The Former Guy has been continuously proclaiming to know nothing about Project 2025, the plan whose authors include 70% current and former Trump officials. In that he doth protest too much — does Trump support Project 2025? You bet your bippy he does!
What is Project 2025? Think of it as a vast plan, close to the former president, to feverishly establish Christofascism in America starting with Day 1 of a second Trump presidency. It is a 920-page document, and 1000-employee project, to “supercharge” another Trump term with an infusion of Christian nationalism.
More than 100 Christian nationalist organizations and groups are involved in drafting the blueprint for Trump’s next term, should that horrorscape come to pass. One core problem they have, however, is the extreme unpopularity of their ideas. Most Americans are recoiling from the draconian measures Project 2025 wishes to bestow upon the nation, unasked for and unwanted — including banning abortion nationwide, restricting IVF, defunding education, pulling out of NATO, etc.
Who is behind Project 2025?
Project 2025 is so toxic in fact that Donald Trump tried to disavow it on Truth Social:
But despite his pathetic attempt to disclaim knowledge about Project 2025, Trump’s current and former staff make up the majority of the group’s architects. Trump’s name appears 312 times in their document. It’s simply not credible that the GOP presumptive nominee is unaware of his loudest allies and advocates — and even if you take the known liar at his word, it constitutes malpractice for a political candidate to be so uninformed.
So allegedly, Donald Trump doesn’t know anyone behind Project 2025. Let’s have a look at the amazing Venn Diagram between Trump officials and Project 2025, shall we?
Kevin Roberts and Trump on a plane
Heritage Foundation president and leader of the organization behind Project 2025, Kevin Roberts, grins with Trump on a private plane in 2022, on the way to a Heritage conference in which Trump gave a keynote address about the project and its policy proposals.
In April 2024 Roberts told the Washington Post first hand that “I personally have talked to President Trump about Project 2025.” Apparently then, at least one of the two men is lying.
JD Vance wrote the intro to Kevin Roberts’s book
Senator-for-a-minute and VP candidate J.D. Vance has written the introduction to a new book by Kevin Roberts, the aforementioned president of the Heritage Foundation, titled Dawn’s Early Light. This book is linked to Project 2025 and was initially scheduled to be released in September 2024 — but has been postponed until after the presidential election in November 2024.
The delay in publication is largely attributed to the backlash and controversy surrounding Project 2025. This initiative, which includes a comprehensive 900-page policy blueprint, has faced significant criticism from Democrats for its proposals, which include restructuring federal agencies, limiting reproductive and LGBTQ+ rights, and repealing climate change initiatives. The decision to postpone the book aims to avoid further politicization and controversy during the election period. Kevin Roberts stated that there is “a time for writing, reading, and promoting books—and a time to set aside those activities and fight vigorously to reclaim our nation,” indicating a strategic shift towards focusing on electoral battles rather than literary promotion.
J.D. Vance’s foreword in the book emphasizes the importance of Roberts’s ideas as essential tools for upcoming political battles. He uses militant language, such as “circle the wagons and load the muskets,” to underscore a combative stance against claimed threats to conservative values. This rhetoric aligns with the broader themes of Project 2025, which is seen by critics as an aggressive attempt to implement far-reaching conservative reforms.The postponement reflects both strategic considerations for minimizing electoral damage and an acknowledgment of the contentious nature of the book’s content amid a highly polarized political environment.
Does Trump support Project 2025? Take it from JD himself, commenting on the influence wielded by the Heritage Foundation already with the former President: “The Heritage Foundation isn’t some random outpost on Capitol Hill; it is and has been the most influential engine of ideas for Republicans from Ronald Reagan to Donald Trump,” he wrote in the strategically delayed book intro.
Karoline Leavitt
Currently serving as the national press secretary for Trump’s 2024 campaign, Karoline Leavitt appears as a trainer in Project 2025 Presidential Administration Academy videos:
Stephen Miller
Dour, pasty-faced goon Stephen Miller complemented Trump’s sadism as his senior advisor, with his cruel border separation policy for children and their families. He is well known for his white supremacist views and associations, but less well known for his role as head of a legal group on Project 2025’s advisory board. Here is Miller in a recruitment ad for Project 2025:
Russ Vought
Russ Vought wrote the Executive Office of the President chapter in the 900-page manual akin to a Bible of Project 2025. He also served as Trump’s head of the Office of Management and Budget — a Cabinet-level role. Currently, he’s helping craft the GOP’s 2024 platform as a policy director at the RNC — and we’re to believe that none of his earlier work will find its way into the Republican policy blueprint for the next 4 years? Let’s be real.
