Donald Trump's latest effort to distance himself from the controversial Project 2025 has left the former president's conservative allies reeling.
Trump on Saturday held a rally in Michigan, during which he broached the subject of the Heritage Foundation's Project 2025, which is run by many of Trump's allies and those who worked in his administration.
In his speech, Trump called the plan to overhaul the executive and judicial branches with MAGA loyalists a "seriously extreme" vision for the country. In the past, he merely said that some of its policies went too far and that he didn't know much about it.
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Trump changed his tune over the weekend, saying, "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...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."
But this left some conservatives, including a Republican senator ally, scratching their heads.
Trump-aligned U.S. Sen. Mike Lee (R-UT) chimed in, "I’m not sure what he’s referring to."
"But I suspect he’s reacting not to Project 2025," Lee added. "But to progressive Democrats’ unfair characterization of Project 2025."
Commenters didn't let Lee get away with that.
@dudeodnv replied that Trump "
Bob Good for Congress asked, "What exactly is 'extreme' about Project 2025?"
"Some of the best conservative minds in the country are responsible for the great work that is Project 2025," the account wrote Saturday.
The attack by Trump also angered Nicholas J. Fuentes, the neo-Nazi figure with ties to the ex-president.
"Trump disavows Project 2025 for the FOURTH time and says it was written by extremist, 'severe,' radical conservatives who are just like the radical Left," he wrote Saturday. "This is not going to be a Right Wing government."
@scksgrypr replied that the move was, "Disappointing but not surprising."
