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• Daily Beast publishes letters from White House aide Natalie Harp to Trump

  Natalie Harp serves as special assistant to the president, a White House role held since January 20, 2025, after working as a 2024 campaign aide. On August 20, 2026, the Daily Beast published two letters from Harp to Trump in full, provided by author Michael Wolff, who said 2024 campaign staff gave them to him; CNN reported it had not independently confirmed the letters. The New York Times had reported in November 2024 that Harp wrote letters to Trump in 2023, and the book Regime Change, by reporters Maggie Haberman and Jonathan Swan, reported in August 2026 that the letters had alarmed the Secret Service.

• Trump says Kim Jong Un responded to his outreach; North Korea denies any contact

  On August 15, 2026, Trump posted on Truth Social: Despite the unfriendly look on this particular picture, there are many where we're smiling, Kim Jong Un and I get along GREAT! On August 18, 2026, in the Oval Office, he said Kim had responded to his outreach, called the exchange very positive, and said, Kim Jong Un has always treated me with great respect. I understand him. He understands me. On August 19, 2026, he told reporters he expected to meet Kim later in the year, said Kim has 57 very powerful nuclear weapons, and said, As long as we have a smart president, he's going to be fine. On August 20, 2026, Kim Yo Jong, in a statement carried by KCNA, denied that the two leaders had had any contact while describing their personal relationship as excellent.

• Epstein files release remains partly redacted as compliance case continues without appeal

  As of August 2026, the Department of Justice's release under the Epstein Files Transparency Act remains contested in Phang v. Blanche. The December 2025 rollout was heavily redacted, with roughly 40,000 new pages published in the final week of December per NPR, and contested categories include redacted co-conspirator names, FBI interview notes, foreign-language materials, and the statutorily required redaction log. On July 25, 2026, the court ordered documents submitted for in camera review, and the department filed a notice of compliance July 30. At an August 13, 2026 status conference, Judge Emmet Sullivan pressed the department on compliance and said he had held department lawyers in contempt before and would do so to ensure justice is fairly administered. No notice of appeal appears on the docket.

• Trump announces cancellation of planned strikes on Iran conditioned on a rapid deal; Iran denies requesting a pause

  In a Truth Social post timestamped 10:05 p.m. Eastern on August 1, 2026, Trump wrote that the United States had been asked by Iran, and other Middle Eastern Countries, to hold off any attack, and that he had agreed to cancel the attack, subject to being able to rapidly make a DEAL. The stated terms included the Immediate, Complete, and Total OPENING OF THE HORMUZ STRAIT, and an end to Iran's nuclear threat. Iranian military officials, quoted by the Mehr news agency, dismissed the claim that Iran requested a pause. Iran's defense minister said the military remained on high alert, and the Strait of Hormuz remained closed.

  Revised: Corrected 2026-08-23: date_event changed from 2026-08-02 to 2026-08-01. The Truth Social post is timestamped 10:05 p.m. Eastern on August 1, 2026, which falls on August 2 Universal Time; contemporaneous reporting used the later date. The post itself was retrieved and is now cited directly.

• Reuters reports pending Chinese delivery of shoulder-fired air defence launchers to Iran; China and Pakistan deny it

  On July 28, 2026, Reuters reported that Iran was expected to receive within weeks a first shipment of up to 400 Chinese-made shoulder-fired air defence missile launchers of the QW-12 and FN-16 types, in a purchase valued at 60 to 70 million United States dollars, citing three sources familiar with the deal who spoke on condition of anonymity. Reuters reported the weapons would be flown from Urumqi in western China and transit Pakistan, naming a Hong Kong company as intermediary. China's foreign ministry said the reports were completely groundless. Pakistan's military said speculation that Pakistan was involved in supplying air defence weapons to Iran from China was absolutely concocted and false.

