On Tuesday November 8th, 2016, Donald John Trump won the electoral vote and is currently the 45th President of the United States of America.
He made a lot of promises. Trump Tracker will fact-check and see if he adheres to all of his stands on policies regarding culture, immigration, economy, and many more.
| Promise | Actions | |
|---|---|---|
| 1. | First 100 days: In progress More cowbell 1 2 3 | |
| 2. | Culture: Broken No more trips Maralago 1 2 3 | |
| 3. | First 100 Days: Not started Propose a Constitutional Amendment to impose term limits on all members of Congress 1 2 3 | |
| 4. | First 100 Days: Achieved Institute a hiring freeze on all federal employees to reduce federal workforce through attrition (exempting military, public safety, and public health); 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 | |
| 5. | First 100 Days: Achieved A requirement that for every new federal regulation, two existing regulations must be eliminated 1 2 3 4 | |
| 6. | First 100 Days: Compromised A 5-year ban on White House and Congressional officials becoming lobbyists after they leave government service 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 | |
| 7. | First 100 Days: Achieved A lifetime ban on White House officials lobbying on behalf of a foreign government 1 2 3 4 | |
| 8. | First 100 Days: Not started A complete ban on foreign lobbyists raising money for American elections. 1 2 3 | |
| 9. | First 100 Days: Not started Donald Trump will refuse the $400,000 annual president's salary or only take $1 1 2 3 4 5 | |
| 10. | First 100 Days: Not started I will announce my intention to renegotiate NAFTA or withdraw from the deal under Article 2205 1 2 3 | |
| 11. | First 100 Days: Achieved I will announce our withdrawal from the Trans-Pacific Partnership 1 2 3 4 5 | |
| 12. | First 100 Days: Not started I will direct my Secretary of the Treasury to label China a currency manipulator 1 2 3 | |
| 13. | First 100 Days: Not started I will direct the Secretary of Commerce and U.S. Trade Representative to identify all foreign trading abuses that unfairly impact American workers and direct them to use every tool under American and international law to end those abuses immediately 1 2 3 | |
| 14. | First 100 Days: In progress I will lift the restrictions on the production of $50 trillion dollars' worth of job-producing American energy reserves, including shale, oil, natural gas and clean coal. 1 2 3 4 5 6 | |
| 15. | First 100 Days: Achieved Lift the Obama-Clinton roadblocks and allow vital energy infrastructure projects, like the Keystone Pipeline, to move forward 1 2 3 4 5 | |
| 16. | First 100 Days: Not started Cancel billions in payments to U.N. climate change programs and use the money to fix America's water and environmental infrastructure 1 2 3 | |
| 17. | First 100 Days: Not started Cancel every unconstitutional executive action, memorandum and order issued by President Obama 1 2 3 | |
| 18. | First 100 Days: Achieved Begin the process of selecting a replacement for Justice Scalia from one of the 20 judges on my list, who will uphold and defend the Constitution of the United States 1 2 3 4 | |
| 19. | First 100 Days: In progress Cancel all federal funding to Sanctuary Cities 1 2 3 4 5 | |
| 20. | First 100 Days: Not started Begin removing the more than 2 million criminal illegal immigrants from the country and cancel visas to foreign countries that won't take them back 1 2 3 | |
| 21. | First 100 Days: Achieved Suspend immigration from terror-prone regions where vetting cannot safely occur. All vetting of people coming into our country will be considered extreme vetting. 1 2 3 4 | |
| 22. | First 100 Days: Not started Middle Class Tax Relief And Simplification Act. An economic plan designed to grow the economy 4% per year and create at least 25 million new jobs through massive tax reduction and simplification, in combination with trade reform, regulatory relief, and lifting the restrictions on American energy. The largest tax reductions are for the middle class. A middle-class family with 2 children will get a 35% tax cut. The current number of brackets will be reduced from 7 to 3, and tax forms will likewise be greatly simplified. The business rate will be lowered from 35 to 15 percent, and the trillions of dollars of American corporate money overseas can now be brought back at a 10 percent rate. 1 2 3 | |
| 23. | First 100 Days: Not started End The Offshoring Act. Establishes tariffs to discourage companies from laying off their workers in order to relocate in other countries and ship their products back to the U.S. tax-free. 1 2 3 | |
