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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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[–] [email protected] 55 points 4 months ago

Washington couldn't tell a lie

Nixon couldn't tell the truth

Trump couldn't tell the difference

[–] [email protected] 15 points 4 months ago

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

Get this garbage outta here. Fuck Trump.

[–] [email protected] 33 points 4 months ago* (last edited 4 months ago) (2 children)

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

[–] [email protected] 4 points 4 months ago

Swamps sequester massive amounts of carbon. They're great!

[–] [email protected] 22 points 4 months ago (1 children)

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”??

[–] [email protected] 11 points 4 months ago

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

[–] [email protected] 72 points 4 months ago (3 children)

“I have no idea who is behind it,” Trump continued on Truth Social...."Anything they do, I wish them luck"

If you don't know anything about them, how/why would you wish them luck?

[–] [email protected] 16 points 4 months ago

"That's disgusting!... unless youre into that, in which case can I join you?"

[–] [email protected] 50 points 4 months ago (1 children)

For the same reason he called members of the KKK “very fine people”. He’s completely amoral and doesn’t want to alienate people who are obviously fans.

[–] [email protected] 12 points 4 months ago

That saying about 10 people sitting at a table and a Nazi sits with them. Now there's a table full of Nazis. Trump is the new or should we say neo Nazi

[–] [email protected] 3 points 4 months ago (1 children)

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.

[–] [email protected] 8 points 4 months ago

He doesn't want to be a part of it, because that's like work. He'll be 100% happy to let them do these horrible things and take credit for it later.

[–] [email protected] 24 points 4 months ago (2 children)

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!

[–] [email protected] 4 points 4 months ago (1 children)

A trumpist saying"don't be a sucker" is comedy gold.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 4 months ago

sigh I know.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 4 months ago (1 children)

Bounty is the quicker picker upper, not Dawn.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 4 months ago

Heh heh heh

[–] [email protected] 22 points 4 months ago

Trump wouldn't lie about that, right? I mean, what has he ever lied about? Not counting every single thing that's ever come out of his mouth, of course.

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