How many Campaign Promises has Donald Trump broke?

[Man With A Plan]

Sounds more like you're just trying to change the subject to the democrats. Instead of focusing on Trumps broken campaign promises.

The GOP has the trifecta. At least try to stay focused.

Trump has kept more campaign promises than any President in memory. Do you really want to start making that comparison? It's not going to go well for you. Just saying...

 

[jacksonlamb]

No wall is needed, pumpkin. The democrat policy of importing illegals is a thing of the past. Your illegals are now self- deporting by the thousands.

Your hurt feelings are funny.

Not at all. You are whining. Your Orange Puff violated the constitution, increased inflation, and is losing to Iran.

 

[YoursTruly]

Trump has kept more campaign promises than any President in memory. Do you really want to start making that comparison? It's not going to go well for you. Just saying...

You have memory problems.


No, this is not a true statement. It is a common partisan claim (often repeated by Trump and his supporters), but independent fact-checkers, promise trackers, and academic research on presidential promise fulfillment show it is false by any reasonable metric—whether percentage kept, absolute number kept, or comparison to historical averages.


Here’s the data from nonpartisan trackers:

• Trump’s first term (2016 campaign promises):
  PolitiFact’s Trump-O-Meter tracked 102 promises → 23% kept (24 promises), 22% compromised, ~53–55% broken or stalled.
  
  Comparisons to recent presidents:
  The Washington Post tracked 60 key promises from Trump’s “Contract with the American Voter” → 19 kept, 30 broken (he broke more than he kept).
  
  
  • Barack Obama: Tracked 533 promises → 47% kept.
    
    
    
  • Joe Biden: Tracked 99 promises → 33% kept (32% compromised, 34% broken).
    
    

Trump’s fulfillment rate was lower than both Obama’s and Biden’s under consistent tracking.Historical context: Academic studies of U.S. presidents (going back to the early 20th century) show they typically fulfill 60–75% of campaign promises on average. One analysis found Bill Clinton had the highest rate among recent presidents, while Richard Nixon had the lowest (~56%). Trump’s rate falls well below the long-term average.


Notes on why the claim doesn’t hold up:

• “More” is ambiguous (absolute number vs. percentage). Trump made fewer specific promises than Obama, but even in absolute terms Obama kept far more (255 vs. Trump’s ~24 in PolitiFact’s counts). Some early presidents like James K. Polk kept every major promise they made—but they made very few (e.g., four), so that doesn’t support “more than any.”
• Trackers focus on verifiable outcomes, not effort or rhetoric. Trump did deliver on some high-profile items (tax cuts, judges, criminal justice reform, etc.), but many others (Mexico wall paid by Mexico, repealing Obamacare, etc.) were broken or only partially met.
• Second-term data (as of mid-2026) is too early for a full picture and shows even lower rates so far (~19% kept per PolitiFact’s ongoing MAGA-Meter).

In short, presidents do keep a surprising number of promises overall (contrary to popular cynicism), but Trump did not set any record—he ranked below average and below several predecessors by the metrics used by fact-checkers. The claim is not supported by the evidence.

 

[Hollie]

Not at all. You are whining. Your Orange Puff violated the constitution, increased inflation, and is losing to Iran.

You’re getting desperate, little lady. Your comatose god is the one who violated the Constitution by refusing to follow immigration laws thus allowing your hero illegals to kill and maim US citizens,

Regarding inflation, your comatosecgod spiked inflation to 40 year highs.

The US is not losing to your hero mullocrats. Your comatose god did nothing to prevent your hero mullocrats from developing nukes.

You lost in every statement in your whining, hurt feelings tirade. How embarrassing for you.

 

[jacksonlamb]

Release the Epstein files and let the guillotine of elections fall on the Orange Neck.

 

[Hollie]

You have memory problems.


No, this is not a true statement. It is a common partisan claim (often repeated by Trump and his supporters), but independent fact-checkers, promise trackers, and academic research on presidential promise fulfillment show it is false by any reasonable metric—whether percentage kept, absolute number kept, or comparison to historical averages.


Here’s the data from nonpartisan trackers:

• Trump’s first term (2016 campaign promises):
  PolitiFact’s Trump-O-Meter tracked 102 promises → 23% kept (24 promises), 22% compromised, ~53–55% broken or stalled.
  
