Promises
What was pledged on the campaign trail, next to what actually happened.
Standing rule: no scores. Color marks whether something is in force, reversed, contested, concluded, or permanent — not good or bad.
- Color is a legal fact, not an opinion. It shows — whether something is still in force, was reversed, or is contested in court — never whether it was good or bad.
- Every number links to its source and to how strongly it can be tied to the action () — click any figure to see the full evidence.
- Nothing here is scored, graded, or ranked. When two credible sources disagree, this archive shows both numbers instead of picking one.
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Specific commitments made on the campaign trail, tracked to their actual outcome. Some of these are their own entry; most link into a broader policy entry that already documents what happened in full — the verdict shown here is read live from that entry's own standing, never a separate claim invented for this page.
This archive tracks 17 promises out of the hundreds any campaign makes — picked for how well-documented and consequential each is, not for outcome. Do not read the list below as a kept-versus-broken rate. Real promises like "drain the swamp" lobbying reform and "bring back manufacturing" as their own tracked claim are left out on purpose, not by accident — they need original research to source a clean verdict rather than borrowing one from an adjacent entry, and that's a deliberate follow-up, not a gap being hidden.
What "Kept" actually requires: a promise is only marked Kept when its outcome can't be undone by an ordinary act of a future administration — a completed treaty exit, a lifetime appointment, a settled court ruling. A policy that is currently in force but reversible by a future signature or statute — a tariff, a withdrawal, a pledge still being implemented — is marked In progress even when nothing about it has failed, because "kept" and "currently standing" are different claims. Not kept means reversed, blocked, or never delivered; Partially kept means real parts of the promise landed and real parts didn't.