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Don’t miss the original “Trump’s Top 25 Achievements” list. And share widely!
by Rod D. Martin
September 9, 2026
My original list of Trump’s Top 25 achievements was supposed to be a cheat sheet. Instead, it drew a million views on X, thousands of new followers, and coverage from Dan Bongino’s show to Roger Stone’s.
Why? Because millions know something extraordinary is happening, but almost no one gives them the receipts. The Enemedia buries every victory. Republicans announce today’s win and forget yesterday’s. Voters sense that Trump is transforming the country but can’t explain how.
So here is the sequel. These are achievements, not promises.
You don’t have to memorize all 25. Learn five. And when somebody says Trump “hasn’t done much,” show them how wrong they are.
Trump Restored Speech, Sovereignty, and Safety
1. He dismantled the federal censorship machine at home—and confronted government censorship abroad.
On his first day back in office, Trump prohibited federal employees and agencies from coercing or paying private companies to censor constitutionally protected speech. He ordered an investigation of the Biden Administration’s abuses, gutted CISA’s censorship apparatus, and made free speech a foreign-policy priority. He also imposed visa restrictions on foreign officials and NGO operatives who pressured American platforms to silence Americans.
2. He ended state-run “public” broadcasting.
Not only was government unconstitutionally censoring Americans’ free speech: it was subsidizing Democrats’ talking points. Republicans have talked for decades, but Trump delivered, cutting off funding for the Corporation for Public Broadcasting. Now PBS and NPR must compete for audiences and donors like everyone else.
3. He ended catch-and-release.
Sealing the border was No. 1 in my first list. But what happened after illegal aliens were caught deserves its own place. Under Biden, arrest often meant a bus ticket, a court date years away, and easy disappearance into the country. Under Trump, it means detention and removal. The Border Patrol has now recorded 15 consecutive months without releasing a single apprehended illegal alien into America.
4. He helped drive fentanyl trafficking—and fentanyl deaths—sharply downward.
Under President Trump, fentanyl trafficking at the southern border fell 56 percent compared with the same period in 2024. CDC figures showed synthetic-opioid deaths falling from 48,913 in 2024 to 38,084 in 2025 — a 22 percent plunge.
5. He designated the cartels as terrorists—and took the counter-narcotics war to sea.
Trump designated eight cartels and transnational criminal organizations as terrorist groups, thus unlocking powerful sanctions, intelligence, and enforcement tools. He stopped treating them like ordinary criminals and started treating them as the government-sponsored paramilitary forces they actually are. The Coast Guard also set an all-time record, seizing nearly 510,000 pounds of cocaine across the Eastern Pacific and Caribbean in fiscal 2025, and blowing up even more.
6. He crushed Washington, D.C.’s violent-crime wave.
Trump refused to let America’s capital remain a cesspool of murders, rapes, carjackings, and municipal incompetence. He flooded Washington with federal law-enforcement resources and forced cooperation among police, prosecutors, and federal agencies. One year later, homicides are down 45 percent, carjackings 64 percent, and authorities have seized nearly 2,000 illegal guns.
Urban violence disproportionately victimizes the poor. Restoring order is not oppression: it’s liberation.
7. He restored Second Amendment rights.
Trump ordered the entire executive branch to identify and reverse policies that infringed the right to keep and bear arms. DOJ created a Second Amendment Enforcement Task Force. ATF repealed Biden’s punitive “Zero Tolerance” policy for gun dealers and other unreasonable restrictions on selling firearms.
Then Trump’s DOJ filed the first affirmative civil-rights lawsuit in Department history, forcing Los Angeles County to end nine-month delays for concealed-carry permits. It also restored the congressionally authorized process through which deserving Americans may regain federal firearms rights — and zeroed out the $200 federal tax on suppressors.
Trump Encouraged Work, Savings, and Ownership
8. He ended federal income tax on tips and overtime pay.
Trump’s One Big Beautiful Bill allows eligible workers to deduct up to $25,000 in qualified tips through 2028. It also created a deduction for the overtime premium — up to $12,500 for an individual or $25,000 for a married couple. It’s hard to think of a more pro-working-class reform than that.
