“NAFTA is the worst trade deal maybe ever signed anywhere, but certainly ever signed in this country. We have to renegotiate our trade deals, and we have to stop these countries from stealing our jobs.”
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The concrete, measurable pledge is to renegotiate NAFTA. Independently verified via primary sources: Trump notified Congress of intent to renegotiate (May 2017), talks concluded Sept 30, 2018, USMCA signed Nov 30, 2018 (revised protocol Dec 10, 2019), implementing legislation passed the House 385-41 (Dec 19, 2019) and Senate 89-10 (Jan 16, 2020), was signed into law Jan 29, 2020 as Public Law 116-113, and entered into force July 1, 2020, formally replacing NAFTA. The promise was therefore not merely attempted or championed but fully enacted and in force during his term, so FULL (kept essentially 100%) is correct rather than CHAMPIONED. The broader 'stop these countries from stealing our jobs' rhetoric is aspirational framing rather than a discrete measurable pledge, and disputes over USMCA's actual employment impact do not negate that he renegotiated as promised. Applied neutrally: a politician of either party who promised to renegotiate a named trade deal and secured a signed-into-law, in-force replacement would earn FULL. Prior rating confirmed.
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