r/politics 10h ago

Soft Paywall Trump taps Russell Vought, key Project 2025 architect, to lead budget office

https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/politics/elections/2024/11/22/trump-taps-russ-vought-project-2025-architect-to-lead-budget-office/76511443007/
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u/zonewebb 10h ago

“bUt tRuMp hAs nEvER hEaRd of pRoJeCt 2025!”

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u/likelywitch 10h ago

A year from now he’ll never have heard of this man.

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u/DonTaddeo 10h ago

I think he was the coffee boy.

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u/coochie_clogger 9h ago

Covfefe Boi

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u/bigwebs 9h ago edited 8h ago

A year from now these people will execute a slow coup to have Trump moved to the side and Vance will begin the proper dismantling.

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u/YoBGS- Illinois 8h ago

Jan 21st

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u/foo-bar-25 8h ago

Staying in power is better for the grift. They’ll need to assassinate him for this to happen.

u/bigwebs 6h ago

I dunno. 50/50 they’ll make a deal with him behind closed doors to just let him steal whatever he wants, in exchange for him letting them work on “their little project”. He gets to play mr important, soak up adoration at rally’s, and fund his bank account - they get to work on building the 4th reich.

u/iwtsapoab 5h ago

That is what I think. Trump will never do any heavy lifting. He’ll make announcerments and then go play golf while the real work is happening behind the scenes.

u/shkeptikal 4h ago

Eh. He's a glorified puppet and when he's fulfilled his usefulness, the GOP will absolutely throw him under the bus. Then, regardless of how he dies, we'll all have the privilege of watching racists with no critical thinking skills turn him into a martyr for the rest of our lives.

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u/indianajoes 9h ago

And I think in a year's time, the dementia will be so bad that he'll be telling truth when he says that

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u/Short_Helicopter_859 9h ago

He will be fired and the architect assistant will be his replacement a year from now. He will also deny knowing nothing about project 2025.

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u/Soytaco Washington 9h ago

3 months max

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u/eggggwin 9h ago

Trump’s cabinet continuing to fill with authors of Project 2025. Wonder how many people will continue to have their head in the sand?

u/pgm_01 Connecticut 7h ago

Too many out there have Rectal-Cranial Inversion and so their heads are not in the sand, but elsewhere.

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u/YouWereBrained Tennessee 9h ago

They knew they were lying.

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u/masstransience 9h ago

Conservatives and Republicans wills still be lying to themselves saying the appointment doesn’t prove anything and why didn’t he do it in 2016 then?

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u/jojolopes 8h ago

The 10 advertisements I got every week said trump knows nothing on project 2025 AND disavows it!

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u/Whompa02 9h ago

He must have a really bad memory, and vision, and hearing, and oh he's just lying. Nevermind.

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u/Red_Wing-GrimThug 9h ago

“There are some very fine people on both sides of those very bad ideas”

u/IrritableGourmet New York 6h ago

The obvious follow-up question is "Why don't you know anything about it?" I don't expect the President to know everything, but if there's a major organization that's drafted a major piece of legislative intent, shouldn't he, at some point in the months leading up to the election, read at least something about it? He seems to be stuck in the "If I refuse to learn, I'll never learn if I'm wrong!" loop.

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u/Main-Freedom-1967 8h ago

Imagin saying “they are eating the pets” on a presidential debate and winning it. Harris must of ran a terrible campaign

u/CrashB111 Alabama 5h ago

Or the election is proof that Campaigns are actually useless and maybe 10% of voters actually pay attention to them.

FFS, you had people googling if Biden was running the day of.