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# ✅ Promises Made, Promises Kept — One Year Later

The White House
November 5, 2025

One year ago today, the American people delivered a resounding mandate to President Donald J. Trump when they overwhelmingly re-elected him to an historic second term. In just ten months since his inauguration as the 47th President of the United States, he has moved with unprecedented speed and resolve to secure the border, drive down costs, restore public safety, and unleash American energy and prosperity — and momentum is building for even greater achievements ahead.

Here are just some of President Trump’s PROMISES MADE, PROMISES KEPT:

## Stopping the migrant invasion

- PROMISE MADE: “We will close the border. We will stop the invasion of illegals into our country.” (10/12/24)
- ✅ PROMISE KEPT: Under President Trump, the number of illegal immigrants crossing the southern border are at historic lows after his rapid action to close the border on Day One, with illegal crossings plummeting to levels not seen in decades and virtually no illegal aliens being released into the country’s interior.
- PROMISE MADE: “I will immediately end the Biden border nightmare that traffickers are using to exploit vulnerable women and children.” (7/21/23)
- ✅ PROMISE KEPT: The number of unaccompanied illegal immigrant children crossing into the country has reached a record low. At its peak under Biden, 4.6% of illegal border crossings were unaccompanied minors — many of whom were victims of trafficking. In the first two weeks of March under President Trump, that percentage had already fallen to just 0.4% of illegal crossings.
- PROMISE MADE: “325,000 children are missing or dead. They came through the border… 325,000 children went through her stupid open border, and now they’re either missing, dead, or slaves. If you want to end this disaster, you must get out and vote.” (11/1/24)
- ✅ PROMISE KEPT: After the Biden Administration lost track of 325,000 migrant children, the Trump Administration has located more than 13,000 of them — fulfilling President Trump’s promise to do everything possible to save child victims of human trafficking.
- PROMISE MADE: “Under my leadership, we will seal it up and expand that wall until we have total control.” (3/4/23)
- ✅ PROMISE KEPT: President Trump resumed construction of the border wall immediately, with dozens of miles of new construction underway — including new border barrier projects underway in El Paso and the Rio Grande Valley.
- PROMISE MADE: “I will end catch-and-release.” (10/12/24)
- ✅ PROMISE KEPT: Since taking office, the Trump Administration has arrested 150,000+ illegal immigrants, deported 139,000+ illegal immigrants, and released just nine illegal immigrants into the U.S. — a staggering 99.99% decrease over the same period last year under Biden.
- PROMISE MADE: “We will reinstate my Remain in Mexico policy.” (1/20/25)
- ✅ PROMISE KEPT: Soon after taking office, President Trump reinstated the “Remain in Mexico” policy — ensuring would-be illegal border crossers are not able to wait with little consequence in the U.S. for the resolution of their cases.
- PROMISE MADE: “Kamala’s app for illegals will be shut down immediately — within 24 hours.” (10/12/24)
- ✅ PROMISE KEPT: President Trump ended the app’s use almost immediately after taking office — eventually repurposing it to allow migrants to self-deport.
- PROMISE MADE: “On Day One of the Trump Presidency, I will… suspend refugee admissions, stop the resettlement, and keep the terrorists the hell out of our country.” (7/27/24)
- ✅ PROMISE KEPT: President Trump halted the physical entry to the U.S. of illegal border crossers, suspended refugee resettlement, and dramatically lowered the number of refugees allowed into the country — ensuring the U.S. does not become a safe haven to those who hate us.
- PROMISE MADE: “To further deter illegal immigration, I will sign on Day One, executive order, ending automatic citizenship for the children of illegal aliens.” (7/1/23)
- ✅ PROMISE KEPT: President Trump immediately signed an Executive Order ending birthright citizenship for the children of illegal immigrants.

## Carrying out the largest deportation operation in American history

- PROMISE MADE: “We will begin the largest deportation operation in the history of our country.” (10/21/24)
- ✅ PROMISE KEPT: Every single day, the Trump Administration is removing illegal immigrant killers, rapists, gangbangers, drug traffickers, and other violent criminals off our streets — and sending them back. In fact, ICE arrests under President Trump have already long exceeded last year’s data amid relentless nationwide enforcement operations.

