Lies & Broken Promises | ActivistTools.org

It’s understandable both why so many voted for Trump, and so many now regret it, seeing his nonstop lies and broken promises, unprecedented corruption, declining mental acuity, and vicious personality.*


Top 10 Campaign Promises Broken by Donald Trump Since the 2024 Election [Researched on June 10, 2026]

  • Release the Epstein Files
  • Eradicate Government Waste
  • Put America First
  • Not be involved with “Project 2025”
  • Provide Better Healthcare
  • Work Non-Stop
  • Deport Only Illegal Immigrants
  • Reduce the Price of Prescription
  • Drugs by 1500% to 1900%
  • End the War in Ukraine in 24 Hours
  • Serve as the Peace President**
  • Deliver a Better Economy**

**Costs of Iran War: Thousands of Lives & Billions of Dollars [NY Times June 19]

[See “Foreign Affairs” Lies at right.]

On top of counterproductive efforts to “seek peace” re Ukraine and Israel’s ongoing genocide of Palestinians, Trump started his war of choice against Iran, closing the Strait of Hormuz, disrupting global trade, and increasing costs of gas, food and everything for Americans and all else!
As of July 13, 14 Americans have been killed in Trump’s Iran War plus 414 service members wounded, while nearly 50,000 Iranians have been injured and 9,000 killed, including 120 school girls by a targetted U.S. airstrike the very first day.
Over 50 detainees have died detained in ICE’s for-profit private prisons evidently due to abuse and medical neglect, and ten killed by ICE officers on the street, including Renee Good, Alex Pretti and two this month in Texas and Maine, none of whom were even ICE targets!

Summary, Methodology & Documentation

Donald Trump’s 2024 campaign and early second-term actions are dominated by unfulfilled pledges and high-profile failures, documented by watchdogs and advocacy groups re: not ending foreign wars quickly but starting new, cutting everyday costs for families, and releasing sensitive documents, while some tax and pardon pledges were kept [1] [2] [3]. Assessments differ across nonpartisan trackers, advocacy groups, and partisan critics, so determining “violated” promises depends on the metric used and which promises are treated as measurable commitments [1] [4] [3].

*For decades both major parties have prioritized fundraising from big donors, whom both have rewarded them with big favors, over addressing the needs of American families and workers, worsened all the more by Citizens United and other disastrous Supreme court decisions. A recent Princeton Study (PDF) proved Americans have a near-zero impact on public policy, and that politicians represent only the most wealthy and powerful (“The 1%“).  View Strategy to End Corruption below by Represent.US)

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Donald Trump’s top 25 lies of 2025 [CNN]

It was hard to pick only 25. Donald Trump’s second term, just like his first presidency, when the Washington Post Fact Checker documented 30,000 false statements , was an unceasing parade of lies with staggering frequency. Trump’s lying became especially repetitive in 2025, as he relied on a core set of go-to fabrications he deployed virtually no matter the setting nor how many times they had been debunked. [Adolf Hitler uses the phrase translated as the “big lie” in Chapter 10 of “Mein Kampf”, where he describes a propaganda technique.]

Inflation, tariffs and the economy

  • Lie: Trump secured $17 trillion or $18 trillion in investment in 2025 even as the White House website still had it under $10 trillion.
  • ‘Every price is down’ and there’s “no inflation,” which all know to be false!
  • Trump was reducing prescription drug prices by ‘2,000%, 3,000%’
  • Foreign countries pay the US government’s tariffs (The tariff payments to the government are made by US importers, not foreign exporters, and importers often pass on some or all of the added costs to the final consumer.)

Public safety

  • Portland was ‘burning down’ even though it was absolutely not.
  • Washington, DC had no murders for six months Washington actually had more than 50 homicides over the six months prior to the speech, police statistics and Washington Post tracking show.
  • ‘I invaded Los Angeles and we opened up the water’
  • The Democratic governor of Maryland called Trump ‘the greatest president of my lifetime’

Foreign affairs

  • Ukraine ‘started’ Russia’s war on Ukraine
  • Trump was speaking ‘in jest’ when he promised to immediately end the Ukraine war
  • The US government had planned to spend $50 million on ‘condoms for Hamas’
  • Every drug boat in the Caribbean ‘kills 25,000 Americans’
  • Trump ‘didn’t say’ he had no problem releasing full footage of a September boat strike
  • Numerous foreign leaders emptied prisons and mental institutions to send their most undesirable people into the US
  • Trump ended seven or eight wars
  • ‘The people of Canada like’ the idea of becoming the 51st US state

Justice and elections

An explosion caused by a police munition is seen while supporters of President Donald Trump riot in front of the US Capitol on January 6, 2021.

  • Capitol rioters ‘didn’t assault’
  • Critical media coverage of Trump is ‘illegal’
  • Trump didn’t pressure the Justice Department to go after his opponents
  • Obama, Biden and Comey made up the Epstein files
  • The 2020 election was ‘rigged and stolen’
  • The US is ‘the only country in the world’ with mail-in voting

Health care, legislation and Democrats

  • Babies get 80-plus vaccines at once
  • Trump’s big domestic policy bill didn’t change Medicaid
  • In 2025, though, the variety of Trump’s false claims shrunk even as he maintained his trademark staggering frequency. Trump’s lying has always been characterized by dogged repetition.

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