{"id":164446,"date":"2025-09-15T04:56:23","date_gmt":"2025-09-15T04:56:23","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/quixnet.net\/wpinstance\/sugar-coke-department-of-war-where-some-of-trumps-most-jaw-dropping-promises-stand-abc-news\/"},"modified":"2025-09-15T04:56:23","modified_gmt":"2025-09-15T04:56:23","slug":"sugar-coke-department-of-war-where-some-of-trumps-most-jaw-dropping-promises-stand-abc-news","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/quixnet.net\/wpinstance\/sugar-coke-department-of-war-where-some-of-trumps-most-jaw-dropping-promises-stand-abc-news\/","title":{"rendered":"Sugar Coke? Department of War? Where some of Trump's most jaw-dropping promises stand – ABC News"},"content":{"rendered":"

Given just how much President Donald Trump talks in public, it can be hard to keep up with all of his promises \u2014 even his most outlandish ones<\/span>
WASHINGTON — <\/span>Given just how much President Donald Trump<\/a> talks in public, it can sometimes be hard to keep up with all of his promises \u2014 even his most outlandish ones.
Once a pledge has been made, though, the president has a way of making notions that once seemed implausible<\/a> inch toward appearing routine the more he repeats them.
Sometimes he even fully manages to make them happen. Other times, though, what he says goes nowhere at all.
A look at a few of Trump\u2019s especially jaw-dropping recent musings and where they stand:
WHERE IT STANDS: Promise kept \u2014 but pending congressional approval.
BACKSTORY: Trump spent weeks talking up renaming the Defense Department, saying that, back when the U.S. had a War Department, it \u201cjust sounded better.\u201d The War Department was created by George Washington in 1789, but abolished as part of the National Security Act of 1947, which created the National Military Establishment instead. Two years later, Congress amended that and changed the name to the Department of Defense. Trump recently sought to change the name himself via an executive order<\/a>. Lawmakers will still need to approve making that permanent and official, however.
WHERE IT STANDS: Still talking about it.
BACKSTORY: Trump posted in August about a list of people he helped choose for the center\u2019s annual awards: \u201cGREAT Nominees for the TRUMP\/KENNEDY CENTER, whoops, I mean, KENNEDY CENTER, AWARDS.\u201d He subsequently said, during an Oval Office event, \u201cSome people refer to it as the Trump Kennedy Center, but we\u2019re not prepared to do that quite yet. Maybe in a week or so.\u201d A GOP-backed congressional effort would rename the center after Trump and its opera house after first lady Melania Trump. But a full renaming may ultimately prove more likely than Trump\u2019s name simply being added to the existing building alongside Kennedy. The 1964 act that renamed the National Cultural Center<\/a> in Washington in honor of John F. Kennedy stated that, after Dec. 2, 1983, \u201cno additional memorials or plaques in the nature of memorials shall be designated or installed\u201d \u2014 which would seemingly bar just tacking \u201cTrump\u201d up beside the existing namesake in the center's public spaces.
WHERE IT STANDS: Faded away.
BACKSTORY: Trump has been on all sides of the issue. He posted<\/a> before retaking the White House that the GOP would work to eliminate daylight saving time. In March, he said that setting clocks back and forward was a 50-50 issue, and was therefore too hard for him to take a firm position on. The following month, the president posted online that he actually supported making daylight saving time permanent. The Senate passed a measure do just that in 2022, but it stalled in the House. Legislation reviving that effort has been introduced, but not advanced.
WHERE IT STANDS: Coming soon \u2014 though not quite how it was promised.
BACKSTORY: Trump is famously a Diet Coke fan. But that made his sudden announcement<\/a> in July that Coca-Cola had agreed to use real cane sugar<\/a> in its flagship product in the U.S. all the more surprising. The company soon confirmed<\/a> that such a version was indeed coming, but would be a new product added to the company's line \u2014 not a change encompassing all domestic Cokes. Still, the promised change is notable given that U.S. Coke had been sweetened with high fructose corn syrup since the 1980s, even as Coke from Mexico and some other countries continued to use cane sugar. \u201cThis will be a very good move,\u201d Trump said. "You\u2019ll see. It\u2019s just better!\u201d
WHERE IT STANDS: Faded away.
BACKGROUND: While threatening to impose steep tariffs<\/a> on U.S. trading partners around the globe, Trump said in April that such import tariffs "will be enough to cut all of the income tax.\u201d The president has since championed passage of the sweeping tax legislation<\/a>. It included around $4.5 trillion in tax cuts that disproportionately benefit the rich<\/a>, but fell well short of wiping out federal income taxes entirely. That hasn\u2019t stopped Trump from continuing to assert that the country was its wealthiest near the end of the Gilded Age<\/a>, when the government relied heavily on tariffs for revenue and there was no federal income tax. Still, he's lately been less quick to suggest the U.S. is on its way back to such policies.
WHERE IT STANDS: Still talking about it \u2014 but misstating what happened.
BACKGROUND: Trump and top administration officials have repeatedly suggested that the tax package approved by Congress wipes out taxes paid on Social Security benefits. But it doesn\u2019t<\/a>. The law has a temporary tax deduction<\/a> for people 65 and older that applies to all income, not just Social Security. And not all Social Security beneficiaries can claim it. Indeed, Republicans used a congressional process known as budget reconciliation<\/a> to pass the measure without the 60-vote threshold normally needed to block a filibuster from opponents \u2014 and the Congressional Budget Act of 1974 restricts budget reconciliation bills from making major changes to Social Security.
WHERE IT STANDS: In limbo.
BACKSTORY: Trump has long talked of offering $5 million \u201c gold cards<\/a> \u201d to give \u201cvery high-level people\u201d a \u201croute to citizenship\u201d while granting foreigners visas to live and work in the U.S. In April, the president even held up a gold card featuring his name and picture, and said they would be available in \u201cless than two weeks, probably.\u201d Commerce Secretary Howard Lutnick<\/a> subsequently bragged about having personally sold 1,000 of them. Despite that hype, there has been no major effort by the administration to overhaul the EB-5 Immigrant Investor Program<\/a>, which Congress created in 1990 to offer U.S. visas to investors who spend about $1 million on a company that employs at least 10 people.
WHERE IT STANDS: Political off-ramp found.
BACKGROUND: Trump promised while campaigning for reelection that he\u2019d ensure in vitro fertilization<\/a> was fully paid for by either the government or insurance companies. In February, Trump signed an executive order<\/a> that called for studying ways to reduce the cost of IVF treatment. But the order gave no deadline for when such policy recommendations need to be completed and what might happen once they are ready is even murkier.
WHERE IT STANDS: Still talking about it.
BACKGROUND: Even though Trump boasted while still a candidate that he\u2019d could end Russia\u2019s war in Ukraine<\/a> in 24 hours, fighting rages on. The president undermined international efforts to isolate Vladimir Putin<\/a> by hosting him in Alaska<\/a> on Aug. 15, yet came away with no agreement<\/a> to ease fighting \u2014 and has since been unable to broker a promised meeting between Russia\u2019s leader and Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy<\/a>. In the meantime, Trump's face-to-face with Putin appears to have bought Moscow breathing room, since major economic sanctions that Trump had threatened against Russia<\/a> haven't materialized. Trump has continued to say since that he's frustrated with Putin while insisting there may still be \u201csevere consequences\u201d if Russia doesn\u2019t begin showing it\u2019s serious about peace. But, so far, it's been lots of threats without follow through.
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