Ledger · 2024 campaign · № 181
Restore and expand the travel ban
Partial“[paraphrase] On day one I will restore the travel ban, and we'll expand it.”
- Promised
- , Campaign rally, Clive, Iowa
- Stated deadline
- “day one” → October 17, 2023
- Overdue by
- 2 years, 11 months as of September 22, 2026
- Re-promised
- 12 times with a fresh deadline
- Topic
- Immigration
- Era
- 2024 campaign
What happened
A proclamation covering a list of countries came in June 2025 rather than day one, and PolitiFact still rated the promise Stalled in its January 2026 review because the sweeping 'expanded' ban — including the promised ideological screening and country list Trump described on the trail — was never fully implemented and parts have been narrowed in litigation.