| 24. | First 100 Days: Not started American Energy & Infrastructure Act. Leverages public-private partnerships, and private investments through tax incentives, to spur $1 trillion in infrastructure investment over 10 years. It is revenue neutral. 1 2 3 | |
| 25. | First 100 Days: Not started School Choice And Education Opportunity Act. Redirects education dollars to give parents the right to send their kid to the public, private, charter, magnet, religious or home school of their choice. Ends common core, brings education supervision to local communities. It expands vocational and technical education, and make 2 and 4-year college more affordable. 1 2 3 | |
| 26. | First 100 Days: Not started Repeal and Replace Obamacare Act. Fully repeals Obamacare and replaces it with Health Savings Accounts, the ability to purchase health insurance across state lines, and lets states manage Medicaid funds. Reforms will also include cutting the red tape at the FDA: there are over 4,000 drugs awaiting approval, and we especially want to speed the approval of life-saving medications. 1 2 3 | |
| 27. | First 100 Days: Not started Affordable Childcare and Eldercare Act. Allows Americans to deduct childcare and elder care from their taxes, incentivizes employers to provide on-site childcare services, and creates tax-free Dependent Care Savings Accounts for both young and elderly dependents, with matching contributions for low-income families. 1 2 3 | |
| 28. | First 100 Days: In progress End Illegal Immigration Act Fully-funds the construction of a wall on our southern border with the full understanding that the country Mexico will be reimbursing the United States for the full cost of such wall; establishes a 2-year mandatory minimum federal prison sentence for illegally re-entering the U.S. after a previous deportation, and a 5-year mandatory minimum for illegally re-entering for those with felony convictions, multiple misdemeanor convictions or two or more prior deportations; also reforms visa rules to enhance penalties for overstaying and to ensure open jobs are offered to American workers first. 1 2 3 4 | |
| 29. | First 100 Days: Not started Restoring Community Safety Act. Reduces surging crime, drugs and violence by creating a Task Force On Violent Crime and increasing funding for programs that train and assist local police; increases resources for federal law enforcement agencies and federal prosecutors to dismantle criminal gangs and put violent offenders behind bars. 1 2 3 | |
| 30. | First 100 Days: Not started Restoring National Security Act. Rebuilds our military by eliminating the defense sequester and expanding military investment; provides Veterans with the ability to receive public VA treatment or attend the private doctor of their choice; protects our vital infrastructure from cyber-attack; establishes new screening procedures for immigration to ensure those who are admitted to our country support our people and our values 1 2 3 | |
| 31. | First 100 Days: Not started Clean up Corruption in Washington Act. Enacts new ethics reforms to Drain the Swamp and reduce the corrupting influence of special interests on our politics. 1 2 3 | |
| 32. | Culture: Not started If I become president, we're all going to be saying 'Merry Christmas' again. 1 2 | |
| 33. | Culture: Broken Never take a vacation while serving as president. 1 2 | |
| 34. | Culture: Not started Bring back the American Dream. 1 | |
| 35. | Culture: Not started Be a cheerleader for America and bring the country's spirit back. "Take the brand of the United States and make it great again." 1 | |
| 36. | Culture: Not started Make America great again -- and strong again, as it has become too weak. 1 | |
| 37. | Culture: Not started Say things that are politically incorrect, because the country does not have time to waste with political correctness. 1 | |
| 38. | Culture: Not started I will take care of women, and I have great respect for women. I do cherish women, and I will take care of women. 1 | |
| 39. | Culture: Not started Frequently use the term "radical Islamic terrorism". 1 | |
| 40. | Culture: Broken Assign a special prosecutor to start a criminal investigation into Hillary Clinton for her use of a private e-mail server while serving as secretary of state. 1 2 3 4 5 | |
| 41. | Culture: Not started Shut down parts of the internet 1 | |
| 42. | Culture: Not started Be unpredictable. "No one is going to touch us, because I'm so unpredictable." 1 | |
