Trump Flipped Out That Lunatic Project 2025 Could Tank His Campaign

Bonisiwe Shabane

-Dec 28, 2025, 7:50 AM

trump flipped out that lunatic project 2025 could tank his campaign

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... 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... 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... But according to two sources with direct knowledge of the matter, shortly before he posted that brief message, Trump had been privately — and very bitterly — complaining about the abortion policies laid out... Among the policy proposals in Project 2025’s policy road map are plans to end federal approval for abortion pills, use federal agencies for expanded “abortion surveillance,” restrict access to emergency contraception, end the federal... For what it’s worth, some of the people who helped author Project 2025’s abortion provisions were appointed under Trump to influential federal posts during his stint in the White House — including Roger Severino,...

Trump, now the 2024 GOP presidential nominee, vented that the abortion policies could badly damage his chances at retaking the White House, even at a point in the election cycle when Trump was riding... (In the time since, Biden has dropped out of the 2024 contest, with Vice President Kamala Harris now the presumptive Democratic nominee.) Amanda Becker, The 19th Amanda Becker, The 19th Orion Rummler, The 19th Orion Rummler, The 19th Mariel Padilla, The 19th Mariel Padilla, The 19th This story was originally published by The 19th.

In the months leading up to his election, President Donald Trump insisted that he had nothing to do with the far-right vision for his second administration known as Project 2025, a Christian-nationalist blueprint to... As the year draws to a close, a crowd-sourced effort, as well as trackers from advocacy organizations and labor unions, show that his administration has implemented roughly half of the goals laid out in... Democrats said Project 2025 was a blueprint for Trump 2.0 during last year's election campaign. He disavowed it. But 100 days into Donald Trump's presidency, lots of his policies look like Project 2025. What's going on?

"I haven't read it, I don't want to read it." That was Donald Trump on the campaign trail denying knowledge of Project 2025, a right-wing plan to tear down swathes of the US government. Written by a prominent conservative thinktank, Project 2025 is a plan to fundamentally reshape America. Its 900 pages set out how a president should expand their power by gutting the federal workforce while abolishing the department of education. For some it represents an anti-woke "wishlist". For others it is a fundamental threat to American democracy. The document got a lot of attention during last year's election, leading to Mr Trump disavowing its contents and saying it had nothing to do with his campaign.

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Few voters likely expected President Donald Trump in the first weeks of his administration to slash billions of dollars from the nation’s premier federal cancer research agency. But funding cuts to the National Institutes of Health were presaged in Project 2025’s “Mandate for Leadership,” a conservative plan for governing that Trump said he knew nothing about during his campaign. Now, his administration has embraced it. The 922-page playbook compiled by the Heritage Foundation, a conservative research group in Washington, says “the NIH monopoly on directing research should be broken” and calls for capping payments to universities and their hospitals... Universities, now slated to face sweeping cuts in agency grants that cover these overhead costs, say the policy will destroy ongoing and future biomedical science. A federal judge temporarily halted the cuts to medical research on Feb.

10 after they drew legal challenges from medical institutions and 22 states. RollingStone's Asawin Suebsaeng joins Morning Joe to discuss his new reporting on Donald Trump and his attempts to distance himself from Project 2025. Former President Donald Trump wants to distance himself from Project 2025, while the Biden campaign is doing everything it can to tie Trump to the conservative plan to transform the American government. "I know nothing about Project 2025," Trump wrote on his social media website Truth Social. "I have no idea who is behind it. 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." The 900-page plan, pulled together by the prominent conservative think tank The Heritage Foundation, serves as a conservative guidebook to expand presidential powers and overhaul the federal workforce so that it can be replaced... It's not Trump's plan, but it is a plan made for Trump, who leaders have described as the "embodiment" of their efforts. And it outlines legal pathways Trump could take to implement some of his biggest policy goals. Project 2025 also outlines transition and recruitment plans to help ensure Trump does not repeat some of the mistakes made early in his first administration when his team was caught unprepared to staff and... Former President Donald Trump distanced himself from the “Project 2025” plan from a conservative think tank, and released his own plan with policy implications that would affect Georgia in immigration, electric vehicle use and...

That plan, which he calls Agenda47 on his own website, outlines his goals for the presidency and the Republican Party’s approach to politics for the next four years if he wins the White House... State Sen. Randy Robertson, a Republican who represents part of Muscogee and Troup counties, as well as all of Harris and Merriweather counties, said his overall reaction to Trump’s agenda is “positive.” In Trump’s plan, he says he wants to carry out “the largest deportation operation in American history” and restart an effort to build a border wall between the U.S. and Mexico. The plan also refers to immigration issues as a “migrant invasion,” and states there are plans to increase the number of law enforcement officers at the U.S.-Mexico border.

“Anytime we discuss action that starts out with the word ‘illegal,’ then I think there’s an issue that needs to be addressed,” Robertson said. “While I’ll agree that there needs to be reform in our immigration policies, I don’t think that allowing illegal immigration is in any way a part of the solution.”

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