What would a successful Trump presidency look like based on his campaign promises? Listed below are 20 promises that Trump made, although these 20 fall far short of the some 262 promises that the Washington Post is tracking.
1. He will build a "great wall," which Mexico will pay for.
2. Based on his definitive Arizona speech, all 11 million Mexican undocumented immigrants will be sent back home.
3. He will re-introduce torture that will go "well beyond" waterboarding.
4. He will authorize military personnel to commit war crimes. Although he made a later statement that he will follow the law on war crimes, he also told CNN's Anderson Cooper that laws in this area were too restrictive.
5. He pledged at least twice that he would order the killing of suspected terrorists' families and has never repudiated that pledge.
6. He initially proposed a ban on immigration of Muslims and then in a "Sixty Minutes" interview, he said he would impose the ban on territories, which he then did in two executive orders directed at heavily-Muslim nations.
7. When asked in the primaries if he supported the federal minimum wage, the first time he said wages were already too high; the second time he said he would leave it up to the states; and the third time, he supported an increase to $10, with the figure coming from Fox's Bill O'Reilly.
8. On Planned Parenthood defunding, he initially was against it, but now supports defunding at the national government level.
9. On right-to-work, he would apparently leave it up to the states.
10. Before the Wisconsin primary, Trump told an interviewer that pregnant women who have an abortion must pay a penalty, yet by 5 p.m. Eastern time that same day, he said such women were "victims." About three months later, Trump told John Dickerson of CBS News that abortion is murder.
11. On policy toward ISIS, he gave several ways he would do it during the primaries, but at the Commander-in-Chief town hall meeting, he said he had a secret plan, which could not be revealed to ISIS. He also had said he knew more about ISIS than did the generals, but he would give selected generals 30 days to come up with a plan.
12. MSNBC's Joe Scarbrough said that when Trump met with a foreign policy expert, Trump asked the expert three times why we can't use nuclear weapons.
13. He advocated the proliferation of nuclear weapons by saying that nations like Japan, South Korea and Saudi Arabia should get them.
14. He opposed so-called "common sense" restrictions on guns.
15. On North Carolina's HB2, he initially opposed it, but then said that gender bathroom use should be left up to the states.
16. His income tax plan would reduce revenue by $7.2 trillion over ten years and $20.9 trillion over 20 years, according to the Tax Policy Center; also, the after-tax savings would range from 10 to 16 percent for the top one percent and 0.8 to 1.9 percent for the bottom 80 percent of tax filers.
17. Trump called the U.S. military a "disaster" and "miserable" and needs a major rebuilding.
18. He supported the police shootings of unarmed citizens, except in the one case were the shooter was a female.
19. He was a strong foe of efforts to reduce human-created global warming and once said global warming was a Chinese hoax. He later told a Miami, Florida newspaper that it should be left up to local jurisdictions.
20. He said on several occasions that he would not support a replacement of the Affordable Care Act that did not cover everyone and reduce premiums, but, of course, he has strongly supported a replacement that doesn't do either.
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