| 43. | Culture: Not started Students at Wofford College in South Carolina, where Trump attended a town hall, will all have jobs at graduation. 1 | |
| 44. | Culture: Not started Drop that "dirty, rotten traitor" Bowe Bergdahl out of an airplane into desolate Afghanistan without a parachute. 1 | |
| 45. | Culture: Not started Ensure that Americans can still afford to golf. 1 | |
| 46. | Culture: Not started If I am elected president and Congress passes the First Amendment Defense Act, I will sign it to protect the deeply held religious beliefs of Catholics and the beliefs of Americans of all faiths. 1 | |
| 47. | Culture: Broken We won't tweet anymore after I'm president. It's not presidential. 1 2 | |
| 48. | Culture: Broken I will fight for the LGBT community. 1 2 3 4 | |
| 49. | Economy: Not started Against raising the minimum wage. Jobs would move to China. "Wages should be raised through economic growth. Raise the minimum wage. Let's make it $10 dollars an hour. It should go up, but states should call the shots here." 1 | |
| 50. | Economy: Not started Get rid of the federal minimum wage, leave it to the states. 1 | |
| 51. | Economy: Not started Raise it (the federal minimum wage) to $10 an hour, ignore what I said before (get rid of it). 1 | |
| 52. | Economy: Not started Leave Social Security as is 1 | |
| 53. | Economy: Not started The wealthy should pay more. 1 | |
| 54. | Economy: Not started Cut taxes for the wealthy big time. 1 | |
| 55. | Economy: Not started Maybe don't slash taxes by $10 trillion - slash taxes by $3 trillion, instead. Maybe ditch, maybe keep a $1 trillion tax cut for small businesses (depending on who is asking). 1 | |
| 56. | Economy: Not started Scrap the earlier plan entirely. Here are new tax brackets: Trump took his earlier tax plan offline before a major economic policy address in early August, where he hiked his initially proposed tax brackets from 10 percent, 20 percent and 25 percent to 12 percent, 25 percent and 33 percent. These brackets more closely mimic his party's past views on taxes. 1 | |
| 57. | Economy: Not started Despite Trump's frequent talk about helping working people, his tax plan so far seems to mostly benefit the wealthy. It's unclear whether or not his plan will include that small business tax cut. 1 | |
| 58. | Economy: Not started Pass a huge tax cut, roughly double the one George W. Bush sponsored, that delivers a windfall to the wealthiest Americans and a relative paltry sum to the middle class, never mind the debt-inflating impact. 1 | |
| 59. | Economy: Not started Impose tariffs on goods made in China and Mexico 1 | |
| 60. | Economy: Not started Cut taxes 1 | |
| 61. | Economy: Not started Call the heads of major companies who are moving operations oversea to inform them that they'll face 35 percent tariffs. 1 | |
| 62. | Economy: Not started Get rid of most corporate tax loopholes 1 | |
| 63. | Economy: Not started Get rid of income tax for some earners 1 | |
| 64. | Economy: Not started Get rid of the national debt in 8 years. 1 | |
| 65. | Economy: Not started Only pay down a little. Invest in infrastructure first. 1 | |
| 66. | Economy: Not started Pay off the debt by getting America's creditors to accept less. 1 | |
| 67. | Economy: Not started Either "chop" the national debt using an approach that is still unclear, or add $10 trillion to the debt to accomplish plans. 1 | |
| 68. | Economy: Not started Trump supports an audit of the FED 1 | |
| 69. | Economy: Not started Bring back jobs, especially manufacturing jobs, that have fled the country over the past few decades. 1 | |
| 70. | Economy: Not started Direct every agency in government to begin identifying all wasteful job-killing regulations, and they are going to be removed. 1 | |
| 71. | Economy: Not started Work with both parties to pass the biggest investment in new, good-paying jobs since World War II. 1 | |
| 72. | Economy: Not started Grow the nation's economy by at least 6 percent. 1 | |
| 73. | Economy: Not started Reduce the $18 trillion national debt by "vigorously eliminating waste, fraud and abuse in the federal government, ending redundant government programs and growing the economy to increase tax revenues." 1 | |
| 74. | Economy: Not started Cut the budget by 20 percent by simply renegotiating. 1 | |
| 75. | Economy: In progress Get rid of the Dodd-Frank Wall Street Reform and Consumer Protection Act. 1 2 | |
| 76. | Economy: Not started Simplify the U.S. tax code and reduce the number of tax brackets from seven to four. The highest earners would pay a 25-percent tax. The corporate tax rate would fall to 15 percent. Eliminate the "marriage penalty" for taxpayers and get rid of the alternate minimum tax. 1 | |