• Trump declares the ceasefire with Iran over after July 2026 exchange of strikes

  A ceasefire between the United States and Iran, announced April 7 to 8, 2026 and formalized in the 14-point Islamabad Memorandum of June 17, 2026, collapsed in July 2026. On July 7, Iran struck three commercial vessels, United States Central Command struck more than 80 targets in Iran, and Iran's Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps attacked United States military sites in Bahrain and Kuwait. On July 8, at the NATO summit in Ankara, Trump said of the ceasefire, I think it's over. On July 10 he posted on Truth Social that the United States has stated to them, in no uncertain terms, that the Cease Fire is OVER.

• Supreme Court holds Executive Order 14160 unconstitutional in Trump v. Barbara

  In Trump v. Barbara, No. 25-365, decided June 30, 2026, the Supreme Court held that children born in the United States to parents unlawfully or temporarily present are citizens at birth under the Citizenship Clause of the Fourteenth Amendment, and affirmed the judgment against Executive Order 14160. Chief Justice Roberts delivered the opinion of the Court, joined by Justices Sotomayor, Kagan, Barrett, and Jackson. Justice Kavanaugh concurred in the judgment on statutory grounds under 8 U.S.C. 1401(a) and dissented in part. Justice Thomas dissented, joined by Justice Gorsuch, and Justices Alito and Gorsuch filed separate dissents.

• District court finds Justice Department in violation of the Epstein Files Transparency Act

  Journalist Katie Phang, represented by the Public Integrity Project, sued Acting Attorney General Todd Blanche in his official capacity on April 27, 2026 under the Administrative Procedure Act over compliance with the Epstein Files Transparency Act. On June 25, 2026, Judge Emmet Sullivan of the United States District Court for the District of Columbia issued a 48-page opinion and a preliminary injunction, writing that Blanche had conceded Phang's merits arguments. The order directed the department to produce or unredact specified records, publish the statutorily required redaction log, or show cause by July 2, 2026. A department spokesperson said it would appeal; no notice of appeal had been filed as of late August 2026.

• Office of Government Ethics publishes first quarter 2026 securities trading disclosure

  Two Form 278-T periodic transaction reports signed by Trump on May 8, 2026 became public on May 14, 2026, covering trading from January 6 through March 30, 2026. The equities filing runs 113 pages and lists 3,642 transactions across 1,026 companies and funds, comprising 2,346 purchases and 1,296 sales. A second filing lists 69 further transactions, primarily municipal and revenue bonds, for a combined 3,711 transactions with a disclosed cumulative value between $220 million and $750 million. Both filings carry a reviewing official's annotation that the filer paid a late fee.

• Ukraine strikes targets deep inside Russia with domestically produced missiles as US-funded aid packages remain halted

  On May 5, 2026, Ukraine's General Staff confirmed strikes by Flamingo cruise missiles, built by Ukrainian manufacturer Fire Point with a stated 3,000 kilometer range, and domestically produced drones on the VNIIR-Progress military electronics plant in Cheboksary and the Kirishi oil refinery, targets more than 1,500 kilometers from Ukraine. The United States has announced no new US-funded military aid packages for Ukraine since early 2025. US-made weapons continue to reach Ukraine through the NATO-coordinated PURL mechanism, under which 29 countries had contributed nearly 6.7 billion dollars as of July 23, 2026, per Ukraine's Cabinet of Ministers, including about 95 percent of the Patriot interceptors Ukraine receives.

• CSIS estimates US expended over half its prewar inventory of four of seven critical munitions in the Iran war

  In an analysis published April 21, 2026 and updated April 24, Center for Strategic and International Studies analysts Mark Cancian and Chris Park estimated that in the first phase of the 2026 Iran war the United States expended more than 1,000 Tomahawk missiles and about 1,100 JASSM-ER missiles, and that for four of the seven critical munitions examined the United States may have expended more than half of its prewar inventory. On August 4, 2026, CNN reported, citing sources familiar with a Pentagon inventory report, that nearly 80 percent of THAAD interceptors and roughly 50 percent of Patriot interceptors had been expended. The Department of Defense has released no official stockpile figures.

