Remember when, during his campaign, Trump would say, "Believe me", "Trust me", "You'll see", etc...
These false promises might sound reassuring, but according to psychologists, it can be a red flag. The reason is that people with genuine intentions don’t usually need to ask for trust – it’s given naturally based on their actions and behavior. When someone like Trump repeatedly uses phrases like “trust me,” or "believe me", it usually indicates that they’re trying to convince you of something that may not be true.
Well, Trump has now come out, as it were, of his racist, ultra-capitalistic, white supremacist, extremist Radical Right Project 2025 closet. All his promises during the campaign were fake for the single reason of luring the 77 million morons who voted for him. But now that he is in office, he is shedding his disguise and revealing his true intentions.
A query to Artificial Intelligence returned the following answer:
Project 2025 is a political initiative launched by the Heritage Foundation that outlines a comprehensive plan for reshaping the U.S. federal government under a future Republican administration, particularly aimed at consolidating executive power and implementing ultra-conservative policies. It includes a 900-page policy document, a personnel database for appointing loyalists, and proposals that could significantly alter the balance of power within the government, raising concerns about potential authoritarianism and the erosion of personal freedoms.
You did it, you 77 million idiots! You elected a madman who lied to you and now that you put him in the White Outhouse, he's running amok of everything the United States stood for. The real danger is that con men like him know they have a short leash of 4 years in office, but when they know they have only 4 years to destroy the institutions of the republic, they do one of two things:
- Either they go really fast with their demolition - Trump and his minders call it "flood the zone" - which is what Trump is doing,
- Or they have plans to subvert the constitution and illegally stay in power, which gives more time. Normally, politicians (including presidents) worry about the impact of their actions and policies on the next round of elections (be they for themselves or for their party). But when Trump has in mind to stay in power beyond 2028, he believes he can get away with anything. He's not running again, so he goes nuclear and doesn't not care about the consequences. He is staying in power, he thinks, so why should he worry about what the voters might do at the next elections.
Check this: https://www.buzzfeed.com/morgansloss1/trump-no-elections-2028-reactions?utm_source=yahoo-recirc-links
Trump is essentially using the democratic process to subvert democracy. Populists usually do that in liberal democracies to reach power, but then do everything to dismantle the democratic process because they don't anyone to use it against them. The liberal democracy becomes an illiberal democracy, which is a transitional phase towards a full-fledged dictatorship, like Orban in Hungary. Putin and Xi Jinping start from a baseline of a non-liberal democracy, so they go immediately into a dictatorship.
Trump's tactic of stripping Congress (Legislative) of its power (over the purse, over decisions of war, etc.) and concentrating it into his own hands (Executive): rule by executive order, which cannot be challenged by the courts (Judiciary) because the Supreme Court is staffed with his own appointees, is a pillar of Project 2025. Because Congress represents the people, the aim of any populist-dictator like Trump is to weaken the people's power and confiscate its power to his own personal advantage.
Trump has so far succeeded. The country can perhaps put up with his rape of America for another 3 years, since IN THEORY he's out in 2028. But all indicators point to Trump wanting to stay beyond 2028 (as the "Trump 2028" emblazoned baseball hats he stuck in the face of Chuck Schumer and Hakeem Jeffries in the Oval office two days ago when they visited with him. With all the powers of the republic in his hands, he will declare a state of emergency on the pretext of "crime and anarchy" (which he is practicing now by deploying the military in the country's cities, telling them that this deployment is "training" for future missions), deploy the military, cancel the elections and either extend his term or ensure the appointment of a successor loyal to him. If he could, he might amend the constitution to allow a president to serve for life.
TRUMP IS DOING EXCATLY WHAT HITLER DID IN THE GERMANY OF THE 1930s.
Ask any historian. Or be a historian yourself by reading about Hitler's ascent to power. "You'll see"!
Problem for the Project 2025 Handlers of Donald Trump: They picked the right guy for his indecent criminality. But he's dumb like a sack of rocks.
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Trump no longer distancing himself from Project 2025 as he uses shutdown to further pursue its goals
JILL COLVIN
Fri, October 3, 2025
President Donald Trump speaks to a gathering of top U.S. military commanders at Marine Corps Base Quantico, Tuesday, Sept. 30, 2025, in Quantico, Va. (Andrew Harnik/Pool via AP)
NEW YORK (AP) — President Donald Trump is openly embracing the conservative blueprint he desperately tried to distance himself from during the 2024 campaign, as one of its architects works to use the government shutdown to accelerate his goals of slashing the size of the federal workforce and punishing Democratic states.
In a post on his Truth Social site Thursday morning, Donald Trump announced he would be meeting with his budget chief, “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.”
The comments represented a dramatic about-face for Trump, who spent much of last year denouncing Project 2025, The Heritage Foundation's massive proposed overhaul of the federal government, which was drafted by many of his longtime allies and current and former administration officials.