| 77. | Economy: Not started No longer charge income tax to single individuals earning less than $25,000 per year or couples earning less than $50,000. These people will, however, be required to file a one-page form with the Internal Revenue Service that states: "I win." 1 | |
| 78. | Economy: Not started Allow corporations a one-time window to transfer money being held overseas, charging a much-reduced 10 percent tax. 1 | |
| 79. | Economy: Not started Get rid of most corporate tax loopholes or incentives, but continue to allow taxpayers to deduct mortgage interest and charitable donations from their taxes. 1 | |
| 80. | Economy: Not started Use "common sense" to fix the mental health system and prevent mass shootings. Find ways to arm more of the "good guys" like him who can take out the "sickos." Get rid of bans on certain types of guns and magazines so that "good, honest people" can own the guns of their choice. 1 | |
| 81. | Economy: Not started Impose a minimum sentence of five years in federal prison for any violent felon who commits a crime using a gun, with no chance for parole or early release. 1 | |
| 82. | Economy: Not started Fix the background check system used when purchasing guns to ensure states are properly uploading criminal and health records. 1 | |
| 83. | Economy: Not started Allow concealed-carry permits to be recognized in all 50 states. 1 | |
| 84. | Economy: Not started Sign an executive order calling for the death penalty for anyone found guilty of killing a police officer. 1 | |
| 85. | Economy: Not started Provide more funding for police training. 1 | |
| 86. | Economy: Not started Provide more funding for drug treatment, especially for heroin addicts. 1 | |
| 87. | Economy: Broken On the first day in office, terminate President Obama's executive orders related to immigration. This includes getting rid of "sanctuary cities" that Trump says have become refuges for criminals. 1 2 | |
| 88. | Economy: In progress Deport the almost 11 million immigrants illegally living in the United States. 1 2 3 | |
| 89. | Economy: In progress Triple the number of U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement officers. 1 2 | |
| 90. | Economy: Not started Continue to allow lowly paid foreign workers to come to the United States on temporary works visas because Trump says they are the only ones who want to pick grapes. 1 | |
| 91. | Economy: Not started Grow the DFP by at least 6% 1 | |
| 92. | Environment: Not started The Environmental Protection Agency might also disappear. 1 | |
| 93. | Environment: In progress End the war on coal. 1 2 3 4 5 | |
| 94. | Environment: Not started Trump vowed to end the Clean Power Plan 1 | |
| 95. | Environment: Compromised "If I'm president, Carrier won't move to Mexico" 1 2 3 4 | |
| 96. | Government: Not started Stop spending money on space exploration until the United States can fix its potholes. Encourage private space-exploration companies to expand. 1 | |
| 97. | Government: Not started Pick Supreme Court justices who are "really great legal scholars". 1 | |
| 98. | Government: Not started Ensure that Iowa continues to host the nation's first presidential nominating contest. 1 | |
| 99. | Government: Not started Fire "the corrupt and incompetent" leaders of the U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs and dramatically reform the agency. Allow veterans to take their military identification card to any medical facility that accepts Medicaid patients to receive care. Embed satellite VA clinics in rural hospitals and underserved areas, and ensure than every VA hospital is permanently staffed with OBGYN doctors. 1 | |
| 100. | Government: Not started Invest more heavily in programs that help military veterans transition back to civilian life, including job training and placement services. Also increase funding for the treatment of post-traumatic stress disorder, traumatic brain injuries and mental health issues. Veterans who apply for a job at a VA facility will have five points added to their qualifying scores. 1 | |
| 101. | Government: Not started Replace "free trade" with "fair trade." Gather together the "smartest negotiators in the world," assign them each a country and renegotiate all foreign trade deals. 1 | |
| 102. | Government: Not started Tell Ford Motor Co.'s president that unless he cancels plans to build a massive plant in Mexico, the company will face a 35 percent tax on cars imported back into the United States. Trump is confident he can get this done before taking office. (Last year he incorrectly said this had already happened.) 1 | |
