We Need to Talk About Trump's Project 2025 & Trump's Manifesto "Mandate for Leadership: The Conservative Promise" (1 Viewer)

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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.​

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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.​

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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 conservative think tank set out a sweeping vision for governing that could influence Trump's next term.

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.

 

[Optimus Prime]

 

[Bigdaddysaints]

many more to follow shortly..

 

[Saint Jack]

Asking for a family member.
Is Trump planning to cut disability/SSDI benefits?

 

[efil4]

Asking for a family member.
Is Trump planning to cut disability/SSDI benefits?

No.

 

[MT15]

Asking for a family member.
Is Trump planning to cut disability/SSDI benefits?

The GOP introduced a bill that will cut social security payments to some extent for people who receive federal disability. I just read that today. That may be what your family member heard. Let me see if I can find an article.

Edit: no article but found some clarification on Twitter. There was a bill that would have eliminated a penalty that is currently in place for people who have both disability and social security. And the GOP killed the bill, so the penalties will remain in place. That’s how I read this anyway:

 

[DJ1BigTymer]

The GOP introduced a bill that will cut social security payments to some extent for people who receive federal disability. I just read that today. That may be what your family member heard. Let me see if I can find an article m

Not just for those that receive Federal disability, it also will limit SS for those of us that receive Federal pensions! That's the GOP saying: Thank you, Vets...now fork off and die!

 

[MT15]

Not just for those that receive Federal disability, it also will limit SS for those of us that receive Federal pensions! That's the GOP saying: Thank you, Vets...now fork off and die!

Yes, sort of. There was a bill to eliminate the penalty and the GOP killed it.

 

[Saint Jack]

She just gets SSDI, so she was just confused.

The GOP introduced a bill that will cut social security payments to some extent for people who receive federal disability. I just read that today. That may be what your family member heard. Let me see if I can find an article.

Edit: no article but found some clarification on Twitter. There was a bill that would have eliminated a penalty that is currently in place for people who have both disability and social security. And the GOP killed the bill, so the penalties will remain in place. That’s how I read this anyway:

 

[DJ1BigTymer]

Yes, sort of. There was a bill to eliminate the penalty and the GOP killed it.

Of course.

 

[Saint Jack]

The GOP introduced a bill that will cut social security payments to some extent for people who receive federal disability. I just read that today. That may be what your family member heard. Let me see if I can find an article.

Edit: no article but found some clarification on Twitter. There was a bill that would have eliminated a penalty that is currently in place for people who have both disability and social security. And the GOP killed the bill, so the penalties will remain in place. That’s how I read this anyway:

Again.
Sorry to ask again, but she asked me to clarify after I sent her this article.
She just receives SSDI, so she’s not in danger.

 

[MT15]

Again.
Sorry to ask again, but she asked me to clarify after I sent her this article.
She just receives SSDI, so she’s not in danger.

I wouldn’t say she’s in danger, no, in that I don’t see anything on the table right now.

But the GOP is going to try to cut all sorts of programs that they view negatively. Nobody who receives any sort of payment from the federal government should feel invincible in that sense.

I get Social Security and use Medicare myself. We are thinking about areas where we can economize if it gets reduced.

 

[Bigdaddysaints]

But no one really knows what the Secretary Of Cost Cutting has in mind yet. and we all know the house and Senate will bend to whatever Musk tells Trump to tell them to do.

 

[J-DONK]

I wouldn’t say she’s in danger, no, in that I don’t see anything on the table right now.

But the GOP is going to try to cut all sorts of programs that they view negatively. Nobody who receives any sort of payment from the federal government should feel invincible in that sense.

I get Social Security and use Medicare myself. We are thinking about areas where we can economize if it gets reduced.

I mean unless the GOP gets rid of the fillbuster rules. Most of this stuff is safe.

 

[cuddlemonkey]

I mean unless the GOP gets rid of the fillbuster rules. Most of this stuff is safe.

I feel it coming...

 

[Optimus Prime]

Despite disavowing Project 2025 on the campaign trail and the people involved with creating it, Donald Trump has now tapped numerous peopletied to the project for key roles in his administration as he prepares to advance some of its main goals.

He acknowledged in December that he agreed with some parts of the project, but didn’t say which, claiming he didn’t read it and didn’t have any part in it. “They have some things that are very conservative and very good. They have other things that I don’t like,” he told Time magazine.

He also said he thought it was “inappropriate” that the project was released ahead of the election and could have derailed his win because “they had some pretty ridiculous things in there”.……

The first steps of the plan involve amassing more power for the top executive, driving out dissenting voices and stretching the law to favor Trump. Those plans are expected to begin immediately and Trump will also use the justice department to go after his enemies soon after taking office.

That power shift enables the other elements of the project, which calls for policies that overhaul immigration, restrict abortion access, remove LGTBQ+ and diversity protections, end climate work, alter employment practices and ramp up deregulation.

“A lot of it’s going to be Trump daring Congress and the courts to stop him,” said Christopher Bosso, a professor of public policy and politics at Northeastern University.

The extensive planning by the Heritage Foundation and other conservative groups for a second Trump administration stands in contrast to Trump’s first win, when the president wasn’t as ready to quickly install his loyalists and launch his policies. This time, the conservative movement is poised to pounce immediately on a pent-up demand of rightwing dreams – and so is Trump.

“Project 2025 said the quiet parts out loud,” said Ben Olinsky, senior vice-president of structural reform and governance at the Center for American Progress, a left-leaning thinktank.

