In a post to his social media site, Trump claimed, “I know nothing about Project 2025,” the name given to a playbook crafted by the Heritage Foundation to fill the executive branch with thousands of Trump loyalists and reorient its many agencies’ missions around conservative ideals.

“I have no idea who is behind it,” Trump continued on Truth Social. “I disagree with some of the things they’re saying and some of the things they’re saying are absolutely ridiculous and abysmal. Anything they do, I wish them luck, but I have nothing to do with them.”

. . . Trump’s campaign has sought for months to make clear that Project 2025 is not its official policy platform amid an intensifying effort by President Joe Biden and Democrats to tie Trump to its more controversial policies.

Yet those efforts are complicated by Trump’s extremely close relationship with many of the people who launched Project 2025 or helped contribute to it. Paul Dans, the head of Project 2025, was chief of staff at the Office of Personnel Management during the Trump administration, and the group’s roadmap for the next administration includes contributions from others who have worked for the former president, including

  • his former Housing and Urban Development Secretary Ben Carson,
  • former acting Deputy Homeland Security Secretary Ken Cuccinelli
  • and former deputy chief of staff Rick Dearborn.
  • John McEntee, Trump’s former director of the White House Presidential Personnel Office and one of his closest aides while in office, is also a senior adviser for the project.

Yeah he has NO IDEA WHO IS BEHIND IT. Odds that the demented rapist himself wrote that . . . shit? 0%.

And “Abysmal”? No. Man wouldn’t know an abyss if it bit him in the girdle.

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    “Some of the things they’re saying are… abysmal”

    “I wish them luck”

    Pick one.

    As an aside, it seems OP is unfamiliar with the word abysmal. It’s a word. It means bad. Has nothing to do with an abyss; that would be abyssal.

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      As an aside, it seems OP is unfamiliar with the word abysmal. It’s a word. It means bad. Has nothing to do with an abyss; that would be abyssal.

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    So say which “things” you don’t agree with and which you do so your supporters know where you stand. He won’t because the only “things” he will support are “will I get paid for it?” He can’t even form a complete thought that wasn’t rehearsed.

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      He will say he doesn’t support anything he thinks his fans don’t want to hear him support and if elected, he will support them.

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    In a post to his social media site, Trump claimed, “I know nothing about Project 2025,”

    Claim no knowledge until the election so you capture the vote of those idiots who think “oh he’ll just be a good old fashioned hard lined president and drain the swamp”

    Once you’re elected, use your now legal ability to assassinate anyone in your way and rebuild the government as you see fit into a new theological autocracy/corporatocracy while those same people, influenced by russian and billionaire social propaganda just shrug casually because they have a room temperature IQ

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      More or less, yes.

      What I don’t understand is, what did they think he was doing from 2017-2021? Great things? It was absolute disaster after debacle after stunning disgrace. Over and over. Were they all just like “hooray infrastructure week”??

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        They thought he was doing whatever social media programmed them to think. And he passed a tax cut that was 90% in the favor of the rich, but had a pittance for the middle class, so they felt that, while being uninformed, and their dopamine centers got a little warm and now they associate that with trump

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    So I just checked in with my lone remaining person who supports trump. He says “oh yeah, trump’s been trying to distance himself from that for awhile. Don’t be a sucker that’s all hard-right garbage”. Obviously the sports/talk radio is not concerned about it.

    So they’re just moseying along as if trump’s normal and just more conservative than Biden so they’re voting for him. He reads ‘moderate’ websites (CNN, BBC) and claims he just can’t abide “either side’s crazies” which. I mean, I get it. I think that’s pretty well the clearest indictment of our corporate news media there could be.

    They spent years pretending like it was all normal. And they will continue to do so. And now a message from our sponsor, Dawn dish detergent. It’s the quicker picker upper!

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    Ok, so I’ll just vote for the proven pedophile, traitor, racist, transphobe and convicted felon. /s

    Get this garbage outta here. Fuck Trump.

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    Of course he doesn’t want to be part of it. They would be going over his head to do everything.

    The nutsack likes his power in an absolut flavor.