| 103. | Government: Not started Force Nabisco to once again make Oreos in the United States, and never eat another Oreo until that happens. And bully Apple into making its "damn computers" and other products here. 1 | |
| 104. | Government: Not started Impose new taxes on many imports into the country. Numbers thrown around have included 32 percent, 34 percent and 35 percent. 1 | |
| 105. | Government: Not started Reach out to Republicans and say, 'This is your chance to help millions of families and show that your party, the party of Lincoln, is better than Donald Trump.' 1 | |
| 106. | Immigration: Broken Deport "criminal illegal immigrants" within one hour of being sworn in. 1 2 | |
| 107. | Immigration: Not started Bring the "good" undocumented immigrants back legally after deportation. In a CNN interview in July 2015, Trump said, "I want to move them out, and we're going to move them back in and let them be legal, but they have to be in here legally". 1 | |
| 108. | Immigration: Not started End birthright citizenship. 1 | |
| 109. | Immigration: Not started Use a deportation force to implement policy. 1 | |
| 110. | Immigration: Not started Trump might be flexible on actually deporting 11 million undocumented immigrants. "There's no amnesty" but "we work with them." "I won't rule out a path to citizenship". 1 | |
| 111. | Immigration: Not started Trump says he will deport millions, but he has not ruled out creating a pathway to citizenship. 1 | |
| 112. | Immigration: Not started Dreamers can maybe stay. 1 | |
| 113. | Immigration: Not started End birthright citizenship. 1 | |
| 114. | Immigration: In progress Build a wall. Trump's campaign began with a promise to build a wall across the United States' southern border and deport the country's 11 million undocumented immigrants. 1 2 | |
| 115. | Immigration: Not started Deport children benefiting from the DREAM Act and repeal the 14th Amendment to end birthright citizenship. 1 | |
| 116. | Immigration: Not started Against the H-1B visa program. 1 | |
| 117. | Immigration: In progress Against closing the borders entirely. Against accepting Syrian refugees in the United States. Bar Syrian refugees from entering the country and kick out any who are already living here. Trump says wealthy Persian Gulf nations like Saudi Arabia should pay to set up a heavily guarded "safe zone" in Syria. 1 2 | |
| 118. | Immigration: Not started Create a database of Syrian refugees. Trump hasn't ruled out creating a database of Muslims in the country. 1 | |
| 119. | Immigration: Not started Meet with Homeland Security officials and generals to begin securing the southern border. 1 | |
| 120. | Immigration: Not started Suspend Syrian refugee resettlement. 1 | |
| 121. | Indigenous: Not started Donald Trump: It's time to heal this divided nation 1 | |
| 122. | Indigenous: Not started Deport, deport, deport - if not en masse, through a federal deportation force, at least expulsions in numbers far greater than the records President Obama already set. 1 | |
| 123. | Indigenous: Not started Ban Muslim Brotherhood affiliated organizations 1 | |
| 124. | Indigenous: Broken There must be consequences for burning the American flag, like loss of citizenship or a year in jail 1 2 3 | |
| 125. | Security: Not started Declare war -- Send troops in. Definitely go after the oil fields. Destroy the oil. Let our regional allies send ground troops. If they don't, stop buying their oil. "Do more with computers". 1 | |
| 126. | Security: Not started It's still unclear what Trump's plan to defeat ISIS is, but it will involve computers and it will be tough. "Bomb the s out of ISIS." Also bomb oil fields controlled by the Islamic State, then seize the oil and give the profits to military veterans who were wounded while fighting. 1 | |
| 127. | Security: Not started Allow Russia to deal with the Islamic State in Syria and/or work with Russian President Vladimir Putin to wipe out shared enemies. 1 | |
| 128. | Security: Not started Strengthen the military so that it's "so big and so strong and so great" that "nobody's going to mess with us". 1 | |
| 129. | Security: Not started Target and kill the relatives of terrorists. 1 | |
| 130. | Security: Not started Shut down parts of the Internet so that Islamic State terrorists cannot use it to recruit American children. 1 | |