  Comparisons to recent presidents:
  The Washington Post tracked 60 key promises from Trump’s “Contract with the American Voter” → 19 kept, 30 broken (he broke more than he kept).
  
  • Barack Obama: Tracked 533 promises → 47% kept.
    
    
    
  • Joe Biden: Tracked 99 promises → 33% kept (32% compromised, 34% broken).
    

Trump’s fulfillment rate was lower than both Obama’s and Biden’s under consistent tracking.Historical context: Academic studies of U.S. presidents (going back to the early 20th century) show they typically fulfill 60–75% of campaign promises on average. One analysis found Bill Clinton had the highest rate among recent presidents, while Richard Nixon had the lowest (~56%). Trump’s rate falls well below the long-term average.


Notes on why the claim doesn’t hold up:

• “More” is ambiguous (absolute number vs. percentage). Trump made fewer specific promises than Obama, but even in absolute terms Obama kept far more (255 vs. Trump’s ~24 in PolitiFact’s counts). Some early presidents like James K. Polk kept every major promise they made—but they made very few (e.g., four), so that doesn’t support “more than any.”
• Trackers focus on verifiable outcomes, not effort or rhetoric. Trump did deliver on some high-profile items (tax cuts, judges, criminal justice reform, etc.), but many others (Mexico wall paid by Mexico, repealing Obamacare, etc.) were broken or only partially met.
• Second-term data (as of mid-2026) is too early for a full picture and shows even lower rates so far (~19% kept per PolitiFact’s ongoing MAGA-Meter).

In short, presidents do keep a surprising number of promises overall (contrary to popular cynicism), but Trump did not set any record—he ranked below average and below several predecessors by the metrics used by fact-checkers. The claim is not supported by the evidence.

‘Non partisan trackers”. That’s a funny joke.

 

[Man With A Plan]

You have memory problems.


No, this is not a true statement. It is a common partisan claim (often repeated by Trump and his supporters), but independent fact-checkers, promise trackers, and academic research on presidential promise fulfillment show it is false by any reasonable metric—whether percentage kept, absolute number kept, or comparison to historical averages.


Here’s the data from nonpartisan trackers:

• Trump’s first term (2016 campaign promises):
  PolitiFact’s Trump-O-Meter tracked 102 promises → 23% kept (24 promises), 22% compromised, ~53–55% broken or stalled.
  
  Comparisons to recent presidents:
  The Washington Post tracked 60 key promises from Trump’s “Contract with the American Voter” → 19 kept, 30 broken (he broke more than he kept).
  
  • Barack Obama: Tracked 533 promises → 47% kept.
    
    
    
  • Joe Biden: Tracked 99 promises → 33% kept (32% compromised, 34% broken).
    

Trump’s fulfillment rate was lower than both Obama’s and Biden’s under consistent tracking.Historical context: Academic studies of U.S. presidents (going back to the early 20th century) show they typically fulfill 60–75% of campaign promises on average. One analysis found Bill Clinton had the highest rate among recent presidents, while Richard Nixon had the lowest (~56%). Trump’s rate falls well below the long-term average.


Notes on why the claim doesn’t hold up:

• “More” is ambiguous (absolute number vs. percentage). Trump made fewer specific promises than Obama, but even in absolute terms Obama kept far more (255 vs. Trump’s ~24 in PolitiFact’s counts). Some early presidents like James K. Polk kept every major promise they made—but they made very few (e.g., four), so that doesn’t support “more than any.”
• Trackers focus on verifiable outcomes, not effort or rhetoric. Trump did deliver on some high-profile items (tax cuts, judges, criminal justice reform, etc.), but many others (Mexico wall paid by Mexico, repealing Obamacare, etc.) were broken or only partially met.
• Second-term data (as of mid-2026) is too early for a full picture and shows even lower rates so far (~19% kept per PolitiFact’s ongoing MAGA-Meter).

In short, presidents do keep a surprising number of promises overall (contrary to popular cynicism), but Trump did not set any record—he ranked below average and below several predecessors by the metrics used by fact-checkers. The claim is not supported by the evidence.

Care to cite something a little less biased, Yours?

 

[YoursTruly]

‘Non partisan trackers”. That’s a funny joke.

