# Let’s list all of Donald’s promises **URL:** \ **Category:** Politics & Elections\ **Created:** [October 29, 2024, 6:30pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/let-s-list-all-of-donald-s-promises/1009416 "2024-10-29T18:30:42Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![beowulff](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/beowulff/32/542_2.png) [@beowulff](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/beowulff)\ **Post date:** [October 29, 2024, 6:30pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/let-s-list-all-of-donald-s-promises/1009416/1 "2024-10-29T18:30:42Z")
Politicians have always made promises, but The Donald takes it to another level. Let’s start a list of all the things he is going to deliver if he gets back in power. • Fixing McDonalds ice cream machines. • Free generators • Deporting aliens • Replacing income tax with tariffs ---
**Author:** ![JoePockets](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/8dc957/32.png) [@JoePockets](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/JoePockets)\ **Post date:** [October 29, 2024, 6:45pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/let-s-list-all-of-donald-s-promises/1009416/2 "2024-10-29T18:45:35Z")
> [@beowulff](#): > > Replacing income tax with tariffs He better un tax snake oil or he will be going back to court! Because he sells plenty of it ! ---
**Author:** ![DavidNRockies](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/davidnrockies/32/6279_2.png) [@DavidNRockies](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/DavidNRockies)\ **Post date:** [October 29, 2024, 6:47pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/let-s-list-all-of-donald-s-promises/1009416/3 "2024-10-29T18:47:58Z")
Trump claimed Americans are "flushing their toilets “10 times, 15 times, as opposed to once.” So … resolving the vexing American Crapper Problem has to be somewhere on that list. I think he made comparable statements about dishwashers and showers, so … maybe just domestic plumbing issues, writ large. ---
**Author:** ![RitterSport](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/rittersport/32/6326_2.png) [@RitterSport](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/RitterSport)\ **Post date:** [October 29, 2024, 6:55pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/let-s-list-all-of-donald-s-promises/1009416/4 "2024-10-29T18:55:14Z")
Remove taxes on tips, overtime, and social security. Yes, this conflicts with his promise to replace tariffs Free IVF ---
**Author:** ![Velocity](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/velocity/32/18006_2.png) [@Velocity](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Velocity)\ **Post date:** [October 29, 2024, 6:56pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/let-s-list-all-of-donald-s-promises/1009416/5 "2024-10-29T18:56:44Z")
No border wall was built. ---
**Author:** ![ParallelLines](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/parallellines/32/3575_2.png) [@ParallelLines](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ParallelLines)\ **Post date:** [October 29, 2024, 7:12pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/let-s-list-all-of-donald-s-promises/1009416/6 "2024-10-29T19:12:06Z")
Well, if you’re Christians, he’s promised you won’t have to do that tiresome thing of [voting again](https://www.reuters.com/world/us/trump-tells-christians-they-wont-have-vote-after-this-election-2024-07-27/), as long as you do in 2024… Of course, it’s the sort of promise a smart (or even half-smart) individual would WORRY about… ---
**Author:** ![xizor](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/xizor/32/102_2.png) [@xizor](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/xizor)\ **Post date:** [October 29, 2024, 9:43pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/let-s-list-all-of-donald-s-promises/1009416/7 "2024-10-29T21:43:13Z")
Didn’t he also promise to end the war in Ukraine with a phone call to Putin or something? ---
**Author:** ![beowulff](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/beowulff/32/542_2.png) [@beowulff](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/beowulff)\ **Post date:** [October 29, 2024, 9:54pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/let-s-list-all-of-donald-s-promises/1009416/8 "2024-10-29T21:54:42Z")
In 24 hours! ---
**Author:** ![Gatopescado](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/gatopescado/32/5711_2.png) [@Gatopescado](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Gatopescado)\ **Post date:** [October 29, 2024, 11:12pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/let-s-list-all-of-donald-s-promises/1009416/9 "2024-10-29T23:12:54Z")
Fire Jack Smith, 2 Seconds Dictator, Day One Health Care, Two Weeks ---
**Author:** ![snowthx](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/snowthx/32/10660_2.png) [@snowthx](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/snowthx)\ **Post date:** [October 29, 2024, 11:23pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/let-s-list-all-of-donald-s-promises/1009416/10 "2024-10-29T23:23:29Z")
There’s a lot, like an overflowing toilet, so it’s hard to focus on just one thing: > **[Trump’s 2024 campaign promises: A running list](https://www.politifact.com/article/2024/sep/30/donald-trumps-2024-campaign-promises-heres-his-vis/)** > > Updated with additional promises, Oct. 28, 2024. Former President Donald Trump’s policy agenda for a potential second te Remember to take breaks if you are going to try and get thru the whole thing. It hurts. Some lowlights: - Abolish the Dept of Education - End the war in Ukraine in 24 hours - Pardon the J6 rioters - Recognize only two genders - End offshore wind energy projects ---
**Author:** ![Little\_Nemo](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/little_nemo/32/3120_2.png) [@Little\_Nemo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Little_Nemo)\ **Post date:** [October 29, 2024, 11:40pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/let-s-list-all-of-donald-s-promises/1009416/11 "2024-10-29T23:40:54Z")
Didn’t he promise he would negotiate a deal with Iran to get them to give up their nuclear weapons program? ---
