Promises Promises
Promises Made vs. Promises Kept
| Trump I (2017-2020) |
| Trump Promises Made |
Trump Promises Kept? |
| Build wall paid for by Mexico | Trump failed. (Mexico said, "hell no" and did not pay a dime. Trump only built only 40 miles of new wall (and most work was repairs to existing barriers, all paid for by U.S. taxpayers) |
| Repeal Obamacare | Trump failed. (The public did not want it repealed) |
| Get out of NATO | Trump failed. (The most Trump did was to make enemies at home and abroad, and in a few cases Trump got other NATO nations to spend for more US-made military systems.) |
| Tax cuts for corporations and the Wealthy | Trump kept this promise BIG TIME (but blew up the US deficit and national debt in doing so.) |
| Grow the economy by 4% a year | Trump failed. (The best he could do was 2.4%) |
| Renegotiate NAFTA | Trumps replacement was "U‑Smaca" (but was not that much better)
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| Appoint only far-right judges | Trump sure the hell did this (a high percentage of them being unqualified) |
| Impose massive tariffs on companies Trump considered unfair. | Trump did levy massive tariffs on manufactured goods, particularly from China But other countries inposed massive tariffs on U.S. exports, which hurt American farmers so much that Trunp had to then spend billions on farm wellfare to compensate -- at a huge blow-up of the deficit and national debt. Trump failed. |
| Move U.S. Embassy in Tel Aviv to Jerusalem | |
| Cancel the Paris climate agreement | |
| Eliminate the US debt in eight years. | Trump failed. Instead, he raised it by trillions of dollars. |
| Bring back coal and put the miners back to work. | Trump failed. the US produced 706 million tons of coal in 2019, its lowest level since 1978, |
| Eliminate gun-free zones | Trump failed. Never happened (Thankfully) |
| End birthright citizenship | Trump failed. |
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| Trump II (2025-tbd) |
| Trump Promises Made |
Trump Promises Kept? |
| Massive deportations of historic proportions | (with forced self-deportation of family members who are US citizens) |
| Revengeance and retribution against his enemies | (He has already given it designate staff their marching orders) |
| Record executions at the federal level | (Fast, before they can be appealed) |
| Even more tax cuts for the wealthy and corporations | (by eliminating the debt ceiling) |
| Elimination in income taxes on Social Security payments | (Accelerating the demise of the Social Security program) |
| Elimination of income on taxes on tips | (setting things up for tips for lawyers, doctors, stock brokers, accountents, etc) |
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