https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_-V_3iF23moThe claim: Project 2025 is a plan from Trump

A July 5 Facebook post (direct link, archive link) includes nine slides describing supposed policy propositions from former President Donald Trump. The slides include an image of Trump along with the title "Project 2025."

“Trump has made his authoritarian intentions quite clear with his Project 2025 plan,” reads the post's caption. 

It received more than 500 shares in four days.

Our rating: False

Project 2025 is a political playbook created by the Heritage Foundation and dozens of other conservative groups, not Trump, who said he disagrees with elements of the effort. 

President decides which policy recommendations to implement

The Heritage Foundation, a conservative think tank, collaborated with more than 100 conservative groups for Project 2025, also known as the Presidential Transition Project. The result is a more than 900-page playbook with policy recommendations for the next Republican president that reflect the think tank's goal of "(rescuing) the country from the grip of the radical Left."

Trump, however, has sought to publicly distance himself from the effort, as reported by The Washington Post.

“I know nothing about Project 2025,” Trump wrote in a July 5 Truth Social post. “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.” 

Project 2025 said it “does not speak for any candidate or campaign” in a July 5 post on X, formerly Twitter. Its playbook is comprised of suggestions the coalition believes will benefit the "next conservative president."

“But it is ultimately up to that president, who we believe will be President Trump, to decide which recommendations to implement,” the post said. 

Our fact-check sources:

• Project 2025, accessed July 8, About Project 2025
• Donald Trump, July 5, Truth Social post
• Project 2025, July 5, X post

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I have no idea who is behind it. I disagree with some of the things they’re saying - you can't agree or disagree with something you don't know

Donald Trump has lately made clear he wants little to do with Project 2025, the conservative blueprint for the next Republican president that has attracted considerable blowback in his race for the White House. At least 140 people who worked in the Trump administration had a hand in Project 2025, a CNN review found, including more than half of the people listed as authors, editors and contributors to “Mandate for Leadership,” the project’s extensive manifesto for overhauling the executive branch.

https://youtu.be/zd-81ZHe844?si=X74eU8YDuNwBaFQE

I have no idea who is behind it. I disagree with some of the things they’re saying - you can't agree or disagree with something you don't know

“I know nothing about Project 2025,” I disagree with some of the things they’re saying - you can't agree or disagree with something you don't know

It should have been this.

it was a typo, which I corrected in 2nd post but still He can't agree or disagree with something he doesn't know about.

He could have picked other vp who is not connected with project 2025 but he picked JD.

He agrees with deporting immigrants
He agrees with imprisoning political opponents
He wants to be a dictator
He wants to remove department of education

Did he say both the sentences together or in different times?

“I know nothing about Project 2025,”
I disagree with some of the things they’re saying

I would check that before making convictions. Because it’s possible he read the manifesto later after he found out about it.

Deporting illegal immigrants is common sense. Even small countries like Bhutan deports illegal immigrants. You want him to break the immigration laws just because it benefits you. Ok I see how your brain works.

He does not want to imprison political prisoners. In fact he is accusing Biden of going after his political opponents like he’s been doing for past 7 years. 

Dictator. You must be kidding me. He was manipulated to say that at an interview. You go and watch that interview. The interviewer asks. “Would you be a dictator “. What a dumb question to begin with. But trump has a great sense of humor which obviously you don’t have and he said. Yea I will be a dictator for one day to deport the illegal aliens. You can keep preaching how Trump said he is going to be a dictator but the fact is that he said it lightly to a targeted interview question and he said he will be for one day. So change your sentence from “He wants to be a dictator “ to “he wants to be a dictator for one day”

That makes night and day of difference and you will not be lying when you say that.

And finally the dept of education currently is a joke. Teaching about kids having option to change their sex and promoting homosexuality and questioning own sexuality. They are targeting kids who are confused about their identity to begin with and teaching them about intercourse and sex change options starting from kindergarten. Maybe you want your kids to get brainwashed into converting their sex. But no thank you. Get rid of this dept of stupidity.

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Girls go after rich and famous people all the time. So if your daughter, mother or sisters wants to get their vagina pumped by Trump it's not his fault. They can always sue him if they don't get what they want.

I didn't not make it personal you did by refering to my kids look at your own post, maybe you support Trump because a sexual abuser, a con man who conned lots of people using university and who said he and his daughter had sex In common and who wants to date his daughter Ivanka aligns with your personality.

https://youtu.be/8EPEkk6qWkg?si=BbO0lufNO8VA1S8L

Department of education refers to education of our kids. So my mention of kids' future made it ok for you to talk about your mom, sister and daughter's vagina? That's pretty low mentality in my opinion. But can't expect anything much from Biden supporter.

We should look at our own culture, they did still doing all the things you have mentioned. Still some part of Nepal, dewar will marry bhauju which seems more logical to them. It does not abandon widow and always part of their family. In some culture there will be a single wife share by the all boys like Pandav did. Red neck break their virginity by their cousins and still marry cousins it's only in bramhin and khas who are following {(पुस्ता गन्ने"(was and is) a part of purifying race like Hitlar did )} counting the generation. Which has scientific reason. Nepsy you forgot the culture of Thakuri and Magar they still marry their cousins. You should not be bothered by Hunter who is banging his bhauju. If it was a rape case then you have the point.

Logan, I am nine generation from Kathmandu valley so I am not aware of such sick practices. Maybe in your villages it's common thing so you may accept those practices. So go ahead and support the Biden family as your values align with theirs. Those things are sick and disgusting for most people anywhere in the modern world.