| 131. | Security: In progress Find great generals -- like the next Gen. Patton or Gen. MacArthur -- and do not allow them to go onto television news shows to explain their military strategy: "I don't want my generals being interviewed, I want my generals kicking a--." Trump likes generals who are rough, foul-mouthed and beloved by their troops. 1 2 | |
| 132. | Security: Not started Convene his top generals and inform them they have 30 days to come up with a plan to stop ISIS. 1 2 | |
| 133. | Security: Not started Start taking care of our military. 1 | |
| 134. | Security: Not started Get rid of gun-free zones. 1 2 | |
| 135. | Security: Not started No guns in classrooms, except maybe some guns in classrooms. Let's put trained gunmen in schools. 1 | |
| 136. | Security: Not started More guns would save lives. 1 | |
| 137. | Security: Not started More guns are better, though the details are murky and evolving on how many gun-free zones would be abolished. 1 | |
| 138. | Security: Broken Get rid of gun-free zones [in] schools" and "military bases"-which would require repealing a 25-year-old federal law. ("My first day, it gets signed, okay? My first day. There's no more gun-free zones.") 1 2 | |
| 139. | Security: Not started Tackle the gun lobby to try to reduce the outrageous number of people who are dying from gun violence in our country. 1 | |
| 140. | Security: Not started Allow concealed carry permits to be recognized in all 50 states 1 | |
| 141. | Security: Not started The military will obey potentially illegal orders. 1 | |
| 142. | Security: Not started The laws forbidding torture should be changed so no one has to break them. 1 | |
| 143. | Security: Not started Trump says he's against violating international laws or ordering others to do so, but wants to change the laws to legalize, at minimum, waterboarding. Trump has said he's willing to use interrogation techniques that go even further than waterboarding. Even if such tactics don't work, "they deserve it anyway, for what they're doing". 1 | |
| 144. | Security: In progress Ensure that "the crime and violence that today afflicts our nation will soon come to an end" - a pledge made in his nomination acceptance speech - by restoring law and order. Revive inner cities that he says have become hell holes. 1 2 | |
| 145. | Security: Not started Ask Congress to pass 'Kate's Law'-named for Kate Steinle-to ensure that criminal aliens convicted of illegal reentry receive strong mandatory minimum sentences. 1 | |
| 146. | Security: Not started Keep the military prison at Guantanamo Bay open 1 2 | |
| 147. | Health: Not started Overturn Roe v. Wade, then let states decide it. 1 | |
| 148. | Health: Not started Defund Planned Parenthood. 1 | |
| 149. | Health: Not started Defend the unborn. 1 | |
| 150. | Health: Not started Replace Obamacare upon repeal. 1 2 | |
| 151. | Health: Not started Knock down the regulatory walls between states for health insurance, making plans available nationally instead of regionally. 1 | |
| 152. | Health: Not started Save Medicare, Medicaid and Social Security without cutting benefits. 1 | |
| 153. | Health: Not started Make medical marijuana widely available to patients, and allow states to decide if they want to fully legalize pot or not. 1 2 | |
| 154. | Health: In progress Repeal the Affordable Care Act. 1 2 | |
| 155. | World: Not started Israel is a staunch ally of the U.S. and a key partner in the global war against Islamic jihadism. Military cooperation and coordination between Israel and the U.S. must continue to grow. 1 | |
| 156. | World: Not started The American people value our close friendship and alliance with Israel - culturally, religiously, and politically. While other nations have required U.S. troops to defend them, Israelis have always defended their own country by themselves and only ask for military equipment assistance and diplomatic support to do so. The U.S. does not need to nation-build in Israel or send troops to defend Israel. 1 | |
| 157. | World: Not started The Memorandum of Understanding signed by the American and Israeli Governments is a good first step, but there is much more to be done. A Trump Administration will ensure that Israel receives maximum military, strategic and tactical cooperation from the United States, and the MOU will not limit the support that we give. Further, Congress will not be limited to give support greater than that provided by the MOU if it chooses to do so. Israel and the United States benefit tremendously from what each country brings to the table - the relationship is a two way street. 1 | |
