www.cnn.com/2019/08/21/politics/donald-trump-background-checks-national-rifle-association-wayne-lapierre", "date": "2019-08-21" } ] }, { "id": "first-ukraine-call-transcript-2019", "title": "'I'll release that too, if it's important to you' — the first Zelensky call", "quote": "I'll release that too, if it's important to you.", "date_promised": "2019-09-25", "venue": "News conference at the UN General Assembly, the day the White House released the July 25 Zelensky call memo", "deadline_text": "immediately / on request", "deadline_days": 7, "category": "transparency", "era": "term-1", "status": "late", "what_happened": "It took 51 days. The April 21, 2019 call memo was finally released on November 15, 2019, timed to land on the second day of the public impeachment hearings and read into the record by Devin Nunes. Adam Schiff noted the White House was still refusing all subpoenaed documents and records.", "repeat_count": 1, "sources": [ { "title": "Trump Releases Rough Transcript Of First April Call With Zelenskiy", "outlet": "NPR", "url": "https://www.npr.org/2019/11/15/778497217/the-white-house-just-released-a-log-of-trumps-first-call-with-zelenskiy", "date": "2019-11-15" }, { "title": "White House releases notes of 1st Trump-Zelenskiy call", "outlet": "PBS NewsHour", "url": "https://www.pbs.org/newshour/politics/white-house-releases-notes-of-1st-trump-zelenskiy-call", "date": "2019-11-15" }, { "title": "Rough Transcript of Trump's First Phone Call With Ukrainian Leader Is Released", "outlet": "The New York Times", "url": "https://www.nytimes.com/2019/11/15/us/politics/trump-phone-call-transcript.html", "date": "2019-11-15" } ] }, { "id": "china-phase-one-200-billion", "title": "China will buy $200 billion more in U.S. goods", "quote": "[paraphrase] Under the Phase One deal China will purchase an additional $200 billion of American goods and services over two years.", "date_promised": "2020-01-15", "venue": "Phase One trade deal signing, White House East Room", "deadline_text": "over 2020 and 2021", "deadline_days": 730, "category": "trade", "era": "term-1", "status": "never-delivered", "what_happened": "Peterson Institute analysis by Chad Bown found China bought none of the additional $200 billion. Purchases of covered products in 2020 fell more than 40 percent short of the year's target, and over the full two-year period China reached only about 57 percent of commitments.", "repeat_count": 10, "sources": [ { "title": "China bought none of the extra $200 billion of US exports in Trump's trade deal", "outlet": "Peterson Institute for International Economics", "url": "https://www.piie.com/blogs/realtime-economics/2022/china-bought-none-extra-200-billion-us-exports-trumps-trade-deal", "date": "2022-07-19" }, { "title": "Anatomy of a flop: Why Trump's US-China phase one trade deal fell short", "outlet": "Peterson Institute for International Economics", "url": "https://www.piie.com/blogs/trade-and-investment-policy-watch/2021/anatomy-flop-why-trumps-us-china-phase-one-trade-deal", "date": "2021-02-08" } ] }, { "id": "covid-15-cases-close-to-zero", "title": "'Within a couple of days' 15 COVID cases would be 'close to zero'", "quote": "And again, when you have 15 people, and the 15 within a couple of days is going to be down to close to zero, that's a pretty good job we've done.", "date_promised": "2020-02-26", "venue": "White House press conference with the Coronavirus Task Force", "deadline_text": "within a couple of days", "deadline_days": 2, "category": "covid", "era": "term-1", "status": "never-delivered", "what_happened": "Cases did not fall to zero. The first US community-transmission case was confirmed the same day and the first reported US death came on February 29, 2020. By late March the US had the most confirmed cases in the world, and by the first anniversary of the remark the American death toll had passed 500,000.", "repeat_count": 1, "sources": [ { "title": "Remarks by President Trump, Vice President Pence, and Members of the Coronavirus Task Force in Press Conference", "outlet": "Trump White House Archives", "url": "https://trumpwhitehouse.archives.gov/briefings-statements/remarks-president-trump-vice-president-pence-members-coronavirus-task-force-press-conference/", "date": "2020-02-26" }, { "title": "It's Been 1 Year Since Trump Boasted 15 COVID-19 Cases Would Soon Be 'Close To Zero'", "outlet": "HuffPost", "url": "https://www.huffpost.com/entry/donald-trump-15-covid-19-cases-anniversary_n_6039a526c5b601179ebd8ccc", "date": "2021-02-26" }, { "title": "Trump's Statements About the Coronavirus", "outlet": "FactCheck.org", "url": "https://www.factcheck.org/2020/03/trumps-statements-about-the-coronavirus/", "date": "2020-03-18" } ] }, { "id": "covid-disappear-like-a-miracle", "title": "'One day — it's like a miracle — it will disappear'", "quote": "It's going to disappear. One day — it's like a miracle — it will