We Need to Talk About Trump's Project 2025 & Trump's Manifesto "Mandate for Leadership: The Conservative Promise" (2 Viewers)

[LA - L.A.]

I think Trump's Project 2025 needs it's own thread to make as many people as possible aware of it, how Trump and the people he's surrounded himself with are dead serious about making it happen, and how devastating it will be if we allow Trump to make it happen. These are the various pages on his website which should show Trump means business. Trump's not just wishing or theorizing, he's planning and implementing.

Trump and his minion's home page (the bolding is their's, not mine):

Project 2025 | Presidential Transition Project

Presidential Transition Project The 2025 Presidential Transition Project paves the way for an effective conservative Administration based on four pillars.

www.project2025.org

"It is not enough for conservatives to win elections. If we are going to rescue the country from the grip of the radical Left, we need both a governing agenda and the right people in place, ready to carry this agenda out on Day One of the next conservative Administration.​

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This is the goal of the 2025 Presidential Transition Project. The project will build on four pillars that will, collectively, pave the way for an effective conservative Administration."​

Trump's policy agenda page:

Policy | Project 2025

This book is the product of more than 400 scholars and policy experts from across the conservative movement and around the country. Contributors include former elected officials, world-renowned economists, and veterans from four presidential Administrations. This is an agenda prepared by and for...

www.project2025.org

"This book is an invitation for you the reader—Mr. Smith, Mrs. Smith, and Ms. Smith—to come to Washington or support those who can. Our goal is to assemble an army of aligned, vetted, trained, and prepared conservatives to go to work on Day One to deconstruct the Administrative State.​

...​

The next conservative President will enter office on January 20, 2025, with a simple choice: greatness or failure. It will be a daunting test, but no more so than every other generation of Americans has faced and passed. The Conservative Promise represents the best effort of the conservative movement in 2023—and the next conservative President’s last opportunity to save our republic."​

Trump's personnel (recruitment/application) page, bolding is mine:

Personnel | Project 2025

Please fill out the questionnaire below and upload your resume for inclusion in the Presidential Personnel Database if you would like to be considered for positions in a presidential Administration. Project 2025 is the effort of a massive coalition of conservative organizations that have come...

www.project2025.org

"Please fill out the questionnaire below and upload your resume for inclusion in the Presidential Personnel Database if you would like to be considered for positions in a presidential Administration.​

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Project 2025 is the effort of a massive coalition of conservative organizations that have come together to ensure a successful Administration begins in January 2025. With the right conservative policy recommendations and properly vetted and trained personnel to implement them, we will take back our government. Project 2025 is being organized by The Heritage Foundation."​

Trump's training page:

Training | Project 2025

The Presidential Administration Academy is a one-of-a-kind educational and skill-building program designed to prepare and equip future political appointees now to be ready on Day One of the next conservative Administration. This academy provides aspiring appointees with the insight, background...

www.project2025.org

"The Presidential Administration Academy is a one-of-a-kind educational and skill-building program designed to prepare and equip future political appointees now to be ready on Day One of the next conservative Administration. This academy provides aspiring appointees with the insight, background knowledge, and expertise in governance to immediately begin rolling back destructive policy and advancing conservative ideas in the federal government."​

Trump's first 180 days playbook page:

Playbook | Project 2025

The fourth pillar of Project 2025 is our 180-day Transition Playbook and includes a comprehensive, concrete transition plan for each federal agency. Only through the implementation of specific action plans at each agency will the next conservative presidential Administration be successful...

www.project2025.org

"The time is short, and conservatives need a plan. The project will create a playbook of actions to be taken in the first 180 days of the new Administration to bring quick relief to Americans suffering from the Left’s devastating policies."​

Trump's playbook, bolding mine (I've downloaded the pdf of their playbook for when Trump eventually pulls it from his website once the backlash really kicks in):

https://static.project2025.org/2025_MandateForLeadership_FULL.pdf

"This book is an invitation for you the reader—Mr. Smith, Mrs. Smith, and Ms. Smith—to come to Washington or support those who can. Our goal is to assemble an army of aligned, vetted, trained, and prepared conservatives to go to work on Day One to deconstruct the Administrative State.​

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This is an agenda prepared by and for conservatives who will be ready on Day One of the next Administration to save our country. The Heritage Foundation is once again facilitating this work, but as our dozens of partners and hundreds of authors will attest, this book is the work of the entire conservative movement.​

...​

The next conservative President will enter office on January 20, 2025 ... The Conservative Promise represents the best effort of the conservative movement in 2023—and the next conservative President’s last opportunity to save our republic."​

The link to the 111 groups Trump and his minions have cobbled together in a coalition to help Trump achieve his agenda.

