President-elect Donald J. Trump has made scores of promises that, if kept during his second term in office, would significantly reshape American life, culture, economics, politics and diplomacy.
Over the course of the 2024 campaign, and since his election in November, Mr. Trump has offered a road map to what he calls an America First agenda and what his critics say would be the dismantling of democratic norms and a decades-old international order.
His promises range from the vague (“I will unite our country by bringing it to new and record levels of success”) to the specific (“You’re going to get full expensing. In other words, you have a one-year write-off”) to the vengeful (“I will appoint a real special prosecutor to go after the most corrupt president in the history of the United States of America, Joe Biden, and the entire Biden crime family.”) Many of his economic promises were aimed squarely at Americans who have struggled with the rising costs of housing, groceries and other goods.
He vows to shut down the southern border, pardon Jan. 6 felons, end foreign wars, slash taxes, ban transgender women from playing in girls’ sports, eliminate the Education Department, fire “woke” generals from the military and impose vast tariffs.
He wants to eliminate regulations, impose the death penalty on migrants, re-evaluate the use of some vaccines, get rid of windmills and end financial incentives for the purchase of electric vehicles.
Taken together, those promises and many more are among the metrics by which history will judge Mr. Trump at the end of his second term as president.
That reckoning about Mr. Trump’s legacy was interrupted by Mr. Biden's presidency. In a speech last month, the president-elect said he had “campaigned on an agenda of delivering profound change to Washington.” He promised to “embark on the most exciting and successful period of reform and renewal in all of American history.”
Whether his presidency lives up to those lofty aspirations will be determined by historians years after he leaves the Oval Office.
“Donald Trump was elected by American voters after being very candid about the sweep of the changes he wishes to make in our society, our structure of government and our role in the world,” said Michael Beschloss, a presidential historian.
“During the campaign, he was also very open about using formidable presidential power to make that transformation. For both his supporters and his opponents, the result could be a crucial moment in American history.”
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