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Do you remember the US Mexico Wall? What about draining the swamp? There's no single agreed-upon number and trackers differ by scope and method, but PolitiFact's MAGA-Meter, the most systematic of the bunch, is tracking 75 specific second-term pledges. As of early 2026, roughly 20 percent were rated kept, about 45 percent in the works, nearly 30 percent stalled, with a small remainder broken or compromised. A slightly later read from Poynter, citing the same tracker, put "kept" closer to 19 percent, with about a third stalled by inaction in Congress or the courts, including the Supreme Court.
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Other outlets tell a similar story with different math. Factually's research summary notes there's no single authoritative broken-promises count — estimates range from a handful of high-profile broken pledges to dozens, depending on whether you're counting Day-1 promises, first-100-days promises, or the full 2024 campaign menu. AllSides is running its own tracker mapped against Project 2025, and a independent site called Trump Tracker rates items Kept/Partial/Broken/Pending against Project 2025, the 2024 campaign platform, executive orders, CBO data, and the Federal Register, reviewed monthly.
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Bottom line for a broadcast: "about 1 in 5 kept, roughly 1 in 3 stalled, most of the rest still in progress" is a defensible, sourced summary line.
Immigration — the clearest "kept" case, good for a script
Trump entered his second term with one of the most expansive sets of campaign promises in modern presidential history. Immigration is the area with the most measurable follow-through: mass deportations ran into the hundreds of thousands, and border crossings fell from over 200,000 a month to roughly 8,000 by spring 2025 (per DHS figures I cited earlier). That gives you a clean, factual segment. LegalClarity

He claimed he would get tired of winning. Perhaps he mean whining instead. He sued 30 states and DC to seize our private voter files, birthdate, address, Social Security number, and it keeps getting thrown out of court. Trump’s own Judge Kari Dooley slammed the door in Connecticut, and the information stayed exactly where it belongs.

From the Gipper to the Groper - Forget about it, which name is more popular, Ronald or Donald?

The East Wing was torn down to build a new State Ballroom, with reporting suggesting taxpayer costs could reach up to $1 billion, despite the project being framed as privately funded. The Jacqueline Kennedy Garden was also dismantled as part of the demolition, and the lawn was paved into a patio, the most significant change to that space since 1913. The Lincoln Memorial Reflecting Pool is again being repaired and recoated and a UFC octagon and concert stage were built on the South Lawn and Ellipse for events tied to Trump's birthday and the America 250 events. They're well-documented and not disputed, the disagreement is almost entirely about how to interpret them, not whether they happened.

The "son of a bitch" is dating back to the 17th century. While traditionally an offensive insult or interjection of anger,