Advisory Board | Project 2025

GET INVOLVED Does your organization want to join us in the fight for our country? Join Us

www.project2025.org

Groups include:​

• ALEC - the Koch brother's foundation that has written all of the state laws that undermine child labor protection, worker's rights, air and water pollution protections, voter's rights, government assistance programs from those that need the help, and tax codes that made sure the wealthy pay their fair share of taxes.
• Moms For Liberty - the group leading the charge to ban any book that treats anyone, who is not white, heterosexual, cis and Christian, as being equal and deserving of acceptance, tolerance and respect.
• National Right to Work Legal Defense Foundation - which works for corporations to prevent and bust worker's unions to help corporations pay a non living wage to employees and force them to work under horrible conditions.
• Tea Party Patriots - the group that is MAGA and has taken control of the Republican party and supports Trump's efforts to stage a coup on Jan 6th so that he could stay in power even though he lost the election.
• Turning Point USA - run by Charlie Kirk who fully embraces Christian Nationalism and the reducing of women to just being homemakers dedicated only to serving their husbands and their family, in that order

Here are some articles and videos that give an overview of what Trump's Project 2025 plans to do if Trump wins the presidency:

What Is Project 2025?

If you were on Twitter or TikTok over the weekend, you might have seen people talking about Project 2025.

time.com

Conservative groups draw up plan to dismantle the US government and replace it with Trump’s vision

With more than a year to go before the 2024 election, a constellation of conservative organizations is preparing for a possible second White House term for Donald Trump.

apnews.com

What is Project 2025? Wish list for a Trump presidency, explained

A think-tank with ties to Trump has set out a vision for Republicans. But the former president has tried to distance himself from it.

www.bbc.com

Inside the MAGA Plan to Attack Birth Control, Surveil Women and Ban the Abortion Pill

Republicans’ Project 2025 plan would leverage virtually every arm, tool and agency of the federal government to attack abortion.

www.rollingstone.com

Project 2025, the far-right agenda for a second Trump administration, explained - The Boston Globe

There is growing alarm about the sweeping plan, which opponents have called a “dystopian plot,” “far-right manifesto,” and “blueprint for destroying our democracy.”

www.bostonglobe.com

A guide to Project 2025, the extreme right-wing agenda for the next Republican administration

Project 2025, a comprehensive transition plan organized by right-wing think tank The Heritage Foundation to guide the next GOP presidential administration, is the conservative movement’s most robust policy and staffing proposal for a potential second Trump White House — and its extreme agenda...

www.mediamatters.org

The Heritage Foundation cooked up this plan during the Reagan administration, but Reagan didn't let the Heritage Foundation fully implement it. Trump has claimed it for himself and has made it his plan, because it plays into the ultimate power and control that Trump wants. See the videos below.









No matter how annoying, frustrating, distasteful, or unappealing it may be, either Biden or Trump will be the next president. No one else has a chance at winning the election. If Biden wins, we have issues to solve, but we still have our democracy.

If Trump wins, we lose our democracy and have to fight for our freedom, if we aren't white, Christian, cis, heterosexual men who believe in the divine right of white, Christian, cis, heterosexual men to sit in domination over all others.

The bottom line is this, vote for Biden if you want to preserve our democracy, or don't vote for Biden if you want to chance Trump winning, which would bring an end to our democracy.

That's the grounded-in-reality choice folks, like it or not. Please vote for Biden so that we all have the freedom to live our lives how we want, to argue with each other, and to protest without fear of being imprisoned or "falling" out of window to our death.

This election is not a drill, it's the real deal.

 

[MT15]

This is a good example why nobody should believe Trump for one second about his Project 2025. He sent this spokesperson from his campaign out to chastise the press for saying it had anything to do with the campaign. She worked on Project 2025 herself.

 

[Bigdaddysaints]

a MAGA calling others a conspiracy theories.. that takes the cake

 

[SaintRob]

https://www.donaldjtrump.com/platform

This probably won't help in your conspiracy theory ridden fever dream, but this is the link to Trump's actual platform. Enjoy, or don't.

If you believe the words coming directly from his mouth, then please consider these:

“Get out and vote, just this time. You won’t have to do it any more. Four more years, you know what? It’ll be fixed, it’ll be fine, you won’t have to vote any more, my beautiful Christians.” - No attribute needed, this is recent and well documented.

“A massive fraud of this type and magnitude allows for the termination of all rules, regulations, and articles, even those found in the constitution.”