disappear.", "date_promised": "2020-02-27", "venue": "White House meeting with African American leaders", "deadline_text": "One day / around the corner", "deadline_days": 14, "category": "covid", "era": "term-1", "status": "never-delivered", "what_happened": "Rolling Stone counted at least 22 separate occasions on which Trump predicted the virus would simply go away, including earlier claims that heat would kill it 'in April.' The US passed 100,000 deaths by late May 2020 and roughly 400,000 by the time he left office in January 2021.", "repeat_count": 22, "sources": [ { "title": "Trump Has Said Covid-19 Would Go Away At Least 22 Times", "outlet": "Rolling Stone", "url": "https://www.rollingstone.com/politics/politics-news/trump-said-the-coronavirus-would-go-away-1054585/", "date": "2020-10-31" }, { "title": "A timeline of what Trump has said on coronavirus", "outlet": "CBS News", "url": "https://www.cbsnews.com/news/timeline-president-donald-trump-changing-statements-on-coronavirus/", "date": "2020-04-03" }, { "title": "Trump's Statements About the Coronavirus", "outlet": "FactCheck.org", "url": "https://www.factcheck.org/2020/03/trumps-statements-about-the-coronavirus/", "date": "2020-03-18" } ] }, { "id": "covid-anybody-can-get-a-test", "title": "'Anybody that wants a test can get a test'", "quote": "Anybody that wants a test can get a test. That's what the bottom line is.", "date_promised": "2020-03-06", "venue": "Remarks to reporters during a tour of the CDC, Atlanta", "deadline_text": "right now / immediately", "deadline_days": 1, "category": "covid", "era": "term-1", "status": "never-delivered", "what_happened": "PolitiFact rated the claim Pants on Fire. Under CDC criteria providers, not patients, decided who was tested, and on March 9, 2020 the Association of Public Health Laboratories said demand far exceeded supply. Texas's largest public health lab could run 26 tests a day. Testing on demand did not exist for months.", "repeat_count": 2, "sources": [ { "title": "Donald Trump's wrong claim that 'anybody' can get tested for coronavirus", "outlet": "PolitiFact", "url": "https://www.politifact.com/factchecks/2020/mar/11/donald-trump/donald-trumps-wrong-claim-anybody-can-get-tested-c/", "date": "2020-03-11" }, { "title": "Remarks by President Trump After Tour of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention", "outlet": "Trump White House Archives", "url": "https://trumpwhitehouse.archives.gov/briefings-statements/remarks-president-trump-tour-centers-disease-control-prevention-atlanta-ga/", "date": "2020-03-06" }, { "title": "The Facts on Coronavirus Testing", "outlet": "FactCheck.org", "url": "https://www.factcheck.org/2020/03/the-facts-on-coronavirus-testing/", "date": "2020-03-13" } ] }, { "id": "covid-4-million-tests-this-week", "title": "'Before the end of this week, another 4 million tests will be distributed'", "quote": "Over a million tests have been distributed... Before the end of this week, another 4 million tests will be distributed.", "date_promised": "2020-03-09", "venue": "White House Coronavirus Task Force briefing (statement by Vice President Mike Pence)", "deadline_text": "before the end of this week", "deadline_days": 7, "category": "covid", "era": "term-1", "status": "never-delivered", "what_happened": "By March 29-30, 2020 roughly 894,000 tests had actually been performed nationwide according to testing coordinator Adm. Brett Giroir — a small fraction of the millions described. In late April Pence said the public had 'misunderstood' him and that he had meant tests available rather than tests completed.", "repeat_count": 1, "sources": [ { "title": "Trump, Pence Promised Millions Of Tests — So Why Have Less Than 900K Been Used?", "outlet": "Talking Points Memo", "url": "https://talkingpointsmemo.com/news/trump-pence-coronavirus-tests", "date": "2020-03-30" }, { "title": "Pence Says His Earlier Comments About Testing Were Misunderstood", "outlet": "NPR", "url": "https://www.npr.org/sections/coronavirus-live-updates/2020/04/28/847331060/pence-says-his-earlier-comments-about-testing-were-misunderstood", "date": "2020-04-28" }, { "title": "Misleading by omission: Pence's rosy comments on testing have not matched reality", "outlet": "CNN", "url": "https://www.cnn.com/2020/04/28/politics/pence-comments-testing-misunderstanding", "date": "2020-04-28" } ] }, { "id": "covid-google-1700-engineers", "title": "Google's '1,700 engineers' and a national testing website by Sunday night", "quote": "Google is helping to develop a website. It's going to be very quickly done... Google has 1,700 engineers working on this right now. They've made tremendous progress.", "date_promised": "2020-03-13", "venue": "Rose Garden national emergency declaration", "deadline_text": "very quickly / locations announced 'probably on Sunday night'", "deadline_days": 3, "category": "covid", "era": "term-1", "status": "broken", "what_happened": "Google