What has Trump said about Project 2025 on Truth Social in 2025?
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Executive summary
Donald Trump publicly distanced himself from Project 2025 in 2024–25 by posting “I know nothing about Project 2025” and calling links between him and the plan “pure disinformation” on Truth Social [1] [2] [3]. By late 2025 he shifted tone and began invoking the Project’s architects, posting that he would meet with Russ Vought “of PROJECT 2025 fame” to decide cuts to “Democrat Agencies,” signaling an embrace of at least parts of the agenda [4] [5] [6].
1. Early denials: “I know nothing” and “pure disinformation”
During mid‑2024 coverage and the 2024 campaign, Trump used Truth Social to disavow Project 2025, posting phrases including “I know nothing about Project 2025,” saying he “had nothing to do with it,” and calling attempts to link him to the Heritage Foundation plan “pure disinformation” [2] [3] [7]. Major outlets — CNN, PBS and others — reported and quoted those Truth Social posts while also documenting ties between Project 2025 contributors and former Trump administration officials [2] [8].
2. Why the denials mattered: political blowback and reporting
The timing of Trump’s denials came after heightened Democratic opposition and press scrutiny of Project 2025’s 900‑page conservative blueprint; Democrats set up task forces and tip lines, and outlets reported that many contributors were former Trump officials — facts that made the linkage politically potent and prompted Trump’s Truth Social rebuttals [1] [2] [8].
3. Media and fact‑checking context cited by Trump’s posts
News organizations and fact‑checkers noted Trump’s Truth Social distancing while simultaneously documenting Project 2025 recommendations and personnel. PBS flagged that Trump wrote he “knows nothing” about the project even as reporting showed Project 2025 did not, for instance, call for Social Security cuts — a nuance cited in fact checks [8]. CNN’s review found at least 140 people with Trump ties involved in the project, a point that undercut the plausibility of total ignorance and was central to coverage that quoted his Truth Social denials [2].
4. The later pivot: naming a co‑author as “of PROJECT 2025 fame”
In October 2025 Trump’s Truth Social posts stopped denying ties and instead identified Russ Vought as “he of PROJECT 2025 Fame,” announcing a meeting to decide which “Democrat Agencies” to cut — language that media outlets read as an embrace of the project’s goals and personnel [4] [5] [6]. Time and PBS quoted the Truth Social post describing Vought’s role and the aim of using the shutdown to push the Project’s agenda [5] [6].
5. Two competing narratives in Trump’s Truth Social messaging
Available reporting shows two clear Truth Social narratives from Trump: an earlier posture of distancing and denial in 2024 (calling linkage “pure disinformation”) and a later posture of alignment and operationalizing Project 2025 figures in 2025 [7] [4]. News outlets treat both sets of posts as factual claims by Trump while also exposing the contradiction between them through reporting on Project 2025’s authors and their prior Trump administration roles [2] [5].
6. What the posts do not resolve — limits of the sources
Available sources document Trump’s Truth Social language and the surrounding reporting but do not provide internal White House deliberations proving which Project 2025 recommendations were formally adopted — that detail is not found in current reporting provided here (not found in current reporting). Likewise, available sources do not offer a comprehensive catalog of every Truth Social post Trump made on Project 2025 across 2025 beyond the cited examples (not found in current reporting).
7. Takeaway: messaging shifted from denial to selective adoption
The record in these outlets shows a clear evolution in Truth Social messaging: Trump emphatically denied knowledge or responsibility for Project 2025 in 2024, then by 2025 used Truth Social to publicly associate himself with Project figures and to advance cutting federal agencies consistent with the Project’s agenda [2] [4] [5]. Journalists and fact‑checkers emphasize that Trump’s posts must be read alongside reporting that many Project 2025 contributors were former Trump officials — a tension the president’s Truth Social posts do not reconcile [2] [8].