U.S. President Donald Trump appears to be warming to “Project 2025,” the blueprint for governance developed by American conservative thinkers that he distanced himself from during the election.
Project 2025 was originally set out as a policy and personnel “playbook” should Trump win re-election, aiming to quickly implement sweeping changes across the federal government. During the 2024 election campaign, Trump disavowed Project 2025, distancing himself from the content and its creators, claiming he knew nothing about it or the people involved.
“I’m not going to read it,” Trump said at his first presidential debate against then vice president Kamala Harris. “Everybody knows what I am going to do.”
However, that has changed since his second-term inauguration. Key contributors and au