These are the lines people remember. Under each one is what he has been able to move, and what is waiting on another country, a court, or 60 senators.
He said he would end the war in Ukraine in a day.
He has pressed for an end. Ukraine is still being hit, and a U.S. war with Iran has been going since late February 2026. Neither one is a paper he can sign by himself.
He said there would be no tax on tips, no tax on overtime, and no tax on Social Security.
Tips and overtime deductions are law through 2028. The Social Security piece did not fit the 51-vote budget rules.
He said he would seal the border and run the largest deportation in history.
Crossings fell after the laws and the orders. The finished wall and the deportation total he named take years of beds, courts, and money.
He said prices would fall. Drill, baby, drill.
Energy orders landed on day one. Diesel-tax relief was signed October 5, 2026. The monthly price still follows the wars.
He said he would open the JFK files.
He signed the order on January 23, 2025. A large set was posted March 18, 2025. Grand jury and tax records are still held. The same order covered RFK and MLK.
On the Epstein files, he called the bill a hoax. Then he said he was for it.
He signed it the day after the House passed it 427–1. Millions of pages are out. The black boxes are the privacy and grand-jury rules in the law.
He told people to read the UFO files and decide for themselves.
The Pentagon has posted batches since May 2026. On July 22 the House put a disclosure bill on the defense bill. The Senate has not passed it. The pages out so far are not proof of nonhuman craft.
Three readings, from three places. None of them is this site’s score. Approval is not the same thing as a promise kept.
The public, as a polling average
Silver Bulletin’s average, as reported on October 13, 2026, put approval at 37.3 percent and disapproval at 59.6 percent. Net, minus 22 points. On the issues in that average: inflation 23 percent approve, the economy 35, trade 34, immigration 42. Immigration was the least bad of those four. Inflation was the worst.
A Capitol roundup, the week of the midterms
The National Desk’s fact-check desk, same day, said this Congress did pass major bills on taxes, immigration, cryptocurrency, and the Epstein files. Bills on electricity costs and first-time homeownership did not become law.
Separate from that roundup: Congress is due back November 9, and funding runs through December 11.
On the UFO files, from the press
Wired reported on September 17, 2026 that the Pentagon’s waiver lets people with UFO secrets talk to the White House program. It does not let them talk to Congress, reporters, or the public. The House later put a disclosure bill on the defense bill. That bill is not law.