publicly corrected the record the same day. The project belonged to Alphabet's Verily, not Google, and launched March 15-16, 2020 as a pilot limited to two San Francisco Bay Area counties, with appointment slots filling almost immediately. Verily ultimately helped about 1.6 million people get tested in 2020 — under 1% of all US tests that year.", "repeat_count": 1, "sources": [ { "title": "Remarks by President Trump, Vice President Pence, and Members of the Coronavirus Task Force in a Press Conference", "outlet": "Trump White House Archives", "url": "https://trumpwhitehouse.archives.gov/briefings-statements/remarks-president-trump-vice-president-pence-members-coronavirus-task-force-press-conference-3/", "date": "2020-03-13" }, { "title": "Trump: 1,700 Google Engineers Working On Coronavirus Site. Google Says... Actually, No", "outlet": "Forbes", "url": "https://www.forbes.com/sites/johnkoetsier/2020/03/13/trump-1700-google-engineers-working-on-coronavirus-site-google-says--actually-no/", "date": "2020-03-13" }, { "title": "Google and Verily scrambled after Trump announced a coronavirus website", "outlet": "Washington Post", "url": "https://www.washingtonpost.com/technology/2020/03/16/google-verily-coronavirus-website-trump/", "date": "2020-03-16" } ] }, { "id": "covid-14-million-tests-next-week", "title": "'1.4 million tests on board next week and 5 million within a month'", "quote": "We'll have 1.4 million tests on board next week and 5 million within a month.", "date_promised": "2020-03-13", "venue": "Rose Garden national emergency declaration", "deadline_text": "next week", "deadline_days": 7, "category": "covid", "era": "term-1", "status": "never-delivered", "what_happened": "Roughly 894,000 tests in total had been run nationwide by March 29-30, 2020, well behind the promised weekly volumes. Asked about the gap between tests 'distributed' and tests actually performed, Trump replied, 'I cannot explain the gap.'", "repeat_count": 2, "sources": [ { "title": "Remarks by President Trump, Vice President Pence, and Members of the Coronavirus Task Force in a Press Conference", "outlet": "Trump White House Archives", "url": "https://trumpwhitehouse.archives.gov/briefings-statements/remarks-president-trump-vice-president-pence-members-coronavirus-task-force-press-conference-3/", "date": "2020-03-13" }, { "title": "White House Promised 27 Million Coronavirus Tests By End of March, But U.S. Just Hit 1 Million", "outlet": "Newsweek", "url": "https://www.newsweek.com/white-house-promised-27-million-coronavirus-tests-end-march-us-just-hit-1-million-1495356", "date": "2020-03-30" }, { "title": "Trump, Pence Promised Millions Of Tests", "outlet": "Talking Points Memo", "url": "https://talkingpointsmemo.com/news/trump-pence-coronavirus-tests", "date": "2020-03-30" } ] }, { "id": "covid-15-days-to-slow-the-spread", "title": "'15 Days to Slow the Spread'", "quote": "[paraphrase] Fifteen days of avoiding gatherings of more than 10 people, discretionary travel, bars, restaurants and food courts.", "date_promised": "2020-03-16", "venue": "White House briefing, issued as federal guidance", "deadline_text": "15 days", "deadline_days": 15, "category": "covid", "era": "term-1", "status": "late", "what_happened": "On March 29, 2020, with the fifteen days about to expire and after pushing to reopen by Easter, Trump extended the guidelines by another 30 days to April 30 — NPR's headline was 'How 15 Days Became 45.' The guidelines then lapsed into a phased 'Opening Up America Again' framework. The phrase became shorthand for a deadline that never ends.", "repeat_count": 2, "sources": [ { "title": "15 Days to Slow the Spread", "outlet": "Trump White House Archives", "url": "https://trumpwhitehouse.archives.gov/articles/15-days-slow-spread/", "date": "2020-03-16" }, { "title": "How 15 Days Became 45: Trump Extends Guidelines To Slow Coronavirus", "outlet": "NPR", "url": "https://www.npr.org/2020/03/30/822448199/how-15-days-became-45-trump-extends-guidelines-to-slow-coronavirus", "date": "2020-03-30" }, { "title": "Trump extends federal social distancing guidelines to April 30", "outlet": "CNN", "url": "https://www.cnn.com/2020/03/29/politics/trump-coronavirus-press-conference/index.html", "date": "2020-03-29" } ] }, { "id": "stimulus-checks-within-two-weeks-2020", "title": "$1,000 stimulus checks in people's accounts 'within two weeks'", "quote": "[paraphrase] The IRS will ensure that within two weeks the first money will be in people's accounts.", "date_promised": "2020-03-17", "venue": "White House briefing announcing the $1.2 trillion stimulus proposal (Treasury Secretary Steven Mnuchin, alongside Trump)", "deadline_text": "within two weeks", "deadline_days": 14, "category": "economy", "era": "term-1", "status": "late", "what_happened": "The CARES Act was not signed until March 27, 2020. On March 29 Mnuchin revised the estimate