How closely is Trump following the Project 2025 blueprint?
On Point | Podcast
WBUR
4.2 • 3.5K Ratings
🗓️ 9 May 2025
⏱️ 50 minutes
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Summary
The vast majority of Trump’s executive orders have come from The Heritage Foundation’s Project 2025, and the so-called "America First" plan. How the Trump administration is turning Project 2025 and the so-called 'America First' agenda into reality.
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| 0:45.3 | In April of 2023, about five months after Donald Trump announced he was running in the |
| 0:52.3 | 2024 presidential election, the conservative |
| 0:55.7 | think tank, the Heritage Foundation, released a roadmap of how they wanted Trump to run the |
| 1:01.7 | country if reelected. That roadmap is called Project 2025, and it's 922 pages long. |
| 1:15.9 | Throughout the 2024 campaign, Trump denied having any involvement in Project 2025. |
| 1:17.1 | In fact, he said he didn't even know what it was. |
| 1:20.0 | Here's Trump at a campaign rally in Grand Rapids, Michigan on July 20, 2004. |
| 1:25.4 | Like some on the right, severe right, came up with this Project 25, and I don't even know. |
| 1:33.5 | I mean, some of them I know who they are, but they're very, very conservative, just like you have, |
| 1:38.6 | they're sort of the opposite of the radical left, okay? |
| 1:41.1 | You have the radical left, and you have the radical, right? And they come up |
| 1:44.4 | with this, I don't know what the hell it is. And during Trump's first presidential debate against |
| 1:50.4 | Vice President Kamala Harris on September 10th, in Philadelphia, Trump again separated himself from |
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