• Two-week ceasefire set to finalize an Iran agreement is extended at fourteen days with no agreement

  In a statement dated April 7, 2026, Trump wrote: I agree to suspend the bombing and attack of Iran for a period of two weeks. This will be a double sided CEASEFIRE, and said a two week period will allow the Agreement to be finalized and consummated. On April 21, 2026, exactly fourteen days later, he issued a further statement extending the ceasefire without an agreement: I have therefore directed our Military to continue the Blockade and, in all other respects, remain ready and able, and will therefore extend the Ceasefire until such time as their proposal is submitted, and discussions are concluded, one way or the other.

• SIPRI records four states as major arms suppliers to the principals in the Iran war

  In a topical backgrounder published March 18, 2026, the Stockholm International Peace Research Institute reported that the United States accounted for 68 percent of Israel's major arms imports in 2021 to 2025, followed by Germany at 31 percent and Italy at 1.3 percent, and that Russia is the only state to have supplied major arms to Iran in the past decade. SIPRI also reported that Iran accounted for 0.2 percent of regional arms imports in 2021 to 2025 and less than 0.05 percent of global arms imports, and that about 94 percent of arms imported by states in the region came from the United States, at 54 percent, or from European suppliers, with China at 0.3 percent. Counting suppliers of major arms to both principals gives four states.

• Statistics Canada reports 29.1 million Canadian trips to the United States in 2025, down 25.4 percent

  In a release dated February 23, 2026, Statistics Canada reported that Canadian residents made 29.1 million trips to the United States in 2025, a decrease of 25.4 percent from 2024 and 66.4 percent of the 2019 level. In December 2025 alone, Canadian residents returned from 2.2 million trips to the United States, down 25.0 percent year over year, with automobile trips down 30.2 percent and air trips down 11.0 percent. The decline followed tariffs imposed on Canadian goods and statements by Trump about annexing Canada, beginning in February 2025.

• Supreme Court holds IEEPA does not authorize tariffs in Learning Resources v. Trump

  In Learning Resources, Inc. v. Trump, No. 24-1287, consolidated with Trump v. V.O.S. Selections, No. 25-250, the Supreme Court held on February 20, 2026 that the International Emergency Economic Powers Act does not authorize the President to impose tariffs. Chief Justice Roberts announced the judgment and delivered the opinion of the Court in part, joined by Justices Sotomayor, Kagan, Gorsuch, Barrett, and Jackson; Justices Thomas, Kavanaugh, and Alito dissented. Executive Order 14389, Ending Certain Tariff Actions, was signed the same day, and Customs and Border Protection ended collection for goods entered for consumption on or after 12:00 a.m. eastern time on February 24, 2026.

• Trump says he will not impose the announced Greenland tariffs after meeting NATO Secretary General Rutte

  On January 21, 2026, at the World Economic Forum in Davos, Trump said he would not impose the tariffs he had announced on January 17 against eight European countries. He said he and NATO Secretary General Mark Rutte had agreed on a framework of a future deal with respect to Greenland and the entire Arctic Region, and said of taking Greenland by force: People thought I would use force. I don't have to use force. I don't want to use force. I won't use force. The tariffs had been scheduled to take effect February 1, 2026, and no implementing instrument was ever issued. The June 1 escalation date also passed without action.

