First-term promises
PolitiFact closed its first-term tracker with 55 promises broken, 23 compromises and 24 kept.
Open the full Trump-O-Meter ↗︎The record against the rhetoric.
Trump asks voters to judge him by what he says he has delivered. This record puts those words beside the results. It follows two different questions: whether a claim was true, and whether a promise became policy. A broken promise is not automatically a lie; a confident assertion is not evidence that the work was done.
30,573first-term false or misleading claim instances recorded by The Washington Post
121dated claim checks in The 47 Files
12high-impact promises highlighted here
Second-term promises
These saved counts cover 75 promises; the publisher’s tracker continues to change. “In the works” reports activity, not delivery; the outcome rating matters more than announced intent.
Open the live MAGA-Meter ↗︎Promises against outcomes
The charts cover PolitiFact’s full trackers. The selected promises below highlight consequential pledges; they are not the complete scorecard. A kept promise records delivery, not an endorsement.
Publisher ratings are attributed to PolitiFact; the conditional gas-price pledge is a separate 47 Files assessment.
Build a border wall and make Mexico pay for it.
PolitiFact found that the promised wall was not completed and Mexico did not pay for it.
Repeal and replace the Affordable Care Act.
The Affordable Care Act remained law at the end of the first term; the repeal effort failed in Congress.
Grow the economy by 4% a year.
PolitiFact found annual real GDP growth never reached 4%, even before the pandemic recession.
Appoint a special prosecutor to investigate Hillary Clinton.
No special prosecutor was appointed to carry out the campaign pledge.
Remove all undocumented immigrants from the United States.
The first term ended without the promised removal of the entire undocumented population.
Renegotiate NAFTA.
The United States, Mexico and Canada replaced NAFTA with the USMCA. The USMCA now being revisited was negotiated by Trump’s own administration during his first term.
Cut taxes for everyone, especially the middle class.
PolitiFact credited a major tax law while finding that the outcome did not match the promise for every taxpayer.
Pardon people convicted of crimes connected to January 6.
PolitiFact records the pledge as delivered after Trump granted sweeping clemency on returning to office.
End birthright citizenship.
PolitiFact records the pledge as broken after the Supreme Court blocked the policy.
Carry out the largest domestic deportation operation in US history.
The administration has pursued the policy, but the comparative, outcome-based promise remains open.
Apply a 10% to 20% tariff to nondomestic goods sold in America.
Tariff policy has moved repeatedly, but PolitiFact has not marked the broad campaign promise complete.
Bring gas below $2 per gallon after victory in Iran.
The statement ties the target to a claimed future condition and gives no national benchmark or delivery date. It cannot yet be scored as delivered.