Politifact Assesses Donald Trump's 10 Major Campaign Promises

By Politifact's Linda Qiu

Provocative rhetoric to “make America great again” fueled Donald Trump’s ascent to the Republican nomination, a status that will be made official this week at the Republican National Convention in Cleveland.

So how would Trump do that? His campaign promises are aimed at changes to immigration, trade, taxes and foreign policy.

While Trump has made some unorthodox to-dos — such as refusing to take vacations,rejecting the narratives of the elites, and having the country say “Merry Christmas” again — many of his pledges are fairly conventional.

Promises to cut taxes and fight terrorists are the type of promises any politician might make, said Larry Sabato, who directs the Center for Politics at the University of Virginia.

“But this has been overshadowed by his unusual profile and approach,” Sabato said.

PolitiFact has been collecting Trump’s campaign promises from his website and public comments. We’re also following the promises of Democratic nominee Hillary Clinton and will track the promises of the new president whoever it is. We currently track President Barack Obama’s campaign promises on our Obameter.

We identified Trump’s 10 key promises (we’ll look at Clinton’s next week) and ran them by experts in their subjects. They told us Trump will face significant hurdles to actually achieve the agenda he is setting.

Here's what experts had to say about Trump's 10 major campaign promises and whether they think he'll be able to make good on them if elected.

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