“We will pass critical reforms making every executive branch employee fireable by the president of the United States,” Trump said. “The deep state must and will be brought to heel.” https://www.axios.com/2022/07/22/trump-presidency-schedule-f-federal-employees

So he wants to swamp the swamp, not drain the swamp. He wants to place people in any civil service job with a person more loyal to Trump than they are to the United States.

We also know of his claim to want to be a dictator on day one, to close the border and drill baby drill, but after that he doesn't want to be a dictator. Too many issues on that one. He blocked the bi-partisan border bill and we already drill more oil now than in any point in American history and are by far the biggest oil producer in the world.

So just listen to his words, this isn't conspiracy theory. It's his words. Words that he said out of his mouth. Is he lying/joking when he says these things? Then is he lying/joking when he says that he "knows nothing about Project 2025?"

I don't believe a single thing he says. He and his followers are the single biggest threat to democracy in our lifetime.

 

[superchuck500]

Here’s some analysis on P25 by the Brookings Institution - calling it “a lot of bad ideas”, many of which the president cannot unilaterally achieve.

It also points out that it’s a mistake to presume broad GOP support for it - as many of the proposals will harm Republican districts and interests. For example, P25 aims to phase out federal support of Title I schools completely on a 10-year timeline. If you look at what that means on a map, some of the deepest impacts would be felt in Republican areas.

Is also points out that the lengths that P25 is willing to do to push Christian nationalist agenda points extend well beyond traditional American political conservatism.

Project 2025 and education: A lot of bad ideas, some more actionable than others

Brookings experts assess the feasibility of Project 2025’s education agenda, which proposes a drastic overhaul of federal education policy.

www.brookings.edu

 

[Optimus Prime]

How will they square that circle?

 

[MT15]

Chuck, I’m sorry but I just don’t buy that GOP reps won’t vote against the best interests of their own constituents. They already do it all the time. Several states have already crippled public education with vouchers. Millions upon millions of dollars out of the state school funds.

Not to mention how many GOP reps have voted for abortion bans that actually endanger women’s lives and reproductive health. And look at how the entire GOP congressional contingent caved on a border bill that gave them nearly everything they wanted because Trump told them to kill it. And Trump isn’t even in office.

If Trump wins, and manages to get his sycophants into positions throughout government, what makes you think the GOP legislators would stand up to him at that point? Haven’t done it yet.

 

[LA - L.A.]

Here’s some analysis on P25 by the Brookings Institution - calling it “a lot of bad ideas”, many of which the president cannot unilaterally achieve.

It also points out that it’s a mistake to presume broad GOP support for it - as many of the proposals will harm Republican districts and interests. For example, P25 aims to phase out federal support of Title I schools completely on a 10-year timeline. If you look at what that means on a map, some of the deepest impacts would be felt in Republican areas.

Is also points out that the lengths that P25 is willing to do to push Christian nationalist agenda points extend well beyond traditional American political conservatism.

Project 2025 and education: A lot of bad ideas, some more actionable than others

Brookings experts assess the feasibility of Project 2025’s education agenda, which proposes a drastic overhaul of federal education policy.

www.brookings.edu

It's 100% a white christian nationalist plan. There's a lot of Republicans who are 100% in support of it, but not all Republicans are. Trump is one of the Republicans who supports it, because it makes everyone loyal to him instead of the Constitution.

 

[Optimus Prime]

Project 2025, the conservative agenda designed for a possible second Trump administration, calls for the Justice Department to “investigate and prosecute” the top election official in Pennsylvania over the 2020 election as part of a dramatic overhaul of federal law enforcement.

It’s an unprecedented threat to a specific statewide officeholder — Pennsylvania’s Democratic election chief — in a crucial swing state where Donald Trump and his allies aggressively tried to overturn Joe Biden’s victory in 2020, and a state Trump needs to win in November to regain the presidency.

While the policy blueprint doesn't specifically name its proposed Pennsylvania target, only one person held the elected position of secretary of the commonwealth in 2020: Kathy Boockvar.

Boockvar told USA TODAY her department "absolutely" did nothing wrong, and accused the authors of Project 2025 of “taking that disinformation and conspiracy theories and elevating it to a point where it’s being used to try to dismantle our institutions of the United States of America.”.........

Project 2025 wants to prosecute swing state election chief over 2020 vote

The conservative blueprint, closely linked to Donald Trump, says Pennsylvania's former election chief should be prosecuted over 2020 ballot guidance.

www.usatoday.com

 

[Optimus Prime]

With former President Donald Trump actively running away from Project 2025, the controversial policy and personnel program's leaders have maintained they've already accomplished their goals - and will still provide Trump's team with their lists of policy recommendations and potential second term hires.

