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Track Donald J Trump's Electoral Promises with Trump Tracker

53 points by VirenM 10y ago

mtgx 10y ago
I can't tell if this is meant to be satirical or not, but if it isn't, you forgot a yuge one that I'd like him to keep and for everyone to pressure him to keep it: https://www.donaldjtrump.com/press-releases/donald-j.-trumps-five-point-plan-for-ethics-reform https://www.donaldjtrump.com/press-releases/donald-j.-trumps...
- jamessb 10y ago
  These are under the first section of the 'First 100 Days' tab.
- dudul 10y ago
  These are literally the first ones listed on the tracker.
thecopy 10y ago
I like the idea but it is obviously biased with "promises "such as >"If I become president, we're all going to be saying 'Merry Christmas' again."
- wccrawford 10y ago
  I can't imagine someone making this site without some bias. But that doesn't change the fact that he did promise these things. I think some of his ideas are good, some are disastrous, and some are crazy. But it'll be interesting to see which get fulfilled and which don't. For the record, some people already say "Merry Christmas", so I'm assuming he thinks we can somehow talk retail stores into offending their customers again, which I seriously doubt will happen.
  - Mikeb85 10y ago
    > so I'm assuming he thinks we can somehow talk retail stores into offending their customers again How is it offensive? If a Muslim were to wish me a happy Ramadan I'd be cool with it, or if someone of Chinese descent wishes me a happy New Year on their New Year's date, that's ok too. When did people become such wimps that they think a well-wish is an insult? Do people also get offended when someone says "bless you" after a sneeze?
    - daveFNbuck 10y ago
      > When did people become such wimps that they think a well-wish is an insult? This whole argument started when some people decided that "happy holidays" was an affront. Stores forcing their non-Christian employees to mention Christmas to their non-Christian customers in every interaction is weird and no one involved likes it.
    - yequalsx 10y ago
      OK. So it's not offensive to you. Is there no one who would be offended by being told "Happy Ramadan"? I think it's clear that some people would be offended. Walk a mile in their shoes and maybe you'll understand why some people get offended at things you don't get offended at. Is there anything that offends, disgusts you? Is there anything that causes you to react with anger, sadness, fear, or any other such emotion? If so can you imagine someone that would not be similarly offended? Can you imagine that person saying, "Why is Mikeb85 such a goddamned wimp?"
      - mc32 10y ago
        If someone were move/emigrate to Jordan knowing Jordan their traditions, history and religion and they found that offensive, there is something fundamentally wrong with them moving to Jordan. I'm also sure Christians, Buddhists , Jews, in Jordan understand and are not offended by that either.
        yequalsx 10y ago
        As far as I can tell almost everyone offended at "Happy Holidays" comes from Christians who prefer to be told "Merry Christmas".
  - mc32 10y ago
    I'm atheist and I don't get offended. I also don't get offended when people greet me with minority-religion greetings either. When I'm abroad and people greet me with their local greetings with which I have no cultural grounding, understanding or commonality, I also don't feel offended, rather, I find them interesting. These kinds of nonsensical diversion into trying to become bland entities stripped of their own identity might contribute to the attraction of people like Trump. PS. I've worked at Chinese [with lots of Chinese ex-pats] companies where people say Merry Christmas way more often than in American companies where you might get a Merry Christmas one-to-one but not in a group setting, as if they are ashamed to say it. Rather odd.
  - boona 10y ago
    > so I'm assuming he thinks we can somehow talk retail stores into offending their customers again I don't believe that most people are so intolerant as to allow themselves to be offended when they hear "Merry Christmas". If they truly are that intolerant to western customs, then I don't think it's right give them a pass. Tolerance goes both ways.
dudul 10y ago
This may be satire, but I actually like this idea. In all fairness, I was very surprised to run into his "contract with Americans" only after the elections. A lot of people attacked him on the basis that he didn't have any proposition other than building a wall. You may disagree with some or even most points (I certainly do), but they are there.
gdulli 10y ago
Trump was full of flaws, failure, and fraud as as a businessman and it went ignored by his supporters. It's naive to think that his performance or his earnestness as a president will mean anything to them. This is thinking from the era that was still at least ostensibly about truth and facts. Future elections need be about no more than who can give poor people the loudest, simplest explanation for why they're poor.
- lhopki01 10y ago
  Trump's supporters were on average better off than Hillary's supporters.
  - Retric 10y ago
    Comparing economics between states and even locations vs. how they voted I don't think that's accurate. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Simpson%27s_paradox https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Simpson%27s_paradox makes this stuff harder to calculate than you might think. Look at VA income: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Virginia_locations_by_per_capita_income https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Virginia_locations_by_per_capi... vs. http://www.politico.com/2016-election/results/map/president/virginia/ http://www.politico.com/2016-election/results/map/president/... Poor areas are vastly more likely to vote republican. Arlington county median income $101,000: 77.0% Clinton vs 16.9% trump. Lee County $50,014 income: 17.4% Clinton vs. 80.6% trump Trump was very popular with the rural uneducated and thus poor. PS: DC get's a bad rap, but once again top 5 income compared to state and was only beaten by other heavily democratic states. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_U.S._states_by_income https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_U.S._states_by_income 4% of DC voted for Trump.
    - lhopki01 10y ago
      Wait you chose a few locations that happened to be richer that voted for Clinton and used that as proof? Look here: http://edition.cnn.com/election/results/exit-polls http://edition.cnn.com/election/results/exit-polls All four different exit polls clearly show Trump winning in all the higher income brackets.
n1000 10y ago
Some seem hard to track: > Global warming is real, but it's not man-made. And quite some are bound to be broken: > The wealthy should pay more. > Cut taxes for the wealthy big time.
- galfarragem 10y ago
  > The wealthy should pay more. ($ amount) > Cut taxes for the wealthy big time. (Percentage) Not necessarily. If he lowers tax percentage for the wealthy and they evade less, the $ amount payed will be larger.
  - Phlarp 10y ago
    positively whimsical.
a_brawling_boo 10y ago
What about his promise to make america great again?
- dudul 10y ago
  I think that's the epic.
ferdbold 10y ago
This was very likely inspired by http://www.trudeaumetre.ca http://www.trudeaumetre.ca, which so far has done a great job watchdogging the Canadian government.
ivraatiems 10y ago
Great idea. The list needs improvement, though, and editing. Check out the erroneous entries on the unsorted tab, for instance. A lot of these items are subjective, as well. What, for instance, qualifies someone as a "great legal scholar?"
nashashmi 10y ago
God, I hope Trump does not fulfill any of the promises he made, even the favorably liberal ones. I am hoping it was all for the show and he is not serious about doing any of it.
pixie_ 10y ago
I wonder if people actually think he's going to do what he said. The guy has a history of talking bullshit to get what he wants. He just said all the right things and made a bunch of promises to become president. He doesn't care about following through. Why would he? His promises were a means to an end. Trump has a history of fucking people over and now it's our turn.
- dudul 10y ago
  On the other hand, the guy is obsessed with winning. He pulled off the craziest victory in a presidential election that anybody can remember. Now that he's there, I can totally imagine that he's thinking "not good enough, now let's be the best f-ing president! I'll show them!". He got the keys, might as well try to do some of the things he promised and win again.
  - dplgk 10y ago
    This is insanely optimistic but it's all we got.
netcraft 10y ago
Great stuff, my only recommendation would be to link to sources where he said these things.
jontayesp 10y ago
Has anyone done something like this during Obama's administration?
- abritinthebay 10y ago
  Yes. He did pretty well. Compromised on some stuff, was obstructed in many. Some fell by the wayside.
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torkable 10y ago
people so upset they decide to waste their time building petty websites. lol