9. He eliminated the tax on Social Security for nearly all seniors.
Under the One Big Beautiful Bill, seniors may deduct an additional $6,000 apiece or $12,000 for a qualifying married couple. For most seniors, that eliminates federal income tax on retirement income, including Social Security.
The fact that Democrats taxed Social Security in the first place is obscene. Trump reversed it.
10. He made Opportunity Zones permanent.
Trump’s Opportunity Zones steer private capital toward distressed communities by rewarding long-term investment. The One Big Beautiful Bill made them permanent and established recurring qualifying rounds, giving investors and local leaders the certainty to build for decades.
The Left’s answer to poverty is always another federal program. Trump’s is capital, ownership, businesses, homes, and jobs.
11. He protected farms and family businesses from the death tax.
The death tax can force a grieving family to sell family farms, homes, and businesses just to pay Washington. But Trump made it easier to pass a lifetime’s work and dreams on to the next generation. He increased the federal estate-and-gift-tax exclusion to $15 million per person in 2026, with inflation adjustments and no scheduled expiration — potentially $30 million for a married couple.
Trump Put Families and Good Health First
12. He expanded Health Savings Accounts — and created a $50 billion rural-health fund.
Thanks to the One Big Beautiful Bill, millions more Americans can use Health Savings Accounts. The result? More personal control and fewer gatekeepers between doctor and patient.
Trump also created a $50 billion Rural Health Transformation Program, reversing years of rural hospital closures under Biden.
13. He used TrumpRx and most-favored-nation agreements to force down drug prices.
For decades, Americans paid the world’s highest drug prices while socialist governments imposed price controls and freeloaded on American innovation. Trump turned that arrangement on its head, securing most-favored-nation agreements with 26 drugmakers covering 89 percent of the branded-drug market. It’s not a price control: it’s the end of a free ride. Foreign governments must now pay more for American drugs so Americans can pay less.
Moreover, the President’s new TrumpRx program gives patients direct access to steep discounts. Patients have already saved more than $700 million, while the latest nine deals added $19.6 billion in American manufacturing commitments.
14. He turned MAHA from a slogan into reality.
Trump, Robert F. Kennedy Jr., and MAHA forced a reckoning. HHS and FDA began moving manufacturers away from petroleum-based dyes, approved natural alternatives, changed labeling rules, and created a public tracker of corporate promises.
For the first time in generations, Washington is asking why American children are fat and sick — and fixing the problem instead of prescribing another drug.
15. He prioritized adoption and family formation.
Trump made the adoption tax credit partly refundable, allowing eligible families to receive up to $5,000 per adopted child even when they owe less tax. He also raised tax-free dependent-care assistance from $5,000 to $7,500 in 2026. Trump is forcing government to stop making it harder to adopt, care for dependents, or build families.
16. He stood up for victims of revenge porn and sexual deepfakes.
The TAKE IT DOWN Act criminalized specified nonconsensual intimate imagery, including AI-generated sexual deepfakes. Covered platforms must now provide a reporting process and must remove all qualifying images within 48 hours. Perps go to prison.
17. He stopped federal support for dangerous gain-of-function research in sketchy foreign labs.
Wuhan should have ended this debate. Instead, the Fauci-led bureaucracy doubled down on reckless experimentation and dangerous gain-of-function research, not just in the United States but in sketchy foreign labs, even in China. Trump put a stop to it, terminating projects in countries of concern and suspending other high-risk programs.
Trump Built America’s Economic Future
18. He turned valuable access to the world’s largest consumer market into leverage and revenue.
Washington treated access to the richest consumer market on Earth into a global entitlement, while allowing them to maintain huge trade barriers against U.S. producers. Trump turned that on its head. By January 2026, the Administration reported $300 billion in gross tariff collections.
The President used those tariffs to negotiate new trade deals with countries representing two-thirds of the global economy. In the process, he opened their markets, increased their purchases of U.S. energy, farm produce, and goods, supported industries vital to national security, and made companies begin building factories here.