But the Heritage Foundation, the conservative think tank that produced Project 2025, isn't waiting around for a second Trump administration to begin implementing its agenda - it's working to do so right now.

As journalist Chris Geidner reports, the Heritage Foundation filed a lawsuit last week attempting to block the Biden administration's guidance protecting LGBTQ employees from discrimination in the workplace. The suit also seeks to limit the powers of the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC). Those aims line up closely with items in Project's 887-page policy blueprint.

In the lawsuit, the Heritage Foundation complains that the protections for LGBTQ workers - which require employers to use employees' preferred pronouns and allow them to use bathrooms that match their gender identity - could force the organization to spend money to update its dress code and renovate its bathrooms.

The lawsuit notes that Heritage Foundation employees must "come to work in professional dress," and that "Heritage employees dress in a manner traditionally befitting their biological sex." It adds that "employees use Heritage's on-site bathroom, shower, and nursing facilities according to biological sex, and use pronouns that correspond to people's biological sex in the workplace and in their work product."

The organization worries it would "need to devote significant time and resources to creating or updating policies, customs, or training programs," and may have to spend "significant financial resources" in order to convert its "existing sex-specific intimate facilities into single-occupancy units." (The Heritage Foundation reported $106 million in revenue in 2022, and $332 million in net assets.)

The foundation further warns that adhering to President Joe Biden's LGBTQ protections will cause "substantial brand and reputational damage, resource costs (such as staff resignations, fewer applications for staff openings, and lost donor support) and moral costs (such as lower employee morale, loss of employee privacy and safety, and forced affirmation of philosophical, moral, and ideological beliefs)."

The Heritage Foundation says this is "unacceptable," because the organization "is one of the most prominent public voices against the very gender ideology" expressed in the Biden administration guidance.

By filing the lawsuit with Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton (R) in the Amarillo Division of the Northern District of Texas, the Heritage Foundation ensured the case would be heard by an ultra-conservative Trump appointee, Judge Matthew Kacsmaryk.............

MSN

Conservatives Are Already Working to Enact Their Project 2025 Agenda

The Heritage Foundation isn’t waiting for a Trump presidency to try to limit workplace protections for LGBTQ Americans.

www.rollingstone.com

 

[Optimus Prime]

The head of a conservative think tank went out in a D.C. neighborhood one day and came away with more evidence for his view that childless liberals are leading America astray: a dog park.

To be more specific, a combination dog park and playground.

Located in the hip NoMa area of Washington — named for the fact that it's north of Massachusetts Avenue — Swampoodle Park is only about 8,000 square feet, making it not much larger than a convenience store parking lot. Most of the space is home to a dog park, with one side set aside for a tall, narrow playground structure.

For Heritage Foundation President Kevin Roberts, who was a major force behind the controversial Project 2025 proposals to shape a second Donald Trump term, the park's use of land is tilted too heavily in favor of purportedly childless dog owners and away from parents, something he blames in an upcoming book on “the antifamily culture shaping legislation, regulation, and enforcement," according to galleys obtained by Media Matters.

I don't have a dog, but I do have four young kids and I live in Washington, D.C. As a result, I have been to a lot of playgrounds in the greater metro area in the last few years. I have driven as long as an hour just to try out a new playground in some distant suburb in Virginia and Maryland and always get immediate feedback from my own focus group of four kids. After all that, I consider myself something of a playground connoisseur.

So trust me when I say this: Roberts is wrong. Swampoodle is awesome.

Now, it's not in the top tier of D.C.-area parks. The best playgrounds are obviously the big ones: the zip line and climbing towers at the Beauvoir Playground next to the Washington National Cathedral, the cool metal structures at the Lafayette-Pointer Recreation Center, or if you're willing to head a little farther out, the Wizard of Oz-themed playground in Maryland and the superlong slides at the suburban Wheaton Regional Park.

But when I'm driving around town with my kids, it's the "green playground" at Swampoodle that they ask about the most.

If you visit the park with kids, you'll quickly see why. The playground structure that Roberts criticizes is actually an intricate maze of slides and ladders that leads kids upwards. It's such a brilliant use of a small space that the first time I went, I took multiple photos and texted them to my dad, who works as an urban planner. It's even sturdy enough for an adult man to climb around inside, or so I've heard...........

