The former president effectively “birthed” the project. Now that it’s a political liability, one of Trump’s foot soldiers is out of a job
As he entered the final stretch of the 2024 presidential race, Donald Trump spent much of this month trying to disown the highly Trumpy, Heritage Foundation-led Project 2025 — to the point that he even got his fans to boo the initiative during a recent campaign rally. His protracted freakout over the conservative project — to which he has multiple direct ties, and which is only as extreme as it is largely because of his influence — is driven almost entirely by Trump’s fear over one thing.
When the twice-impeached ex-president and convicted felon took to social media in early July to make the (patently absurd) claim that “I know nothing about Project 2025, [and] I have no idea who is behind it,” he added, “I disagree with some of the things they’re saying, and some of the things they’re saying are absolutely ridiculous and abysmal.” He did not specify what “things” he meant.
Trump’s ENTIRE message is “I might do this, I might do that”, and then hold for applause. This is what his followers don’t understand. They think he has the same ideals as they do, but they don’t understand he’s just a clown chasing applause.
They saw his first term, and realized he wasn’t going to do Project 2025 stuff, and they immediately turned on him. Even his VP pick. Their focus is so honed into the “Dr Feelgood” bullshit of owning their opponents, that they can’t possibly see him absolutely not fucking it up a second time.
Fool a fascist once…
Their blunder was that they wrote it down. Liberals don’t usually watch his speeches but are more literate. /s
…did I miss something?
Yes, they’ve been trying this shit for years: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Project_2025
Thanks, but I was talking about the “turned on him” part lol
Sure, but grammatically this is saying they know he will fuck up a second term, are you claiming he didn’t do project 2025 stuff to begin with?
Trump has stated he wants to end democratic election.
That’s it.
Full stop.
That’s the beginning of project 2025, him getting elected, all the rest just follows.
No. They are dead, dead wrong
In no place does Trump specify which ideas he disagrees with in Project 2025. He just doesn’t want to be associated with it. He is not really disavowing the ideas though, AFAIK. And at least for the anti-choice people, Trump has done much that is in line with Project 2025. And he mirrors many of their ideas on immigration.
Trump doesn’t want to be associated with “Project 2025” because “Project 2025” is getting beat up in the press. He likes all of the plans in the document, he just doesn’t like the name. It’s like how you’ll find conservatives still hate Obamacare, but are pretty happy with all the reforms and protections in the Affordable Care Act.
This is my go-to example for “you guys have no idea what is going on”.
If elected we can be certain that one of the first things that Convicted Felon and Sex Offender Treason Trump will tell us is that “we are going to implement Project 2025 as soon as possible”. And it will be true, but Trump will not tell us that to be informative. He will say that just to get our attention, like an abusive ex-spouse. And he will keep on playing the abusive ex-spouse demanding our attention the entire 4 years. In fact he will be turning up the heat the entire time hoping that he normalizes enshitification enough to end free elections.
we can’t promote this, I won’t get elected.
“But it’s your platform.”
can we just lie all the time? that worked well last time…
Wtf? The project 2025 people were thrilled with his presidency and so were his supporters. They only “turned on him” for like 3 weeks after he lost. And that was a small percentage who even did that