• Eight European governments issue joint statement against tariff threat over Greenland

  In a Truth Social post timestamped 11:19 a.m. Eastern on January 17, 2026, Trump wrote that Denmark, Norway, Sweden, France, Germany, the United Kingdom, the Netherlands, and Finland would be charged a 10 percent tariff on all goods sent to the United States starting February 1, 2026, rising to 25 percent on June 1, 2026. The post stated: This Tariff will be due and payable until such time as a Deal is reached for the Complete and Total purchase of Greenland. On January 19, 2026, the eight governments issued a joint statement that the tariffs undermine transatlantic relations and risk a dangerous downward spiral. Danish Prime Minister Mette Frederiksen said Europe will not be blackmailed, and British Prime Minister Keir Starmer called the use of tariffs against allies completely wrong. European Union member states discussed reviving a suspended list of counter-tariffs on 93 billion euros of United States goods and activating the Anti-Coercion Instrument. Neither measure was activated, and no executive order, proclamation, or Federal Register document implementing the tariffs was ever issued.

  Revised: Corrected 2026-08-23: the tariff announcement was made January 17, 2026, not January 16. The prior date came from a secondary account and did not survive verification. The announcing post was subsequently retrieved and is timestamped 11:19 a.m. Eastern on January 17, 2026; it is now cited directly rather than through outlet renderings.

• Epstein Files Transparency Act signed into law

  The Epstein Files Transparency Act, H.R. 4405, passed the House 427 to 1 on November 18, 2025, Roll no. 289, and the Senate by unanimous consent on November 19, 2025. Trump signed it November 19, 2025 as Public Law 119-38. The act required the Attorney General to make publicly available, in a searchable and downloadable format, all unclassified Epstein records in the Department of Justice's possession within 30 days, setting a deadline of December 19, 2025. It has been compared to the John F. Kennedy Assassination Records Collection Act of 1992; unlike that act, it established no independent review board.

• Meeting with Xi Jinping said to come in a couple of weeks occurs in ten days

  On October 20, 2025, Trump said: And I'm meeting with President Xi. We have a very good relationship. We're going to be meeting in South Korea in a couple of weeks, and we'll see what we can do. He met Xi Jinping in Busan, South Korea on October 30, 2025, ten days later.

• Meeting with Putin in Budapest said to come within two weeks is off within five days

  Asked on October 16, 2025 whether he had a timeline for meeting Putin in Hungary, Trump said: Yeah, I would say within two weeks or so. Pretty quick. He restated it the following day as in about two weeks or so. On October 21, 2025, five days after the first statement, he was asked whether the meeting was canceled or put on hold and answered: I don't want to have a wasted meeting. I don't want to have a waste of time. The Budapest meeting did not take place within the stated window.

• Court rules January 2025 removal of 17 inspectors general violated the Inspector General Act

  On January 24, 2025, 17 inspectors general were removed by two-sentence emails citing changing priorities, without the 30 days of advance notice to Congress and the case-specific rationale required by the Inspector General Act, the latter added by the 2022 amendments. Eight of them sued, representing the offices of Defense, Veterans Affairs, Health and Human Services, State, Agriculture, Education, Labor, and the Small Business Administration. On September 24, 2025, Judge Ana Reyes of the United States District Court for the District of Columbia ruled that the removals violated the act but denied a permanent injunction ordering reinstatement, finding insufficient irreparable harm.

• Department of War renaming said to come in about a week arrives in eleven days

  On August 25, 2025, speaking about renaming the Department of Defense, Trump said: it's something that I think you're going to be hearing about or seeing about over the next couple of weeks. Probably, that change is going to be made over the next week or so. Executive Order 14347, Restoring the United States Department of War, was signed September 5, 2025, eleven days later, inside both windows he stated.

• Armenia and Azerbaijan sign a joint declaration and initial a peace treaty that remains unsigned a year later

  At a White House summit on August 8, 2025, President Ilham Aliyev of Azerbaijan and Prime Minister Nikol Pashinyan of Armenia signed a Joint Declaration with Trump signing as a witness, and their foreign ministers initialed a draft peace treaty. Trump said: We have a very comprehensive agreement. It's a peace agreement. And this isn't cease-fire. This isn't we'll hold off. This is a peace agreement. Aliyev said today we initialed the peace deal. One year later, in a trilateral joint statement of August 10, 2026, the three governments still described the treaty as a draft that was initialed. It has not been signed or ratified, and the border has remained quiet throughout.

