Trump said what he would do, and he has delivered more consistently than any president in my lifetime.
Link: https://apnews.com/9e62021bcde04e69aa2ffc2e70a60f8f
Let scooter and 521 pay for abortions.
As long as you only pay attention to certain things, disregarding those promises unkept (and obviously if you selectively remember prior presidents), then you’re right.
Some of us might also suggest that the important promises - on health care, Iran, NK, infrastructure, wall construction, etc - are unfulfilled. But selective memory makes them go away! Yay!
Iran - he promised to end the Obama agreement and he did (regardless of whether you agree),
NK - he inherited an unmitigated disaster, and has done pretty well, bu that one isn’t going away anytime soon though Trump never said that this one would.
Infrastructure- all that awaits is the Dems in Congress to sign on, but no way they will do that before the election....that has not been a broken promise, just one put on hold due to partisan politics beyond his control
I see that as a 2nd term topic
Wall - he has built at least some wall despite maximum resistance from Dems and some R’s and no help from the remaining R’s. Trump recently won a court victory to transfer about 8billion more dollars (to the 5 billion already given) to build wall in critical areas. More needs to be done, but he gets an A+ for effort and kept more of his promise than was thought possible. Also, he threatened Mexico with tariffs and got them to commit troops to their southern border at their expense to stem the problem (which is caused by Dem policy btw)
This is a barrier that Mexico is paying for - a metaphorical wall if you will.
The only complaint I have is the deficit, but I put that blame more on the feckless GOP in Congress who wouldn’t get the deal done when they could have. Trump decided he wasn’t going down because of them, and he just handed Pelosi everything she wanted to remove it from the upcoming election table. That is my criticism thus far.
Damn good record. Amazing. Spectacular.
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Defining promises would be tough.
Where do you draw the line between a promise and just an off-hand remark, or an aspiration, or a statement of policy?
How many times does a candidate have to say it for it to count?
How do you even measure success in keeping a promise? Some things are out of their control.
I doubt anyone would quibble with the promises Baron listed, for example.
My totally non-statistical perception of presidential promise-keeping over the past 40 years:
Fairly good: Obama, Trump
Not so good: Reagan, Both Bushes, Clinton
All have some major promise that wasn't kept. I think about the red meat Reagan threw to Christian conservatives, but in retrospect, didn't deliver on much. Signed onto budgets that ballooned the deficit. Libertarians back then despised him. And yes, I would say, ironically, Trump has delivered more to Christian conservatives than Reagan ever did.
Again, maybe I'm wrong with those perceptions, but it doesn't surprise me that Obama and Trump especially riled the opposite side, since they tended to follow through on things for which their rivals strenuously objected.
He kept all his promises. Except for those he didn’t keep. Which were someone else’s fault. Even on those issues that he clearly led.
Bullet proof!
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