| 158. | World: Not started The U.S. should veto any United Nations votes that unfairly single out Israel and will work in international institutions and forums, including in our relations with the European Union, to oppose efforts to delegitimize Israel, impose discriminatory double standards against Israel, or to impose special labeling requirements on Israeli products or boycotts on Israeli goods. 1 | |
| 159. | World: Not started The U.S. should cut off funds for the UN Human Rights Council, a body dominated by countries presently run by dictatorships that seems solely devoted to slandering the Jewish State. UNESCO's attempt to disconnect the State of Israel from Jerusalem is a one-sided attempt to ignore Israel's 3,000-year bond to its capital city, and is further evidence of the enormous anti-Israel bias of the United Nations. 1 | |
| 160. | World: Not started The U.S. should view the effort to boycott, divest from, and sanction (BDS) Israel as inherently anti-Semitic and take strong measures, both diplomatic and legislative, to thwart actions that are intended to limit commercial relations with Israel, or persons or entities doing business in Israeli areas, in a discriminatory manner. The BDS movement is just another attempt by the Palestinians to avoid having to commit to a peaceful co-existence with Israel. The false notion that Israel is an occupier should be rejected. 1 | |
| 161. | World: Not started The Trump administration will ask the Justice Department to investigate coordinated attempts on college campuses to intimidate students who support Israel. 1 | |
| 162. | World: Not started A two-state solution between Israel and the Palestinians appears impossible as long as the Palestinians are unwilling to renounce violence against Israel or recognize Israel's right to exist as a Jewish state. Additionally, the Palestinians are divided between PA rule in the West Bank and Hamas rule in Gaza so there is not a united Palestinian people who could control a second state. Hamas is a US-designated terrorist organization that actively seeks Israel's destruction. We will seek to assist the Israelis and the Palestinians in reaching a comprehensive and lasting peace, to be freely and fairly negotiated between those living in the region. 1 | |
| 163. | World: Not started The Palestinian leadership, including the PA, has undermined any chance for peace with Israel by raising generations of Palestinian children on an educational program of hatred of Israel and Jews. The larger Palestinian society is regularly taught such hatred on Palestinian television, in the Palestinian press, in entertainment media, and in political and religious communications. The two major Palestinian political parties - Hamas and Fatah - regularly promote anti-Semitism and jihad. 1 | |
| 164. | World: Not started The U.S. cannot support the creation of a new state where terrorism is financially incentivized, terrorists are celebrated by political parties and government institutions, and the corrupt diversion of foreign aid is rampant. The U.S. should not support the creation of a state that forbids the presence of Christian or Jewish citizens, or that discriminates against people on the basis of religion. 1 | |
| 165. | World: Not started The U.S. should support direct negotiations between Israel and the Palestinians without preconditions, and will oppose all Palestinian, European and other efforts to bypass direct negotiations between parties in favor of an imposed settlement. Any solutions imposed on Israel by outside parties including by the United Nations Security Council, should be opposed. We support Israel's right and obligation to defend itself against terror attacks upon its people and against alternative forms of warfare being waged upon it legally, economically, culturally, and otherwise. 1 | |
| 166. | World: Not started Israel's maintenance of defensible borders that preserve peace and promote stability in the region is a necessity. Pressure should not be put on Israel to withdraw to borders that make attacks and conflict more likely. 1 | |
| 167. | World: In progress The U.S. will recognize Jerusalem as the eternal and indivisible capital of the Jewish state and Mr. Trump's Administration will move the U.S. embassy to Jerusalem. 1 2 | |