to 'within three weeks.' The first roughly 60 million direct deposits landed around the week of April 13 — about four weeks after the promise — and paper checks began going out the week of May 4 at roughly 5 million a week, with an internal memo warning some Americans might wait until August.", "repeat_count": 2, "sources": [ { "title": "Trump Pushes $1.2 Trillion Stimulus, $1,000 Checks in Two Weeks", "outlet": "Bloomberg", "url": "https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2020-03-17/mnuchin-says-trump-wants-money-sent-to-americans-in-two-weeks", "date": "2020-03-17" }, { "title": "Treasury Secretary says Americans can expect checks to be direct deposited within 3 weeks", "outlet": "CNN", "url": "https://www.cnn.com/2020/03/29/politics/treasury-secretary-steve-mnuchin-stimulus-checks/index.html", "date": "2020-03-29" }, { "title": "Some in US May Not Get Stimulus Checks Until August, Memo Says", "outlet": "NBC10 Philadelphia", "url": "https://www.nbcphiladelphia.com/news/national-international/many-americans-may-have-to-wait-months-for-coronavirus-relief-checks/2350368/", "date": "2020-04-16" } ] }, { "id": "hydroxychloroquine-almost-immediately", "title": "Hydroxychloroquine 'available almost immediately'", "quote": "We're going to be able to make that drug available almost immediately.", "date_promised": "2020-03-19", "venue": "White House Coronavirus Task Force briefing", "deadline_text": "almost immediately", "deadline_days": 1, "category": "covid", "era": "term-1", "status": "broken", "what_happened": "FDA Commissioner Stephen Hahn corrected Trump at the same briefing, saying more study was needed. The FDA issued a narrow emergency use authorization on March 28, 2020 for stockpiled product in certain hospitalized patients, then revoked it on June 15, 2020 after trials showed no benefit and possible cardiac harm. The promotion caused shortages for lupus and rheumatoid arthritis patients.", "repeat_count": 4, "sources": [ { "title": "Trump announces potential 'game changer' on drugs to treat COVID-19, but FDA says more study is needed", "outlet": "ABC News", "url": "https://abcnews.com/Politics/trump-announces-potential-game-changer-drugs-treat-covid19/story?id=69693560", "date": "2020-03-19" }, { "title": "Timeline: Tracking Trump alongside scientific developments on hydroxychloroquine", "outlet": "ABC News", "url": "https://abcnews.com/Health/timeline-tracking-trump-alongside-scientific-developments-hydroxychloroquine/story?id=72170553", "date": "2020-08-08" } ] }, { "id": "covid-open-by-easter", "title": "'I would love to have the country opened up by Easter'", "quote": "I would love to have it open by Easter... You'll have packed churches all over our country. I think it'll be a beautiful time.", "date_promised": "2020-03-24", "venue": "Fox News virtual town hall from the White House Rose Garden", "deadline_text": "by Easter (April 12, 2020)", "deadline_days": 19, "category": "covid", "era": "term-1", "status": "broken", "what_happened": "Dr. Anthony Fauci and Dr. Deborah Birx pushed back hard. Five days later, on March 29, 2020, Trump abandoned the Easter target and extended social distancing guidelines to April 30. Easter Sunday 2020 fell in one of the deadliest stretches of the first wave and churches held services online or in parking lots.", "repeat_count": 2, "sources": [ { "title": "Trump Sets Easter Goal For Reopening American Economy", "outlet": "NPR", "url": "https://www.npr.org/2020/03/24/820774378/trump-id-love-for-u-s-to-be-opened-up-by-easter-amidst-pandemic-response", "date": "2020-03-24" }, { "title": "Trump wants 'packed churches' and economy open again on Easter despite the deadly threat of coronavirus", "outlet": "CNBC", "url": "https://www.cnbc.com/2020/03/24/coronavirus-response-trump-wants-to-reopen-us-economy-by-easter.html", "date": "2020-03-24" } ] }, { "id": "five-million-tests-a-day-very-soon", "title": "'We're going to be there very soon' on 5 million tests a day", "quote": "We're going to be there very soon... [capacity] will increase by much more than that in the very near future.", "date_promised": "2020-04-28", "venue": "Oval Office remarks", "deadline_text": "very soon / the very near future", "deadline_days": 14, "category": "covid", "era": "term-1", "status": "never-delivered", "what_happened": "Hours earlier testing czar Adm. Brett Giroir had said there was 'absolutely no way on Earth, on this planet or any other planet' the US could run 5 million tests a day. Trump reversed within a day, denying he had said it and blaming a 'media trap.' The single-day peak at that point was 314,182 tests, and the US never reached 5 million tests a day.", "repeat_count": 1, "sources": [ { "title": "Coronavirus testing chief says 'no way on Earth' US can test 5 million a day, despite what Trump