"Now that the election is over I think we can finally say that yeah actually Project 2025 is the agenda. Lol."
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On Wednesday morning, some of Trump’s favorite fans finally felt comfortable joking about what the next president has long denied:
Project 2025 has always been the plan for a second Trump term.
“Now that the election is over I think we can finally say that yeah actually Project 2025 is the agenda. Lol,” right-wing podcast host Matt Walsh
wrote in a post on X of the
900-plus-page extremist guidebook. Walsh’s message soon got
picked up and promoted by Steve Bannon, Trump’s former chief strategist who was
recently released from prison, where he landed after ignoring a subpoena from the House January 6 Committee. “Fabulous,” Bannon said, chuckling, after reading Walsh’s post out loud on his
War Room podcast today. “We might have to put that everywhere.”
Benny Johnson, a conservative YouTuber with 2.59 million followers who has
called affirmative action “Nazi-level thinking” and said Trump should
prosecute Biden for human trafficking of immigrants, also chimed in: “It is my honor to inform you all that Project 2025 was real the whole time,” he
posted on X.
Bo French, a local Texas GOP official who recently
came under fire for using slurs about gay people and people with disabilities on social media, wrote: “Can we admit now that we are going to implement Project 2025?”
Walsh, Bannon, and the others are not the only people in Trump’s orbit who have made these promises. While Trump has tried to distance himself from Project 2025,
there is a long list of his connections to it, which include many people who have similarly said that Trump plans to enact the policies if reelected. Russell Vought, a potential next chief of staff
profiled by my colleague Isabela Dias, said in a secretly recorded meeting that Project 2025 is the
real Trump plan and the distancing tactic was just campaign necessity.