An astonishing decade · One archive
2016
The outsider. The promise.
2023
The indictment. 91 counts.
2024
The bullet. The fist.
2026
The doctor?
He came to drain the swamp. He became the swamp.
An outsider with zero political experience promised to break the system. A decade later, the receipts tell a different story than memory does.
145 verbatim promises, every receipt, the full paper trail — and a blank column for your own verdict.
Why this book exists
Memory protects the vote you cast.
If you voted for him, memory remembers the wins. If you voted against him, memory remembers the losses. Both versions are real. Neither is complete.
SEALED preserves the exact words — 145 of them — verbatim, dated, and sourced. Then it pairs each promise with the official paper trail: the filings, the votes, the data, the actual record.
You don’t have to agree with the verdicts. You don’t even have to agree with each other. The book includes a blank column so every reader writes their own scorecard.
And along the way, the paper trail does something most political books can’t: it shows you the donors, the lobbies, the outside pressure shaping policy in plain sight. We all know that influence exists. SEALED is the receipt.
One receipt
What he promised voters. What he delivered to AIPAC.
On the campaign trail, Trump told voters: no more nation-building, no more foreign wars, America First. AIPAC — the American-Israel Public Affairs Committee — published the opposite wishlist. Here’s what happened to all three.
What voters were told
BROKENCampaign message: no more nation-building, no more regime change in the Middle East. The Iran deal would be either preserved or “renegotiated,” not abandoned (varied across debates and interviews).
What happened instead
AIPAC wishlist: Kill the Iran nuclear deal entirely.
Paper trail:
May 8, 2018 — The United States withdrew from the JCPOA. Iran resumed uranium enrichment within months. By 2021, enrichment levels were higher than before the deal existed.
What voters were told
BROKENCampaign message: “America First” disengagement from the region — bring troops home, end the endless wars, stop being the world’s policeman.
What happened instead
AIPAC wishlist: Move the US embassy from Tel Aviv to Jerusalem.
Paper trail:
May 14, 2018 — Embassy opened in Jerusalem. Every president since Clinton had signed a waiver to delay this move. This one didn’t. The day of the opening, 60 Palestinians were killed in Gaza border protests.
What voters were told
BROKENCampaign message: protect free speech on campus and in public life from federal overreach (a recurring 2016 rally theme).
What happened instead
AIPAC wishlist: Expand the federal antisemitism definition to cover criticism of Israel.
Paper trail:
December 11, 2019 — Executive Order 13899 applied the IHRA definition to Title VI civil-rights enforcement on campuses. A university student criticizing Israeli government policy could now trigger a federal investigation.
Who paid for it?
Sheldon Adelson — casino billionaire, among the largest individual political donors of the 2010s. He and his wife Miriam gave roughly $82M to Republican-aligned committees in the 2016 cycle alone (FEC). A reported $218M lifetime to Republican causes. His stated public demand, repeated in interviews: neutralize Iran, move the embassy. He got everything he asked for. Three for three.
Three campaign promises broken. Three donor wishes granted. That’s one chapter, one cluster, one funder. There are 144 more receipts in the book.
What you get
The record — verbatim, dated, paired with the paper trail.
145 promises, sourced
Every commitment — from rallies, debates, and interviews — captured verbatim with the date, venue, and a pointer to the original transcript or video.
Five-color verdicts
Kept · partial · broken · blocked · you decide. Applied to every promise. Disagree? The book includes a blank column for your own grade.
Every receipt, on the page
Each promise paired with the filings, votes, or government data that test it. Citations go to primary sources — Congressional records, federal filings, agency reports.
Individually licensed PDF
Your name and checkout email are watermarked on every page (with order number and a personal-use notice). The real email is the deterrent — and it means you wouldn’t want this PDF on the open internet either. Delivered in minutes.
Free editorial illustrations · Share freely
Posters to share. The receipts are in the book.
These editorial illustrations are free to share — post them, text them, attach them to arguments. Each image carries a small SEALED2016.COM mark so anyone who sees it can find the full book.
If these made you stop scrolling, the full book is sharper.
Instant PDF delivery. Individually licensed copy.
Built to be shared
Hand it to your kid. Your parent. Your neighbor who you don’t agree with anymore.
Every chapter ends with a verdict scorecard. The last column is blank — because your grade isn’t supposed to match anyone else’s.
Your kid prints it for civics class. Your parent fills it out at the kitchen table. Your friend you stopped talking to in 2020 reads it on a flight and emails you about chapter 6.
This is the only honest way to judge a politician: read what they said, read what happened, and let the people you love write their own verdict.
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Questions
Before you buy
What is SEALED?
A digital book that preserves 145 of Donald Trump’s 2015–2016 campaign promises — verbatim, sourced, and dated — and pairs each one with the official filings, votes, and documents that show what actually happened. We grade every promise against the record (36 kept · 42 partial · 48 broken · 19 reader-decides) and we show every receipt so you can dispute our calls. No pundit middle layer. Editorial verdicts in plain sight, with the paper trail next to them.
Is this partisan?
Primary-source reference work — not a party endorsement. We grade every promise (36 kept · 42 partial · 48 broken · 19 reader-decides) and show every receipt so you can override our calls.
What do I get for $15?
The complete 116-page illustrated PDF: 145 campaign promises, color-coded verdicts (kept / partial / broken / blocked / you decide), every receipt with date, location, and source. Delivered immediately after purchase via email. Each copy is individually licensed and watermarked with your name, the email you use at checkout, and your order number on every page, along with a personal-use notice. Note: the email is the real one, not a hash. That’s the deterrent — but it also means if you ever forward this PDF, you’re publishing your own email address with it. We don’t print your home address in the PDF.
How are payments handled?
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Is there a refund policy?
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