53 points by VirenM 10y ago

mtgx 10y ago

I can't tell if this is meant to be satirical or not, but if it isn't, you forgot a yuge one that I'd like him to keep and for everyone to pressure him to keep it: https://www.donaldjtrump.com/press-releases/donald-j.-trumps-five-point-plan-for-ethics-reform https://www.donaldjtrump.com/press-releases/donald-j.-trumps...

jamessb 10y ago
These are under the first section of the 'First 100 Days' tab.
dudul 10y ago
These are literally the first ones listed on the tracker.

thecopy 10y ago

I like the idea but it is obviously biased with "promises "such as >"If I become president, we're all going to be saying 'Merry Christmas' again."

wccrawford 10y ago
I can't imagine someone making this site without some bias. But that doesn't change the fact that he did promise these things. I think some of his ideas are good, some are disastrous, and some are crazy. But it'll be interesting to see which get fulfilled and which don't. For the record, some people already say "Merry Christmas", so I'm assuming he thinks we can somehow talk retail stores into offending their customers again, which I seriously doubt will happen.
- Mikeb85 10y ago
  > so I'm assuming he thinks we can somehow talk retail stores into offending their customers again How is it offensive? If a Muslim were to wish me a happy Ramadan I'd be cool with it, or if someone of Chinese descent wishes me a happy New Year on their New Year's date, that's ok too. When did people become such wimps that they think a well-wish is an insult? Do people also get offended when someone says "bless you" after a sneeze?
  - daveFNbuck 10y ago
    > When did people become such wimps that they think a well-wish is an insult? This whole argument started when some people decided that "happy holidays" was an affront. Stores forcing their non-Christian employees to mention Christmas to their non-Christian customers in every interaction is weird and no one involved likes it.
  - yequalsx 10y ago
    OK. So it's not offensive to you. Is there no one who would be offended by being told "Happy Ramadan"? I think it's clear that some people would be offended. Walk a mile in their shoes and maybe you'll understand why some people get offended at things you don't get offended at. Is there anything that offends, disgusts you? Is there anything that causes you to react with anger, sadness, fear, or any other such emotion? If so can you imagine someone that would not be similarly offended? Can you imagine that person saying, "Why is Mikeb85 such a goddamned wimp?"
    - mc32 10y ago
      If someone were move/emigrate to Jordan knowing Jordan their traditions, history and religion and they found that offensive, there is something fundamentally wrong with them moving to Jordan. I'm also sure Christians, Buddhists , Jews, in Jordan understand and are not offended by that either.
      - yequalsx 10y ago
        As far as I can tell almost everyone offended at "Happy Holidays" comes from Christians who prefer to be told "Merry Christmas".
- mc32 10y ago
  I'm atheist and I don't get offended. I also don't get offended when people greet me with minority-religion greetings either. When I'm abroad and people greet me with their local greetings with which I have no cultural grounding, understanding or commonality, I also don't feel offended, rather, I find them interesting. These kinds of nonsensical diversion into trying to become bland entities stripped of their own identity might contribute to the attraction of people like Trump. PS. I've worked at Chinese [with lots of Chinese ex-pats] companies where people say Merry Christmas way more often than in American companies where you might get a Merry Christmas one-to-one but not in a group setting, as if they are ashamed to say it. Rather odd.
- boona 10y ago
  > so I'm assuming he thinks we can somehow talk retail stores into offending their customers again I don't believe that most people are so intolerant as to allow themselves to be offended when they hear "Merry Christmas". If they truly are that intolerant to western customs, then I don't think it's right give them a pass. Tolerance goes both ways.

