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In a post to his social media site, Trump claimed, “I know nothing about Project 2025,” the name given to a playbook crafted by the Heritage Foundation to fill the executive branch with thousands of Trump loyalists and reorient its many agencies’ missions around conservative ideals.

“I have no idea who is behind it,” Trump continued on Truth Social. “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.”

. . . Trump’s campaign has sought for months to make clear that Project 2025 is not its official policy platform amid an intensifying effort by President Joe Biden and Democrats to tie Trump to its more controversial policies.

Yet those efforts are complicated by Trump’s extremely close relationship with many of the people who launched Project 2025 or helped contribute to it. Paul Dans, the head of Project 2025, was chief of staff at the Office of Personnel Management during the Trump administration, and the group’s roadmap for the next administration includes contributions from others who have worked for the former president, including

  • his former Housing and Urban Development Secretary Ben Carson,
  • former acting Deputy Homeland Security Secretary Ken Cuccinelli
  • and former deputy chief of staff Rick Dearborn.
  • John McEntee, Trump’s former director of the White House Presidential Personnel Office and one of his closest aides while in office, is also a senior adviser for the project.

Yeah he has NO IDEA WHO IS BEHIND IT. Odds that the demented rapist himself wrote that . . . shit? 0%.

And “Abysmal”? No. Man wouldn’t know an abyss if it bit him in the girdle.

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[–] morphballganon 88 points 4 months ago (4 children)

"Some of the things they're saying are... abysmal"

"I wish them luck"

Pick one.

As an aside, it seems OP is unfamiliar with the word abysmal. It's a word. It means bad. Has nothing to do with an abyss; that would be abyssal.

[–] homesweethomeMrL 70 points 4 months ago (1 children)

As an aside, it seems OP is unfamiliar with the word abysmal. It's a word. It means bad. Has nothing to do with an abyss; that would be abyssal.

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[–] [email protected] 4 points 4 months ago

Should've learned Judo...

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[–] suction 2 points 4 months ago

Are they fucking?

[–] [email protected] 46 points 4 months ago (1 children)

Yep, something like 'i wish them luck' is a tell for him. He always uses that when he needs to distance himself from something/someone but needs his base to know he doesn't really mean it.

[–] [email protected] 34 points 4 months ago (1 children)

"Stand back and stand by"...

[–] [email protected] 21 points 4 months ago (1 children)

"good people on both sides"...

[–] [email protected] 3 points 4 months ago

Yeah... "good" 🙄

[–] [email protected] 14 points 4 months ago* (last edited 4 months ago) (1 children)

But! "Abysmal" comes from "abysm":

abysm

| əˈbɪz(ə)m |

noun literary

an abyss: the abysm from which nightmares crawl.

[–] homesweethomeMrL 6 points 4 months ago (1 children)
[–] ZoopZeZoop 2 points 4 months ago (1 children)
[–] [email protected] 3 points 4 months ago

I'll awl all it!

[–] [email protected] 2 points 4 months ago (1 children)

Trump didn't even write that post, he certainly is not capable of properly spelling that word.

[–] morphballganon 1 points 4 months ago

Spell-check is a thing.

[–] [email protected] 72 points 4 months ago (3 children)

“I have no idea who is behind it,” Trump continued on Truth Social...."Anything they do, I wish them luck"

If you don't know anything about them, how/why would you wish them luck?

[–] [email protected] 50 points 4 months ago (1 children)

For the same reason he called members of the KKK “very fine people”. He’s completely amoral and doesn’t want to alienate people who are obviously fans.

[–] [email protected] 12 points 4 months ago

That saying about 10 people sitting at a table and a Nazi sits with them. Now there's a table full of Nazis. Trump is the new or should we say neo Nazi

[–] HurlingDurling 16 points 4 months ago

"That's disgusting!... unless youre into that, in which case can I join you?"

