Has President Trump Kept His Promises?
The Charlie Kirk Show
October 15, 2026
Promises made, promises kept? Few presidential candidates have ever been as explicit about what they planned to do in office as Donald Trump in 2024. Two years later, how have his pledges measures up? Andrew and Blake review the president's 20-point list from the 2024 campaign.
Speakers Charlie Kirk, Alexander Marlow, Blake Neff, Norton Rainey, Preston Parsons, Jules Devine, Erika Kirk
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Charlie Kirk (0:03)
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Alexander Marlow (1:17)
All right. Welcome back, everybody. It is October 15th, 2026 Man, there's so much going on.
You got Jack Smith getting the names of anybody who bought a MAGA hat. There's SpaceX News over in Ukraine. All of this is important. President Trump is barnstorming the country. We're here, however, in Phoenix, Arizona, at the Y-Refi Studios. How are we doing, Blake?
Blake Neff (1:42)
Oh, we're doing lovely.
Alexander Marlow (1:42)
I'm so glad to be back in studio.
Blake Neff (1:44)
Yeah, you're finally back with your microphone.
Alexander Marlow (1:46)
I am. I've been reunited. But here's this morning. We are going to do something a little different today.
I think it's really important. We are going to audit President Trump's top 20 promises on the campaign in 2024, his promises, which stated, if enacted, would make America great again. And we are going to have an honest conversation. There's going to be no puff, no hopium, no copium.
We are going to go through all 20 of them. We got to print it out right here. Okay? From the direct website itself, President Trump campaigned on these things. And we're going to go one by one and ask, did President Trump keep his promises? Promises made, promises kept? You remember hearing that in Trump 1.0? We heard it all the time. We heard it on the campaign trail. Can we say that honestly in Trump 2.0?
Blake Neff (2:36)
And we're doing this because a thing we've heard, because there's a lot of people who are very angry, people who are dooming, people who are complaining a lot, and they loved his claim. President Trump abandoned his promises that he is not delivered. And they say, oh, he promised, for example, to do all the up-scene stuff. And that was actually what he campaigned on, and he's not keeping his promises.
And this is a producer of one of the friends of a show here, John Doyle.
Alexander Marlow (3:04)
Yeah, John Doyle's a producer. He posted this.
Blake Neff (3:06)
He's also Blake, of course. So he's a great testament to the order of Blake's. His name's Blake Cressus.
And he wrote, the retard, right, gets real quiet when you show them President Trump's actual campaign promises, not the ones they made up in their head. And he says, and they realize only like three of them haven't come to fruition. So we thought, wait, we should actually, we should test that. We should look up that list. And so this is not just someone compiling promises. You'll see that sometimes Democrats do this a lot. They'll just, oh, collect 50 different promises they made in different speeches. President Trump's a different breed because very few candidates really do this. Where he just said on his website, this is Trump Vance branding. If you look at that image we have up there, you can see the Trump Vance official campaign image right there in the top left. This was on his website. This is the 20 things he was promising to do if elected.
It's still on whitehouse.gov. They have an archived link to show that they are not making this up.
Alexander Marlow (4:05)
It's very Trumpian. He did this with the Supreme Court justices. Here's the list of people he would choose, or et cetera, et cetera. So it gives us sort of a line in the sand, something to base his performance against. He got elected on these promises after all, so let's start right away. And by the way, I do want to just say why this is important, and then we're going to get into number one, which is seal the border.
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