“I am going to withdraw the United States from the Trans-Pacific Partnership, which has not yet been ratified. The TPP would be the death blow for American manufacturing.”
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Independently verified. On January 23, 2017, within his first week in office, President Trump personally signed a presidential memorandum formally withdrawing the United States from the Trans-Pacific Partnership negotiations and agreement, doing precisely what the 2016 promise stated. The White House archive hosts the memorandum text; the USTR press release confirms the U.S. 'formally withdrew from the agreement per guidance from the President'; NPR, the Washington Post, and CNBC contemporaneously reported the signing. The cited USTR quote matches the live source verbatim. This is a direct, complete, personally-driven fulfillment. Fairness check: any president of any party who campaigns on withdrawing from a specific unratified agreement and does so by executive action in the first week meets the FULL standard equally.
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