## Stopping the migrant crime epidemic.

- PROMISE MADE: “The drug cartels are waging war on America — and it’s now time for America to wage war on the cartels” (12/22/23); “We will expel every single illegal alien gang member and migrant criminal operating on American soil and remove the savage gang, Tren de Aragua, from the United States.” (1/19/25)
- ✅ PROMISE KEPT: The Trump Administration is dismantling human smuggling networks, sanctioning cartels and designating them as foreign terrorist organizations, and deporting gang members in droves — ridding our country of these public safety threats for good and making our streets safer than they’ve ever been.
- PROMISE MADE: “My administration will deliver justice for every family whose loved one has been stolen from them by migrant crime, including Laken Riley, Rachel Morin, Jocelyn Nungaray, Kayla Hamilton, and every other precious American soul that we have lost to these animals. Their memories will live in their hearts forever and our hearts forever, and we will never, ever forget them.” (1/19/25)
- ✅ PROMISE KEPT: President Trump signed the Laken Riley Act into law as his first legislative victory of his second term. The bill mandates the detention and deportation of illegal alien criminals and allows states to sue if immigration laws aren’t enforced.
- PROMISE MADE: “I’m hereby calling for the death penalty for any migrant that kills an American citizen or a law enforcement officer.” (10/12/24)
- ✅ PROMISE KEPT: President Trump directed the Department of Justice to pursue the death penalty in capital crimes committed by illegal immigrants.
- PROMISE MADE: “Today, I am announcing a new plan to end all sanctuary cities in North Carolina and all across our country… and we will bring down the full weight of the federal government on any jurisdiction that refuses to cooperate.” (9/21/24)
- ✅ PROMISE KEPT: The Trump Administration has targeted so-called “sanctuary” jurisdictions giving safe harbor to criminal illegal immigrants.

## Making America affordable again

- PROMISE MADE: “Starting the day I take the oath of office, I will rapidly drive prices down and we will make America affordable again.” (8/17/24)
- ✅ PROMISE KEPT: Core inflation is near its lowest level in four years, prices for everyday goods continue to fall, and Americans are growing increasingly confident about the economic outlook. Jobs numbers have trounced expectations for four straight months, gas prices are at their lowest level in four years, blue-collar wage growth has seen the largest increase in nearly 60 years, and Wall Street sentiment is surging as the stock market reaches new record highs.
- PROMISE MADE: “A vote for President Donald J. Trump is a vote for prosperity.” (9/13/24)
- ✅ PROMISE KEPT: President Trump’s America First economic policy has created a windfall in the stock market, with the Dow Jones Industrial Average, S&P 500, and Nasdaq repeatedly hitting new record highs — while inflation has moderated, business is booming, and the economy is growing.
- PROMISE MADE: “We’re going to get your gas prices down.” (1/16/24)
- ✅ PROMISE KEPT: The national average for gasoline hit a four-year low under President Trump, dipping below $3 per gallon for the first time in years — and trending even lower.

## Cutting taxes for middle-class families

- PROMISE MADE: “We’re going to have very large tax cuts for workers and … No Tax on Tips, No Tax on Overtime.” (10/12/24)
- ✅ PROMISE KEPT: The largest tax cut in history for working- and middle-class Americans — including No Tax on Tips, No Tax on Overtime, and No Tax on Social Security — is now the law of the land, along with unprecedented tax relief for small businesses, farmers, workers, and families.

## Fortifying the American economy

- PROMISE MADE: “If I’m elected, the dollar is so secure. Your reserve currency is the strongest it’ll ever be.” (10/15/24)
- ✅ PROMISE KEPT: Through pro-growth policies and tough trade deals, President Trump has fortified the dollar’s dominance, preventing de-dollarization efforts abroad and ensuring it remains the global standard — boosting American economic power worldwide.

