Budget
| Promise |
Status |
| 1) Keep Medicare, Medicaid and Social Security benefits the same |
Pending |
| 2) Reduce the $18 trillion national debt (eliminate in 8 years) |
Pending |
| 3) Hiring Freeze for non-essential government employees |
 Complete |
Drugs
| Promise |
Status |
| 4) Allow states to decide if they want to legalize pot or not. |
Not in plans |
| 5) Provide additional funding for drug treatment |
Not in plans |
Economy
| Promise |
Status |
| 6) $1 trillion program for infrastructure investment over 10 years |
Pending |
| 7) Grow the nation’s economy by 4-6% |
Pending |
| 8) 25 million jobs created over the next decade |
Pending |
| 9) Create manufacturing jobs in Detroit and Michigan, by penalizing companies that outsource |
Pending |
| 10) ‘Bring back’ mining jobs in WV, PA, and OH |
Pending |
| 11) Push for minimum wage at $10 |
Not in plans |
| 12) Create thousands of construction jobs |
Pending |
Education
| Promise |
Status |
| 13) Completely end the Common Core |
Pending |
| 14) Provide $20 billion in federal funding for private and charter schools. |
Not in plans |
| 15) Cap student loans at 12.5 percent of discretionary income and forgive after 15 years |
Not in plans |
Environment
| Promise |
Status |
| 16) Dismantle, or severely reduce, the EPA |
Committed |
| 17) Overturn Obama’s environmental executive orders |
Committed |
| 18) Revoke the Clean Power Plan |
Committed |
| 19) Overturn Obama’s moratorium on new leases for coal mines |
Committed |
| 20) Pull out of, or re-negotiate, the Paris Agreement |
Unclear |
| 21) Lower energy prices |
Pending |
Foreign Relations
| Promise |
Status |
| 22) Walk away or completely renegotiate the Iran deal |
Not in plans |
| 23) Force other NATO countries to pay for more of their defense |
Not in plans |
| 24) Overturn Obama’s executive orders regarding Cuba |
Not in plans |
| 25) Label China a currency manipulator, with tariff penalties |
Not in plans |
| 26) Leave troops in Afghanistan |
Pending |
Gun Rights
| Promise |
Status |
| 27) Day 1 – Eliminate gun-free zones at military bases and schools. |
 Not Met |
| 28) Remove bans on semi-auto rifles and high-capacity magazines |
Not in plans |
| 29) Make concealed-carry permits valid in all 50 states. |
Not in plans |
| 30) Overturn Obama’s executive orders regarding gun control. |
Not in plans |
Healthcare
| Promise |
Status |
| 31) Repeal and replace Obamacare |
Pending |
| 32) Eliminate the individual mandate |
Unclear |
| 33) Remove state limitations for health insurance |
Unclear |
| 34) Allow importing cheaper medications from overseas |
Not in plans |
| 35) Provide six weeks of paid maternity leave |
Not in plans |
Immigration
| Promise |
Status |
| 36) Build a significant border wall paid for by Mexico |
Not in plans |
| 37) On Day 1 – Overturn Obama’s executive orders related to immigration |
Not Met |
| 38) Deport ~11 million immigrants illegally in the United States. |
Unclear |
| 39) Triple the number of U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement officers |
Not in plans |
| 40) End birthright citizenship |
Not in plans |
| 41) Cancel, or substantially cut, federal funding to “sanctuary cities” |
Committed |
| 42) Starting Day 1 – Immediately deport 2-3M alien criminals |
Committed |
Justice
| Promise |
Status |
| 43) Assign a special prosecutor for Hillary Clinton |
Retracted |
| 44) Minimum sentence of five years for violent crimes using a gun |
Not in plans |
| 45) Day 1 – Sign an executive order calling for the death penalty for killing a police officer. |
Not Met |
| 46) Federally expand the use of “stop and frisk” |
Not in plans |
Personal
| Promise |
Status |
| 47) Never take a vacation |
Pending |
| 48) Sue the women who accused him of sexual misconduct |
Not in plans |
| 49) Sue the New York Times |
Not in plans |
| 50) Reopen Trump University. |
Not in plans |
| 51) Change the new name back to Mount McKinley. |
Not in plans |
| 52) Release tax returns when the audit is complete. |
Unclear |
Regulation
| Promise |
Status |
| 53) Impose term limits |
Committed |
| 54) Impose a 5 year lobbying ban |
Complete |