**Author:** ![PhillyGuy](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/ed655f/32.png) [@PhillyGuy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/PhillyGuy)\ **Post date:** [October 29, 2024, 11:43pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/let-s-list-all-of-donald-s-promises/1009416/12 "2024-10-29T23:43:16Z")
[Police brutality against looters:](https://www.rev.com/blog/transcripts/trump-speaks-in-erie-pa) > [@](#): > > “One rough hour and I mean real rough. The word will get out and it will end immediately.” ---
**Author:** ![Son\_of\_a\_Rich](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/son_of_a_rich/32/5439_2.png) [@Son\_of\_a\_Rich](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Son_of_a_Rich)\ **Post date:** [October 30, 2024, 1:34am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/let-s-list-all-of-donald-s-promises/1009416/13 "2024-10-30T01:34:43Z")
Drill baby drill! ---
**Author:** ![PhillyGuy](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/ed655f/32.png) [@PhillyGuy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/PhillyGuy)\ **Post date:** [October 30, 2024, 2:03am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/let-s-list-all-of-donald-s-promises/1009416/14 "2024-10-30T02:03:56Z")
Trump’s threats against the press are more than just asking questions, but worded so that I guess you could argue whether they are promises. But he has come pretty close to promising prison rape for journalists: [Jailed reporters, silenced networks: What Trump says he’d do to the media if elected](https://www.npr.org/2024/10/22/nx-s1-5161480/trump-media-threats-abc-cbs-60-minutes-journalists) > [@](#): > > “When this person realizes that he is going to be the bride of another prisoner shortly, he will say, ‘I’d very much like to tell you exactly who that was,’” Trump told an appreciative crowd [at a Texas rally](https://www.c-span.org/video/?523661-1/president-trump-campaigns-texas-republicans-robstown). And Trump said he wouldn’t limit it to the reporters: “The publisher too — or the top editors.” He made the same claim two weeks later [at an Ohio rally](https://www.c-span.org/video/?523890-1/president-trump-campaigns-ohio-republicans). ---
**Author:** ![PhillyGuy](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/ed655f/32.png) [@PhillyGuy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/PhillyGuy)\ **Post date:** [October 30, 2024, 2:36am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/let-s-list-all-of-donald-s-promises/1009416/15 "2024-10-30T02:36:40Z")
Here a clear promise: [What Trump says he’d do to the media if elected](https://whyy.org/articles/trump-media-threats-abc-cbs-60-minutes-journalists/) (same link as my last post) > [@](#): > > “I will bring the independent regulatory agencies, such as the FCC and the FTC, back under Presidential authority“ ---
**Author:** ![TeroSunbear](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/terosunbear/32/14748_2.png) [@TeroSunbear](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/TeroSunbear)\ **Post date:** [October 30, 2024, 2:43am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/let-s-list-all-of-donald-s-promises/1009416/16 "2024-10-30T02:43:53Z")
A bad fate to all his enemies. Jack Smith gone 2 seconds after he is sworn in. ---
**Author:** ![Beckdawrek](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/beckdawrek/32/3647_2.png) [@Beckdawrek](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Beckdawrek)\ **Post date:** [October 30, 2024, 5:32am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/let-s-list-all-of-donald-s-promises/1009416/17 "2024-10-30T05:32:13Z")
Well, Hillary is still waiting to be locked up. And yeah that wall. If the Mexicans complain about paying for it, it will just get bigger. ---
**Author:** ![snowthx](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/snowthx/32/10660_2.png) [@snowthx](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/snowthx)\ **Post date:** [October 30, 2024, 2:10pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/let-s-list-all-of-donald-s-promises/1009416/18 "2024-10-30T14:10:49Z")
Trump 2: Electric Boogaloo will be so awful, Americans will be fleeing south in such numbers that Mexico will be forced to build a wall, and pay for it. Promise kept! ---
**Author:** ![Quondam\_Mechanic](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/quondam_mechanic/32/3404_2.png) [@Quondam\_Mechanic](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Quondam_Mechanic)\ **Post date:** [October 30, 2024, 3:16pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/let-s-list-all-of-donald-s-promises/1009416/19 "2024-10-30T15:16:35Z")
Back in '20 in the debate when Biden called him out on his nonsensical remarks about using antiseptic cleansers against Covid, he bellowed “I was being sarcastic and you know it!” So expect that defense (and his similar Access Hollywood defense of his remarks having been just locker-room bragging) to come into play if you ever call him on these promises. ---
**Author:** ![Dewey\_Finn](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/dewey_finn/32/4222_2.png) [@Dewey\_Finn](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Dewey_Finn)\ **Post date:** [October 30, 2024, 3:30pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/let-s-list-all-of-donald-s-promises/1009416/20 "2024-10-30T15:30:50Z")
Sure, in the middle of a dangerous pandemic when the general public is looking to the government for leadership and medical advice, and you’re standing up there with your top medical advisors, that’s the time for sarcasm. Not to mention, it didn’t sound like sarcasm. Can he even manage to _sound_ sarcastic? Edited to add, I’m trying to remember if Deborah Birx (the White House Coronavirus Response Coordinator) actually did a forehead slap or just shook her head. [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/let-s-list-all-of-donald-s-promises/1009416.md?page=2)