## Lowering drug prices

- PROMISE MADE: “Under my policy, the United States government will tell Big Pharma that we will only pay the best price they offer to foreign nations, who have been taking advantage of us for so long— the United States is tired of getting ripped off.” (06/22/23)
- ✅ PROMISE KEPT: President Trump signed an Executive Order demanding Most Favored Nation drug pricing and secured deals with three major pharmaceutical companies — Pfizer, AstraZeneca, and EMD Serono — to guarantee Americans pay the same low prices other developed nations receive.

## Restoring Peace through Strength

- PROMISE MADE: “We will build a great Iron Dome over our country… a state-of-the-art missile defense shield that will be entirely built in America and create jobs, jobs, jobs.” (6/15/24)
- ✅ PROMISE KEPT: President Trump announced a draft architecture and implementation plan for a Golden Dome missile defense system to protect our homeland from 21st Century threats — and secured funding for it in the One Big Beautiful Bill.
- PROMISE MADE: “I’ll insist that every NATO nation must spend at least 3%.” (8/26/24)
- ✅ PROMISE KEPT: President Trump secured an agreement from NATO member nations to raise their defense spending to 5% of their GDP — a remarkable foreign policy feat long thought impossible.
- PROMISE MADE: “We will expel the warmongering from our government.” (8/9/23)
- ✅ PROMISE KEPT: President Trump has achieved remarkable success, leveraging his dealmaking ability to achieve unprecedented peace in eight conflicts throughout the world — including between India and Pakistan, Israel and Iran, the Democratic Republic of the Congo and Rwanda, Cambodia and Thailand, Kosovo and Serbia, Egypt and Ethiopia, Armenia and Azerbaijan, and Israel and Hamas.

## Strengthening and modernizing our military

- PROMISE MADE: “We will again build the strongest military the world has ever seen.” (1/20/25)
- ✅ PROMISE KEPT: With the largest military investment in decades, President Trump is modernizing our forces with cutting-edge technology, rebuilding depleted stockpiles, and ensuring our troops are the best-equipped in history — deterring adversaries and keeping America safe without unnecessary conflicts. At the same time, military recruitment is at historic highs as the Armed Forces returns to its warfighting standards of excellence.
- PROMISE MADE: “I will sign an order to stop our warriors from being subjected to radical political theories and social experiments while on duty. It’s going to end immediately.” (1/20/25)
- ✅ PROMISE KEPT: President Trump directed the Department of War to end the nonsensical “diversity, equity, and inclusion” measures that inhibited service members from meeting their mission, reinstated troops dismissed under the Biden-era COVID restrictions, and returned the military to its core mission.

## Unleashing American energy

- PROMISE MADE: “We will stop the Biden-Harris war on American energy … American energy is such a big deal. We will drill, baby, drill.” (8/3/24)
- ✅ PROMISE KEPT: President Trump has unleashed American energy independence like never before, approving record numbers of drilling permits, lifting burdensome regulations, exporting to foreign countries, opening millions of acres for mining and drilling, terminating Biden-era preferential treatment for unreliable, foreign-controlled wind energy, and expanding pipelines — and as a result, U.S. oil and natural gas production has surged to record levels, driving down global prices and creating hundreds of thousands of high-paying energy jobs.
- PROMISE MADE: “I will immediately issue a national emergency declaration to achieve massive increase in domestic energy supply…” (9/5/24)
- ✅ PROMISE KEPT: On Day One, President Trump declared a national energy emergency to eliminate bureaucratic barriers, unleash innovation, and restore America’s position as the world’s leading energy producer.
- PROMISE MADE: “I will sign Day One orders to… cancel [Biden’s] natural gas export ban.” (12/22/24)
- ✅ PROMISE KEPT: President Trump took executive action to lift the Biden-era freeze on gas exports.
- PROMISE MADE: “We’re going to be opening up ANWR.” (1/7/25)
- ✅ PROMISE KEPT: President Trump freed up millions of acres within ANWR for oil and gas drilling and mining.
- PROMISE MADE: “Banning offshore drilling will not stand. I will reverse it immediately.” (1/7/25)
- ✅ PROMISE KEPT: President Trump revoked Biden-era orders prohibiting offshore oil and gas leasing almost immediately after taking office.

