Trump's 3-D Movie of Outrageous Promises: Duck, Dodge, and Deceive

Trump Faces the Moment of Truth

 Repository for Trump Promises

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Trump’s #1 promise among all these 75 other promises is his campaign slogan: “Make America great again.” (I note: That implies America is weak?).

1. Build a wall along the southern border and it will be “the greatest wall that you've ever seen.”

2. Make Mexico pay for the wall and if Mexico refuses, then the United States will impound all remittance payments taken from the wages of illegal immigrants, cut foreign aid, institute tariffs, cancel visas for Mexican business leaders and diplomats, and increase fees for visas, border-crossing cards, and port use.

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

4. 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.

5. The Environmental Protection Agency might also disappear.

6. Get rid of Obamacare and replace it with something “terrific and so much better, so much better, so much better.”

7. Knock down the regulatory walls between states for health insurance making plans available nationally instead of regionally.

8. Rebuild the country's aging infrastructure – especially bridges and airports that look like they belong in a third-world country.

9. Save Medicare, Medicaid and Social Security without cutting benefits.

10. Defund Planned Parenthood.

11. I will take care of women, and I have great respect for women. I do cherish women, and I will take care of women.

12. Frequently uses the term radical Islamic terrorism.

13. 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. (Update abandons that and now adopts the JEB Bush “path to being here legally…etc. paperwork.)

4. 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.”

15. Heavily surveil mosques in the United States. Trump has said he's open to the idea of closing some mosques.

16. Create a database of Syrian refugees. Trump hasn't ruled out creating a database of Muslims in the country.

17. Never take a vacation while serving as president.

18. Prosecute Hillary Clinton for her use of a private e-mail server while serving as secretary of state.

9. Make medical marijuana widely available to patients and allow states to decide if they want to fully legalize pot or not.

20. Stop spending money on space exploration until the United States can fix its potholes. Encourage private space-exploration companies to expand.

21. Pick Supreme Court justices who are “really great legal scholars.”

22. Ensure that Iowa continues to host the nation's first presidential nominating contest.

23. Strengthen the military so that it's “so big and so strong and so great that nobody's going to mess with us.”

24. Be unpredictable no one is going to touch us, because I'm so unpredictable.

25. Allow Russia to deal with the Islamic State in Syria and to work with Russian President Vladimir Putin to wipe out shared enemies.

26. Bomb the sh*t out of ISIS and 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.

27. Target and kill the relatives of terrorists.

28. Shut down parts of the Internet so that Islamic State terrorists cannot use it to recruit American children.

29. Bring back water boarding which is torture. He's willing to use it and go even further than water boarding he says.

30. Leave troops in Afghanistan because it's such a mess and protect Israel. And increase U.S. military presence in the East and South China Seas.

31. Find an “out clause” in the Iran nuclear deal and then totally renegotiate the whole thing.

32. 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.)

33. Refuse to call Iran's leader by his preferred title saying I guarantee you I will be never calling him the Supreme Leader ... I'll say, “Hey baby, how ya doing?” But I will never call him the Supreme Leader.”

34. 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.)

35. Oppose the killing of journalists “I hate some of these people, but I would never kill them.” 

36. Find great generals like Patton or MacArthur -- 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 ass.” Trump likes generals who are rough, foul-mouthed and beloved by their troops.

37. Drop that “dirty, rotten traitor” Bowe Bergdahl out of an airplane into desolate Afghanistan without a parachute.

38. Fire “the corrupt and incompetent leaders of the VA 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 under served areas, and ensure than every VA hospital is permanently staffed with Ob-Gyn doctors.

39. Invest more heavily in programs that help Vets 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.

40. Bring back jobs from China and Mexico, Japan, and elsewhere.

41. I will be the greatest jobs president that God ever created.

42. Students at Wofford College in South Carolina, where Trump attended a town hall, will all have jobs at graduation.

43. Aggressively challenge China's power in the world 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.

44. 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.

45. 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.

46. Put billionaire hedge fund manager Carl Icahn in charge of trade negotiations with China and Japan pick an ambassador to Japan who is a killer, unlike the current ambassador, Caroline Kennedy.

47. Tell Ford Motor 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. 

48. Force Nabisco to once again make Oreos in the United States and bully Apple into making its “damn computers and other products” here.

49. Impose new taxes on many imports into the country. Numbers thrown around have included 32 percent, 34 percent and 35 percent.

50. Grow the nation's economy by at least 6 percent.

51. 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.

52. Cut the budget by 20 percent by simply renegotiating.

53. Get rid of the Dodd-Frank Wall Street Reform and Consumer Protection Act.

54. 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.

55. 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.

56. Ensure that Americans can still afford to golf.

57. Allow corporations a one-time window to transfer money being held overseas, charging a much-reduced 10 percent tax.

58. Get rid of most corporate tax loopholes or incentives, but continue to allow taxpayers to deduct mortgage interest and charitable donations from their taxes.

59. On his first day in office, Trump would get rid of gun-free zones at military bases and in schools.

60. 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.

61. 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.

62. Fix the background check system used when purchasing guns to ensure states are properly uploading criminal and health records.

63. Allow concealed-carry permits to be recognized in all 50 states.

64. Sign an executive order calling for the death penalty for anyone found guilty of killing a police officer.

65. Provide more funding for police training.

66. And provide more funding for drug treatment, especially for heroin addicts.

67. 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.

68. Deport the almost 11 million immigrants illegally living in the United States.

69. Triple the number of U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement officers.

70. 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.

71. End birthright citizenship (repeal the 14^th Amendment).

72. Say things that are politically incorrect, because the country does not have time to waste with political correctness.

73. Be a cheerleader for America and bring the country's spirit back. “Take the brand of the United States and make it great again.”

74. Bring back the American Dream.

75. Start winning again. “We're going to win so much – win after win after win – that you're going to be begging me: Please, Mr. President, let us lose once or twice. We can't stand it anymore. And I'm going to say: No way. We're going to keep winning. We're never going to lose. We're never, ever going to lose.”

Donald J. Trump – candidate of promises and Talk Radio sound bites lacking any substance whatsoever.

Historical note: Trump is just like this former GOP presidential candidate who won on a series of promises. To wit:

During the presidential campaign of 1928, the GOP issued a circular claiming that if Herbert Hoover were to win there would be “a chicken in every pot and a car in every garage.”

Despite Hoover’s landslide victory over Alfred E. Smith, the Republican Party's promise of prosperity was derailed seven months after Hoover took the oath of office with the stock market crash of 1929 which plunged the country into the Great Depression and people eventually lost confidence in Hoover thereby laying the groundwork for “The New Deal” presidency under FDR that began in 1932.

What we see now is history repeating itself. Thanks for stopping by.