President Trump is keeping his promises
Repealing harmful regulations in 2017 was only the beginning of a string of promises kept.
I recently came across this post on X from a friend of mine, posted way back in November 2016:
The only “stunning reversal” there will ever be with Donald Trump is him actually doing what he said he would do.
I thought the exact same thing at the time. I did not trust President Trump and I did not expect him to keep his campaign promises. I was shocked when the first thing he did upon assuming office was start repealing harmful regulations put in place by President Obama’s administration. I was thrilled to see someone finally trimming regulations and protecting consumer choice from the whims of bureaucrats.
I have made my personal disdain for President Trump abundantly clear, but you cannot claim he has not done what he said he would do. He has cut regulations and cut taxes, and eliminating the tax on overtime will be a great help to a large number of Americans (especially lower-income Americans) who work hard beyond the traditional 40-hour work week. His foreign policy is America First. While neoconservatives are appalled at his attitude toward NATO, it makes perfect sense to question a nearly century-old alliance built to contain a superpower that does not exist any more and to question whether our allies are appropriately contributing to their national defense.
While I do not agree with his tariffs, he has always been “Tariff Man” and promised to raise them in the campaign. (And to hear Democrats, who have been protectionists for generations, rail against the tariffs is utterly repulsive. Remember, NAFTA could not have passed without Republican votes as most Democrats voted against it. The Democrats held a solid majority at the time and President Clinton could not have signed this signature policy into law without Republicans.) President Trump has been aggressive in enforcing immigration law, as he promised he would in 2024.
Most important of all, President Trump appointed three of the five justices who overturned the abominable Roe v. Wade decision. Now, we have multiple states (including Indiana) that have either outright banned or severely restricted killing unborn children. The fact that babies are not being dismembered at the Planned Parenthood “clinic” in Bloomington every Thursday is directly traceable to President Trump’s Supreme Court nominees.
Has every promise been kept? No, but that is not for lack of effort. Congress attempted to eliminate the “Affordable Care Act” (ObamaCare) but critical defections from Republicans stopped that effort. Trump is the President, and cannot pass legislation by himself. He did manage to get significant reforms in place, especially eliminating the individual mandate by signing legislation in December 2017. The individual mandate is one of the most important parts of ObamaCare. As I explained on February 20, Congressional action is needed to codify into law President Trump’s executive order mandating ten regulations be eliminated for every one regulation passed.
I have had some disagreements with President Trump’s policies over the last year and in his first term, but the President we have is remarkably similar to the candidate we had in 2016 and 2024. That is something worth honoring, whether you agree with those policies or not.