The project didn’t just say what it wanted to do, but how it wanted to achieve its goals, he said. “It lays out a path to either ignore or flout the law, or to bend the law through its will, and change how things work so that they can get all of these things done. And that’s what makes it even scarier.”…….

That goal is a major part of Project 2025 and a top priority for Trump: making more federal jobs political appointments. Only about 4,000 federal employees are now political appointees. The rest of the more than 2 million civil servants hold their jobs regardless of party control and develop expertise that keeps critical services functioning. “Schedule F” would classify far more roles as policy-related – about 50,000 more – giving Trump a huge amount of power to roll out his agenda.

Vought attacked the civil service as overly liberal and unaccountable to the people, saying that “a President today assumes office to find a sprawling federal bureaucracy that all too often is carrying out its own policy plans and preferences — or, worse yet, the policy plans and preferences of a radical, supposedly ‘woke’ faction of the country”.……

Trump’s appointments signal which Project 2025 goals he might advance first

Plans to stretch the law to favor Trump and drive out dissenting voices are expected to begin immediately

www.theguardian.com

 

[DJ1BigTymer]

Even Newsweek can't help but to notice how P2025 mirrors actions taken thus far.

President Donald Trump's sweeping executive orders have drawn comparisons to Project 2025, a conservative policy blueprint aimed at reshaping the federal government under a Republican administration. Newsweek examines the similarities.

Newsweek has contacted the White House for comment via email.

Why It Matters​

Project 2025, a 900-page document spearheaded by the Heritage Foundation, set out plans to expand executive authority, replace civil servants with ideologically aligned appointees, limit abortion rights and impose much tougher restrictions on immigration.

Democrats have painted the initiative as a road map for Trump's second term in an attempt to portray him as ideologically extreme. Trump has distanced himself from it, describing parts of it as "ridiculous and abysmal," but later appeared to change his tune, telling Time magazine in December: "I don't disagree with everything in Project 2025, but I disagree with some things."

How Donald Trump's executive orders compare to Project 2025

Trump has put forward policies for the environment, immigration and more that resemble those outlined in Project 2025.

www.newsweek.com

Trump orders mirror Project 2025 recommendations​

Project 2025 called for rescinding a 1965 executive order signed by President Lyndon B. Johnson in order to eliminate the Office of Federal Contract Compliance Programs (OFCCP).

• Trump nixed Johnson's effort by signing an executive order dashing decades of diversity and affirmative action policy in the federal government, stripping the OFCCP of one of its core authorities.
• The bedrock Civil Rights order barred federal contractors from employment discrimination and required them to take affirmative action to ensure equal opportunity "based on race, color, religion, and national origin."
• Trump targeted the OFCCP in his executive order, saying it must stop promoting diversity and affirmative action.

Zoom in: Project 2025 also recommended the repeal of executive order 14020, which Biden signed to establish the White House Gender Policy Council. Trump rescinded the Biden order on day one.

• Trump also signed an executive order declaring there are "two sexes, male and female" and that "sex" is not a synonym for gender identity — echoing a section of the Heritage Foundation's plan.
• Project 2025 says the Health and Human Services (HHS) secretary "should never conflate sex with gender identity or sexual orientation" in anti-discrimination policy statements and "should proudly state that men and women are biological realities."
• He also rescinded Biden-era protections allowing transgender Americans to serve in the military, a throwback to his first term that Project 2025 also called for.

Trump adopts Project 2025 energy, climate policies​

Project 2025 urged the expansion of oil and gas drilling in Alaska, noting "national energy security interests in the region including rare earths, oil, and natural gas."

• Trump signed an executive order promoting the use of "Alaska's vast lands and resources" on his first day in office.

Additionally, Project 2025 echoed Trump's pledge to eliminate what he called Biden's "electric vehicle mandate," which Trump fulfilled with a day-one executive order.

• The plan also called for the repealing a Biden-era executive order promoting offshore wind energy development, which it said was "being used to advance an agenda to close vast areas of the ocean to commercial activities."
• Trump on day one paused offshore wind leasing in federal waters.

Project 2025 immigration, refugee policies​

One of Trump's day one executive orders called for troops to be sent the southern border, including the National Guard.

• That mirrors Project 2025's proposal for "use of active-duty military personnel and National Guardsmen to assist in arrest operations along the border."
• Additionally, Project 2025 suggested that addressing the influx of migrants at the southern border would necessitate the "indefinite curtailment of the number of USRAP refugee admissions."
• Trump signed an order Monday suspending U.S. Refugee Admissions Program resettlements "until such time as the further entry into the United States of refugees aligns with the interests of the United States."

Paris Climate, WHO and Schedule F executive orders​

Zoom out: Trump also reinstated several policies from his first term that Project 2025 wanted reinstated.

• He signed orders to withdraw the U.S. from the Paris Climate Agreement and the World Health Organization (WHO). Project 2025 called for him to again leave the Paris agreement and withdraw from WHO.
• Project 2025 recommended reinstating Trump's Schedule F order — and it was. Trump signed an order Monday that effectively reclassifies certain federal workers as political appointees and makes it easier to fire federal employees deemed to be disloyal.

Trump executive orders not in Project 2025​

Yes, but: Trump also took steps Project 2025 did not explicitly mention, like declaring an energy emergency and attempting to end birthright citizenship.

• There are scores of recommendations in the Heritage Foundation plan, like outlawing pornography, that Trump hasn't touched so far.

https://www.axios.com/2025/01/23/trump-executive-orders-list-project-2025-policies

As a miltary () retiree, I can't wait until they implement their ideas about how we should treat our vets.