says", "outlet": "CNBC", "url": "https://www.cnbc.com/2020/04/29/coronavirus-testing-chief-says-no-way-on-earth-us-can-test-5-million-a-day.html", "date": "2020-04-29" }, { "title": "AP FACT CHECK: Testing czar rebuts Trump", "outlet": "PBS NewsHour", "url": "https://www.pbs.org/newshour/nation/ap-fact-check-testing-czar-rebuts-trump-vet-care-hyped", "date": "2020-04-30" } ] }, { "id": "immigration-order-four-weeks-2020", "title": "Merit-based immigration order and a DACA fix 'in four weeks'", "quote": "[paraphrase] We're going to have a road to citizenship... I'm going to be signing a big immigration bill in about four weeks.", "date_promised": "2020-07-11", "venue": "Telemundo interview with Jose Diaz-Balart", "deadline_text": "in about four weeks", "deadline_days": 28, "category": "immigration", "era": "term-1", "status": "never-delivered", "what_happened": "The White House walked back 'road to citizenship' within days. Four weeks passed with no bill and no executive order, and none ever appeared before Trump left office. What DHS did issue, on July 28, 2020, was a memo restricting new DACA applications, which federal courts later struck down.", "repeat_count": 3, "sources": [ { "title": "H-1B Visas And Trump's Next 'Merit-Based' Immigration Plan", "outlet": "Forbes", "url": "https://www.forbes.com/sites/stuartanderson/2020/08/06/h-1b-visas-and-trumps-next-merit-based-immigration-plan/", "date": "2020-08-06" }, { "title": "Trump offers confusion, contradictions on immigration order", "outlet": "WUSA9 / AP", "url": "https://www.wusa9.com/article/news/nation-world/trump-offers-confusion-contradictions-on-immigration-order/507-9e7f11c7-cfda-4324-a700-33aa0153cb6c", "date": "2020-07-14" } ] }, { "id": "healthcare-plan-two-weeks-wallace-2020", "title": "'We're signing a health care plan within two weeks'", "quote": "We're signing a health care plan within two weeks, a full and complete health care plan.", "date_promised": "2020-07-19", "venue": "Fox News Sunday interview with Chris Wallace", "deadline_text": "within two weeks", "deadline_days": 14, "category": "healthcare", "era": "term-1", "status": "never-delivered", "what_happened": "The two weeks expired on August 2, 2020 with nothing signed. On July 31 Trump said it was coming 'sometime very soon'; on August 3 'hopefully, prior to the end of the month'; on August 7 he promised a major executive order 'in two weeks.' What eventually appeared on September 24, 2020 was the 'America First Healthcare Plan' executive order that fact-checkers described as largely symbolic. No comprehensive replacement plan was ever signed.", "repeat_count": 12, "sources": [ { "title": "Back to the future: Trump's history of promising a health plan that never comes", "outlet": "PolitiFact / KFF Health News", "url": "https://www.politifact.com/article/2020/aug/13/back-future-trumps-history-promising-health-plan-n/", "date": "2020-08-13" }, { "title": "Trump keeps promising an overhaul of the nation's health-care system that never arrives", "outlet": "Washington Post", "url": "https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/trump-obamacare-promise/2020/08/01/856ce250-d348-11ea-8d32-1ebf4e9d8e0d_story.html", "date": "2020-08-01" }, { "title": "Donald Trump's new health care plan has been 2 months away for 15 months now", "outlet": "CNN", "url": "https://www.cnn.com/2020/09/16/politics/donald-trump-health-care/index.html", "date": "2020-09-16" } ] }, { "id": "drug-pricing-30-day-ultimatum-2020", "title": "30-day ultimatum to drugmakers on 'most favored nation' pricing", "quote": "[paraphrase] I am giving the pharmaceutical companies until August 24 to come up with something better, or the most favored nation order takes effect.", "date_promised": "2020-07-24", "venue": "White House drug-pricing executive order signing ceremony", "deadline_text": "30 days / by August 24", "deadline_days": 31, "category": "healthcare", "era": "term-1", "status": "broken", "what_happened": "The August 24, 2020 midnight deadline passed with no deal and no order, and the White House would not say whether it would proceed. A replacement order was issued on September 13, 2020 that merely directed HHS to develop a rulemaking plan. The resulting interim final rule was blocked by federal courts in December 2020 and later withdrawn.", "repeat_count": 2, "sources": [ { "title": "Executive Order on Lowering Drug Prices by Putting America First", "outlet": "Trump White House Archives", "url": "https://trumpwhitehouse.archives.gov/presidential-actions/executive-order-lowering-drug-prices-putting-america-first-2/", "date": "2020-07-24" }, { "title": "Trump deadline for drug pricing order passes with no action", "outlet": "The Hill", "url": "https://thehill.com/policy/healthcare/513518-trump-deadline-for-drug-pricing-order-passes-with-no-action/", "date": "2020-08-25" } ] }, { "id": "healthcare-end-of-august-2020", "title": "'A tremendous health care plan... hopefully prior to the end of the month'", "quote": "I