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0 pointsryandrake1y ago0 comments

If I was forced to say one good thing about the guy, it's that he is quickly and faithfully delivering on his campaign promises, moreso than any other president that ever served in my lifetime. He's blasting right through the Project 2025 checklist and doing exactly what he said he'd do. Those campaign promises are destructive, thoughtless, cruel, and self-serving, but he said he'd do them, was elected, and then subsequently did them. So, I'll give him that.

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stevage1y ago· 5 in thread

Except brokering peace in Ukraine. He also promised an economic boom.

ramses01y ago

We got an economic "boom" alright......

2muchcoffeeman1y ago

Doesn’t have to have a 100% hit rate to be “getting things done”.

catlikesshrimp1y ago

I don't remember hearing about any peace. I did heard about ending the war, which might mean peace for both sides, or just one.

>> One of Trump’s most audacious promises was that he could end the war in Ukraine within 24 hours of taking office — or even before.

“That is a war that’s dying to be settled. I will get it settled before I even become president,”

fallingknife1y ago

When you promise to broker peace you are promising only to try since it is obvious that you do not have the agency to guarantee success. There are a million things to hate about Trump's handling of Ukraine and Russia, but this just isn't one of them.

lostdog1y ago

He said he would end it on day one. That's a promise he didn't keep.

It's not my fault he made such a dumb, impossible promise. It is true he broke it.

viraptor1y ago· 3 in thread

> on his campaign promises (...) the Project 2025

He never backed that officially though, right? It's just that everyone rational knew what's happening anyway, but otherwise - even the not knowing about it was a lie, not an explicit promise.

nosefurhairdo1y ago

He explicitly stated that he was not familiar with the contents of Project 2025 on numerous occasions. This did not stop the media from pushing it as yet another hoax. It is unclear whether anyone has actually read Project 2025 or if it just sounds scary.

It's truly remarkable how much honest material there is to criticize Trump with, yet folks insist on repeating blatant lies.

viraptor1y ago

> whether anyone has actually read Project 2025

I don't get what you mean. It's not some secret - it's available for everyone to read. It's also written by people who are all around Trump and who got influential positions from him. It's been talked about for ages. Trump not knowing about it would be extremely weird. (Or if he actually never heard about it, that would mean he's extremely clueless - I'm not sure what's worse for him)

seattle_spring1y ago

> He explicitly stated that he was not familiar with the contents of Project 2025

Yes, that is the "blatant lie" being discussed.

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cosmicgadget1y ago· 2 in thread

While I agree with the sentiment that he is not backing down from a lot of his batshit promises, let's not forget that he made a lot of promises. The Russian invasion didn't end on day 1 or day 100 and he decided to only strongarm one side - iirc he said he would threaten Ukraine with withdrawing support and threaten Russia with giving obscene amounts of support to Ukraine.

ryandrakeOP1y ago

His predictions about what other people/countries would do were, of course, wrong, but his promises about what he (and his admin) would do or try to do themselves are for the most part being delivered.

rat871y ago

It's not for the most part. He's delivering far lower percentage of his promises than most presidents.

He made a shit ton of promises and many were nonsensical and contradictory. But that doesn't change that he hasn't delivered on them. The problem is people see him doing the most ridiculous stuff people thought he would drop and assume that means he kept most of his promises

stronglikedan1y ago· 1 in thread

> He's blasting right through the Project 2025 checklist

You are confusing that with Agenda 47. While Project 2025 was all those things you describe, that Trump endorsed any of it or is implementing any of those destructive things simply isn't true.

He's faithfully implementing Agenda 47, just like the majority of people in this country elected him to do. And all of those people expected the storm before the calm.

lobsterthief1y ago

Have you read Project 2025? It’s being executed. Here’s a handy tracker someone made: https://www.project2025.observer/

hobs1y ago

He lied and said he had no idea about Project 2025 - when people say "he's doing what he said" no - he's lied about everything and double backed a half dozen times.

justinator1y ago

> Those campaign promises are destructive, thoughtless, cruel, and self-serving

You seem to have missed, "highly illegal".

But sure "the trains are running on time"

etchalon1y ago

He disavowed Project 2025, so really, he lied to us during the campaign.

lawn1y ago

No, he didn't acknowledge Project 2025 and he tried to distance himself from it.

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