Global Action. Global Solutions. (original) (raw)

“I have nothing to do with Project 2025,” Donald Trump said throughout his campaign. “I have no idea who is behind it.”

The lie collapsed on January 20, 2025, the coldest inauguration day in four decades. Trump took his second oath of office in the shelter of the Capitol rotunda, then decamped to the Capital One Arena, where thousands of supporters watched him sign executive orders one after another, holding each up before hurling his presidential Sharpie into a sea of outstretched hands. By midnight, he had signed 26. Despite his campaign disavowals, two-thirds of his day-one policies came straight from the pages of Project 2025’s Mandate for Leadership.

Fourteen months later, the distance between blueprint and policy has all but vanished.