| 55) Get rid of the Dodd-Frank Wall Street Reform and Consumer Protection Act. |
Committed |
| 56) Stop AT&T from buying Time Warner |
Not in plans |
Security
| Promise |
Status |
| 57) Shut down parts of the Internet, to limit access to terrorism being encouraged and spread |
Unclear |
| 58) Ban Muslims from entering the United States, perhaps only from specific countries |
Unclear |
| 59) Bar Syrian refugees from entering the country and kick out any who are already living here. |
Not in plans |
| 60) Create a database of Syrian refugees, perhaps of Muslims |
Not in plans |
| 61) Target and kill the relatives of terrorists. |
Not in plans |
| 62) Use waterboarding as an interrogation technique |
Unclear |
| 63) Invest $450 billion in new defense spending |
Pending |
| 64) Create an ideological screening test for all immigration applicants |
Unclear |
Taxes
| Promise |
Status |
| 65) Fully deductible health insurance premiums |
Committed |
| 66) Reduce the number of tax brackets from seven to four |
Committed |
| 67) Lower the corporate tax rate to 15 percent |
Committed |
| 68) Eliminate federal estate tax |
Committed |
| 69) No income tax for individuals earning <$25,000, couples earning <$50,000 |
Committed |
| 70) Revenue neutral tax plan |
Pending |
| 71) Allow corporations a one-time window to transfer overseas capital |
Pending |
| 72) Allow parents to fully deduct child-care expenses |
Unclear |
Trade
| Promise |
Status |
| 73) Day 1 – Withdraw from TPP |
Complete |
| 74) Extensively renegotiate NAFTA |
Committed |
| 75) Impose 45% tariffs on goods made in China |
Pending |
Women’s Rights
| Promise |
Status |
| 76) Defund Planned Parenthood, or have them stop abortions |
Committed |
| 77) Prohibit abortions after 20 weeks |
Not in plans |
| 78) Make the Hyde Amendment permanent |
Committed |
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Summary as of February 9, 2017:
| Status |
Count |
| Retracted / Not Met |
4 |
| Omitted / Not in plans |
28 |
| Unclear / Pending |
27 |
| Committed / On Target |
16 |
| Complete |
3 |
References
1: “We’re going to save your Social Security without killing it like so many people want to do. And your Medicare,” – Link
2: “…get rid of the nation’s more than $19 trillion national debt over a period of eight years.” – Link
3: “…a hiring freeze on all federal employees to reduce federal workforce through attrition.” – Link
4: “In terms of marijuana and legalization, I think that should be a state issue, state-by-state,” – Link
5: “…expand incentives to use drug courts and mandated treatment… expand access to treatment slots and end Medicaid policies that obstruct inpatient treatment…. distribute widely naloxone/narcan (opioid antidote to treat OD) to first responders and caregivers” – Link
6: “…public-private partnerships, and private investments through tax incentives, to spur $1 trillion in infrastructure investment over 10 years. ” – Link
7: “We’re bringing GDP from really 1%, which is what it is now… We’re bringing it from 1% to 4%. And I actually think we can go higher than 4%. I think you can go to 5% or 6%,” – Link
8: “This team will be instrumental in implementing the President-elect’s America First economic plan that will create more than 25 million jobs over the next decade…” – Link
9: “If Ford or another company announces they want to move their jobs to Mexico or another country, then I will pick up the phone— even though it’s not very presidential for me to be calling the head of a company, but it’s so easy. I will call the executives … [and] tell them that if they want to do that … we will charge a 35 percent tax when they try to ship their products back across what will be a very strong border.” – Link
10: “We’re going to get those miners back to work … the miners of West Virginia and Pennsylvania, which was so great to me last week, Ohio and all over are going to start to work again, believe me.” – Link
11: “At least 10 dollars, but it has to go up…” – Link
12: “Create thousands of new jobs in construction, steel manufacturing, and other sectors.” – Link
13: “[As president I’d] end Common Core. Common Core is a disaster.” – Link
