A sourced record · January 20, 2025 — October 23, 2026
The Many Lies
of Donald
He says he kept every promise. So we counted them — what he said, and what the record actually shows. Not everything failed; that is what makes the rest of it checkable.
“I've met all my promises. All my promises.”
What happened, in order
Fifty dated turns between January 20, 2025 and October 23, 2026 — including seven separate reasons given for the same tariffs. Drag the handle to replay the term; click any point to read it.
The tell is not that the reasons changed. It is that none of them were ever revisited, corrected, or withdrawn — and the policy outlived all of them. When the Supreme Court struck the original legal basis down in February 2026, the tariffs were refiled under a different statute the same day, with a new reason attached.
The facts
Twenty-three promises, in the order the record settled them: the quote, the verdict, and a source. Nothing here is rated on vibes.
Nothing in this category.
What he kept
An audit that finds nothing is not an audit. These are real, and they matter — partly because they show what gets delivered when the promise is enforcement rather than delivery.
Sources & method
What counts as a promise
A specific, checkable commitment — a number, a deadline, a named policy, or a stated reason for a policy. Rally rhetoric with no testable content is excluded, which makes this list shorter and harder to argue with than a compilation of every false statement.
What the dates mean
Each row carries the date its outcome became documented, not the date it was promised. “Promises breached by this date” on the timeline therefore means the evidence existed by then — not that the failure happened that afternoon.
The four labels
- Broken — the thing promised did not happen, or its opposite did.
- Partial — something adjacent was delivered, smaller or temporary.
- Kept — delivered as described.
- Pending — neither delivered nor abandoned.
Where the estimates are
Deportation counts are a floor, not a ceiling: the government stopped publishing them, so the figure is reconstructed from FOIA'd data. Premium figures are projections. Deficit and price figures are observed. Each row says which it is.
Sources
Compiled . No trackers, no cookies, no analytics. Corrections welcome — every row cites where it came from, so every row can be argued with.