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2024 coalition ledger
Promises made. Not kept.
He ran as the man who would close the border, cheapen life, gut the blob, free the Epstein files, Make America Healthy Again, bring the factories home, and start no new wars. Voters gave him the White House, the House, and the Senate. Nineteen months later this is the receipt — written for the people who put him there, not the press shop that still says “promises kept.”
28 of 35 tracked promises on this ledger are unkept, half-kept, or stalled. Closing the border is real. So is $4.10 gas, a war with Iran, and a $40 trillion IOU.
The ledger
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- BrokenAug 2026
No new wars
“I am the president who will stop the endless wars. No new wars.”
New war with Iran, six months and counting. The hawks won. The market got a pump.
Open dossier - BrokenAug 2026
End the Ukraine war in 24 hours
“I will have that war settled in 24 hours.”
Not 24 hours. Not 24 months. The war continues.
Open dossier - BrokenAug 26, 2026
Gasoline under $2 a gallon
“We're going down and getting gasoline below $2 a gallon.”
Promised $2. Today $4.10. The war did this.
Open dossier - BrokenAug 10, 2026
Cheaper groceries on Day One
“When I win, I will immediately bring prices down, starting on Day One.”
Prices did not come down. Some staples got much worse.
Open dossier - BrokenJuly 4, 2026
DOGE: $2 trillion in waste, gone
“Elon Musk and Vivek will lead a Department of Government Efficiency to gut waste, fraud, and abuse.”
Promised $2T. Claimed $215B. Spending rose. The office no longer exists.
Open dossier - BrokenAug 13, 2026
DOGE checks and tariff rebate checks
“I love it — give the savings back to the people. Two thousand dollars from the tariffs.”
The envelope never came. Same mailbox as the $2 gas.
Open dossier - BrokenAug 19, 2026
Stop the debt spiral — protect the dollar
“We're going to cut the waste, bring down the debt, and make this country rich again.”
$40 trillion on his watch. DOGE did not reverse it. The dollar is still first. The binge is his.
Open dossier - BrokenJuly 17, 2026
Release the Epstein files — all of them
“I’m going to release the Epstein files.”
Forced by his own base. Late. Incomplete. Nobody powerful went to prison.
Open dossier - BrokenJuly 10, 2026
MAHA: get pesticides and chemicals off the food
“We are going to Make America Healthy Again.”
The weedkiller order is the opposite of the campaign. MAHA noticed.
Open dossier - BrokenAug 2026
American manufacturing renaissance
“We will be a manufacturing superpower again. The factories are coming back.”
Net factory jobs down ~75,000. Plants are not flooding back.
Open dossier - BrokenJuly 2026
Drain the swamp — not take advice from it
“We will drain the swamp. America First, not neocons, not donors.”
The hawks got a war. The base got a eulogy and a $4 gallon.
Open dossier - BrokenAug 5, 2026
Drain the swamp — not write it a family check
“We will drain the swamp.”
$3.2 billion to companies tied to the sons. The swamp learned a last name.
Open dossier - BrokenFeb 20, 2026
10–20% on everything, 60% on China
“I will put a tariff of 10 to 20 percent on all goods from overseas, and 60 percent on China.”
The Court took the emergency tariff machine away. Congress did not replace it.
Open dossier - BrokenAug 2026
Cut energy costs in half
“We will be slashing energy and electricity prices by half within 12 months.”
Not half. In many bills, higher.
Open dossier - BrokenApr 2026
Cut the federal budget every year
“We will cut the federal budget every year.”
The budget did not shrink. The deficit path got worse.
Open dossier - BrokenJune 30, 2026
End birthright citizenship
“We will end birthright citizenship.”
The Court said no. The 14th Amendment still stands.
Open dossier - BrokenJune 29, 2026
Every vote counted on election night
“All votes should be counted by election night.”
The Court said states can keep counting after Tuesday.
Open dossier - CompromisedJan–Aug 2026
Largest mass deportation in American history
“On Day 1, I will launch the largest deportation program in American history.”
Border: closed. Mass interior deportation of millions: not what was sold.
Open dossier - Compromised2026 filing season
No tax on tips, overtime, Social Security
“No tax on tips. No tax on overtime. No tax on Social Security.”
A capped, temporary deduction. Not the slogan.