• Executive Order 14318 fast-tracks permitting and opens federal land for AI data centers

  On July 23, 2025, Trump signed Executive Order 14318, Accelerating Federal Permitting of Data Center Infrastructure, which defines qualifying projects as data centers over 100 megawatts or projects with at least 500 million dollars in committed capital, directs new NEPA categorical exclusions and FAST-41 coverage, directs Interior, Energy, and Defense to offer federal land, and revokes Executive Order 14141 of January 14, 2025. On July 24, 2025, the Energy Department selected Idaho National Laboratory, Oak Ridge Reservation, the Paducah Gaseous Diffusion Plant, and the Savannah River Site for private AI data center and power development. The order followed the January 21, 2025 White House announcement of the Stargate joint venture of OpenAI, SoftBank, and Oracle, with a stated commitment of up to 500 billion dollars in private AI infrastructure investment.

• Decision on striking Iran promised within two weeks is made in two days

  At the White House press briefing on June 19, 2025, Press Secretary Karoline Leavitt read a direct quotation from Trump: Based on the fact that there's a substantial chance of negotiations that may or may not take place with Iran in the near future, I will make my decision whether or not to go within the next two weeks. United States forces struck Iranian nuclear facilities on June 21, 2025, and Trump addressed the nation the same day, two days after the statement.

• FY2026 budget request omits ban on destroying healthy wild horses as BLM sales double

  The administration's fiscal year 2026 budget request, released May 30, 2025, omitted the longstanding appropriations provisions that bar the Bureau of Land Management from destroying healthy wild horses and burros or selling them for processing into commercial products. Congress declined the change and retained both provisions in Public Law 119-74, signed January 23, 2026. BLM data show sales of wild horses and burros rose from 1,509 in fiscal year 2024 to 3,718 in fiscal year 2025, while removals fell from 16,140 to 7,853. On August 20, 2026, the New York Times reported, citing livestock inspection records, that several hundred horses sold through the BLM sale program later moved toward slaughter plants in Canada.

• Assessment of Russia promised within two weeks is reset three times across three months

  Asked on May 28, 2025 whether Putin wanted to end the war, Trump said: I can't tell you that, but I'll let you know in about 2 weeks - within 2 weeks. We're going to find out very soon. We're going to find out whether or not he's tapping us along or not. He had deferred a related question on May 19, 2025 by saying I'd rather tell you in about 2 weeks from now, and on August 22, 2025 he said again: I think, in 2 weeks, we'll know which way it's going to go. No determination was announced at the close of any of the three windows.

• Ceasefire between India and Pakistan announced on Truth Social; violations follow the same evening and India denies mediation

  On May 10, 2025, at 11:55 Universal Time, which is 17:25 Indian Standard Time, Trump posted: After a long night of talks mediated by the United States, I am pleased to announce that India and Pakistan have agreed to a FULL AND IMMEDIATE CEASEFIRE. India's Ministry of External Affairs stated that the two Directors General of Military Operations had agreed by telephone that both sides would stop all firing and military action with effect from 1700 hours Indian Standard Time, twenty-five minutes before the post. Later the same evening the Foreign Secretary stated that there had been repeated violations of the understanding. Organised hostilities have not resumed since.

• Ceasefire with the Houthis announced May 2025 holds for United States vessels while other shipping is attacked

  On May 6, 2025, Trump said of the Houthis: They've said, Please don't bomb us anymore, and we're not going to attack your ships, and announced that all action is stopping. Oman, which brokered the agreement, stated that in the future neither side will target the other, including American vessels, in the Red Sea and Bab al-Mandab Strait. On May 13, 2025 in Riyadh, Trump described the scope more broadly, saying they were not going to be targeting commercial ships in any way, shape, or form or anything American. In a paper published August 13, 2026, the Center for Strategic and International Studies stated that the May 2025 ceasefire has held even amid the Iran war. In July 2025 the Houthis attacked and sank two bulk carriers not covered by the bilateral pledge.

