Donald Trump says he kept his campaign promises. The record is more complicated.
PolitiFact’s MAGA-Meter tracks 75 second-term promises. The results so far are a mix of kept promises, compromises and stalled plans.
President Donald Trump has said he delivered on all he returned to office to do, already.
“I’ve kept all my promises, and much more,” he told a Detroit audience in January.
Trump reeled off a list:
No tax on tips.
No tax on Social Security.
Tariffs on foreign cars.
Revoking environmental regulations.
The truth?
Trump fulfilled a decent chunk of his domestic agenda in his first year — enforcing hardline immigration policies, withdrawing from international organizations and signing a Republican-backed tax and spending law, the One Big Beautiful Bill Act.
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