WOW – A Comprehensive List of Trump’s Accomplishments This Term Shows Miraculous Results

We’re through the first 12 months of Trump’s second term, and to say it’s been more controversial than his first term would be a massive understatement. Especially within the MAGA base. For many Trump supporters, they would call Trump’s second term as the best of any President in modern history. But at the same time many have been extremely critical of the administration, with some saying it’s been a disappointment, failure, whatever word you want to call it.

Now let’s be clear, the administration hasn’t been perfect and they’ve had some critical mistakes that will be mentioned when we get to that, but some of the current narratives surrounding the Trump administration are not only an exaggeration, but in some areas a complete fabrication and not based on anything remotely real. So as you can probably tell, I have been (mostly) in support of Trump’s second term, and while I will be harsh with my words at times when I think the administration does something bad, I believe that the administration hasn’t had a proper defense written by really anyone. So we’re going to give an accurate assessment of the administration, and go over major criticisms, and see if they hold up or not.

So in the first part of this series, we’re going to start with a major criticism that Trump has had levied against him, which is the idea that he’s breaking his promises and not doing what he promised to do on the campaign trail. We’re not going decide if these are good or not, just merely if he followed through with them. Now, before we can dissect his promises, we have to properly identify what we will actually be looking at because some people certainly have a very broad interpretation of what constitutes a campaign promise or not. For the sake of this article, we will be looking solely at the official campaign promises listed on his platform page on his campaign website and in particular the full document linked on the page. This will certainly upset some people, because there’s certain things not explicitly mentioned in the platform that some people insist are core campaign promises. Namely the release of the Epstein files, which has undoubtedly become one of the biggest dividing points within the MAGA movement. But the issue with this is it becomes incredibly hard to tell what to even include as a core campaign promise, and what the official position is since you can take what Trump said about the Epstein files in the interviews so many different ways, you cannot really gauge for sure what he for supported. And this applies for other niche promises Trump might’ve made during an interview or a speech. Meanwhile, the platform on the website is clearly in black and white what Trump is promising to do and was intended to be the core of Trump’s agenda. Meaning we have an objective baseline to judge Trump on and not some weird interpretation of what he said. But don’t worry, we will tackle those other issues like MAHA, Epstein Files, and other things later in the series. We just for now are going look at what’s in black and white that we can objectively say was the core of his platform.

With that out of the way, this was the official platform Trump had back in 2024:

So there’s a bunch here with some more vague than others, but we shall go over each one in order and give a fair assessment on if Trump kept his promise, if he didn’t, the current status of it, etc.

The border wall has been the one policy proposal that has stuck with Trump through the years, and it started off something seen as super controversial, but it has now become a very popular issue since it’s just common sense to have a physical barrier on the southern border.

As of the writing of this article, between 25 and 30 miles of new border barriers have been built since Trump took office in January of 2025.  CBP reports that around 25 miles of new border wall have been constructed, with more than 10 miles completed in the last day, with the anticipation of 250 miles of new barriers being completed by September 30, 2026. Axios  reported that around 30 miles have been built, and this was a much newer report so we’re assuming that as of now 30 miles have built. On paper this seems very disappointing, after all the target is 2,000 miles by 2029 and we’re only finished with 1.5% of the goal and we finished the first full year of Trump. And most people would stop and say this is a complete failure by Trump and that he broke his promise, but it’s more nuanced than that. Firstly, Trump, on day one, declared an emergency at the southern border, where he invoked military actions such as 10 U.S.C. § 12302 for reserve mobilization and § 2808 for construction. It also explicitly says “The Secretary of Defense, or the Secretary of each relevant military department, as appropriate and consistent with applicable law, shall order as many units or members of the Armed Forces, including the Ready Reserve and the National Guard, as the Secretary of Defense determines to be appropriate to support the activities of the Secretary of Homeland Security in obtaining complete operational control of the southern border of the United States. The Secretary of Defense shall further take all appropriate action to facilitate the operational needs of the Secretary of Homeland Security along the southern border, including through the provision of appropriate detention space, transportation (including aircraft), and other logistics services in support of civilian-controlled law enforcement operations.”

Within days of this, the Department of War sent 1,500 active duty service members and additional assets to the southern border. Now obviously this isn’t the same as a physical wall, but sending the military to the border day one essentially creates a barrier in it’s own right since it would be easier to propel any people trying to cross the border. And people need to understand that you cannot just magically day one manifest a border wall out of nowhere, especially not after the damage Biden caused in his administration.

It takes time to plan it out, get contracts handed out, deal with the logistics of all of and so much more, and they didn’t immediately have the surge in funding that they got from the Big Beautiful Bill since that was passed in the middle of 2025. So while they haven’t built the entire wall as of now, it would be crazy to assume they would’ve considering all of this, and it ignores how now they have the funding to do it and are clearly marching forward to construct hundreds of miles each year of this administration.

Haven’t fully completed it, but taken significant steps towards completing the border wall.

Shift federal law enforcement to immigration enforcement

This one is extremely straightforward, as the answer is yes, this has clearly happened. Not only ICE and CBP having powers to do their jobs from one of Trump’s many actions taken day one, this same action also prompted other departments to share any information they have in order to help take appropriate action on illegal immigrants.

And it doesn’t stop there, as The Guardian reported that massive swaths of the FBI have been reassigned to help ICE operations, Reuters reported the ATF, DEA and others were diverted to help on the crackdown and DHS
itself issued a directive that gave DOJ law enforcement officials authority to investigate and apprehend illegal aliens.

Clearly has kept this promise, and in a much more substantial way than expected.

Use advanced technology to monitor and secure the border

Another very clear one, as the administration has been investing heavily in using more advanced technology to help secure the border. Now just like the wall itself it’s impossible for it all to be covered overnight, but the CBP

awarded several contracts for the Smart Wall and many more miles of new detection technology.

Quickly adapting and well on his way to fully complete this promise.

Move thousands of overseas troops to the southern border

This one isn’t as straightforward, as while like we mentioned earlier we did send the military to the border, it appears that most of these troops were primarily U.S. based active-duty units. Now, Trump has withdrawn some troops from places like Romania and Iraq, but we don’t know if any these troops went directly to the southern border.

Did deploy the military to the southern border, but no clear evidence that these troops came from overseas.

Deploy the U.S. Navy for a full fentanyl blockade

Well, as it turns out the recent actions taken in the Caribbean was actually a campaign promise in 2024.

Without question is doing this.

Strengthen ICE and increase penalties for illegal entry/overstaying visas

A clear slam dunk for Trump on both of these fronts. ICE has become the highest-funded U.S. law enforcement agency because of the Big Beautiful Bill. And DHS announced they will be enforcing significant fines on illegal aliens, and the Trump admin sued a woman who failed to self-deport for $1 million dollars.

Invoke the Alien Enemies Act to remove gang members, drug dealers, or cartel members

Bring back the travel ban

Not only did he bring back the travel ban , he even expanded it to impact more countries. And the State Department announced that the list continues to grow.

Yes and even more expansive.

Use Title 42 to return trafficked children to home countries

While there were discussions early in 2025 to revive Title 42, the Trump administration as of now haven’t revived it. But instead DHS in November of 2025 launched a new initiative with state and local law enforcement to protect vulnerable children the Biden admin lost or placed with unvetted sponsors. Based on recent press releases, 132,000 children have been located.

Title 42 hasn’t been revived, but DHS has launched new initiatives to achieve similar goals goal.