Promises #47

What Trump promised, in his own words

Source: https://apnews.com/projects/trump-campaign-promise-tracker/

Promise Status Method
Classified records
Release remaining classified and redacted files on President John Kennedy’s assassination. “I’m gonna do it immediately, almost immediately upon entering office.” – Interview with Joe Rogan, Oct. 25, 2024
No action
Education
Cut federal money to schools that push “critical race theory, transgender insanity, and other inappropriate racial, sexual, or political content onto the shoulders of our children.” – Atlanta, Aug. 3, 2024
No action
Cut money to any schools that have a vaccine or mask mandate.
No action
Close the Education Department. “We will ultimately eliminate the federal Department of Education and send education back to Wisconsin and back to the states.” – Mosinee, Wisconsin, Sept. 7, 2024
No action
Energy
Abolish Biden-era auto emissions rules Trump calls an “electric vehicle mandate.” “I will end the electric vehicle mandate on Day 1.” – Republican National Convention speech, July 18, 2024
Kept Executive order
Terminate state emissions waivers, like California’s, that seek to limit sales of gas-powered cars.
In progress Executive order
Declare a national energy emergency to spur more drilling, pipelines, refineries, power plants and reactors and “a massive increase in domestic energy supply.” – New York Economic Club, Sept. 5, 2024
Kept Executive order
Withdraw the U.S. from the Paris Agreement, a global pact to address climate change. “President Trump will once again exit the horrendously unfair Paris Climate Accords.” – Trump campaign energy plan.
Kept Executive order
Cut energy prices in half within one year.
No action
Foreign policy
End the Russia-Ukraine war. “Before I even arrive at the Oval Office, shortly after I win the presidency, I will have the horrible war between Russia and Ukraine settled.” – Detroit, Aug. 26, 2024
No action
Government
Uproot what Trump has called “the deep state” by firing government employees he has called “corrupt bureaucrats.”
In progress Executive order
Health care
Make in vitro fertilization treatment free, with government paying for the treatment or insurance companies required to pay.
No action
Immigration
Conduct the largest deportation program in U.S. history. “The day I take the oath of office, the migrant invasion ends.” – Kinston, North Carolina, Nov. 3, 2024
In progress Executive order
End the constitutional right to birthright citizenship. “I will sign on Day 1 an executive order ending automatic citizenship for the children of illegal aliens.” – Pickens, South Carolina, July 1, 2023
It’s complicated Executive order
Bar a “flood” of refugees from Gaza. “Under no circumstances should we bring thousands of refugees from Hamas-controlled terrorist epicenters like Gaza to America. We just can’t do it.” – Clive, Iowa, Oct. 16, 2023
In progress Executive order
Revoke the student visas of pro-Hamas protesters and “radical anti-American and anti-Semitic foreigners.” – Clive, Iowa, Oct. 16, 2023
No action
Immediately begin “ideological screening” for all immigrants. “If you empathize with radical Islamic terrorists and extremists, you’re disqualified.” Clive, Iowa, Oct. 16, 2023
No action
Jan. 6
Sign pardons for some or many of those convicted or charged in the Jan. 6, 2021, assault on the Capitol. “I will sign their pardons on Day 1.” – Mosinee, Wisconsin, Sept. 7, 2024
Kept Executive order
Tariffs
Impose a 25% tariff on everything imported from Mexico and Canada and add a 10% tariff to duties already imposed on goods from China until China stems the flow of drugs into the U.S.
It’s complicated Executive order
Taxes
Cut the corporate tax rate to 15% from 21% “solely for companies that make their product in America.” – New York Economic Club, Sept. 5, 2024
No action
Make expiring tax cuts permanent. “I will make the Trump tax cuts – the biggest in the history of our country – we will make them permanent tax cuts.” – Libertarian National Convention, May 25, 2024
No action
“We will have no tax on tips.” – Reading, Pennsylvania, Nov. 4, 2024
No action
Eliminate taxes on Social Security. “SENIORS SHOULD NOT PAY TAX ON SOCIAL SECURITY!” – Truth Social post, July 31, 2024
No action
Eliminate taxes on overtime pay. “That gives people more of an incentive to work,” – Tucson, Arizona, Sept. 12, 2024
No action
“I will make interest on car loans fully tax-deductible.” – Grand Rapids, Michigan, Nov. 4, 2024
No action

Updated January 21, 2025

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