• Pharmaceutical tariffs promised in two weeks are announced 143 days later

  Asked on May 5, 2025 whether he had determined pharmaceutical tariff rates and their timing, Trump said: I have. I'll announce it over the next 2 weeks. Okay? He announced a 100 percent tariff on branded or patented pharmaceutical products, effective October 1, 2025, in a post dated September 25, 2025, 143 days after the statement.

• Executive Order 14160 restricts birthright citizenship

  Executive Order 14160, titled Protecting the Meaning and Value of American Citizenship, was signed January 20, 2025 and published in the Federal Register as document 2025-02007. It directed the federal government to restrict birthright citizenship for certain children born in the United States. The Supreme Court held the order unconstitutional under the Citizenship Clause of the Fourteenth Amendment in Trump v. Barbara, decided June 30, 2026.

• Proclamation 10887 grants clemency for offenses relating to January 6, 2021

  Across the 2022 to 2024 period Trump repeatedly promised pardons for people charged over the events at the United States Capitol on January 6, 2021, including at a Conroe, Texas rally on January 29, 2022. Proclamation 10887 was signed January 20, 2025 and published January 29, 2025 under Federal Register citation 2025-01950. It commuted 14 named sentences to time served, including that of Stewart Rhodes, granted a full, complete, and unconditional pardon to all other individuals convicted of offenses related to the events, which covered Enrique Tarrio, and directed the Attorney General to pursue dismissal with prejudice of all pending indictments.

• Gross federal debt rose about $7.8 trillion across the first term

  The 2016 campaign promised to eliminate the federal debt over eight years. Per the Treasury Department's Debt to the Penny series, total public debt outstanding was $19,947,304,555,212.49 on January 20, 2017 and $27,751,896,236,414.77 on January 20, 2021, an increase of $7,804,591,681,202.28 across the four-year term. PolitiFact rated the promise, which it titles Eliminate the federal debt in 8 years, as Promise Broken.

• Republican National Convention adjourns without adopting a 2020 platform

  A Resolution Regarding the Republican Party Platform, dated August 24, 2020, was adopted in place of a new platform. It stated that the party has and will continue to enthusiastically support the President's America-first agenda, and that the 2020 Republican National Convention will adjourn without adopting a new platform until the 2024 Republican National Convention. The resolution further provided that any motion to amend the 2016 platform or to adopt a new platform would be ruled out of order. The effect was to leave the 2016 platform in place.

• Merit-based immigration plan promised in a couple of weeks is not released

  On July 31, 2020, Trump said of an immigration plan: It's merit-based. It's very powerfully merit-based, and we'll be releasing that over the next couple of weeks. So we're doing a health care plan. We're doing a immigration plan. No comprehensive immigration plan was released before the end of the term on January 20, 2021. This was the same appearance at which a reporter put to him the elapsed two-week deadline for the health care plan.

• Health care plan said to be signed within two weeks is followed by an executive order 67 days later

  In an interview with Chris Wallace broadcast July 19, 2020, Trump said: we're signing a health care plan within two weeks. A full and complete health care plan that the Supreme Court decision on DACA gave me the right to do. Nothing was signed within two weeks. On July 31, 2020, a reporter told him You said 2 weeks, when you spoke to Chris Wallace, and he answered: It might be Sunday, but it's going to be very soon. Executive Order 13951 was signed September 24, 2020, 67 days after the broadcast.

• USMCA enters into force, replacing NAFTA

  The 2016 campaign promised to renegotiate or withdraw from the North American Free Trade Agreement. The Agreement between the United States of America, the United Mexican States, and Canada entered into force on July 1, 2020, replacing NAFTA. The implementing statute was the United States-Mexico-Canada Agreement Implementation Act, Public Law 116-113, approved January 29, 2020. PolitiFact rated the promise to renegotiate NAFTA as Promise Kept.