| 168. | World: Not started Despite the Iran Nuclear deal in 2015, the U.S. State Department recently designated Iran, yet again, as the leading state sponsor of terrorism - putting the Middle East particularly, but the whole world at risk by financing, arming, and training terrorist groups operating around the world including Hamas, Hezbollah, and forces loyal to Syrian President Bashar al-Assad. The U.S. must counteract Iran's ongoing violations of the Joint Comprehensive Plan of Action regarding Iran's quest for nuclear weapons and their noncompliance with past and present sanctions, as well as the agreements they signed, and implement tough, new sanctions when needed to protect the world and Iran's neighbors from its continuing nuclear and non-nuclear threats. 1 | |
| 169. | World: Not started No Muslims should be allowed to enter the United States -as immigrants or visitors. Ban Muslims from entering but make an exception for friends and Muslims serving in the US military. Ban Muslims as a matter of policy, as well as people from countries with a history of terrorism. 1 | |
| 170. | World: Not started The ban would call for "extreme vetting." There's a ban, plus "extreme vetting" that includes an ideological test. 1 | |
| 171. | World: Not started Only people who love America are allowed. Temporarily ban most foreign Muslims from entering the United States "until our country's representatives can figure out what is going on." Trump would allow exceptions for dignitaries, business people, athletes and others who have "proven" themselves. 1 | |
| 172. | World: Not started Trump will not say whether or not he intends to ban people of Muslim faith from the U.S., but he will say that "extreme vetting" will apply to people from certain countries. It's unclear where those countries are, what "extreme vetting" entails or how he intends to institute an ideological test for entry. 1 | |
| 173. | World: Not started Heavily surveil mosques in the United States. Trump has said he's open to the idea of closing some mosques. 1 | |
| 174. | World: Not started Japan should have nuclear weapons. 1 | |
| 175. | World: Not started Renegotiate the Iran Nuclear Deal. 1 | |
| 176. | World: Not started "I promise I will never be in a bicycle race. That I can tell you." (This promise is connected to criticism of Secretary of State John F. Kerry, who was injured while riding a bicycle amid the Iran negotiations.) 1 2 | |
| 177. | World: Not started Refuse to call Iran's leader by his preferred title. "I guarantee you I will be never calling him the Supreme Leader... I'll say, 'Hey baby, how ya doing?' I will never call him the Supreme Leader". 1 | |
| 178. | World: Not started Negotiate the release of all U.S. prisoners held in Iran before taking office. (Five hostages were recently released, including Washington Post reporter Jason Rezaian; Trump has taken some credit for this.) 1 | |
| 179. | World: Not started Leave troops in Afghanistan because it's such "a mess." Protect Israel. And increase U.S. military presence in the East and South China Seas. 1 | |
| 180. | World: Not started Find an "out" clause in the Iran deal and then "totally" renegotiate the whole thing. 1 | |
| 181. | World: Not started Aggressively challenge China's power in the world by declaring the country a currency manipulator, adopting a "zero tolerance policy on intellectual property theft and forced technology transfer" and cracking down on China's "lax labor and environmental standards". 1 | |
| 182. | World: Not started Rather than throw the Chinese president a state dinner, buy him "a McDonald's hamburger and say we've got to get down to work". 1 | |
| 183. | World: Not started Put billionaire hedge fund manager Carl Icahn in charge of trade negotiations with China and Japan, and pick an ambassador to Japan who is "a killer," unlike the current ambassador, Caroline Kennedy. 1 | |
| 184. | World: Not started Shred or rework trade agreements with Mexico, China and many other countries - and if companies leave for overseas, hit them with huge tariffs. 1 | |
| 185. | World: Not started Notify all countries that refuse to take back dangerous illegal immigrants who have committed crimes in this country that they will lose access to our visa programs if they continue to do so. 1 | |
| 186. | World: Not started Contact countries and say 'Folks, we love protecting you, we want to continue to protect you but you're not living up to the bargain' They're not paying what they're supposed to be paying-which is very little, by the way. 1 | |
| 187. | Education: Not started Get rid of Common Core because it's "a disaster" and a "very bad thing." Trump says he wants to give local school districts more control and might even eliminate the Department of Education. 1 | |
| 188. | Education: Not started Learn the difference between Hezbollah and Hamas. 1 2 3 |