14: “…reallocate $20 billion from existing federal spending and create block grants for states to administer, with the goal of providing direct financial aid to the estimated 11 million children living below the federal poverty level.” – Link
15: “That is why under my student loan program, we would cap repayment to an affordable portion of a borrower’s income–12.5 percent and if borrowers work hard and make their full payments for 15 years, we will let them get on with their lives.” – Link
16: “Environmental protection, we waste all of this money. We’re going to bring that back to the states.” – Link
17: “…rescind all job-destroying Obama executive actions.” – Link
18: “…scrap the $5 trillion dollar Obama-Clinton Climate Action Plan and the Clean Power Plan.” – Link
19: “I will rescind the coal mining lease moratorium.” – Link
20: ““I will be looking at that very, very seriously, and at a minimum I will be renegotiating those agreements, at a minimum.” – Link
21: “…reduce the price of energy and increase our economic output. ” – Link
22: “When I am elected president, I will renegotiate with Iran — right after I enable the immediate release of our American prisoners and ask Congress to impose new sanctions that stop Iran from having the ability to sponsor terrorism around the world” – Link
23: “NATO is costing us a fortune, and yes, we’re protecting Europe, but we’re spending a lot of money. Number one, I think the distribution of costs has to be changed.” – Link
24: “I Will Reverse Barack Obama’s Executive Order on Cuba.” – Link
25: “I am going to instruct my Treasury Secretary to label China a currency manipulator, and to apply tariffs to any country that devalues its currency…” – Link
26: “We should have never been in Iraq in the first place, but when we took the troops out, that was the end of that, and now Iran is taking over Iraq as sure as you’re sitting there. So, I think that probably they have to do that.” – Link
27: “I will get rid of gun-free zones in schools — you have to — and on military bases on my first day. It gets signed. My first day – there’s no more gun free zones,” – Link
28: “What they’re really talking about are popular semi-automatic rifles and standard magazines that are owned by tens of millions of Americans. Law-abiding people should be allowed to own the firearm of their choice.” – Link
29: “That’s why I have a concealed carry permit and why tens of millions of Americans do too. That permit should be valid in all 50 states.” – Link
30: “So he’s going to sign another executive order having to do with the Second Amendment, having to do with guns. I will veto. I will unsign that so fast.” – Link
31: “…Entire Program Must be Repealed and Replaced” – Link
32: “Our elected representatives must eliminate the individual mandate. No person should be required to buy insurance unless he or she wants to.” – Link
33: “Modify existing law that inhibits the sale of health insurance across state lines.” – Link
34: “Allowing consumers access to imported, safe and dependable drugs from overseas will bring more options to consumers.” – Link
35: “The Trump plan will guarantee six weeks of paid maternity leave.” – Link
36: “…to build a great, great wall on our southern border… compel Mexico to pay for that wall.” – Link
37: “Cancel every unconstitutional executive action, memorandum, and order issued by President Obama.” – Link
38: “We have at least 11 million people in this country that came in illegally… They will go out.” – Link
39: “…triple the number of Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) officers working in the country.” – Link
40: “A woman gets pregnant. She’s nine months. She walks across the border. She has the baby, in the United States, and we take care of the baby for 85 years. I don’t think so. ” – Link
41: “…cut federal funding to so-called sanctuary cities” – Link
42: “What we are going to do is get the people that are criminal and have criminal records, gang members, drug dealers, where a lot of these people, probably 2 million, it could be even 3 million, we are getting them out of our country or we are going to incarcerate…” – Link
