He likes to claim he’s keeping his campaign promises, but let’s look at his record.
Donald Trump’s latest flip-flops on healthcare and the Mexican border continue a pattern of promises, and reversals, that gets far too little attention. His flip-flops show that Trump ignores the interests of the party he latched onto in favor of whatever crazy idea pops into his head.
Although at his rallies Trump delights his uninformed supporters with claims that he’s followed through on his campaign promises—The Wall—he is actually delivering very little.
- Candidate Trump promised a $1 trillion program to repair and improve America’s infrastructure but has done nothing. Had he pushed an infrastructure bill, the Democrats would have had to go along or risk the wrath of the working class. But instead, they can run on Republicans failure to fulfill the promise of jobs and smoother roads.
- He promised a huge tax cut for most Americans—$50,000 of tax-free income for married couples ($25,000 for singles)—and no taxes for 75 million Americans. The tax law he signed in December 2017 showered almost all its benefits on big multinational corporations like Apple and the best-off Americans while raising total taxes on millions of people. And don’t forget that Trump got Congress to raise the threshold for paying income taxes from almost $23,000 for a family of four to just $24,000—not much, not much at all.
View the complete April 3 article by David Cay Johnston of DC Report on the AlterNet website here.