Promises Made, Promises Kept – Yeah, Right!

I frequently ride my bike past this gate.

One of the signs says “Don’t blame me, I voted for Trump.” And the other one is a 2020 campaign sign “Promises Made, Promises Kept.”

Trump promised he’d build a border wall and Mexico would pay for it. There is no wall.

Trump promised he’d repeal and replace the Affordable Care Act. He never repealed it, and certainly he never even offered an alternative.

Remember the endless “Infrastructure Weeks” in the first year of his presidency? The weeks happened, but no infrastructure bill was ever proposed, let alone passed. Biden did that eventually.

Then there was the matter of bringing back coal. Beautiful, clean coal.

The fact is, generation of electricity by coal declined more under Trump than any other president since 2012, and it actually rebounded a bit when Biden took office.

He was going to “drain the swamp.” His administration has presented no anti-corruption legislation and Trump himself did not divest from his businesses. In fact, I would argue that it’s gotten worse. Trump put members of own family in key government positions and his properties profited from government business.

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