Track Donald J Trump's Electoral Promises with Trump Tracker

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by VirenM • 10 years ago

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mtgx• 10 years ago

I can't tell if this is meant to be satirical or not, but if it isn't, you forgot a yuge one that I'd like him to keep and for everyone to pressure him to keep it:

https://www.donaldjtrump.com/press-releases/donald-j.-trumps...

jamessb• 10 years ago

These are under the first section of the 'First 100 Days' tab.

dudul4• 10 years ago

These are literally the first ones listed on the tracker.

dudul4• 10 years ago

This may be satire, but I actually like this idea. In all fairness, I was very surprised to run into his "contract with Americans" only after the elections. A lot of people attacked him on the basis that he didn't have any proposition other than building a wall. You may disagree with some or even most points (I certainly do), but they are there.

thecopy• 10 years ago

I like the idea but it is obviously biased with "promises "such as

"If I become president, we're all going to be saying 'Merry Christmas' again."

wccrawford• 10 years ago

I can't imagine someone making this site without some bias.

But that doesn't change the fact that he did promise these things.

I think some of his ideas are good, some are disastrous, and some are crazy. But it'll be interesting to see which get fulfilled and which don't.

For the record, some people already say "Merry Christmas", so I'm assuming he thinks we can somehow talk retail stores into offending their customers again, which I seriously doubt will happen.

Mikeb853• 10 years ago

so I'm assuming he thinks we can somehow talk retail stores into offending their customers again

How is it offensive? If a Muslim were to wish me a happy Ramadan I'd be cool with it, or if someone of Chinese descent wishes me a happy New Year on their New Year's date, that's ok too. When did people become such wimps that they think a well-wish is an insult?

Do people also get offended when someone says "bless you" after a sneeze?

mc325• 10 years ago

I'm atheist and I don't get offended. I also don't get offended when people greet me with minority-religion greetings either.

When I'm abroad and people greet me with their local greetings with which I have no cultural grounding, understanding or commonality, I also don't feel offended, rather, I find them interesting.

These kinds of nonsensical diversion into trying to become bland entities stripped of their own identity might contribute to the attraction of people like Trump.

PS. I've worked at Chinese [with lots of Chinese ex-pats] companies where people say Merry Christmas way more often than in American companies where you might get a Merry Christmas one-to-one but not in a group setting, as if they are ashamed to say it. Rather odd.

boona3• 10 years ago

so I'm assuming he thinks we can somehow talk retail stores into offending their customers again

I don't believe that most people are so intolerant as to allow themselves to be offended when they hear "Merry Christmas". If they truly are that intolerant to western customs, then I don't think it's right give them a pass. Tolerance goes both ways.

gdulli• 10 years ago

Trump was full of flaws, failure, and fraud as as a businessman and it went ignored by his supporters. It's naive to think that his performance or his earnestness as a president will mean anything to them.

This is thinking from the era that was still at least ostensibly about truth and facts. Future elections need be about no more than who can give poor people the loudest, simplest explanation for why they're poor.

lhopki012• 10 years ago

Trump's supporters were on average better off than Hillary's supporters.

Retric• 10 years ago

Comparing economics between states and even locations vs. how they voted I don't think that's accurate. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Simpson%27s_paradox makes this stuff harder to calculate than you might think.

Look at VA income: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Virginia_locations_by_per_capi... vs. http://www.politico.com/2016-election/results/map/president/... Poor areas are vastly more likely to vote republican.

Arlington county median income $101,000: 77.0% Clinton vs 16.9% trump.

Lee County $50,014 income: 17.4% Clinton vs. 80.6% trump

Trump was very popular with the rural uneducated and thus poor.

PS: DC get's a bad rap, but once again top 5 income compared to state and was only beaten by other heavily democratic states. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_U.S._states_by_income 4% of DC voted for Trump.

n1000• 10 years ago

Some seem hard to track:

Global warming is real, but it's not man-made.

And quite some are bound to be broken:

The wealthy should pay more.
Cut taxes for the wealthy big time.

galfarragem• 10 years ago

The wealthy should pay more. ($ amount)
Cut taxes for the wealthy big time. (Percentage)

Not necessarily. If he lowers tax percentage for the wealthy and they evade less, the $ amount payed will be larger.

Phlarp• 10 years ago

positively whimsical.

a_brawling_boo• 10 years ago

What about his promise to make america great again?

dudul4• 10 years ago

I think that's the epic.

ferdbold• 10 years ago

This was very likely inspired by http://www.trudeaumetre.ca, which so far has done a great job watchdogging the Canadian government.

ivraatiems• 10 years ago

Great idea. The list needs improvement, though, and editing. Check out the erroneous entries on the unsorted tab, for instance.

A lot of these items are subjective, as well. What, for instance, qualifies someone as a "great legal scholar?"

nashashmi• 10 years ago

God, I hope Trump does not fulfill any of the promises he made, even the favorably liberal ones. I am hoping it was all for the show and he is not serious about doing any of it.

pixie_• 10 years ago

I wonder if people actually think he's going to do what he said. The guy has a history of talking bullshit to get what he wants. He just said all the right things and made a bunch of promises to become president. He doesn't care about following through. Why would he? His promises were a means to an end. Trump has a history of fucking people over and now it's our turn.

dudul4• 10 years ago

On the other hand, the guy is obsessed with winning. He pulled off the craziest victory in a presidential election that anybody can remember. Now that he's there, I can totally imagine that he's thinking "not good enough, now let's be the best f-ing president! I'll show them!".

He got the keys, might as well try to do some of the things he promised and win again.

dplgk• 10 years ago

This is insanely optimistic but it's all we got.

netcraft• 10 years ago

Great stuff, my only recommendation would be to link to sources where he said these things.

jontayesp• 10 years ago

Has anyone done something like this during Obama's administration?

abritinthebay• 10 years ago

Yes. He did pretty well. Compromised on some stuff, was obstructed in many. Some fell by the wayside.

Track Donald J Trump's Electoral Promises with Trump Tracker

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