With the exception of the late great Abraham Lincoln, I can be more presidential than any president that's ever held this office that I can tell you.

From the New York Times, I'm Michael Babarro. This is the Daily.

Today, we will make America great again.

A two-part examination of the policies of the president and the man seeking to replace him.

There has never been an administration that's done what I've done.

We have the lowest unemployment rate. Your jobs are through the roof. No president has done more for our black community.

I'm the best thing that ever happened to Puerto Rico.

Our economy is the best it has ever been. The state of our union is stronger than ever before.

In part one, what Donald Trump said he would do four years ago and what he's actually accomplished.

I didn't back down from my promises and I've kept every single one.

It's Thursday, October 15th.

So Peter Baker, we are having this conversation at pretty much the end of the president's first term when so much of how we think about him is dominated by his handling of the pandemic.

But of course, Donald Trump was president for four years and you covered every year of that as the chief White House correspondent for the Times.

It feels like in evaluating any presidential term, a very basic and important metric is comparing what a candidate for president said versus what president actually did in the job.

Kind of a simple scorecard. So with that in mind, I wonder if we could start with the promises that Donald Trump kept.

Right. Exactly right.

Because the president of course running for reelection has to make first the case that he's done what he told people he was going to do. And Trump talks about this a lot. And so do his supporters.

They explicitly say this is a president as far as their concern has really followed through on his promises and something that they see is rare in politics.

And some of the most important things this president talked about as a candidate was the economy.

Let's talk about Donald Trump's economic promises one by one and kind of how they actually pan out.

Well, of course taxes would be one big one. In fact, I've made a centerpiece of my economic revitalization plan.

The largest middle class tax cut. And this is this is big stuff. The largest tax cut since Ronald Reagan as a candidate Donald Trump promised he would cut them for both businesses and individuals. And he's done just that.

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