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Every Promise. Every Receipt.

We track what politicians said — and what actually happened.

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Across 164 graded political terms, the median kept-promise rate is 50%. Every verdict has primary-source receipts.

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Trump 2016 — sketched portrait from the SEALED book

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2016 — The Promise

Proof of method — 145 promises, 4 years, every receipt

Donald J. Trump

R · FL

45th & 47th President of the United States

This is the methodology in finished form. SEALED Press fact-checked all 145 of Trump's 2016 campaign promises against the public record. Every other profile on this site is built to the same standard.

“Of 145 campaign promises we tracked, 36 were fully kept, 42 were partially kept, 48 were broken, and 19 are genuinely ambiguous — the profile of a normal politician, which is ironic given the whole pitch was ‘I’m not a politician.’”
— SEALED, the book

2016 Promises

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0%kept · 145 promises · 2017-2021

28pending · 2025-2029 term

Verdicts withheld until the term ends. Every promise is being tracked live against the public record.

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A cross-section of the methodology.

Twelve politicians chosen to span the full range — completed-term graded scorecards, in-progress live tracking, leadership figures, partisan flanks, and the SEALED book’s case-study record.

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The Ranking

Receipts, not rhetoric.

164 final scorecards · 368 live-tracked terms in progress. We grade after the term ends, not before. Browse the ranking cards below, search by name, or open the full directory.

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