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(NewsNation) — On his way to winning a second White House term in November, President Donald Trump offered up a collection of campaign promises ranging from lowering the price of eggs to eliminating illegal border crossings and ending the war between Russia and Ukraine in short order.
Yet as Trump marked his 100th day in office Tuesday, several promises remain a work in progress, while Trump has followed through with some of the things he offered up to win over voters.
Promises Trump has kept
Trump told rally attendees in Wisconsin two months before the election that he would pardon those people who were either convicted or charged in the Jan. 6, 2021, riots at the U.S. Capitol. Shortly after being sworn in, Trump signed an executive order granting pardons and the commutation of sentences for certain offenses for events at or near the Capitol.
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Trump, in campaign promises to put America first, pledged to pull the country out of the Paris climate agreement. Trump first pledged to pull the U.S. from the agreement in 2017.
The pact is aimed at limiting long-term global warming to 2.7 degrees Fahrenheit (1.5 degrees Celsius) above preindustrial levels or, failing that, keeping temperatures at least well below 3.6 degrees Fahrenheit (2 degrees Celsius) above preindustrial levels.
President Trump signs an executive order to dismantle the Department of Education during an event in the East Room of the White House in Washington, D.C., on Thursday, March 20, 2025.
The U.S. formally left the Paris Agreement in early November before Trump was defeated by Joe Biden in 2020. After Biden reentered the agreement after being sworn in, Trump again pulled the U.S. out of the pact with an executive order signed shortly after he took office in January.
Trump pledged to release the remaining classified and redacted files on President John F. Kennedy’s assassination during a podcast interview a month before the election. In March, Trump announced that tens of thousands of pages of records were released on the National Archives website.
Trump promised the release of those files as well as files related to the assassinations of Martin Luther King Jr. and presidential candidate Robert F. Kennedy and files related to accused sex trafficker Jeffrey Epstein.
“We have a tremendous amount of paper. You’ve got a lot of reading. I don’t believe we’re going to redact anything. I said, just don’t redact. You can’t redact,” Trump said.
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Trump also relied on an executive order to declare a national emergency to add more drilling, pipelines and other resources to create a “massive increase in domestic energy supply.” In one of the 26 executive orders signed during his first day, Trump’s order put a priority on energy sources that will help to restore American prosperity and will “solidify the United States as a global energy leader long into the future.”
Trump pledges that remain in the works
Trump pledged that shortly after winning the presidency, he would have the “horrible war” between Russia and Ukraine “settled,” yet with the war that Trump vowed to have ended “within 24 hours” still ongoing as Trump’s 100th day in office approached, the president expressed disappointment in Russia and urged President Vladimir to “stop shooting.”
“We have the confines of a deal, I believe, and I want him to sign it and be done with it,” the president told reporters over the weekend.
President Donald Trump, from left, Ukraine’s President Volodymyr Zelenskyy and President Vladimir Putin. (AP Photo/Aurelien Morissard, left and center, Pavel Bednyakov, right)
The president’s comments were made as Trump and his aides have sought to ramp up pressure on both sides to agree to a peace deal, warning that if a deal wasn’t reached soon, the U.S. might “move on” from efforts to facilitate the negotiation.
Trump made securing the U.S.-Mexico border and ending illegal immigration the hallmark of his campaign. The administration has trumpeted that illegal border crossings dropped by 95% in March compared to the same month a year prior. However, promises to deliver the largest mass deportation in American history remain complicated.
The Department of Homeland Security announced that at Trump’s 100-day mark, 35,000 migrants who entered the United States illegally had been deported, including 600 alleged members of transnational criminal organizations like Tren de Aragua and MS-13.
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Yet certain deportations, including that of Kilmar Abrego Garcia, who was granted protective status in 2019, have created tense legal battles between the Trump administration and the judicial arm of the government.
Abrego Garcia’s case reached the U.S. Supreme Court, which ruled that the administration must facilitate the Maryland man’s return to the United States after he was wrongfully deported to El Salvador.
Trump promised attendees at a Georgia rally just days before the election that he would “tariff the hell out of countries that have been taking advantage of us.” However, Trump’s tariff plans have remained the most complicated and controversial aspects of his presidency thus far.
Car dealers have warned that a 25% tariff on automobiles manufactured outside the United States will likely lead to higher car prices for Americans. In early April, Trump signed a series of reciprocal tariffs and threatened to unleash a global trade war on a day he deemed “Liberation Day.”
On April 9, Trump announced a 90-day pause on reciprocal tariffs but raised the rate on tariffs against China to 125%.
Trump has pushed for patience from Americans and took to his Truth Social account to ask Americans not to be a “panican.”
“The United States has a chance to do something that should have been done DECADES AGO. Don’t be Weak! Don’t be Stupid! Don’t be a PANICAN (A new party based on Weak and Stupid people!). Be Strong, Courageous, and Patient, and GREATNESS will be the result!” Trump wrote on Truth Social.
The president later said countries would no longer be able to abuse and take advantage of the U.S. after his tariff plan, which applied 10% tariffs to trading partners and additional higher tariffs to dozens of other countries.
For now, key economic indicators have stayed relatively stable, with the full impact of tariffs yet to be realized. The unemployment rate has ticked up slightly, from 4.0% in January to 4.2% in March, and U.S. employers have continued to add jobs.
Inflation slowed to a 2.4% annual rate in March, the lowest since September, though that reflects past economic conditions. Other recent signals, like plunging consumer confidence and a tumultuous stock market, point to trouble ahead.
NewsNation’s Andrew Dorn and The Associated Press contributed to this story.