[–] [email protected] 56 points 4 months ago

Totally believable. Like how he didn’t know what Qanon was nor the intentions of the proud boys.

[–] [email protected] 54 points 4 months ago

Washington couldn't tell a lie

Nixon couldn't tell the truth

Trump couldn't tell the difference

[–] ThePantser 53 points 4 months ago (2 children)

So say which "things" you don't agree with and which you do so your supporters know where you stand. He won't because the only "things" he will support are "will I get paid for it?" He can't even form a complete thought that wasn't rehearsed.

[–] FlyingSquid 27 points 4 months ago (1 children)

He will say he doesn't support anything he thinks his fans don't want to hear him support and if elected, he will support them.

[–] [email protected] 11 points 4 months ago (1 children)

He also likes to say he is in favor and against things, often in the same sentence, so his followers can latch onto whichever meaning suits them.

[–] FlyingSquid 6 points 4 months ago

And they either don't notice or don't care that he's constantly contradicting himself.

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[–] kautau 33 points 4 months ago* (last edited 4 months ago) (2 children)

In a post to his social media site, Trump claimed, “I know nothing about Project 2025,”

Claim no knowledge until the election so you capture the vote of those idiots who think "oh he'll just be a good old fashioned hard lined president and drain the swamp"

Once you're elected, use your now legal ability to assassinate anyone in your way and rebuild the government as you see fit into a new theological autocracy/corporatocracy while those same people, influenced by russian and billionaire social propaganda just shrug casually because they have a room temperature IQ

[–] homesweethomeMrL 22 points 4 months ago (1 children)

More or less, yes.

What I don’t understand is, what did they think he was doing from 2017-2021? Great things? It was absolute disaster after debacle after stunning disgrace. Over and over. Were they all just like “hooray infrastructure week”??

[–] kautau 11 points 4 months ago

They thought he was doing whatever social media programmed them to think. And he passed a tax cut that was 90% in the favor of the rich, but had a pittance for the middle class, so they felt that, while being uninformed, and their dopamine centers got a little warm and now they associate that with trump

[–] [email protected] 4 points 4 months ago

Swamps sequester massive amounts of carbon. They're great!

[–] homesweethomeMrL 24 points 4 months ago (2 children)

So I just checked in with my lone remaining person who supports trump. He says “oh yeah, trump’s been trying to distance himself from that for awhile. Don’t be a sucker that’s all hard-right garbage”. Obviously the sports/talk radio is not concerned about it.

So they’re just moseying along as if trump’s normal and just more conservative than Biden so they’re voting for him. He reads ‘moderate’ websites (CNN, BBC) and claims he just can’t abide “either side’s crazies” which. I mean, I get it. I think that’s pretty well the clearest indictment of our corporate news media there could be.

They spent years pretending like it was all normal. And they will continue to do so. And now a message from our sponsor, Dawn dish detergent. It’s the quicker picker upper!

[–] [email protected] 4 points 4 months ago (1 children)

A trumpist saying"don't be a sucker" is comedy gold.

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[–] teft 1 points 4 months ago (1 children)

Bounty is the quicker picker upper, not Dawn.

[–] homesweethomeMrL 1 points 4 months ago

Heh heh heh

[–] [email protected] 22 points 4 months ago

Trump wouldn't lie about that, right? I mean, what has he ever lied about? Not counting every single thing that's ever come out of his mouth, of course.

[–] AncientFutureNow 15 points 4 months ago

Ok, so I’ll just vote for the proven pedophile, traitor, racist, transphobe and convicted felon. /s

Get this garbage outta here. Fuck Trump.

[–] RizzRustbolt 3 points 4 months ago (1 children)

Of course he doesn't want to be part of it. They would be going over his head to do everything.

The nutsack likes his power in an absolut flavor.

[–] [email protected] 8 points 4 months ago

He doesn't want to be a part of it, because that's like work. He'll be 100% happy to let them do these horrible things and take credit for it later.

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