Trump Promises Megathread: Kept or Broken

[NUance]

Needs to be added to list:

 

2a. "The wall just got 10 feet taller."

 

[Danny Bateman]

Going to add this to #2. Looks like he definitely flipped on this one.

 

[Moiraine]

Surprise surprise.

[NM11046]

Saw this today in the WP (I subscribed after Farenholdts investigations - gotta support solid journalism!) and thought it might be an excellent resource for you Dude.

 

https://www.washingtonpost.com/graphics/politics/trump-promise-tracker/?tid=a_inl

[QMany]

[teachercd]

What if Queseda built a wall to keep Americans out of Mexico?

[BigRedBuster]

This is going to get interesting.

 

[Moiraine]

Sounds like quite a few Republican congress sheep are on board with funding Trump's fence, which he promises Mexico will pay us back for.

[zoogs]

Sounds like quite a few Republican congress sheep are on board with funding Trump's fence, which he promises Mexico will pay us back for.

Yeah... https://www.washingtonpost.com/powerpost/conservatives-ready-to-support-1-trillion-hole-in-the-budget/2017/01/05/76d4bf34-d391-11e6-a783-cd3fa950f2fd_story.html?utm_term=.2ef4915f800e

 

The collective shrug from other conservatives is the latest evidence that Paul’s protest would be a familiar, lonely one. His floor speech attacking the budget measure for making no attempts at deficit reduction — it projects a $9 trillion increase in the debt by 2026 — was preempted by statements from Sen. Ted Cruz (R-Tex.), Sen. Mike Lee (R-Utah), and Sen. Marco Rubio (R-Fla.), pledging to vote for the resolution anyway.

And this last line:

 

“We want to keep in mind the overall picture, both the deficit and how tired people are Obamacare,” said Rep. Randy Weber (R-Tex.). “I do think there’s a danger of the Republicans actually owning this.”

[zoogs]

Another article to share, and I guess this is the most appropriate thread:

 

NYT: The Age of Fake Policy

(Byline: "Trivial interventions won’t do much to change a $19 trillion economy, despite the public relations hype." This is an adequate summary.)

 

Keeping a few hundred jobs in America for a couple of years is a pretty cheap form of campaign contribution; pretending that the administration persuaded you to add some jobs you actually would have added anyway is even cheaper.

Krugman is on point here, and I share in his pessimism. There is both a chilling incentive for businesses to partake in this deception, and an almost perverse national fixation on this bit of political theater masquerading as critical evaluation. I see no reason to suppose the media will not continue to reflect and amplify (by and large) the public's surfeit of attention on the superficial.

[BigRedBuster]

#kingofdebt

 

Remember, he's going to renegotiate it anyway.

[Danny Bateman]

Saw this today in the WP (I subscribed after Farenholdts investigations - gotta support solid journalism!) and thought it might be an excellent resource for you Dude.

 

https://www.washingtonpost.com/graphics/politics/trump-promise-tracker/?tid=a_inl

 

This is an excellent resource. Thanks NM!

 

I'm glad someone is doing one of these like the Obameter Politifact had going. Slightly different but a great tool nonetheless. I wish we could pin this. I probably don't even need to keep updating this with WaPo on it.

 

I probably will keep updating just for kicks.

[GSG]

[zoogs]

Utterly surreal that these two men are heads of state.

[NM11046]

I'm kinda thinking' this Quesada is ok.