Jeffrey Clark
Perhaps best known for his role in trying to use the DOJ to challenge the election results for Trump during the attempts to overthrow the 2020 election, disgraced former Trump official Jeffrey Clark is responsible for contributing, among others, the Project 2025 policy idea that Trump should invoke the Insurrection Act on day 1 in order to deploy the US military for domestic law purposes of his own designs.
Peter Navarro
Former Deputy Assistant to the President under Trump. One of the authors of the Project 2025 Playbook. Currently serving time in federal prison, for refusing a Congressional subpoena!
John McEntee
Trump’s former bag man — literally!
Initially serving as a personal aide, McEntee was removed in 2018 due to an issue with his security clearance. However, McEntee returned to the administration in a more influential role, heading the Presidential Personnel Office in 2020, where he became a pivotal figure in reshaping the executive branch by appointing loyalists to key government positions. His efforts have been seen as part of a broader strategy to secure loyalty within the federal bureaucracy, aligning with the more populist and confrontational aspects of Trump’s governance.
As a senior advisor to Project 2025, McEntee again plays a crucial role in the personnel aspect, which is a key component of Project 2025. His responsibilities include supporting the development of a Presidential Personnel Database designed to collect and vet résumés of thousands of potential appointees well in advance of the next presidential inauguration on January 20, 2025
Tom Homan
Former acting director of Immigration and Customs Enforcement. In that role, he oversaw the wildly unpopular and controversial policy of family separation at the border.
Recently, Trump indicated that he would bring Homan into the administration if he wins the election.
As a contributor to Project 2025, he proses mass detention and deportation of undocumented immigrants in order to “regain control of the border.”
Ben Carson
His former cabinet secretary…!
Carson’s involvement in Project 2025 includes contributing to its policy agenda, particularly in areas related to housing and urban development. His participation is part of a broader effort by former Trump officials to shape the project’s proposals, which include significant changes to federal government operations and policies.
Ken Cuccinelli
Former Trump aide and an author of the Project 2025 plan handbook.
Paul Dans
The Director of Project 2025, Paul Dans was the Chief of Staff at the US Office of Personnel Management in the Trump administration.
Dans led Project 2025 from its inception in April 2022 until his departure in August 2024. Under his leadership, the project developed a detailed 900-page policy blueprint that outlined plans to reshape the federal government and American life according to conservative principles
Rick Dearborn
Formerly: Trump’s Deputy Chief of Staff
Spencer Chretian
Formerly: Associate Director of Presidential Personnel. Currently: Associate Director of Project 2025.
Troup Hemenway
Formerly: Associate Director of Presidential Personnel
Steven Groves
Former White House Assistant Special Counsel
Jonathan Berry
Formerly: Acting Assistant Secretary for Policy at the Department of Labor
Adam Candeub
Formerly: Deputy Associate Attorney General
Dustin J. Carmack
Formerly: Chief of Staff to the Director of National Intelligence
Brandan Carr
Formerly: FCC Commissioner
Diana Furchtgott-Roth
Formerly: Assistant Secretary of Education
Thomas F. Gilman
Formerly: Assistant Secretary of Commerce
Mandy M. Gunesakara
Formerly: Chief of Staff, EPA
Gene Hamilton
Formerly: Counselor to the Attorney General
Jennifer Hazelton
Formerly: Deputy Assistant Administrator of Public Affairs, USAID
Dennis Dean Kirk
Formerly: Senior Advisor, Office of Personnel Management
Bernard L. McNamee
Formerly: Commisioner, Federal Energy REgulatory Commission
Stephen Moore
Federal Reserve nominee
Mora Namdar
Formerly: Acting Assistant Secretary of State
William Perry Pendley
Formerly: Acting Director of the Bureau of Land Management
Max Primorac
Formerly: Acting Chief Operating Officer, USAID
Roger Severino
Formerly: Director of the Office for Civil Rights, HHS
Kiron K Skinner
Formerly: Director of Policy Planning, State Department
Brooks D. Tucker
Formerly: Assistant Secretary for the Department of Veterans Affairs
Hans A. von Spakovsky
Formerly: Advisory Commission on Election Integrity
William L. Walton
Formerly: Agency Action Leader, Trump Transition
Paul Winfree
Formerly: Deputy Assistant to the President
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