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They’re questions that could be asked of any number of President Donald Trump’s social media posts:
Was he telling the truth before?
Did he just not understand that thing that he said earlier?
Is he just trolling all of us?
The answer could be some combination of all three, especially in the case of Thursday’s post, and the “unprecedented opportunity” Trump says he now has to hack away at federal agencies during the government shutdown.
It has to do with the man widely seen as the architect of the shutdown: Office of Management and Budget Director Russ Vought, or as Trump described Vought in the post, “he of PROJECT 2025 Fame.”
That’s the same Project 2025 that Trump repeatedly distanced himself from during last year’s presidential campaign.
“I have nothing to do with Project 2025,” Trump said during the presidential debate. “I haven’t read it. I don’t want to read it, purposely.
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