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   Here's Where Trump's Most Jaw-Dropping Promises Stand a Year Into His   
   Second Term   
      
   President Donald Trump has made lots of promises during the first year of   
   his second term in the White House   
   By Associated Press   
   |   
   Jan. 17, 2026, at 8:13 a. m.   
   U. S. News & World Report   
      
   Here's Where Trump's Most Jaw-Dropping Promises Stand a Year Into His   
   Second Term   
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   Mark Schiefelbein   
      
   Mark Schiefelbein   
      
   FILE - President Donald Trump is illuminated by a camera flash as he   
   gestures while walking across the South Lawn of the White House, Nov. 2,   
   2025, in Washington, after returning from a trip to Florida. (AP Photo/Mark   
   Schiefelbein, File)   
      
   WASHINGTON (AP) — From toppling Venezuela's leader to ordering mass   
   deportations, from turning once independent government entities into rubber   
   stamps to demolishing the East Wing for a White House ballroom, President   
   Donald Trump spent his first year back in office trampling political norms   
   and testing institutional checks and balances.   
      
   Some of his ideas that once seemed implausible, if not outright fanciful,   
   are now reality. But there are other things that Trump could not deliver   
   on.   
      
   "I've kept all my promises and much more, " Trump insisted during a speech   
   this week in Detroit.   
      
   With his administration nearing the one-year mark, here's a look at where   
   some of his most jaw-dropping promises stand:   
      
   In progress: A new Qatari   
      
   Air Force One   
      
   U. S. defense officials in May accepted a luxury Boeing 747 jet from Qatar   
   for Trump to eventually use as Air Force One, brushing aside ethical and   
   legal questions and even anti-bribery constitutional provisions. The   
   aircraft is being retrofitted in Texas to meet U. S. security and   
   communications standards that are likely to cost about $400 million, the   
   Air Force says. Outside experts estimate costs could approach $1 billion.   
   Despite Trump's boasts that the work would be done in six months,   
   completion may not actually occur until after he leaves office in January   
   2029.   
      
   What's in progress:   
      
   Annexing Greenland   
      
   After the U. S. military's removal of Venezuelan President Nicola´s Maduro,   
   Trump renewed his calls to take over the semiautonomous Danish territory,   
   insisting the United States will "have" Greenland "one way or another. "   
   The president also tapped Gov. Jeff Landry, R-La. , as the special U. S.   
   envoy to Greenland, with a nod to the 1803 Louisiana Purchase from France   
   that doubled the size of the U. S. Denmark says it is not ceding the   
   world's largest island and that any invasion could have geopolitical   
   implications given that Denmark is a NATO ally.   
      
   Autopen investigation   
      
   Trump has tried to denigrate his predecessor, Joe Biden, by accusing the   
   Democrat of overreliance on the autopen to sign presidential pardons,   
   legislation and other key documents, despite the fact that Trump and other   
   presidents have also used the tool. In October, a GOP-controlled House   
   committee released a report alleging misuse of the autopen by the Biden   
   administration. Trump's Department of Justice is investigating.   
      
   Reopening Alcatraz   
      
   The president has said he wants to reopen an "expanded and rebuilt"   
   Alcatraz, the notorious San Francisco Bay prison that has been closed for   
   six-plus decades, to house immigration detainees. William K. Marshall III,   
   the director of the Bureau of Prisons, toured the island in July. His   
   agency announced that engineers and planners were developing design   
   concepts, preliminary budgets and logistical models.   
      
   50-year home mortgages   
      
   Trump has posted on social media about extending traditional home mortgages   
   repayments from 30 years to 50 years, suggesting that this could ease   
   concerns about housing affordability. Economists say the switch would make   
   it harder to build wealth through home ownership. Nonetheless, the White   
   House has pledged to push the change. Officials have made little headway   
   since, however, and Trump instead has looked to reduce mortgage rates by   
   having the federal government buy $200 billion in mortgage bonds.   
      
   Seeking a third term   
      
   Trump has frequently toyed with the idea of a third term, despite the   
   Constitution stating that no one can be elected president "more than twice.   
   " He acknowledged in October, "I would say that if you read it, it's pretty   
   clear I'm not allowed to run. It's too bad. " White House chief of staff   
   Susie Wiles also told Vanity Fair that Trump "knows he can't run again. "   
   Still, Trump mused this month, "I'm not allowed to run? I'm not sure, " and   
   suggested there could be "a constitutional movement" to make that happen.   
      
   What's faded away:   
      
   Making Canada the 51st state   
      
   Despite it being far-fetched, Trump has talked about making America's   
   northern neighbor the "Great State of Canada" since before his second term   
   started. Canadian Prime Minister Mark Carney assured Trump during a   
   subsequent White House visit that his country "won't be for sale, ever. "   
   Carney suggested in June that Trump had lost interest. Trump has continued   
   to bring up the idea, though, including during a September speech to   
   military personnel in Virginia.   
      
   Touring Fort Knox   
      
   Trump suggested in February that billionaire Elon Musk would be checking   
   out Fort Knox in Kentucky to ensure that U. S. gold reserves were still   
   there. The president even floated the notion of tagging along. Nothing came   
   of that, however, and Musk has left the administration.   
      
   Sending thousands of migrants to Guantanamo   
      
   The president pledged to ship up to 30,000 of the "worst criminal aliens"   
   to a U. S. Navy lockup in Cuba, and between February and June, about 500   
   immigrants were held there. But those numbers have since declined and   
   sometimes reached zero. Housing migrants at Guantanamo is more expensive   
   than in traditional detention centers, and doing so has drawn legal   
   challenges.   
      
   Gaza Strip as a Mediterranean Sea resort   
      
   Trump repeatedly suggested that the U. S. would take over war-torn Gaza and   
   move out the Palestinians living there, and that U. S. developers could   
   turn the area into a "Riviera of the Middle East, " after the war between   
   Israel and Hamas. Gaza's reconstruction is a key question amid a Trump   
   administration-brokered ceasefire, but Arab nations have rejected the idea   
   of it being a vacation spot. Trump no longer mentions it.   
      
   Tariff revenue checks   
      
   The president says his tariffs could raise enough revenue for most   
   Americans to get $2,000 payments. But he also has pledged to spend that   
   same money on plugging deficits created by tax cuts, reducing the national   
   debt, keeping a key nutrition program for low-income mothers and children   
   funded during last year's government shutdown, aiding farmers and adding to   
      
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