Prove the "non partisan trackers" wrong.

You can't just say they're wrong. Prove it.

 

[Hollie]

Release the Epstein files and let the guillotine of elections fall on the Orange Neck.

Your goofy conspiracy theories are typical leftist blustering.

 

[jacksonlamb]

You’re getting desperate, little lady. Your comatose god is the one who violated the Constitution by refusing to follow immigration laws thus allowing your hero illegals to kill and maim US citizens,

Regarding inflation, your comatosecgod spiked inflation to 40 year highs.

The US is not losing to your hero mullocrats. Your comatose god did nothing to prevent your hero mullocrats from developing nukes.

You lost in every statement in your whining, hurt feelings tirade. How embarrassing for you.

It's higher under Trump than at the end of Biden's term, when he brought it way down.

He cured Trump's 14.8% UE rate.

We have not won this 'forever war.' We will not.

Yer whining, sissy, and your mascara is running.

 

[jacksonlamb]

Hollies is blubbering and Yours Truly crying.

MAGA is always crybabying, always.

Release the Epstein Guillotine.

 

[YoursTruly]

Your goofy conspiracy theories are typical leftist blustering.

So you think Bill Clinton didn't have sexual relations with underaged girls at rape island or at any of Epsteins other locations?


If so, you're having to bend WAAAAAY to far just to defend Trump.

 

[Man With A Plan]

Release the Epstein files and let the guillotine of elections fall on the Orange Neck.

You really are clueless. Haven't you figured it out yet, Jackson? Epstein was in bed (literally and figuratively!) with Democrats! He HATED Donald Trump because Trump kicked his ass out of Mar A Lago and sicced the authorities on him! Is Trump's name in the Epstein files? Yes...its in there because Epstein was obsessed with "getting" Trump! That's the reason he was on the phone with Stacy Plaskett in the middle of a Congressional hearing feeding her questions to ask that he thought would make Trump look bad.

 

[jacksonlamb]

Epstein is waiting for Donald. It will be decisive this fall.

 

[YoursTruly]

Epstein is waiting for Donald. It will be decisive this fall.

Trump and the Republicans should've taken the lead on this. Released all the files. Arrested and prosecuted people (as other countries have done). And focused on his campaign promises.

That would've secured the upcoming mid terms for the GOP. And more than likely put a president in the white house in 2028.

 

[Hollie]

Prove the "non partisan trackers" wrong.

You can't just say they're wrong. Prove it.

I proved your "non partisan trackers" are wrong. Prove I didn’t.

I have proved it's wrong. Prove I haven't. See? This is the failing of your silly conspiracies and your failed attempt at argument. Your own ''prove it isn't'' weasel is just as effective as a counter. Thanks. I'll wait for your disproof of my disproof. We are waiting.

It's higher under Trump than at the end of Biden's term, when he brought it way down.

He cured Trump's 14.8% UE rate.

We have not won this 'forever war.' We will not.

Yer whining, sissy, and your mascara is running.

That was your classic weasel. The fact is, comatose Joe pushed inflation to 40 year highs.

We have low unemployment, an expanding GDP and an expanding job market.

US economy added 115,000 jobs in April, beating expectations

The U.S. economy added jobs at a modest pace last month according to the Labor Department's April 2026 jobs report that was released on Friday.

www.foxbusiness.com

What ‘ forever war” are you whining about?

 

[g5000]

 

[Hollie]

Epstein is waiting for Donald. It will be decisive this fall.

Is that your best attempt at conspiracy theory?

 

[Hollie]

Typical, pointless cut and paste cartoons from the Biden groupies.

 

[Hollie]

You really are clueless. Haven't you figured it out yet, Jackson? Epstein was in bed (literally and figuratively!) with Democrats! He HATED Donald Trump because Trump kicked his ass out of Mar A Lago and sicced the authorities on him! Is Trump's name in the Epstein files? Yes...its in there because Epstein was obsessed with "getting" Trump! That's the reason he was on the phone with Stacy Plaskett in the middle of a Congressional hearing feeding her questions to ask that he thought would make Trump look bad.

Exactly. The frantic left will forever carry on about Trump being “mentioned” in the Epstein files. They just always fail to explain what being “mentioned” actually means.