And This Is Not A Head Fake

This just strikes me as a silly argument factually (smart politically though). If Biden broke a hip, he couldn’t run — literally or figuratively — but he could still serve out his term. Cancer might make another term unwise but not require resignation.

This is a head fake. https://t.co/p1HsJ0wYOB

— Jonah Goldberg (@JonahDispatch) July 20, 2024

This:

Donald Trump on Saturday went further than ever to distance himself from Project 2025, the Heritage Foundation's plan to overtake the federal government with MAGA loyalists, while speaking at a Michigan rally. 

Trump, who has already issued statements suggesting he "knows nothing" about the plan that is run by many of his own former administration officials, went nuclear against the group at his speaking event this weekend. 

Trump begins by saying that others try to paint him as an "extremist." 

"I'm a person with great common sense; I'm not an extremist at all," Trump said at the first rally since the shooting event. 

He continued, blasting Project 2025.  

"Like some on the right, the severe right, came up with this Project 2025 and I don't even know - some of them I know who they are - but they are very, very conservative," he said. "Just like you have, they are sort of the opposite of the radical left. You have the radical left and you have the radical right." 

He said he doesn't know "what the hell it is." 

"They are extreme. They are seriously extreme, but I don't know anything about it," Trump said. "I don't want to know anything about it. But what they do is misinformation and disinformation."

…is a head fake.  MAGA may buy it; but they’ll buy anything.

Trump just now: I don’t know anything about Project 2025

Also Trump: The Heritage Foundation is a great group and they’re going to lay the groundwork and detail plans for exactly what our movement will do in my second term pic.twitter.com/yPWfVzyV6I

— Biden-Harris HQ (@BidenHQ) July 20, 2024

One of the key parts of Project 2025, installing tens of thousands of loyalists in the government, is derived from an executive order he signed in October of 2020

The "Agenda 47" plan on his website also frequently matches up with Project 2025 https://t.co/oz3ohjvXf2

— Thor Benson (@thor_benson) July 20, 2024

Trump: I have Tom Homan lined up to be in my next administration

(Tom Homan is a Project 2025 author)

Trump’s well aware of how to say Project 2025 and exactly what it is. https://t.co/2IsYqwDyNx pic.twitter.com/IsKwStfe4T

— Skyleigh Heinen-Uhrich (@Sky_Lee_1) July 20, 2024

Oh, hell, why stop there?

Trump mentions that his uncle was a professor at MIT before talking about electric boats and sharks: They always say “why is he taking about electricity and sharks?” It’s a cute little story. Do I take electrocution or do I take death by a shark? pic.twitter.com/1EiaiI29Zy

— Acyn (@Acyn) July 20, 2024

Trump: And, they laughed at me. I hate when people laugh at me. I hate it. I hate it. pic.twitter.com/TS1KN0cQvE

— Acyn (@Acyn) July 20, 2024

In rally veritas?

Trump: That is very severe, that comb over. pic.twitter.com/1J1sx694C7

— Acyn (@Acyn) July 20, 2024

Apparently.

Trump: The late great Hannibal Lecter pic.twitter.com/uk84aUXjW9

— Acyn (@Acyn) July 20, 2024

DRINK!

Trump: You are not going to teach a criminal not to be a criminal… That is why as soon as I take the oath of office we will begin the largest deportation operation in the history of our country. pic.twitter.com/sphCHu0Xc2

— Acyn (@Acyn) July 20, 2024

No self-awareness at all.

You know, he’s gonna have to come up with new material. This is the speech that bored ‘em to sleep in Milwaukee.  😴