What they said. What they did.

“Starting on day one, we will end inflation and make America affordable again” — prices would come down immediately.

Grocery prices rose, not fell — beef up about 11.8% and fresh vegetables about 9.9% year-over-year — and the claim that “prices are way down” was fact-checked false. Eggs did drop sharply (~59%), but that is bird-flu supply recovering, not policy.

Cheap gas — a return to “$2 gasoline” and lower energy costs across the board.

The AAA national average was about $4.34/gallon in mid-October 2026, up roughly 39% year-over-year after a record September. (The viral “$5.89, highest since 2022” figure is false — and the true number still breaks the promise.)

Full transparency — release the Epstein files, the “client list,” and everything the public was owed.

February 2025’s influencer “binders” were a dud; a July 2025 DOJ/FBI memo declared there was “no client list” and released nothing new; a January 2026 partial dump of ~3 million pages followed, with watchdogs alleging records touching Trump, Bondi, and Patel were withheld.

Deport “only the worst criminals” — murderers, gang members, “the worst of the worst.”

Human Rights Watch documented 500+ people expelled to third countries that are not their own (Eswatini, Ghana, South Sudan) between January 2025 and August 2026, including non-criminals and asylum-seekers, arbitrarily detained there. A US official told the Senate the aim was deterrence: people “dropped in the middle of nowhere … the point is to scare people.” (At least one expelled man did have a murder conviction — the policy sweeps in both.)

Shrink the federal government, “restore free speech,” and get Washington off citizens’ backs.

Masked federal agents detained Tufts student Rümeysa Öztürk over an op-ed; a presidential memo (NSPM-7) directed the machinery of the state at “anti-capitalist” and anti-Israel dissent as “domestic terrorism”; and an independent newsroom was subpoenaed. The state grew more intrusive toward critics, not less.

End corruption and self-dealing in Washington — “drain the swamp.”

A documented market in access and clemency, a family cryptocurrency that let anyone route money to the president, and administration officials with direct financial stakes in the industries they oversee. The swamp was not drained; it was metered.

A peace president — no new wars, an end to foreign entanglements.

US strikes on Iran in June 2025 and military action against Venezuela are documented. We grade the strikes as fact and fence the viral tally (“nine countries bombed, one invaded”) until each is sourced — the real, confirmed actions already cut against the promise.

Protect Medicaid and deliver something “much better” than Obamacare — the long-promised “concepts of a plan.”

The One Big Beautiful Bill Act (signed July 4, 2025) cut Medicaid by more than $900 billion — the largest cut in the program’s history. CBO estimates ~10 million lose coverage from the law, rising to ~16.9 million once the expiring ACA premium subsidies and a new marketplace rule are counted. No replacement plan materialized.

“China” and other foreign countries — not Americans — would pay the tariffs.

Americans paid the overwhelming majority. The New York Fed found US buyers bore ~90% of the 2025 tariff cost; the Kiel Institute put foreign absorption at just ~4%. The effective tariff rate hit ~7.7%, the highest since 1947, and the burden works out to roughly $1,300 per household in 2026 — a consumption tax by another name.

Humane, orderly enforcement that targets criminals and respects due process.

People have been killed by federal immigration agents during routine stops — including a father shot right after dropping his child at school, with the child in the car — and detainees have reported sexual abuse in ICE custody. (We keep the “US citizens killed” strand sourced separately: the documented dropoff victims were immigrants, which is damning enough without the overstatement.)