19. He began breaking China’s rare-earth chokehold.
China dominates the minerals and magnets inside everything from smartphones to submarines. It controls 92 percent of global rare-earths refining. That’s not free trade: It’s a strategic hostage situation.
Trump’s Pentagon partnered with MP Materials to expand American rare-earth separation and magnet production, backed by long-term purchases and a domestic price floor. He also made deals with allied nations to bring their own production and refining online.
20. He created a Strategic Bitcoin Reserve — and made America the center of digital finance.
Trump created a Strategic Bitcoin Reserve by ordering the government to keep, rather than auction off, Bitcoin forfeited in criminal and civil cases. He also championed and signed the GENIUS Act, America’s first national framework for dollar-backed stablecoins, replacing Biden’s war on crypto with rules establishing global leadership and dollar dominance.
A stablecoin is a digital dollar that anyone with a smartphone can hold and spend, anywhere on Earth, without all the expensive banking fees. Under Trump’s law, the companies issuing those coins must back them with safe dollar assets, especially short-term U.S. Treasuries. So as stablecoins spread, they expand the dollar’s reach and dominance, even in countries with strict currency controls.
In short: instead of depending on the goodwill of foreign central banks, America can distribute the dollar system directly to billions of people and businesses.
21. He launched the AI Action Plan and Genesis Mission.
Trump’s AI Action Plan attacks the energy, permitting, infrastructure, and regulatory bottlenecks that could hand this century’s most important technology to China. Genesis brings federal data, national labs, supercomputers, and private AI companies together to accelerate discovery. So far, the Energy Department has secured more than $800 million in partner commitments.
22. He restored the Moon to the center of American national strategy.
Trump ordered America back to the Moon by 2028, with initial elements of a permanent base at its strategically vital South Pole by 2030. He also directed development of space-based nuclear power and nuclear rockets, and greater use of America’s unmatched commercial-space industry.
The Moon is the high ground of twenty-first-century industry, science, logistics, and defense — the first great arena of Astropolitics. Trump gave America the means to beat China and make the future free.
Trump Reasserted American Power Around the World
23. He brought American hostages home.
By March 2026, the Administration had secured the release of 105 detained Americans. Marc Fogel came home after years in a Russian prison. George Glezmann came home after two years in Taliban captivity. So did prisoners held by Hamas, Belarus, Venezuela, and others.
24. He replaced foreign aid with investment and trade.
For a century, Washington measured compassion by how many dollars it spent, regardless of the often abysmal results. Trump put a stop to that: his “Trade Over Aid” doctrine offers not a handout but investment, markets, infrastructure, and partnership.
The December 2025 agreement with the Democratic Republic of the Congo is a perfect example. It tied American investment to secure critical-mineral supply chains. This creates Congolese jobs and infrastructure while rewarding American investors and securing American supply chains. It also rescues impoverished Third World countries from Chinese Communist debt traps.
25. He launched a $76.6 billion American undersea buildup — and began rebuilding the shipyards to sustain it.
China is on track to outnumber the U.S. submarine fleet by 2030. Biden did nothing about it. But in July 2026, Trump’s Navy awarded contracts for five Columbia-class ballistic-missile submarines and nine Block VI Virginia-class attack submarines. The package totals $76.6 billion — an historic contract allowing shipbuilders to expand production lines and train skilled workers.
The President also ordered plans for a fifth Navy shipyard — the first new one in more than 80 years — along with acquisition, workforce, and repair reforms.
Now Act Like It Matters
Trump produced all of these “25 more” accomplishments in just a year and a half, while also accumulating that earlier Top 25 achievements list, accomplishments so consequential that these didn’t make the original cut.
The Republican Party’s greatest political problem this fall is not a lack of victories. It’s that too many Republicans have no idea what — or how much — they’ve accomplished.
It’s up to each of us to tell our story. Donald Trump is delivering great things, whether or not heaven on earth has broken out quite yet. Do the work, send him the team he needs to finish the job, and then get ready for 2028.
Take the time to learn at least five of these victories. Share this list with someone who needs it. Take friends to the polls. And vote as though the most consequential Presidency in modern history depends on what you do.
Because it does.
