Bottom Line Up Front: Reporting from our remote Florida Swamp news desk – Project 2025 Trump denials before the election have morphed into rapid implementation after. Multiple tracking sites now confirm one-third to half of Project 25’s objectives are already complete or underway.
Trump’s campaign statements painted Project 25 as “absolutely ridiculous and abysmal.” Now its authors and contributors fill his cabinet – 18+ hold key positions. The same blueprint Trump claimed to “know nothing about” is being executed at breakneck speed.
Here’s the documented timeline of how “I know nothing about it” became the administration’s actual playbook.