Trump Touts His Administration’s Ties to Project 2025 After Claiming He Had ‘No Idea’ Who Was Behind It on the Campaign Trail: ‘Previously said that he didn’t know anything about the Christian nationalist blueprint for reshaping the government’

As per the original article:

President Donald Trump is noting his administration’s link to Project 2025 after attempting to distance himself from it during the 2024 presidential campaign.

On Thursday, the president touted his meeting with OMB head Russ Vought, calling attention to how he helped author the far-right, Christian nationalist manifesto.

Trump previously denied knowing who or what was behind Project 2025, though he has accomplished nearly half of its goals since taking office in January, according to one estimate.

Trump is now openly acknowledging his administration’s ties to Project 2025, one year after claiming to know nothing about it.

On Thursday, Oct. 2, the president posted to Truth Social about a meeting he had with Russ Vought, a key architect of Project 2025, the Christian nationalist policy guidebook that made headlines during Trump’s 2024 campaign.

Vought, 49, has served as the director of the White House Office of Management and Budget during both of Trump’s presidential terms.

“I have a meeting today with Russ Vought, he of PROJECT 2025 Fame, to determine which of the many Democrat Agencies, most of which are a political SCAM, he recommends to be cut, and whether or not those cuts will be temporary or permanent,” Trump, 79, wrote.

“I can’t believe the Radical Left Democrats gave me this unprecedented opportunity,” he continued. “They are not stupid people, so maybe this is their way of wanting to, quietly and quickly, MAKE AMERICA GREAT AGAIN!”

Project 2025 became the nickname for the Heritage Foundation’s “Mandate for Leadership: The Conservative Promise,” a 900-page manifesto compiled by the conservative think tank in partnership with more than 100 other conservative organizations.

Though Trump’s most recent post broadcasted Vought’s contributions to Project 2025, the president spent a considerable amount of 2024 trying to downplay his association with the people behind the plan. He often referred to the document as “extremist” on the campaign trail, after polling showed how unpopular its proposals were.

In a Truth Social post on July 5, 2024, Trump wrote, “I know nothing about Project 2025. 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.”

Despite his statement, a large portion of the people affiliated with Project 2025 were former Trump staffers, and many of the plan’s architects have since been installed in Trump’s second administration.

Trump was also well-acquainted with the Heritage Foundation at the time of his denial: He was provided a similar “Mandate for Leadership” back in 2016, and enacted nearly two-thirds of the group’s proposals within his first year in office.

Since Trump took office in January 2025, a website called Project2025Tracker.org has been keeping an eye on how his administration is working to fulfill 318 objectives laid out in the far-right blueprint, which include cutting Social Security and Medicare, banning books about slavery and gender studies, eliminating marriage equality, stacking courts and congressional committees with Trump loyalists, eliminating birthright citizenship and more.

So far, the website estimates the project is 48% complete, and many actions to advance Project 2025’s goals were taken in the first few days of Trump’s second term.

I don’t even think his supporters believe his lies by now.

We all knew MAGAs were liars

The policies are so unpopular that Trump has to hide it until now.

When this is all over in… however long it takes, we will have to rebuild everything from scratch.

With the way things are going for more and more of the tax-exempt evangelical bank-rollers behind the Heritage Foundation, I predict Trump will be pretending he doesn’t know who/what Project 2025 is again in the near future.

P.S. sinking approval ratings and a renewed appeal to a divided evangelical base, seems like *desperation* or a *big-move* (or *both*).

Hey, I see a lot of people claiming Donald Trump lied.

That itself is not true. Lying requires conscious awareness of what your saying.

Trumps brain long ago degraded past that point. What he knows isn’t consistent from one second to the next.

(told ya so)^1000

Democrats need to learn from this. He did this because he didn’t want people to vote against him because of Project 2025. He touts it now because he wants his followers to celebrate. Like…this isn’t complicated stuff. He’s not going to get got on hypocrisy

Christian Nationalist are “Christian” in the way National Socialist Workers Party members were “socialist workers.”

He also said he didn’t know epstein well, just saying 

Sick of religious nuts , be spiritual fruit , that’s fine but don’t be a nut.

Donald Trump is a Liar? No way!!!

It blows my mind that Trump thinks “I don’t know anything about it” is a valid excuse for anything.

I don’t know who I have less respect for. Trump, the GOP, his voters, or the people who couldn’t be bothered to vote.

Now he’s gonna lie about knowing anything about project 2025. Trump can’t own up to anything he does. Tries to act tough but actually has no balls whatsoever.

You **can** do any of the following overtly:

– Vote (or even run) in federal, state, and county elections.

– Write letters to politicians, radio stations, news outlets, magazines, and websites.

– Attend or even organize peaceful protests.

– Produce protest art.

– Print ‘zines.

– Run a blog.

– Create *X to Y* “pipeline” videos, or smuggle political messages into non-political content.

– …and so much more.

And if you’re so inclined, you **can** do any of the following **c**overtly:

– Put up posters or stickers at bus stops and on telephone poles.

– Put flyers in magazines or books at stores and libraries.

– Modify billboards using pre-made panels.

– Make stencils to quickly spray-paint messages on walls.

– Transmit *brief* pirate radio broadcasts.

– …and so much more.

But **always** remember:

– You’re trying to reach people, not “win” arguments.

– Be cautious of how your overt activities can make you a suspect for your covert activities.

– Beware of attempts to commodify your message.

– Do not allow others to extremify your messages or actions. People who advocate for violence or terror may very well be undercover officers or informants. Furthermore, the resistance *needs* support from all walks of life, including families, the elderly, and even religious groups.

– Do not talk about covert activities with anyone unless they’re accomplices.

– Make sure you can’t be linked to all of your covert activities by just being linked to one.

– Be aware of how footage from cameras on buildings and in cars, fingerprints, cell phone tracking, distinct clothing, sales records, unique product identifiers, and internet search histories can be traced back to you.

– Store and transport your supplies with the expectation that you may be caught.

– Avoid risk as much as possible.

MAGA during the election: “It’s not his you emotional lying lib”

You absolute fucking morons

What are they going to do? Persecute me for saying Jesus is a bitch? Thst god isn’t real? Arrested me for my pentagram tattoo? Tell me I can’t remind people every day that priests and pastors rape kids and steal their parishioners money for their own gains? Tell me I can’t call every Christian a moron and a hypocrite?