Trump’s major promises have been abandoned or ignored — by his own administration.
As midterm elections draw near and President Donald Trump nears the halfway point of his term, he is devoting much of his time to campaign rallies for fellow Republicans — which often serve as rallies for the president himself. At these events, banners and professionally made identical signs are ubiquitous, claiming “Promises made, promises kept.” But in an administration run by a man who has made more than 5,000 demonstrably false claims, really only the first half of that slogan is true.
Donald J. Trump
✔@realDonaldTrump
Wisconsin has suffered a great loss of jobs and trade, but if I win, all of the bad things happening in the U.S. will be rapidly reversed!
While conservatives are crowing that Trump has done exactly what he said he would do on some topics — for example, issuing orders to discriminate against Muslim people and immigrants, and stopping the government’s enforcement of environmental protections — he has largely failed to do the big things he suggested he could easily accomplish in office.
Many of these promises had some element of disconnect from reality — some were so vague they couldn’t even be attempted; some were flat-out lies, some were more difficult than he must have thought — but others were doable had he only bothered to try. Big and small, Trump often pretends the pledged actions are either underway or will be in the very near future, but somehow, they never seem to get done.