Trump promised his supporters 'everything.' He didn't deliver on much of it.

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By Aaron Blake
Jan. 20, 2021 at 8:34 a.m. EST

President Trump’s term in office expires at noon Wednesday. And while he’s never been a broadly popular president, those who stuck by him have almost always cited a few things. Among them: That, whatever warts exist, he tells it like it is, and that he delivered on what he promised.

The former is undermined by his well more than 20,000 falsehoods as president. The latter is undermined by his record.

Back when Trump won the presidency, The Post’s Jenna Johnson offered an indispensable look at just how much Trump had promised he would do as president — 282 items, to be exact. It was, to put it lightly, a lot. Perhaps in large part due to his lack of political expertise, and perhaps in larger part due to his showman persona and his willingness to just say, well, anything, his mouth wrote a lot of checks that his actions couldn’t cash (so to speak).

Now that Trump’s presidency is all but over, I decided to look back at Johnson’s list and see where Trump’s promises have landed. Many of them are tough to pin down because of a lack of specificity, but most are easier to evaluate. And the number of broken promises far outnumber the 32 by our count that he kept.

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