## Negotiating better trade deals

- PROMISE MADE: “I will be a champion for the American worker, who has suffered under lopsided trade deals that have pillaged our country. That will end on my watch, and we will use tariffs to fight against unfair trade practices by other countries and foster our own industrial growth.” (11/3/24)
- ✅ PROMISE KEPT: By using tariffs as leverage, President Trump secured new and improved trade agreements with major U.S. trading partners covering more than half of global GDP — including the United Kingdom, European Union, Japan, China, Republic of Korea, Indonesia, Malaysia, Thailand, Vietnam, the Philippines, and Cambodia. As President Trump delivers better terms for American workers, farmers, and manufacturers, tariff revenues have skyrocketed to new record highs.

## Using tariffs as leverage

- PROMISE MADE: “We’re going to tariff the hell out of countries that have been taking advantage of us…” (11/3/24)
- ✅ PROMISE KEPT: President Trump has used tariffs as a strategic tool to rebuild American manufacturing, secure our supply chains, and protect U.S. national security. After decades of weak trade policies that allowed foreign nations to exploit our economy, close off certain markets to U.S. exports, and flood American markets with dumped goods, America is finally getting tough on trade and delivering results thanks to President Trump.
- PROMISE MADE: “We’re going to put very serious tariffs on Mexico and Canada because… The drugs that are coming through are at record numbers.” (1/7/25)
- ✅ PROMISE KEPT: President Trump kept his word, leveraging tariffs on Mexico and Canada to stop the flow of fentanyl and its precursor chemicals in their tracks — and securing agreements with the two countries to work together to protect our national security against these deadly drugs.
- PROMISE MADE: “[China is] sending fentanyl into our country — and because of that, they’re causing us hundreds of thousands of deaths, so China is going to end up paying a tariff also for that… China has to stop sending fentanyl into our country and killing our people.” (1/30/25)
- ✅ PROMISE KEPT: President Trump has utilized tariffs as a powerful tool to force China to commit to working with the U.S. to stop the flow of fentanyl and precursor chemicals — culminating in an historic meeting with President Xi Jinping, where the two leaders pledged cooperation on solving the problem.

## Revitalizing American manufacturing

- PROMISE MADE: “Together, we’re going to … bring thousands of factories back to the USA, right where they belong — and that will be done through tariffs and smart policy. We will build American, we will buy American, and we will hire American.” (1/19/24)
- ✅ PROMISE KEPT: As President Trump pursues his bold commitment to an America First trade agenda, scores of companies have announced trillions of dollars in new investment as they onshore workers from foreign countries and create tens of thousands of new American jobs — positioning the U.S. as the dominant player for the jobs of the future.

## Ending the weaponization of government

- PROMISE MADE: “Biden has worked to persecute political dissidents, including conservatives, Catholics and other Christians, and opponents of his weaponized state … This abuse will be rectified, and it will be rectified very quickly.” (5/25/24)
- ✅ PROMISE KEPT: President Trump has purged corrupt elements from the DOJ and FBI, pardoned pro-life Americans wrongly targeted by the Biden Administration, and launched full-scale investigations into deep state abuses — bringing the era of weaponized government to an end and restoring fairness and trust in American institutions.

## Reforming the federal bureaucracy

- PROMISE MADE: “We’re going to go back to a merit system.” (8/29/24)
- ✅ PROMISE KEPT: The Trump Administration rolled out new merit-based federal hiring plans — ensuring the government’s hiring decisions are based on merit only.
- PROMISE MADE: “We’re going to clean out the corrupt, broken, and failing bureaucracies.” (11/14/24)
- ✅ PROMISE KEPT: The Trump Administration has dramatically downsized the scope of the federal bureaucracy, ensuring government is serving the taxpayers who fund it by cutting the waste, fraud, and abuse that has permeated it for so long.
- PROMISE MADE: “We’re going to stop the destructive and divisive diversity, equity, and inclusion mandates…” (1/19/25)
- ✅ PROMISE KEPT: The Trump Administration immediately ended the radical and wasteful government-sponsored DEI programming and preferencing that hindered the federal bureaucracy from effectively serving the taxpayers.

