āI disagree with some of the things theyāre saying and some of the things theyāre saying are absolutely ridiculous and abysmal,ā Trump wrote. āAnything they do, I wish them luck, but I have nothing to do with them.ā
Trumpās vague disavowal of Project 2025 came a few days after Kevin Roberts, president of the Heritage Foundation, made inflammatory statements about a coming āsecond American Revolutionā that would be ābloodlessā āif the left allows it to be.ā
āAs weāve been saying for more than two years now, Project 2025 does not speak for any candidate or campaign,ā the Project 2025 account said in a statement on X. āBut it is ultimately up to that president, who we believe will be President Trump, to decide which recommendations to implement.ā
Despite Trumpās claims to have ānothing to do withā Project 2025, his administration and campaign personnel contributed to the project, including Karoline Leavitt, his campaignās national press secretary, as the Biden campaign quickly pointed out on X.
Former Trump administration officials wrote and edited massive chunks of the manifesto. One of its two primary editors, Paul Dans, who directs the Heritage Foundationās 2025 Presidential Transition Project, served as the White House liaison for the U.S. Office of Personnel Management during the Trump administration, among other positions.
I shared the actual PDF with my mother and father, and they told me it was āliberal propagandaā. Funny thing is, they arenāt uneducated or stupid. Theyāve just had Fox News and conservative talk-radio playing in the background of their lives for 20+ years. Itās actually really sad. They used to be Hank Hill type conservatives, now they refuse to even entertain opinions (or facts, for that matter) that they donāt already believe.
My dad is the same. Heās full blown MAGA. most of the family wonāt talk to him anymore. Heās obnoxious and insulting.