“The TPP would be the death blow for American manufacturing. It would give up all of our economic leverage to an international commission that would put the interests of foreign countries above our own.”
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The promise's clear accountability meaning is that Trump would keep the U.S. out of the Trans-Pacific Partnership. On January 23, 2017 — his third day in office — he personally signed a presidential memorandum directing the U.S. Trade Representative to 'withdraw the United States as a signatory to the Trans-Pacific Partnership (TPP)' and to 'permanently withdraw the United States from TPP negotiations.' USTR then formally notified the other signatories that the U.S. had withdrawn per the President's guidance. This was executive action Trump directly initiated and it fully realized the pledge, so it is kept essentially 100%. I independently verified the White House presidential-memorandum archive and the USTR press release (both fetched live); NPR corroborates the signing. Under a party-neutral standard, a completed day-3 withdrawal that any politician personally signed is unambiguously FULL. The prior rating's CNBC link now returns HTTP 403 (bot-block, not fabricated); I replaced it with two independently verified sources so at least two real supporting sources stand. Outcome and confidence upheld.
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