## Cutting costly, burdensome regulations

- PROMISE MADE: “We’re going to be ending the electric car mandate quickly.” (1/7/25)
- ✅ PROMISE KEPT: On day one, President Trump revoked the burdensome electric vehicle mandate — and fortified that action by signing a congressional resolution into law. The Trump Administration has also slashed job-killing regulations to unleash innovation, lower costs, and put American workers first.
- PROMISE MADE: “To reduce costs for both manufacturers and consumers, I will remove ten old regulations for every new regulation.” (10/10/24)
- ✅ PROMISE KEPT: The Trump Administration is killing federal regulations at a ten-to-one rate — topping the rate at which red tape was cut during President Trump’s first term.
- PROMISE MADE: “I will… end the Green New Scam.” (10/24/24)
- ✅ PROMISE KEPT: President Trump immediately targeted the costly Green New Scam through executive action, freezing funding to Radical Left climate programming that had zero accountability to taxpayers and drove energy costs up, while the One Big Beautiful Bill further repealed Green New Scam policies.

## Returning education back where it belongs

- PROMISE MADE: “I will close the Department of Education and move all education back to the states where it belongs.” (8/4/23)
- ✅ PROMISE KEPT: President Trump directed the Secretary of Education to take all necessary steps to facilitate the closure of the Department of Education and return authority back where it was intended — with individual states and school districts, which are best equipped to make decisions that benefit their own unique constituencies.

## Ending the Radical Left’s insanity on race and gender

- PROMISE MADE: “I will sign a new executive order to cut federal funding for any school pushing critical race theory … or political content onto the shoulders of our children.” (8/3/24)
- ✅ PROMISE KEPT: President Trump signed an order to defund schools promoting divisive critical race theory and radical gender ideology.
- PROMISE MADE: “We are not going to allow child sexual mutilation.” (11/18/23)
- ✅ PROMISE KEPT: Hospitals and health systems across the country have ended their irreversible sex change operations and so-called “gender affirming care” programming for minors to comply with the Trump Administration’s executive order.

## Keeping men out of women’s sports

- PROMISE MADE: “We will keep men out of women’s sports.” (5/26/24)
- ✅ PROMISE KEPT: President Trump immediately ended the unfair, demeaning practice of forcing women to compete against men in sports — which resulted in the NCAA changing its rules and the U.S. Olympic and Paralympic Committee banning men from competing in women’s sports. Additionally, countless states and high schools have changed their policies to comply with the order.

## Defending Americans’ Constitutional rights

- PROMISE MADE: “We’re going to bust up the censorship regime and bring back free speech again” (1/28/23)
- ✅ PROMISE KEPT: President Trump signed executive orders dismantling censorship, protecting religious freedoms, and safeguarding Second Amendment rights, and has directed his administration to take all necessary steps to defend Americans’ constitutional rights from overreach.
- PROMISE MADE: “I will defend religious liberty.” (1/19/25)
- ✅ PROMISE KEPT: The Trump Administration directed all federal agencies to protect religious expression in the workplace.

## Protecting public safety

- PROMISE MADE: “We will make America safe again.” (11/4/24)
- ✅ PROMISE KEPT: After deporting tens of thousands of criminal illegal immigrants, the U.S. is on track to see the lowest murder rate on record.
- PROMISE MADE: “I will crack down on the left-wing jurisdictions that refuse to prosecute dangerous criminals and set loose violent felons on cashless bail.” (4/2/24)
- ✅ PROMISE KEPT: President Trump signed an Executive Order to ensure federal policies and resources are not used to support cashless bail policies across the Nation.
- PROMISE MADE: “We will rebuild our once great cities, including our capital in Washington, DC, making them safe, clean, and beautiful again.” (1/19/25)
- ✅ PROMISE KEPT: President Trump is cracking down on crime with federal support for local police and cleanup initiatives for the nation’s capital, which has seen historic drops in violent crime, safer streets, and renewed economic vitality thanks to the Trump Administration’s historic public safety initiatives. In fact, murders in the District are down 60% since the D.C. Safe and Beautiful Task Force began its work.

