Leaked Project 2025 Training Videos Show Former Trump Officials Detailing Plans to Dismember Gov’t

As Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump tries to downplay his connection to the far-right policy agenda known as Project 2025, ProPublica and Documented have just published dozens of training videos by the group that show how the conservative movement is gearing up for the next Republican administration. It’s an effort led by the conservative Heritage Foundation think tank and other groups to remake the federal government, including by replacing civil servants with thousands of partisan political appointees who would help carry out the extreme policies envisioned by Project 2025. Many of the people who crafted the policy blueprint are former top Trump officials. The training videos include discussions about undoing climate policy, combatting diversity efforts, denying freedom of information requests and more.

“The first time that Trump … got elected, his operation was very unprepared. They did not have a bench of people ready. There was chaos, there was confusion, and that set back that administration for perhaps months, maybe even a year or two,” says ProPublica reporter Andy Kroll. “If he is elected again, that will not be the case.”

[ddlang]

It’s clear they aren’t looking for public servants in their administration. They are looking for loyalists.

[mariaallen]

U.S. citizens, the whole world is literally counting on us to stop this nightmare from coming true. This is not a joke. Politics is not a joke. We HAVE to band together if we want to keep any sense of freedom whatsoever. PLEASE vote. Do the right thing! Be on the right side of history 😥

[ritigos]

This woman on the video about climate change is mad I think of having a planet safe for my children and grandchildren. Not polluted, not full of plastics, with sustainable energy resources, with diverse healthy woodlands marine environments, animals not going extinct. Airbsafe to breathe. A place humans can thrive and reach for the stars. By the way... I'm a green peace supporter. The woodland Trust UK, Ifaw, Worldwide fund for Nature, National Trust

[the.masked.one.studio]

I watched a few of the videos. My biggest concern was how they are clearly targeting folks with low literacy levels. We HAVE TO beef up education efforts in general. When people have little to no research skills, they follow these power hungry monsters.

[kennyj]

These people are insane and insanely dangerous.

[carolynturk-huje]

The Heritage Foundation needs to have their non for profit status revoked for breaking the rules!

[amandanelson]

The most horrific thing to me about these videos is that the women in them seem utterly unaware of the individual rights they would lose themselves. They are willing to forget & forgo their own rights to what…give all control of their rights & decisions to the men in their lives? This cannot come to pass

[anisaysoknoitwell]

In my mind…Trying to put all Americans in a cult. Do you think we the people are stupid?

[ReformedRepublican]

How can they say there is no connection to the Trump campaign when J D Vance, the VP on the Republican ticket, wrote the Flreward to this atrocity?

[jennifercasey]

I think the truly concerning part about these videos and Project 2025 is just how confident these people are that Trump will win again in 2024.

[danaschoen]

The Heritage Foundation (and anyone else who enjoys it) need to be stripped of their tax exempt status.

[heynowls]

They are not playing around! Wish media focused more on this, rather than constant reactionary outrage.

[martinsundland]

Even as a Canadian, Project 2025 makes my skin crawl. This is not a proposed nation I would feel comfortable living next door to.

[patrickTHEceliac]

It is easier to fool someone, than to convince them that they have been fooled.

[ATChick]

This just shows you how normal these weird people think they are. They thought they would just release it and everyone would be accepting of their horrible cruel plan. 🤣 Thank you fellow Americans for putting my faith back into you. ❤

[gdaymates]

Margaret Atwood shpuld sue them for plagiarism. The entire plan is straight out of The Handmaids Tale.

[FlowerPow-tzcn]

Can you all do a story on the hidden recording of Trump allegedly telling a room full of rich folks they “we are going to make lots of money”. We need that to be pieced out so that these poor and middle class followers of his can snap out of their hypnotism.

[jaiphony]

As flawed as our system may be it is an EXCELLENT system We the People must protect. 💙🌊

[Jay-ate-a-bug]

The Trump campaign claimed that these videos were stolen in a "Hack." Seems like someone in their own camp realized how Authoritarian this stuff is and grew a conscience.

[kgs]

This sounds a lot like the Nazi, or more accurately, the Gilead playbook. The men see themselves as Commanders, and the women see themselves as the vaunted Wives, and the rest of the women as Handmaid’s. It is terrifying.