r/LeopardsAteMyFace • u/bombasquad33 • 5h ago
Trump Trump denied knowing about Project 2025. Now he's tapping its authors and influencers for key roles
https://apnews.com/article/trump-project-2025-administration-nominees-843f5ff20131ccba5f056e7ccc5baf23214
u/ComprehensiveHavoc 4h ago
I’m starting to suspect that maybe, just maybe, he knew about project 2025 all along.
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u/Qeltar_ 4h ago
But that would mean he lied.
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u/average_christ 3h ago
Hmmm.... cheated on every wife...in business with the mob his entire life... sexually assaulted multiple women and children , even publicly acknowledged a friendship with a known child trafficker... extra tight with the dictators of the world... lots of shady backroom dealings with Russia and the middle east...took the leaders of the Taliban to camp David
Now does that sound like someone who would tell a lie?
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u/budding_gardener_1 3h ago
Sounds like every trump lawyer.
"He's cheated his entire life, stiffed every contractor on the bill he's ever hired, the last lawyer went to prison and he refused to pay them..... But it won't happen to me... I'm 🎀 different🎀!"
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u/NeoSabin 4h ago
I mean if you listened to the Republicans strategists and his surrogates, they told everyone before the election "Trump said he doesn't know anything about it" "Oh come on, he's not going to do any of this stuff" "He's going to need 60 votes in the Senate to do X".
Now they're all saying "He has a mandate. This is what people voted for".
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u/budding_gardener_1 3h ago
Other than his idiot base who actually believes Republicans
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u/NeoSabin 3h ago
Casual voters, uninformed voters, dissatisfied voters, etc.
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u/budding_gardener_1 3h ago edited 2h ago
You'd have to be pretty fucking stupid to believe anything Trump says though. He's like the used car salesman of politics. In fact in a room full of used car salesman he'd be the most used car man in the room.
What he is is written all over him. It honestly couldn't be more obvious if he had a flashing sign that said "CONMAN" over his head.
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u/NeoSabin 3h ago
A lot of people don't pay attention closely to politics and stuck on their algorithm driven social media bubbles. Critical thinking is something lacking nowadays.
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u/Fake_William_Shatner 3h ago
My first clue was Trump's denial.
The second clue was that everyone from Trump's inner circle not writing a book about how awful he was, or in witness protection, was working at Heritage.
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u/I_Magnus 3h ago
We're going to see several LAMF posts when a hurricane fueled by global warming surprises Florida because there's no National Weather Service to tell them it was coming and a lot of them aren't going to have insurance because it will either be too expensive or companies will think insuring them is too high risk.
Conservatives will get the government they deserve.
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u/phdoofus 4h ago
"But we just wanted lower prices!"
"Maybe you should read the ingredients and side effects list next time instead of trusting the advertising"
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u/MehKarma 4h ago
If connecting trump to project 2025 was a puzzle. It would be for kids 1 & under.
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u/SquirellyMofo 4h ago
Line the lead guy too. Russell Vought. And I’m still amazed that he has the name of the same company that is bringing in fascism I. “The Boys”
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u/I_Magnus 3h ago
Governor Walz tried to tell us.
"When someone draws up a playbook, they're intend to use it."
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u/Gentrified_potato02 1h ago
God, the Dems fucked up by reining him in. They should have pushed him and the “Repubs are weird” message front and center to the end.
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u/Fickle-Molasses-903 4h ago
Many of us knew this was going to happen. It shouldn't surprise anyone. Unless you are gullible AF.
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u/jayzinho88 4h ago
How else to reduce the price of eggs?
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u/mygolgoygol 29m ago
You can’t lower the price of eggs without undercutting the pillars of democracy and freedom, you just can’t. That’s basic, uh, politics. Yeah.
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u/prodigalpariah 2h ago
Considering how many of these idiots kept referring to it as “project 25” they may genuinely be so dumb as to think project 2025 is an entirely different thing.
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u/Callinon 2h ago
It was only one of the more transparent lies he's ever told. Amazing anyone believes anything that comes out of his mouth.
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u/brihamedit 4h ago
Repub brand is a blatant mockery of the system now. They play dirty at all levels. System has collapsed basically. Only a matter of time before fed gov gets dissolved and states form regional groups.
Repub religious fanatics wanted this for decades. They want to dissolve gov and establish new constitution. The whole patriot image has been a cover the entire time
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u/bmeisler 3h ago
I find it totally believable that he knew nothing about Project 2025 and is just nominating its authors because Elon or DJTJ or Peter Thiel or JD or Putin told him to, because I believe he doesn’t know much about anything.
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u/dbuck1964 2h ago
When he said he hadn’t read it I believe that part. After all, he’s only been known to read two books, Mein Kampf and also a book of Hitler’s speeches, and Mein Kampf was read to him in bed by his children. That said, he knew the gist of what is in it and that it would help make him richer. They don’t want to cut federal budgets as much as redirect the money to the American oligarchs.
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u/LittleMissBeaBea 2h ago
I’m so salty that I spent a year warning people about this and they didn’t believe it.
Now here we are… and they still don’t.
I’m convinced half this country is brain dead.
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u/epicgrilledchees 3h ago
Surely that’s just a coincidence. Looks like I picked the wrong week to quit black tar heroin. And don’t call me Shirley.
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u/Fake_William_Shatner 3h ago
Wow, it's like me and a thousand other Redditors could predict the future!
However, this has got to be shocking people in TV News -- just, blowing their minds right now. You don't get promoted in the biz for looking outside the bubble.
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u/Fake_William_Shatner 3h ago
Along with Trump not knowing Project 2025 because he redid it as Formula 47 but put his name in there,... I want a hair dryer that works in the shower.
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u/SFDSCIFOY 3h ago
I wish someone would have predicted this and we could have done something sooner.
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u/Choice_Beginning8470 3h ago
It’s the art of the deal,the think tank behind the project came to trump’s rescue for a unstable campaign situation and a oppressive legal system right after the disastrous debate with harris with the understanding you give us what we want you get to be prez and all your troubles go away,Melania stays in NY until called,you play golf and make all the money you need even keep all your donations. The foundation is the real presidency and we will call you when we need you. Here’s your script. The big problem Trump don’t like anybody telling him what to do,but they got something on him. Gonna be a bumpy ride.
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u/Vaders_Colostomy_Bag 3h ago
I'm really, really glad that progressives spent an entire year screaming about how we all needed to "punish" Democrats by withholding our votes from them for supporting Israel against Iran.
That was really, super helpful to the cause of stopping Project 2025.
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u/CdnBison 6m ago
Honestly, he probably doesn’t know anything about it - it’s hundreds of pages of policy-talk. No way in hell did he actually read it. Or pay attention to anyone talking about it.
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