Trump wants to distance himself from far-right Project 2025 plan while his PAC pushes ads promoting it

Donald Trump wants to distance himself from Project 2025, the blueprint for his administration drawn up by his former officials and backed by an influential Republican-aligned think tank.

Project 2025’s 900-page manifesto for nearly every detail of a second Trump presidency was drawn up by more than a dozen former Trump administration officials and advisers, who have planned to “integrate” the document into the campaign’s platform in the coming months.

But on Friday, as his Democratic rivals use Project 2025 as shorthand for his agenda, Trump claimed that the proposal is news to him.

“I know nothing about Project 2025,” he said on his Truth Social.

“I have no idea who is behind it,” he added. “I disagree with some of the things they’re saying and some of the things they’re saying are absolutely ridiculous and abysmal. Anything they do, I wish them luck, but I have nothing to do with them.”

Meanwhile, the chief political action committee supporting Trump has been running online ads promoting Project 2025, explicitly calling it “Trump’s Project 2025.”

Make America Great Again Inc. also bought the website trumpproject2025.com.

At the center of a Heritage Foundation-backed Project 2025 plan is the book Mandate for Leadership: The Conservative Promise — essentially a wishlist for a second Trump administration, written by former White House aides and Trump-era officials, and designed around plans to replace civil servants with ideologically aligned appointees and undercut checks and balances to concentrate executive authority over federal agencies.

The plan recommends abolishing the Department of Education, slashing funds for federal law enforcement agencies, subverting agencies that regulate the airwaves and campaign