dudul 10y ago

This may be satire, but I actually like this idea. In all fairness, I was very surprised to run into his "contract with Americans" only after the elections. A lot of people attacked him on the basis that he didn't have any proposition other than building a wall. You may disagree with some or even most points (I certainly do), but they are there.

gdulli 10y ago

Trump was full of flaws, failure, and fraud as as a businessman and it went ignored by his supporters. It's naive to think that his performance or his earnestness as a president will mean anything to them. This is thinking from the era that was still at least ostensibly about truth and facts. Future elections need be about no more than who can give poor people the loudest, simplest explanation for why they're poor.

lhopki01 10y ago
Trump's supporters were on average better off than Hillary's supporters.
- Retric 10y ago
  Comparing economics between states and even locations vs. how they voted I don't think that's accurate. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Simpson%27s_paradox https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Simpson%27s_paradox makes this stuff harder to calculate than you might think. Look at VA income: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Virginia_locations_by_per_capita_income https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Virginia_locations_by_per_capi... vs. http://www.politico.com/2016-election/results/map/president/virginia/ http://www.politico.com/2016-election/results/map/president/... Poor areas are vastly more likely to vote republican. Arlington county median income $101,000: 77.0% Clinton vs 16.9% trump. Lee County $50,014 income: 17.4% Clinton vs. 80.6% trump Trump was very popular with the rural uneducated and thus poor. PS: DC get's a bad rap, but once again top 5 income compared to state and was only beaten by other heavily democratic states. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_U.S._states_by_income https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_U.S._states_by_income 4% of DC voted for Trump.
  - lhopki01 10y ago
    Wait you chose a few locations that happened to be richer that voted for Clinton and used that as proof? Look here: http://edition.cnn.com/election/results/exit-polls http://edition.cnn.com/election/results/exit-polls All four different exit polls clearly show Trump winning in all the higher income brackets.

n1000 10y ago

Some seem hard to track: > Global warming is real, but it's not man-made. And quite some are bound to be broken: > The wealthy should pay more. > Cut taxes for the wealthy big time.

galfarragem 10y ago
> The wealthy should pay more. ($ amount) > Cut taxes for the wealthy big time. (Percentage) Not necessarily. If he lowers tax percentage for the wealthy and they evade less, the $ amount payed will be larger.
- Phlarp 10y ago
  positively whimsical.

a_brawling_boo 10y ago

What about his promise to make america great again?

dudul 10y ago
I think that's the epic.

ferdbold 10y ago

This was very likely inspired by http://www.trudeaumetre.ca http://www.trudeaumetre.ca, which so far has done a great job watchdogging the Canadian government.

ivraatiems 10y ago

Great idea. The list needs improvement, though, and editing. Check out the erroneous entries on the unsorted tab, for instance. A lot of these items are subjective, as well. What, for instance, qualifies someone as a "great legal scholar?"

nashashmi 10y ago

God, I hope Trump does not fulfill any of the promises he made, even the favorably liberal ones. I am hoping it was all for the show and he is not serious about doing any of it.

pixie_ 10y ago

I wonder if people actually think he's going to do what he said. The guy has a history of talking bullshit to get what he wants. He just said all the right things and made a bunch of promises to become president. He doesn't care about following through. Why would he? His promises were a means to an end. Trump has a history of fucking people over and now it's our turn.

dudul 10y ago
On the other hand, the guy is obsessed with winning. He pulled off the craziest victory in a presidential election that anybody can remember. Now that he's there, I can totally imagine that he's thinking "not good enough, now let's be the best f-ing president! I'll show them!". He got the keys, might as well try to do some of the things he promised and win again.
- dplgk 10y ago
  This is insanely optimistic but it's all we got.

netcraft 10y ago

Great stuff, my only recommendation would be to link to sources where he said these things.

jontayesp 10y ago

Has anyone done something like this during Obama's administration?

abritinthebay 10y ago
Yes. He did pretty well. Compromised on some stuff, was obstructed in many. Some fell by the wayside.
- deleted 10y ago
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torkable 10y ago

people so upset they decide to waste their time building petty websites. lol