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Remember when.

Trump said “in 19 months I've delivered on every single promise I made!”
Let’s review TRUMP’S BROKEN PROMISES (from campaign speeches + Truth Social)
NO NEW WARS / NO MIDDLE EAST WARS
• “I’m not going to start a war. I’m going to stop wars.” — Victory speech, Palm Beach, Nov. 6, 2024
• “Under Trump, we will have no more wars, no more disruptions, and we will have prosperity and peace for all.” — Pennsylvania rally, Aug. 2024
• “With our victory in November, the years of war, weakness, and chaos will be over. I don’t have wars.” — RNC speech, July 2024
• “We will measure our success … by the wars we never get into.” — Inaugural Address, Jan. 2025

Reality: U.S.-Israel war on Iran launched Feb. 28, 2026; also bombed these 6 countries: Yemen, Syria, Iraq, Somalia, Nigeria, Venezuela.
Trump later told NBC (June 2026) he “didn’t promise anything” / “didn’t guarantee no war.”
$2 GAS / CUT ENERGY PRICES IN HALF
• “We’re going down and getting gasoline below $2 a gallon.” — 2024 campaign (Economic Club of New York, Sept. 2024; repeated at rallies)
• “We will cut your energy prices in half. Mark it down … within 12 months.” — Wilmington, NC rally, Sept. 2024
• “You’re gonna see $2 gasoline pretty soon.” — Oct. 2025
Reality: National average ~$4.28/gal as of Sept. 10, 2026 (AAA).
Record Labor Day prices. Never hit $2 nationally in the second term. Repeatedly claimed it already happened when it hadn’t.
DOGE / DIVIDEND CHECKS
• Endorsed $5,000 “DOGE Dividend” from government-efficiency savings
• “A dividend of at least $2,000 a person (not including high income people!) will be paid to everyone.” — Truth Social, Nov. 9, 2025 (tariff revenue)
• Later floated another $5,000 “if Republicans win the House and Senate” — GOP midterm convention, Dallas, Sept. 9, 2026
Reality: No DOGE checks. No $2,000 tariff checks. DOGE dissolved late 2025 with a tiny fraction of the promised savings.
Trump later asked reporters “When did I do that?” about the $2,000 post.
MEXICO WILL PAY FOR THE WALL
• “I will build a great, great wall on our southern border, and I will have Mexico pay for that wall. Mark my words.” — Campaign launch, June 16, 2015 (repeated hundreds of times)
Reality: U.S. taxpayers paid. Mexico never wrote a check. Trump later claimed he “never meant they’re going to write out a check.”
REPEAL AND REPLACE OBAMACARE
• “Real change begins with immediately repealing and replacing the disaster known as Obamacare.” — 2016 campaign
Reality: Repeal failed in Congress (2017). ACA still law. Later efforts made coverage more expensive for many, not a replacement.
4% ECONOMIC GROWTH EVERY YEAR
• Promised 4% annual GDP growth (2016 campaign)
Reality: Never hit 4% for a full year in the first term (peak ~2.9% in 2018). Second-term growth also well below the claim.
END THE UKRAINE WAR IN 24 HOURS
• “If I were president … I’d be able to negotiate an end to this horrible … war in 24 hours.” — Repeated 2023–2024
Reality: War still ongoing more than 18 months into the second term. PolitiFact: Promise Broken.
INFRASTRUCTURE BOOM
• $550 billion / later $1 trillion infrastructure plan (2016 campaign)
Reality: No comprehensive bill of that scale passed in the first term.
DRAIN THE SWAMP / NO GOLF / NO VACATIONS
• Promised not to take vacations and to work constantly; ethics bans on officials.
Reality: Record golf-club visits. Many aides later lobbied. Term-limits pledge for Congress never happened.
RELEASE TAX RETURNS
• Repeatedly said he would release them after an “audit.”
Reality: Never released while in office.
LOCK HER UP / SPECIAL PROSECUTOR FOR HILLARY
• Rally chant he encouraged; pledged a special prosecutor.
Reality: No special prosecutor appointed for Clinton.
END BIRTHRIGHT CITIZENSHIP
• 2016 and 2024 campaigns
Reality: First term — never enacted. Second term — executive order blocked in court.
NO TAX ON SOCIAL SECURITY
• 2024 campaign pledge
Reality: 2025 tax law created a partial break for some seniors; did not eliminate the tax for all recipients.
PRICES DOWN ON DAY ONE / GROCERIES CHEAP AGAIN
• “I will end inflation and make America affordable again.” / prices “immediately”
Reality: Groceries, housing, and energy costs have soared. Oil at $110 right now due to the Iran war and will push high prices even higher.
BALANCED BUDGET / PAY DOWN THE DEBT WITH TARIFFS
• First-term and 2024 claims that tariffs + cuts would rapidly shrink the deficit
Reality: Debt rose in both terms.
Tariff “trillions” claims overstated; no $2k checks issued from the revenue.
CONGRESSIONAL TERM LIMITS
• “I will push for a constitutional amendment to impose term limits on all members of Congress.” — 2016
Reality: Never happened.
6 WEEKS PAID FAMILY LEAVE
• 2016 campaign
Reality: Never enacted nationally.
DECLARE CHINA A CURRENCY MANIPULATOR (THEN DIDN’T)
• 2016 pledge; later abandoned it.
Reality: Broken, then walked back.
“I KEPT EVERY PROMISE”
He says this often. The record above is why fact-checkers (PolitiFact Trump-O-Meter / MAGA-Meter and others) show a large share rated Broken, Stalled, or Compromise — not Kept.