Both of Trump's Democratic rivals, Joe Biden and Kamala Harris, made the far-right wish list a centerpiece of their campaigns, and a giant replica of the book featured prominently onstage at the Democratic National Convention.
“Donald Trump and his stooges lied through their teeth about Project 2025, and now he’s running the country straight into it,” said Ammar Moussa, a former spokesperson for both campaigns. “There’s no comfort in being right — just anger that we’re stuck with the consequences of his lies.”
Shalanda Young, director of the Office of Management and Budget under Biden, said the administration had clearly been following the project's blueprint all along.
“I guess Democrats were right, but that doesn’t make me feel better,” she said. “I'm angry that this is happening after being told that this document was not going to be the centerpiece of this administration.”
Asked about Trump’s reversal, White House spokesperson Abigail Jackson said, “Democrats are desperate to talk about anything aside from their decision to hurt the American people by shutting down the government.”
Project what?
Top Trump campaign leaders spent much of 2024 livid at The Heritage Foundation for publishing a book full of unpopular proposals that Democrats tried to pin on the campaign to warn a second Trump term would be too extreme.
While many of the policies outlined in its 900-plus pages aligned closely with the agenda that Trump was proposing — particularly on curbing immigration and dismantling certain federal agencies — others called for action Trump had never discussed, like banning pornography, or Trump's team was actively trying to avoid, like withdrawing approval for abortion medication.
Trump repeatedly insisted he knew nothing about the group or who was behind it, despite his close ties with many of its authors. They included John McEntee, his former director of the White House Presidential Personnel Office, and Paul Dans, former chief of staff at the U.S. Office of Personnel Management.
“I know nothing about Project 2025,” Trump insisted in July 2024. “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.”
Trump’s campaign chiefs were equally critical
“President Trump’s campaign has been very clear for over a year that Project 2025 had nothing to do with the campaign, did not speak for the campaign, and should not be associated with the campaign or the President in any way,” wrote Susie Wiles and Chris LaCivita in a campaign memo. They added, “Reports of Project 2025’s demise would be greatly welcomed and should serve as notice to anyone or any group trying to misrepresent their influence with President Trump and his campaign — it will not end well for you.”
Trump has since gone on to stock his second administration with its authors, including Vought, “border czar” Tom Homan, CIA Director John Ratcliffe, immigration hard-liner Stephen Miller and Brendan Carr, who wrote Project 2025’s chapter on the Federal Communications Commission and now chairs the panel.
Heritage did not respond to a request for comment Thursday. But Dans, the project’s former director, said it's been “exciting” to see so much of what was laid out in the book put into action.
“It's gratifying. We're very proud of the work that was done for this express purpose: to have a doer like President Trump ready to roll on Day One,” said Dans, who is currently running for Senate against Lindsey Graham in South Carolina.
Trump administration uses the shutdown to further its goals
Since his swearing in, Trump has been pursuing plans laid out in Project 2025 to dramatically expand presidential power and reduce the size of the federal workforce. They include efforts like the Department of Government Efficiency and budget rescission packages, which have led to billions of dollars being stalled, scrapped or withheld by the administration so far this year.
They are now using the shutdown to accelerate their progress.
Ahead of the funding deadline, OMB directed agencies to prepare for additional mass firings of federal workers, rather than simply furloughing those who are not deemed essential, as has been the usual practice during past shutdowns. Vought told House GOP lawmakers in a private conference call Wednesday that layoffs would begin in the next day or two.
They have also used the shutdown to target projects championed by Democrats, including canceling $8 billion in green energy projects in states with Democratic senators and withholding $18 billion for transportation projects in New York City that have been championed by Senate Democratic Leader Chuck Schumer and House Democratic leader Hakeem Jeffries in their home state.
Dreaming of this moment
The moves are part of a broader effort to concentrate federal authority in the presidency, which permeated Project 2025.
In his chapter in the blueprint, Vought made clear he wanted the president and OMB to wield more direct power.
“The Director must view his job as the best, most comprehensive approximation of the President’s mind,” he wrote. Vought described OMB as “a President’s air-traffic control system,” which should be “involved in all aspects of the White House policy process,” becoming “powerful enough to override implementing agencies’ bureaucracies.”
Sen. Mike Lee, R-Utah, said on Fox News Channel that Vought “has a plan, and that plan is going to succeed in further empowering Trump. This is going to be the Democrats’ worst nightmare.”
House Speaker Mike Johnson echoed that message, insisting the government shutdown gives Trump and his budget director vast power over the federal government and the unilateral power to determine which personnel and policies are essential and which are not.
Schumer has handed “the keys of the kingdom to the president,” Johnson said Thursday. “Because they have decided to vote to shut the government down, they have now effectively turned off the legislative branch … and they’ve turned it over to the executive.”
Young said the Constitution gives the White House no such power and chastised Republicans in Congress for abandoning their duty to serve as a check on the president.
“I don’t want to hear a lecture about handing the keys over,” she said. “The keys are gone. They’re lost. They're down a drain. This shutdown is not what lost the keys.”
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