do want to say that we're going to be introducing a tremendous health care plan sometime prior — hopefully, prior to the end of the month. It's just completed now.", "date_promised": "2020-08-03", "venue": "White House press briefing", "deadline_text": "prior to the end of the month", "deadline_days": 28, "category": "healthcare", "era": "term-1", "status": "never-delivered", "what_happened": "August 2020 ended with no plan. CNN's September 5, 2020 headline read 'Trump promised a health care plan before the end of August. It never came.' PolitiFact counted this as at least the fifth Obamacare-replacement promise of 2020 alone. A recognisable 'Great Healthcare Plan' was not announced until January 15, 2026, and even that required Congress to act.", "repeat_count": 12, "sources": [ { "title": "Trump promised a health care plan before the end of August. It never came", "outlet": "CNN", "url": "https://www.cnn.com/2020/09/05/politics/trump-health-care-plan", "date": "2020-09-05" }, { "title": "Trump vows health care overhaul by end of August", "outlet": "Fox News", "url": "https://www.foxnews.com/politics/trump-vows-health-care-overhaul-by-end-of-august", "date": "2020-08-03" }, { "title": "Trump announces health care plan to cut costs, but it needs Congress' approval", "outlet": "NBC News", "url": "https://www.nbcnews.com/health/health-news/trump-health-care-plan-direct-payments-obamacare-congress-rcna254232", "date": "2026-01-15" } ] }, { "id": "tiktok-september-15-deadline-2020", "title": "TikTok sold by September 15 'or it's out of business'", "quote": "[paraphrase] I set a date of around Sept. 15, at which point it's going to be out of business in the United States.", "date_promised": "2020-08-03", "venue": "Remarks to reporters at the White House, followed by the August 6, 2020 executive order setting a 45-day clock", "deadline_text": "around September 15 / 45 days", "deadline_days": 43, "category": "other", "era": "term-1", "status": "broken", "what_happened": "September 15, 2020 passed with no completed sale. Trump gave preliminary blessing on September 19 to an Oracle/Walmart 'TikTok Global' structure and Commerce postponed the app-store ban by a week. A federal judge enjoined the ban on September 27, 2020, and a second injunction followed on December 7. The deal was never consummated and TikTok kept operating — a pattern that repeated with serial extensions in his second term.", "repeat_count": 3, "sources": [ { "title": "Donald Trump's TikTok Ban Halted With Just Hours Until It Went Into Effect", "outlet": "Deadline", "url": "https://deadline.com/2020/09/tiktok-ban-halted-donald-trump-oracle-walmart-bytedance-judge-1234586018/", "date": "2020-09-27" }, { "title": "Floor left open to Oracle as TikTok rejects Microsoft offer", "outlet": "Al Jazeera", "url": "https://www.aljazeera.com/amp/economy/2020/9/14/floor-left-open-to-oracle-as-tiktok-rejects-microsoft-offer", "date": "2020-09-14" } ] }, { "id": "preexisting-conditions-eo-two-weeks-2020", "title": "Executive order on pre-existing conditions 'over the next two weeks'", "quote": "[paraphrase] Over the next two weeks I'll be pursuing a major executive order requiring health insurance companies to cover all pre-existing conditions for all customers.", "date_promised": "2020-08-07", "venue": "News conference at Trump National Golf Club, Bedminster, New Jersey", "deadline_text": "over the next two weeks", "deadline_days": 14, "category": "healthcare", "era": "term-1", "status": "late", "what_happened": "Pre-existing conditions were already covered by the Affordable Care Act, which Trump's administration was simultaneously asking the Supreme Court to strike down. The order finally came on September 24, 2020 — seven weeks late — and PolitiFact and other fact-checkers found it created no enforceable protection, merely declaring it 'the policy of the United States.'", "repeat_count": 3, "sources": [ { "title": "Donald Trump's executive order on pre-existing conditions doesn't do what he says", "outlet": "PolitiFact", "url": "https://www.politifact.com/article/2020/sep/25/donald-trumps-executive-order-preexisting-conditio", "date": "2020-09-25" }, { "title": "Trump to sign executive orders protecting preexisting conditions", "outlet": "CNBC", "url": "https://www.cnbc.com/2020/09/24/trump-to-sign-executive-orders-on-preexisting-conditions-surprise-medical-billing.html", "date": "2020-09-24" }, { "title": "Viral Post Overstates Effect of Trump's Order on Preexisting Conditions", "outlet": "FactCheck.org", "url": "https://www.factcheck.org/2020/10/viral-post-overstates-effect-of-trumps-order-on-preexisting-conditions/", "date": "2020-10-02" } ] }, { "id": "vaccine-before-election-day", "title": "A COVID-19 vaccine before Election Day", "quote": "[paraphrase] We'll have a vaccine before a very special date — I'm talking about November 3rd.", "date_promised": "2020-09-07", "venue": "White