WASHINGTON (AP) — Given just how much President Donald Trump talks in public, it can sometimes be hard to keep up with all of his promises — even his most outlandish ones.

Once a pledge has been made, though, the president has a way of making notions that once seemed implausible inch toward appearing routine the more he repeats them.

Sometimes he even fully manages to make them happen. Other times, though, what he says goes nowhere at all.

A look at a few of Trump’s especially jaw-dropping recent musings and where they stand:

Bringing back the Department of War

WHERE IT STANDS: Promise kept — but pending congressional approval.

BACKSTORY: Trump spent weeks talking up renaming the Defense Department, saying that, back when the U.S. had a War Department, it “just sounded better.” T

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