Open dossier - CompromisedFeb 2026
Put RFK Jr. in charge of health
“Bobby is going to Make America Healthy Again.”
He got the building. He did not get the chemicals.
Open dossier - CompromisedJune 30, 2026
Keep men out of women’s sports
“I will sign a law keeping men out of women’s sports.”
EO plus a Court permission slip. Not a national law.
Open dossier - Compromised2026
End DEI in the government
“We will end DEI and go back to merit.”
The offices got raided. The lawyers got a vote.
Open dossier - StalledAug 12, 2026
SAVE America Act — citizenship to vote
“We will require proof of citizenship to vote. No more non-citizens on the rolls.”
He called it No. 1. Unified government could not pass it. The Senate Four said no.
Open dossier - StalledJune 26, 2026
Abolish the Department of Education
“We will close the Department of Education.”
Still there. Smaller. Not gone.
Open dossier - StalledJan 2026
Cap credit-card interest at 10%
“I will cap credit card interest rates at 10 percent.”
Still waiting on a bill.
Open dossier - StalledAug 1, 2026
Bring interest rates down
“I bring energy way down, I bring interest rates down, I bring inflation way down.”
He wanted rocket fuel. He got a war with the Fed.
Open dossier - StalledJan 21, 2026
Paper ballots only
“We will require only paper ballots.”
Still machines. Still no statute.
Open dossier - In the worksAug 2026
Finish the border wall
“We will finish the wall.”
Building. Not finished. Deadline slipped into 2027–28.
Open dossier
Personnel is policy
Who got the ear
The 2024 coalition did not vote to take orders from Lindsey Graham, Mark Levin, and the war caucus. It voted to be done with them. Watch who still had the room.
Lindsey Graham
U.S. senator, South Carolina · died July 11, 2026
The original swamp tell. Ukraine-first, Iran-hawk, forever-war id.
Closest Republican foreign-policy voice in Trump’s ear until an aortic tear killed him at 71, hours after a Kyiv visit. MAGA spent a decade watching Trump hug the man who wanted every war MAGA voted to stop. Trump eulogized him as a “true American Patriot.”
Mark Levin
Fox News host, neocon radio
Talk-radio pressure for bombing Iran. Got the war.
Levin, Hannity, and Kilmeade spent June 2025 and winter 2026 telling Trump to hit Iran. After the February 28 strikes Levin said Trump had done “what nobody else could do for half a century.” The base heard “no new wars.” The green room heard “finish it.”
The donor / foreign-policy blob
Think tanks, Israel-first TV, defense contractors
America First on the stump. Their map in the Situation Room.
The 2024 coalition was built against the Bush/Romney/Graham party. Nineteen months in, that party has a war, a $4 gallon, and a eulogy. MTG said the quiet part: this is not what America First was supposed to mean.
Lee Zeldin
EPA administrator
MAHA was told chemicals would be next. EPA went the other way.
Promised a written MAHA chemical agenda after activists tried to get him fired. AP, July 2026: still no agenda, and the agency kept stripping chemical rules. The glyphosate order sat on top of that.
Collins, Murkowski, McConnell, Tillis
The Senate Four on SAVE
A Republican Senate that will not pass citizenship-to-vote.
Trump called SAVE his No. 1 priority. Four Republican senators — Susan Collins, Lisa Murkowski, Mitch McConnell, and Thom Tillis — repeatedly joined Democrats to kill it, including a 48–50 vote on June 4, 2026. That is the swamp MAGA was told had been drained: a majority that still cannot pass the election bill the coalition showed up for.
Jerome Powell — and the war on the Fed
Federal Reserve Chair, under indictment theater
A president who wants a 'say' in rates is a reserve-currency risk.
MAGA wanted cheaper money. Bond markets wanted an independent central bank. Trump chose the fight: public rate demands, removal talk, and a January 2026 grand-jury spectacle over Powell. Foreign holders already shrinking their Treasury share do not need a lecture on why that matters for the dollar.
Don Jr. and Eric
1789 Capital, American Ventures, the family book
Drain the swamp. Then the Pentagon writes the last name a check.
Fifteen companies tied to the sons took in about $3.2 billion in contracts, loans, and awards after he took the office, per Washington Post reporting. Unusual Machines, Vulcan Elements, PsiQuantum. An IG ask is not a conviction. Watching the family book fatten on defense paper is exactly the swamp MAGA was told had been drained.