House press conference, Labor Day", "deadline_text": "before November 3, 2020", "deadline_days": 57, "category": "covid", "era": "term-1", "status": "late", "what_happened": "No vaccine was authorized before the election. Pfizer announced interim efficacy results on November 9, 2020, six days after Election Day. The FDA granted emergency use authorization to the Pfizer-BioNTech vaccine on December 11, 2020 and to Moderna's on December 18, 2020.", "repeat_count": 10, "sources": [ { "title": "Did Trump promise a COVID-19 vaccine by Election Day?", "outlet": "Snopes", "url": "https://www.snopes.com/fact-check/trump-promise-vaccine-election-day/", "date": "2020-09-08" }, { "title": "Fact check: Will there be a coronavirus vaccine by November?", "outlet": "CNN", "url": "https://amp.cnn.com/cnn/2020/08/07/politics/donald-trump-coronavirus-vaccine-november-fact-check/index.html", "date": "2020-08-07" } ] }, { "id": "total-declassification-no-redactions-2020", "title": "'Total Declassification' of Russia and Clinton email files — 'No redactions!'", "quote": "I have fully authorized the total Declassification of any & all documents pertaining to the single greatest political CRIME in American History, the Russia Hoax. Likewise, the Hillary Clinton Email Scandal. No redactions!", "date_promised": "2020-10-06", "venue": "Twitter", "deadline_text": "immediately / 'fully authorized'", "deadline_days": 1, "category": "transparency", "era": "term-1", "status": "never-delivered", "what_happened": "The blanket release never happened. DNI John Ratcliffe declassified a handful of selected items but no unredacted dump followed. In mid-January 2021, days before leaving office, Trump again ordered 'Obamagate' material declassified with reporting that it would be out within days; the promised material was not publicly released before January 20, 2021.", "repeat_count": 3, "sources": [ { "title": "Trump says he has declassified documents on Russia, Clinton emails", "outlet": "Gulf News", "url": "https://gulfnews.com/world/americas/trump-says-he-has-declassified-documents-on-russia-clinton-emails-1.1602034418182", "date": "2020-10-07" }, { "title": "Trump authorizes declassification of Russia probe documents", "outlet": "Fox News", "url": "https://www.foxnews.com/politics/gregg-jarrett-russia-investigation-hillary-clinton", "date": "2020-10-07" } ] }, { "id": "stimulus-immediately-after-i-win-2020", "title": "'Immediately after I win, we will pass a major Stimulus Bill'", "quote": "I have instructed my representatives to stop negotiating until after the election when, immediately after I win, we will pass a major Stimulus Bill that focuses on hardworking Americans and Small Business.", "date_promised": "2020-10-06", "venue": "Twitter", "deadline_text": "immediately after I win", "deadline_days": 1, "category": "economy", "era": "term-1", "status": "broken", "what_happened": "The tweet killed relief talks and the Dow fell 376 points that day. Trump reversed within about 24 hours and began demanding piecemeal relief, but nothing passed before the election, and he lost. No further relief became law until the $900 billion package Congress approved on December 21, 2020, more than eleven weeks later.", "repeat_count": 2, "sources": [ { "title": "Trump kills stimulus talks, tweets no deal until after 'I win'", "outlet": "NBC News", "url": "https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/donald-trump/trump-kills-stimulus-talks-tweets-no-deal-until-after-i-n1242312", "date": "2020-10-06" }, { "title": "Trump says stimulus relief negotiations over until after election", "outlet": "Washington Post", "url": "https://www.washingtonpost.com/us-policy/2020/10/06/trump-kills-stimulus-talks/", "date": "2020-10-06" } ] }, { "id": "afghanistan-troops-home-by-christmas", "title": "All troops home from Afghanistan by Christmas", "quote": "We should have the small remaining number of our BRAVE Men and Women serving in Afghanistan home by Christmas!", "date_promised": "2020-10-07", "venue": "Twitter", "deadline_text": "by Christmas", "deadline_days": 79, "category": "foreign-policy", "era": "term-1", "status": "never-delivered", "what_happened": "About 4,500 to 5,000 troops were in Afghanistan when the tweet was posted. The drawdown reached roughly 2,500 by mid-January 2021, and U.S. forces were still there when Trump left office. The final withdrawal took place in August 2021.", "repeat_count": 8, "sources": [ { "title": "Trump says he wants troops in Afghanistan 'home by Christmas,' but it's unclear that will happen", "outlet": "CNBC", "url": "https://www.cnbc.com/2020/10/08/trump-says-us-troops-in-afghanistan-should-be-home-by-christmas.html", "date": "2020-10-08" }, { "title": "All US troops in Afghanistan to withdraw by Christmas, Trump tweets", "outlet": "Defense