The alarming world of ‘Project 2025’ training videos featuring Trump officials and allies

A series of leaked training videos provides new insights into Project 2025, including appearances by officials and allies of former President Donald Trump — who has disavowed the proposal despite numerous direct ties to the effort.

Across 14 hours of videos, obtained by ProPublica and Documented, a series of 36 speakers, more than two-thirds of whom worked for the Trump administration or one of Trump’s campaigns,

Project 2025 is a think tank proposal for policies and efforts under Trump should he win in November. Many are far-right priorities and target Social Security cuts, ending abortion rights and numerous other objectives.

The videos, part of the program’s Presidential Administration Academy initiative for members of an incoming administration, include a guest casting doubt on climate change and gender equity, as well others offering tips such as avoiding reading mainstream newspapers and suggesting not leaving a paper trail of government documents to avoid future public scrutiny.

In “Hidden Meanings: The Monsters in the Attic,” a video about watchwords and key concepts to be aware of, activist Bethany Kozma, a former deputy chief of staff for the U.S. Agency for International Development during the Trump administration, describes climate policies as part of an “ultimate goal to control people.”

“Climate change, allegedly, is everywhere and if the American people elect a conservative president, his administration will have to eradicate climate change references from absolutely everywhere,” she says in the video.

“When I think of climate change, I immediately think of population control, don’t you?” she adds. “I think about the people who don’t want you to have children because of the ‘impact on the environment.’”