43: “If I win, I am going to instruct my attorney general to get a special prosecutor to look into your situation.” – Link
44: “…prosecuted in federal court and go to prison for five years – no parole or early release. ” – Link
45: “Anybody killing a police man, a police woman, a police officer, anybody killing a police officer, the death penalty is going to happen.” – Link
46: “I would do stop-and-frisk. I think you have to.” – Link
47: “I don’t think we’ll be very big on vacations” – Link
48: “I told you, I’ll release them after the audit.” – Link
49: “All of these liars will be sued once the election is over,” – Link
50: “They were very embarrassed. It will be part of the lawsuit we are preparing against them. ” – Link
51: “After the litigation is disposed of and the case won, I have instructed my execs to open Trump U” – Link
52: “President Obama wants to change the name of Mt. McKinley to Denali after more than 100 years. Great insult to Ohio. I will change back!” – Link
53: “We’re going to put on term limits, which a lot of people aren’t happy about, but we’re putting on term limits” – Link
54: “Not only will people not be able to (be) registered state or federal lobbyists, but when they leave government, they will be banned from being a registered lobbyist for five years,” – Link
55: “”Dodd-Frank has made it impossible for bankers to function. It makes it very hard for bankers to loan money for people to create jobs, for people with businesses to create jobs. And that has to stop.” – Link
56: “We’ll look at breaking this deal up,” – Link
57: “I would certainly be open to closing areas where we are at war with somebody. I sure as hell don’t want to let people that want to kill us and kill our nation use our Internet. Yes sir, I am.” – Link
58: “A total and complete shutdown of Muslims entering the United States until our country’s representatives can figure out what is going on.” – Link
59: “Anybody that’s brought into this country from the migration is going to be out…” – Link
60: When asked if he would implement such a database Trump said, “I would certainly implement that. Absolutely” – Link
61: “You Have to Take Out Their Families” – Link
62: “and we are taking about waterboarding … I would bring it back, yes, I would bring it back. ” – Link
63: “vow to restore $450 billion of existing cuts in military spending.” – Link
64: “In addition to screening out all members of the sympathizers of terrorist groups, we must also screen out any who have hostile attitudes toward our country” – Link
65: “Allow individuals to fully deduct health insurance premium payments from their tax returns under the current tax system.” – Link
66: “All other Americans will get a simpler tax code with four brackets – 0%, 10%, 20% and 25% – instead of the current seven. ” – Link
67: “No business of any size, from a Fortune 500 to a mom and pop shop to a freelancer living job to job, will pay more than 15% of their business income in taxes” – Link
68: “No family will have to pay the death tax. ” – Link
69: “If you are single and earn less than $25,000, or married and jointly earn less than $50,000, you will not owe any income tax.” – Link
70: “The Trump Tax Plan Is Revenue Neutral… by eliminating loopholes and income from repatriation of capital.” – Link
71: “A one-time deemed repatriation of corporate cash held overseas at a significantly discounted 10% tax rate…” – Link
72: “allow working parents to deduct from their income taxes child care expenses.” – Link
73: “I am going to withdraw the United States from the Trans-Pacific Partnership” – Link
74: “I’m going tell our NAFTA partners that I intend to immediately renegotiate the terms of that agreement to get a better deal for our workers.” – Link
75: “I would do a tax. And the tax, let me tell you what the tax should be … the tax should be 45 percent,” – Link
76: “I Would Defund Planned Parenthood As Long As They’re Doing Abortions” – Link
77: “…the United States should not be one of seven countries that allows elective abortions after 20 weeks.” – Link
78: “Making the Hyde Amendment permanent law…” – Link