One", "url": "https://www.defenseone.com/policy/2020/10/all-us-troops-afghanistan-withdraw-christmas-trump-tweets/169105/", "date": "2020-10-08" } ] }, { "id": "election-fraud-evidence-coming-2020", "title": "Proof of 2020 election fraud, always days away — and the 'Kraken'", "quote": "[paraphrase] Big news coming. We have tremendous evidence and you'll see it very soon. / Sidney Powell: 'I'm going to release the Kraken.'", "date_promised": "2020-11", "venue": "Trump tweets and campaign statements; Sidney Powell on Fox Business's 'Lou Dobbs Tonight'", "deadline_text": "coming soon / within days", "deadline_days": 7, "category": "elections", "era": "term-1", "status": "never-delivered", "what_happened": "The evidence never materialised. A promised fraud press conference was cancelled on his attorneys' advice. Attorney General Bill Barr said on December 1, 2020 that the Justice Department had found no fraud on a scale that would change the outcome. Trump and his allies lost or withdrew roughly 60 of 62 post-election lawsuits, and the Supreme Court rejected the Texas case on December 11, 2020. Powell's 'Kraken' suits in Georgia, Michigan, Wisconsin and Arizona were all dismissed; she pleaded guilty to misdemeanour conspiracy charges in Fulton County in October 2023.", "repeat_count": 8, "sources": [ { "title": "Trump cancels press conference on 2020 election fraud claims, citing attorneys' advice", "outlet": "PBS NewsHour", "url": "https://www.pbs.org/newshour/politics/trump-cancels-press-conference-on-2020-election-fraud-claims-citing-attorneys-advice", "date": "2020-12-01" }, { "title": "Sidney Powell vowed to 'release the Kraken' to help Donald Trump. She may now testify against him", "outlet": "Associated Press (via KSL)", "url": "https://www.ksl.com/article/50758479/sidney-powell-vowed-to-release-the-kraken-to-help-donald-trump-she-may-now-testify-against-him", "date": "2023-10-19" }, { "title": "Fact-checking Trump's falsehood-filled weekend", "outlet": "CNN", "url": "https://www.cnn.com/2020/11/30/politics/trump-post-election-fox-news-interview-fact-check/index.html", "date": "2020-11-30" } ] }, { "id": "vaccine-doses-within-24-hours-2020", "title": "'Tens of millions of doses' within 24 hours of FDA authorization", "quote": "[paraphrase] Within 24 hours of the FDA's emergency authorization, tens of millions of doses will be distributed.", "date_promised": "2020-12-08", "venue": "Operation Warp Speed Vaccine Summit at the White House", "deadline_text": "within 24 hours", "deadline_days": 1, "category": "covid", "era": "term-1", "status": "broken", "what_happened": "Within 24 hours of Pfizer's December 11, 2020 authorization the government began releasing 6.4 million doses in two stages, not tens of millions. Pfizer had already cut its 2020 manufacturing projection from 100 million to 50 million doses. About 2.8 million people had been vaccinated in the US by December 31, 2020, against a stated goal of 20 million.", "repeat_count": 2, "sources": [ { "title": "Remarks by President Trump at the Operation Warp Speed Vaccine Summit", "outlet": "Trump White House Archives", "url": "https://trumpwhitehouse.archives.gov/briefings-statements/remarks-president-trump-operation-warp-speed-vaccine-summit/", "date": "2020-12-08" }, { "title": "Trump's Operation Warp Speed promised a flood of covid vaccines. Instead, states are expecting a trickle", "outlet": "Washington Post (via House Energy & Commerce hearing documents)", "url": "https://www.congress.gov/117/meeting/house/111136/documents/HHRG-117-IF14-20210203-SD014.pdf", "date": "2021-02-03" } ] }, { "id": "two-thousand-dollar-checks-2020", "title": "$2,000 relief checks 'immediately' after a Monday vote", "quote": "[paraphrase] The $600 payments are ridiculously low. Congress must raise them to $2,000 — the House votes Monday and the Senate will start the process.", "date_promised": "2020-12-22", "venue": "Video statement posted to Twitter, repeated in his December 27 signing statement", "deadline_text": "Monday / immediately", "deadline_days": 3, "category": "economy", "era": "term-1", "status": "broken", "what_happened": "His six-day delay in signing lapsed unemployment benefits for millions. He signed on December 27, 2020. The House did pass the $2,000 increase on December 28 by 275-134, but Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell blocked a standalone vote and the increase died. Americans received $600, not $2,000.", "repeat_count": 2, "sources": [ { "title": "Trump Signs COVID-19 Relief Deal After His Criticism Threatened To Derail It", "outlet": "NPR", "url": "https://www.npr.org/2020/12/27/950133658/trump-signs-covid-19-relief-package-after-threatening-to-derail-it", "date": "2020-12-27" }, { "title": "House votes on $2,000 stimulus checks after Trump signs relief bill", "outlet": "CNBC", "url": "https://www.cnbc.com/2020/12/28/house-votes-on-2000-stimulus-checks-after-trump-signs-relief-bill.html", "date": "2020-12-28" } ] } ]