Trump's promised 'commission on radical Islam' doesn't exist yet

On the campaign trail, President Donald Trump said that one of his first actions would be to establish a "commission on radical Islam."

The commission would serve to educate the public about Islamic extremism and identify threats both in and out of the United States, Trump told supporters at an August 2016 rally.

Several months in, this commission doesn't yet exist. We reached out to the White House to ask for a status update, but we didn't hear back.

The most relevant action we could find was that the Trump administration has reviewed a year-old Homeland Security Department grant program called Countering Violent Extremism. President Barack Obama's administration established the program to help local communities address all violent extremist ideologies, not just radical Islamism.

In its review, Homeland Security decided to rescind a $900,000 grant the Obama administration had previously awarded to the University of North Carolina Chapel Hill, which planned to use the money to develop media campaigns to counteract violent extremist propaganda targeted to young people, according to the Raleigh News and Observer.

Homeland Security also rescinded a $400,000 grant slated for Life After Hate, a Chicago-based group founded by former far-right extremists.

Also, when Trump visited Saudi Arabia in May, he attended the opening ceremony for the Global Center for Combating Extremist Ideology and delivered a speech encouraging leaders of Muslim nations to counter Islamist extremism in their own countries.

"Of course, there is still much work to be done," Trump said in his May 21 remarks. "That means honestly confronting the crisis of Islamic extremism and the Islamists and Islamic terror of all kinds."

There's still time for Trump to get a U.S.-based commission together. So for now, we rate this promise Stalled.