The 13 major campaign promises President Trump kept in 2017

Though it took nearly 11 months for President Donald Trump and the Republican party to lock in a major legislative victory with the passage of the GOP tax bill, Trump often appeased his base during his first year in office by using his executive power to fulfill campaign promises.

Sometimes, these choices were as simple as backing out on action taken by his predecessor Barack Obama. Trump announced his intention to withdraw from both the Paris climate agreement and the Trans-Pacific Partnership, nullifying two of the most recent global policies supported by Obama regarding the environment and trade, respectively.

In other cases, Trump aimed to change decades of U.S. policy -- domestically by rewriting the tax code and internationally by taking a more bluntly pro-Israel stance in the Middle East.

Some of his achievements came with broken promises, too. Early supporter Ann Coulter recently took Trump to task for failing to hold up on a promise to make hedge fund managers pay a bigger share of taxes. The GOP tax reform bill didn't erase the carried interest tax loophole that lets hedge fund managers pay a capital gains tax of 20 percent and an investment tax of 3.8 percent. It's essentially a tax break for the rich; Closing the loophole would make hedge fund managers pay a tax of 43.4 percent.

But by and large, Trump has shown in 2017 that he’s willing to keep the people who put him in office happy at whatever cost. Click through the gallery below to see the promises he kept this year.