## Protecting Social Security and Medicare

- PROMISE MADE: “I will not cut one penny from Social Security or Medicare … I will not talk about one day or one year shorter, and I will not raise the retirement age of Social Security by one day, not by one year.” (7/27/24)
- ✅ PROMISE KEPT: President Trump hasn’t touched Social Security — and has consistently called for rooting out waste, fraud, and abuse to safeguard the programs’ solvency for future generations, delivering on his ironclad commitment to America’s seniors.

## Securing our elections

- PROMISE MADE: “We will secure our elections — and they will be secure once and for all.” (10/13/24)
- ✅ PROMISE KEPT: President Trump implemented nationwide election integrity measures through executive action, banning foreign nationals from election interference, strengthening voter citizenship verification, prosecuting non-citizen voting, requiring voter-verifiable paper ballot records, and ensuring state-by-state compliance with federal law.

## Keeping the U.S. as the global leader in AI

- PROMISE MADE: “We’re going to be way ahead on AI.” (12/12/24)
- ✅ PROMISE KEPT: The White House unveiled America’s AI Action Plan in order to secure U.S. AI dominance and usher in a new golden age of human flourishing, economic competitiveness, and national security for the American people.

## Making federal architecture beautiful again

- PROMISE MADE: “[We will] get rid of ugly buildings that are hurting those cities and other places and return to the magnificent classical style of western civilization.” (3/25/23)
- ✅ PROMISE KEPT: President Trump signed an Executive Order mandating that Federal public buildings, such as courthouses and government office buildings, embrace classical architecture to honor tradition, foster civic pride, and inspire the citizenry.

## Restoring safety and free speech to college campuses

- PROMISE MADE: “We will deport the foreign Jihad sympathizers and Hamas supporters from our midst. We will get them out of our country.” (9/19/24)
- ✅ PROMISE KEPT: President Trump has cracked down on campus chaos with federal enforcement and visa revocations for pro-Hamas agitators — restoring safety, free speech, and American values to universities across the nation.

## Ending the war on crypto

- PROMISE MADE: “I will also stop Joe Biden’s crusade to crush crypto. We’re going to stop it. I will ensure that the future of crypto and the future of Bitcoin will be made in the USA.” (5/26/24)
- ✅ PROMISE KEPT: President Trump signed the GENIUS Act into law, establishing a regulatory framework for stablecoins and helping to ensure the U.S. remains the global leader in cryptocurrency, and unveiled a framework for achieving U.S. digital asset dominance — keeping President Trump’s promise to ensure the future of crypto is American.

## Ensuring transparency in government

- PROMISE MADE: “We’re going to bring transparency and accountability back to our government.” (12/22/24)
- ✅ PROMISE KEPT: The Trump Administration has been the most transparent and accessible administration in modern American history, with the President taking unscripted questions multiple times per week, holding an unprecedented number of press conferences and interviews, and the briefing room dramatically increasing the scope of its credentialed reporters — ensuring the American people are constantly in touch with what their government is doing.
- PROMISE MADE: “We are going to make public remaining records relating to the assassinations of President John F. Kennedy, Jr., his brother, Robert Kennedy, as well as Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.” (1/19/25)
- ✅ PROMISE KEPT: The Trump Administration released troves of records related to the assassinations of President John F. Kennedy, Senator Robert F. Kennedy, and Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.

## Uniting the country through success

- PROMISE MADE: “It’s time to unite … Success is going to bring us together.” (11/6/24)
- ✅ PROMISE KEPT: President Trump’s remarkable success is bringing the country together — with more Americans saying the country is on the right track than any point in two decades and support among Republicans for President Trump and his agenda near historic levels.

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