• Supreme Court rules DACA rescission arbitrary and capricious in DHS v. Regents

  In Department of Homeland Security v. Regents of the University of California, No. 18-587, decided June 18, 2020, the Supreme Court ruled 5 to 4 that the rescission of the Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals program was arbitrary and capricious under the Administrative Procedure Act. The ruling addressed the adequacy of the agency's explanation for the rescission rather than the legality of the program itself.

• Middle-income tax cut resolution promised within two weeks is not introduced

  On October 22, 2018, Trump said: we're putting in a resolution sometime in the next week, or week and a half, 2 weeks, and said it would provide a middle-income tax reduction of about 10 percent. No corresponding resolution or bill was introduced in the 115th Congress, which adjourned January 3, 2019.

• Korea trade agreement said to be signed in a couple of weeks is signed in nineteen days

  On September 5, 2018, Trump said of the revised trade agreement with South Korea: We've made a deal with South Korea. It may be signed during the United Nations conference in a couple of weeks. The deal is done. He restated it on September 7, 2018: It's completed. We're probably going to sign at United Nations week, in a couple of weeks. The revised United States-Korea Free Trade Agreement was signed in New York on September 24, 2018, nineteen days after the first statement.

• Return of Korean War remains promised in a couple of weeks occurs in eight days

  At a Cabinet meeting on July 18, 2018, Trump said of the return of American remains from North Korea: We think in the next couple of weeks we'll have the first remains returned. That's the commitment. A United States Air Force aircraft carrying remains departed Wonsan, North Korea, and the White House statement recording the repatriation is dated July 26, 2018, eight days after the statement.

• Supreme Court upholds Proclamation 9645 in Trump v. Hawaii

  In Trump v. Hawaii, No. 17-965, decided June 26, 2018, the Supreme Court upheld Proclamation 9645, the third version of the entry restrictions, by a vote of 5 to 4. Chief Justice Roberts wrote for the majority, holding that the proclamation was within the President's authority under 8 U.S.C. 1182(f) and rejecting the Establishment Clause challenge under rational basis review. Justice Sotomayor dissented, joined by Justice Ginsburg, and Justice Breyer filed a separate dissent, joined by Justice Kagan.

• Health plan promised in two weeks is restated five times in nine days and not issued

  On June 20, 2018, Trump said: we're going to be announcing another health care in the next 2 weeks done by Secretary Alex Azar. He restated it four more times through June 28: on June 26, Secretary Azar is coming out with one in 2 weeks; twice on June 27, including We are coming out with that plan in two weeks; and on June 28, Secretary Azar is coming out in 3 weeks with a massive plan. No plan matching the description was issued by the Department of Health and Human Services in 2018. The department's next major dated action was a proposed rule published October 30, 2018, 132 days after the first statement.

• News conference on the campaign against ISIS promised in two weeks is not held

  In Riyadh on May 21, 2017, Trump said: And we're going to be having a news conference in about 2 weeks to let everybody know how well we're doing. Tremendous progress has been made and will continue to be made. He restated it at a Cabinet meeting on June 12, 2017: We're going to be having a news conference in 2 weeks on that fight, and you'll see numbers that you would not have believed. No such news conference was held. At a press gaggle on June 22, 2017, a reporter asked the deputy press secretary: Twelve days ago, the President announced a press conference in two weeks on his entire ISIS strategy. Can we expect a press conference in the coming days?

• Infrastructure plan promised in two or three weeks arrives in February 2018

  In an Oval Office interview with CBS News's John Dickerson aired May 1, 2017, Trump said of the infrastructure plan: We have got the plan largely completed, and we will be filing over the next two or three weeks, maybe sooner. The $1.5 trillion plan was released February 12, 2018, roughly nine months later. No comprehensive infrastructure package was enacted during the term; PolitiFact closed its infrastructure investment promise as Promise Broken.