Project 2025 document mentions “Trump” more than 300 times

Claim:

The name of United States President-elect Donald Trump appears 312 times in the Project 2025 policy document.

Rating:

Note: Mixture

What is true:

The word “Trump” appears 312 times in Project 2025’s policy document “Leadership Mandate 2025: The Conservative Promise.” However…

What is wrong :

… In two cases, “Trump” does not refer to the former president: once it was used as a verb (“Trump”) and in another case as an adjective (“wrought”). Additionally, 158 mentions refer to the Trump administration rather than Trump himself.

A rumor circulates on social networks that US President-elect Donald Trump The name is mentioned 312 times in a document outlining the goals of Project 2025 — a conservative group’s plan to reshape government under a Republican presidential administration.

The claim first spread (archived) in July 2024. An , but he doesn’t know anything about it.” The rumor gained popularity again, a few months later, shortly after the former president was announced the winner of the 2024 presidential election.

Project 2025 rests on four pillars: a policy agenda outlined in a document titled “Leadership Mandate 2025: The Conservative Promise”, a staff database of “conservatives from all backgrounds expected to serve in the next Conservative administration”, a training system for potential candidates. political appointments and a playbook of actions to take during the first 180 days of a new administration.

We researched and found that the word “Trump” appears 312 times in the “Mandate for Leadership 2025” – the document outlining the proposals of Project 2025 supporters.

(Leadership mandate 2025: the Conservative promise)

However, in two cases, “Trump” does not refer to the former US president. On one occasion it was used as a verb (“trump”) and in another time it was used as an adjective (“rigged”). Additionally, 158 mentions refer to the Trump administration rather than Trump himself. Thus, we have assessed this claim as a mixture of true and false information.

Trump and Project 2025

Project 2025 is a policy initiative proposed by the conservative think tank Heritage Foundation with the participation of many of Trump’s allies. However, Trump has publicly stated that he disagrees with some of Project 2025’s recommendations and has distanced himself from the initiative.

“I know nothing about the 2025 plan,” Trump wrote on July 5, 2024. job on Social Truth. “I have no idea who is behind any of this. I don’t agree with some of the things they say and some of the things they say are absolutely ridiculous and appalling. Whatever they do, I wish them well, but I have nothing to say to them.”

Authors of “Mandate for Leadership 2025”

The first 23 mentions of “Trump” in the “Leadership Mandate 2025” appear in the “Authors” section of the document, which details the backgrounds and experience of the authors. Selected examples are below (emphasis added):

Trump administration

Of the 312 mentions of the word “Trump,” 158 refer to the Trump administration rather than Trump as an individual. Many of these passages call for reinstating or maintaining regulations implemented by the previous Trump administration. Selected examples are provided below (emphasis added):

Some mentions of the Trump administration provide context on the situation during the administration, while others praise its actions and policies:

Additionally, the term “Trump era” appears five times in the document, and the phrase “Trump years” is mentioned once (emphasis added):

“President Trump”

There were dozens of examples in the document directly referencing Trump. “President Trump” was mentioned 41 times and “President Donald Trump” appeared 14 times in the document. Selected examples are provided below:

Some common phrases in the document involving Trump’s name include “Trump-appointed leadership”, “Trump-Biden tariffs”, “Trump Annex F”, “Trump rules” and “Trump-Russia collusion”:

Additionally, Trump was once quoted, in the context of trade policy:

Tonight, I also ask you to pass the U.S. Reciprocal Trade Act, so that if another country imposes unfair tariffs on an American product, we can impose the exact same tariffs on the exact same product. that he sells to us.

President Donald J. Trump, 2019 State of the Union Address

“Trump” in footnotes

Of the 312 mentions of Trump, 23 are in footnotes citing Trump’s executive orders (see example below, emphasis added):

President Donald J. AssetExecutive Order 13891, “Promoting the Rule of Law through Enhanced Agency Guidance Documents,” October 9, 2019, in Federal Register, Vol. 84, no. 199 (October 15, 2019), pp. 55235-55238, (accessed January 31, 2023).

Additionally, there are 20 other footnotes referencing various documents and sources that include the word “Trump”, as shown in the examples below.

“Trump” used as a verb and adjective

Of the 312 occurrences of “Trump” in the document, we found that the word was not used as a last name in two instances. In the past, the word “asset” was used as a verb:

“ERISA should not be allowed take it away the ability of States to protect innocent human life in the womb.

In another case, it was used in an adjective (“rigged”):

In 2015, for example, Investor’s Business Daily accused the CFPB of “potentially diverting millions of dollars in settlement payments for alleged victims of biased loans into a slush fund for poverty groups linked to the Democratic Party” and plan “to create a so-called Civil Penalty Fund from its own restructuring operations targeting financial institutions” which would use “accelerated measures (and made from scratch) anti-discrimination lawsuits and investigations” to “fund around 60 liberal nonprofits, many of which are Acorn-style radical pressure groups.”

“Biden” appears 375 times in the same document

“To be honest, Biden’s name appears 303 times according to search results for the same document,” one X user commented under a post spreading the claim that Trump’s name appears 312 times in the Project 2025 document.

Our analysis found that the word “Biden” actually appears 375 times in the document, with 226 mentions in the context of the Biden administration, 26 occurrences referring to “President Biden” and six to “President Joe Biden.”

(Leadership mandate 2025: the Conservative promise)

Below are some examples of mentions of “Biden” in the document, generally referring to a reversal, reevaluation, or criticism of Biden-era policies (emphasis added):

You can read the full document “Leadership Mandate 2025: The Conservative Promise” below:

https://media.snopes.com/2024/06/2025_mandate_for_leadership_compressed.pdf

For several months, we received a flood of requests from readers asking whether Project 2025 was a genuine effort to “reshape America.” In addition to this question, we recently verified these rumors related to Project 2025:

Sources:

Kasprak, Alex. “Video shows Trump shaking hands with head of group behind Project 2025? SnopesJuly 9, 2024, https://www.snopes.com//fact-check/trump-project-2025-roberts/.

Liles, Jordan. “Used tampons mailed to Project 2025 offices after Gen Z TikTokers started protest trend? » SnopesJuly 9, 2024, https://www.snopes.com//fact-check/project-2025-tampons-tiktok/.

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