In Roberts' book, he describes a country in which people without children and people with children are at war, with selfish apartment-dwelling liberal dog owners scheming to deprive long-suffering conservative parents of valuable resources. It's a zero-sum vision of politics that's also being promoted by vice presidential nominee JD Vance, who sees "childless cat ladies" as a problem.........

MSN

www.msn.com

 

[MT15]

The head of a conservative think tank went out in a D.C. neighborhood one day and came away with more evidence for his view that childless liberals are leading America astray: a dog park.

To be more specific, a combination dog park and playground.

Located in the hip NoMa area of Washington — named for the fact that it's north of Massachusetts Avenue — Swampoodle Park is only about 8,000 square feet, making it not much larger than a convenience store parking lot. Most of the space is home to a dog park, with one side set aside for a tall, narrow playground structure.

For Heritage Foundation President Kevin Roberts, who was a major force behind the controversial Project 2025 proposals to shape a second Donald Trump term, the park's use of land is tilted too heavily in favor of purportedly childless dog owners and away from parents, something he blames in an upcoming book on “the antifamily culture shaping legislation, regulation, and enforcement," according to galleys obtained by Media Matters.

I don't have a dog, but I do have four young kids and I live in Washington, D.C. As a result, I have been to a lot of playgrounds in the greater metro area in the last few years. I have driven as long as an hour just to try out a new playground in some distant suburb in Virginia and Maryland and always get immediate feedback from my own focus group of four kids. After all that, I consider myself something of a playground connoisseur.

So trust me when I say this: Roberts is wrong. Swampoodle is awesome.

Now, it's not in the top tier of D.C.-area parks. The best playgrounds are obviously the big ones: the zip line and climbing towers at the Beauvoir Playground next to the Washington National Cathedral, the cool metal structures at the Lafayette-Pointer Recreation Center, or if you're willing to head a little farther out, the Wizard of Oz-themed playground in Maryland and the superlong slides at the suburban Wheaton Regional Park.

But when I'm driving around town with my kids, it's the "green playground" at Swampoodle that they ask about the most.

If you visit the park with kids, you'll quickly see why. The playground structure that Roberts criticizes is actually an intricate maze of slides and ladders that leads kids upwards. It's such a brilliant use of a small space that the first time I went, I took multiple photos and texted them to my dad, who works as an urban planner. It's even sturdy enough for an adult man to climb around inside, or so I've heard...........

In Roberts' book, he describes a country in which people without children and people with children are at war, with selfish apartment-dwelling liberal dog owners scheming to deprive long-suffering conservative parents of valuable resources. It's a zero-sum vision of politics that's also being promoted by vice presidential nominee JD Vance, who sees "childless cat ladies" as a problem.........

MSN

www.msn.com

There is something wrong with people who hate dogs and cats. Something deeply wrong with them.

 

[Nebaghead]

There is something wrong with people who hate dogs and cats. Something deeply wrong with them.

Trump didn’t even have a pet when he was president.

 

[fooferdoggie]

Trump didn’t even have a pet when he was president.

yes, he did it was named Mike and mike had his own pet fly too. so there.

 

[Optimus Prime]

Trump didn’t even have a pet when he was president.

think he was the first president either ever or in well over a century who didn't have a pet

 

[fooferdoggie]

think he was the first president either ever or in well over a century who didn't have a pet

and see how well that worked out. and

 

[LA - L.A.]

According to Kaitlin Collins, the thing from the DNC that irritates Trump and his campaign the most is the references to Project 2025.

Hear what’s irritating Trump after watching DNC | CNN Politics

CNN’s Kaitlan Collins reports 2024 Republican presidential nominee Donald Trump and his campaign are irritated by the references to “Project 2025” during the Democratic National Convention in Chicago.

www.cnn.com

 

[bird]

According to Kaitlin Collins, the thing from the DNC that irritates Trump and his campaign the most is the references to Project 2025.

Hear what’s irritating Trump after watching DNC | CNN Politics

CNN’s Kaitlan Collins reports 2024 Republican presidential nominee Donald Trump and his campaign are irritated by the references to “Project 2025” during the Democratic National Convention in Chicago.

www.cnn.com

Aw, Donnie had a sad.

 

[MT15]

According to Kaitlin Collins, the thing from the DNC that irritates Trump and his campaign the most is the references to Project 2025.

Hear what’s irritating Trump after watching DNC | CNN Politics

CNN’s Kaitlan Collins reports 2024 Republican presidential nominee Donald Trump and his campaign are irritated by the references to “Project 2025” during the Democratic National Convention in Chicago.

www.cnn.com

I’m guessing the crowd sizes and enthusiasm is right up there as well.