Trump is already waffling on 4 'unrealistic' campaign promises: reporter

A HuffPost political reporter on Wednesday flagged several campaign promises made by President-elect Donald Trump that he's already wavering on before he even gets to office.

Jennifer Bendery called out promises Trump made regarding Ukraine, grocery prices, Jan. 6 pardons and slashing government spending, all of which she said were essentially pie in the sky,

"But in the weeks since he won the election, Trump and his transition team have been quietly walking back some of his most significant commitments — a reflection of how unrealistic they were to begin with," she wrote.

Trump's promises: ending the war in Ukraine before he's inaugurated, ending inflation and lowering grocery prices, freeing and pardoning Jan. 6 rioters and tapping tech billionaires Elon Muska and Vivek Ramiswawmy to slash at least $2 trillion out of the federal budget.

Instead, he's already walked those pledges back.

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On Wednesday, advisers told Reuters the Ukraine war will take months or longer to resolve. The report said the two associates described Trump's day one vow as "campaign bluster and lack of appreciation of the intractability of the conflict and the time it takes to staff up a new administration."

Bendery pointed to a Time Magazine article as well that refuted Trump's claims to curb inflation.

“It’s hard to bring things down once they’re up,” the president-elect told Time in November. “You know, it’s very hard.”

Bendery noted that Vice President-elect J.D. Vance on Sunday appeared to contradict Trump's bold promises to pardon Jan. 6 rioters, too.“If you protested peacefully on Jan. 6 … you should be pardoned,” Vance told Fox News on Sunday. “If you committed violence on that day, obviously you shouldn’t be pardoned.”

“There’s a little bit of a gray area there,” he said.

And Musk last week acknowledged that if the Department of Government Efficiency, or DOGE, was able to cut $2 trillion from the budget, that would be the "best-case outcome" — even if they only have a "good shot" to cut $1 trillion.