One Year Later, a Look at Trump’s Pledges About the Presidency

The following article by Linda Qiu was posted on the New York Times website January 23, 2018:

A rally for President Trump last month in Pensacola, Fla. Credit Tom Brenner/The New York Times

WASHINGTON — As a freewheeling candidate on the campaign trail, Donald J. Trump amassed a long list of promises.

Some became rallying cries and signature to his candidacy (“build the wall”). Others reflected conventional Republican policy wishes (repealing the Affordable Care Act). And then there were the unorthodox pledges about how he would comport himself in office, a few probably improvised (“I will never be in a bicycle race”) or doomed from the start (“We won’t tweet anymore — not presidential”). Continue reading “One Year Later, a Look at Trump’s Pledges About the Presidency”