President Donald Trump issued a foreboding proclamation during a speech in Maryland on Tuesday, just hours after he predicted a “Midterm Surprise!” in a Truth Social post.
“Director of the Office of Management and Budget, Russ Vought, who’s fantastic, he’s on a job, we have some big surprises coming up in another few weeks. Right, Russ?” Trump said. “He’s gonna be one of the very important people in the history of our country, in my opinion. He’s got some great things happening.”
Trump did not expand on what these so-called “surprises” would be.
Outside his role in the Trump administration, Vought is the primary architect of Project 2025, the conservative Heritage Foundation’s blueprint for a second Trump term.
While not mentioned specifically by Trump, many critics online speculated that Trump was referring to some sort of plan to interfere in the midterm elections.
“Between this and his ‘midterm surprise,’ the time to prepare for him to try to steal an election is now,” Fox News host Jessica Tarlov wrote on X.
Other commenters suggested that Vought could use his official capacity to interfere with the elections.
“I know nothing about Project 2025”
-Trump, 2024
Remember when he claimed he had nothing to do with Project 2025? Yeah I know a mother fucker dumb enough to have believed that
My narcissistic ex, literally. Dumb as a fucking rock.
We all have that uncle.
This is FALSE because Donald Trump TOLD ME he DIDNT know what Project 2025 was!
-LITERALLY Republican Voters!
Dude, I knew “both sides are the same” types at my work who fucking bought that. My gasts were flabbered.
VOTE.
YES, the mid term elections are ongoing RIGHT NOW in the USA. If you’re a US citizen and you haven’t voted yet then do it, early voting is happening soon* check your state.
And even better - use an official ballot drop box instead of mailing it, as there’s still the possibility of USPS fuckery.
Ooops more treason! Surprise!!
Based on comments by vought, I’m guessing national abortion ban.
Hopefully it turns out to be the release of some new Trump-branded schlock people can buy directly from whitehouse.gov and everyone will just be like “of course.”
He most likely will try, but it’s Trump. His track record speaks for itself: he will fuck it up. Bigly.
He will probably cancel the midterms with an executive order. Doesn’t seem like there is any limit to what he can do with executive orders. Why would a democratic government allow for such power in a single person? Didn’t anybody think those powers would be abused? Might as well be a dictator 🙄. Seems so ridiculous.
Anyone want to bet the federal gov insourcing gets completed, and then they turn around and screw civil servants by using voter info to purge the fed gov again?
OMB does not handle elections, but they can totally use election info to remove dems from gov. They’ll do it faster than lawsuits can be processed.
That’s my theory anyways.
if he does, the surprise may be on him
Didn’t the idiot and chief deny any knowledge or connection to the project!?
I can’t endure the suspense
Piss or get off the pot old man.
I like how Trump can’t help but preemptively throw his sycophants under the bus just in case things go wrong and someone has to be held accountable
Or, he will follow through on Project 2025 and nullify the election.
This is what he will try to do, but we can’t allow Schmuck & Jeffries to just accept it with stern rebuke. We have to SLAM every Representative ad Senator with intense pressure to fight back. Their phones should be ringing non-stop, their email inbox should be full, and they shouldn’t be able to go ANYWHERE without citizens demanding action.
If they still won’t defend our Democracy, if they just let MAGA walk away with it, then they become as much the enemy as MAGA. The only way they’ll act is if they are afraid of us, so we’ll need to be extremely aggressive, and it will get ugly.
It’s not enough, wgat you suggested is a lityle temporary annoyance compared to what they plan…
Your solution to attempts to illegally coup the nation is phone calls to the side doing it to demand they support you instead?
The Constitution has been overridden by the majority party in Congress that has ABDICATED ITS POWERS and relegated them to the executive.
Stop and think about this for a second.
Trump and his coup NEED the stolen election to be legitimized by Congress, full stop, or it just doesn’t work. The failure to legitimize is what stopped J6.
Addressing the minority Congressional leaders as well as doing all the other things we are already doing is exactly what needs to happen.
At no point did Barney say that was the only thing, everywhere and ever, that any concerned American should ever think about doing.
You brought that.
For myself, I have nothing but contempt for those who clearly have no idea how much all the individual efforts of all sizes by so many Americans to push back has slowed Trump’s roll.
But you’d never concede that. You’re here to shit on anyone who suggests anything other than a magical solution, as though the actual Americans among us have not heard this a billion times through the firehose of propaganda that has been aimed directly at us since 2015.
If you had any interest at all in preventing a coup, you’d have written a dramatically different comment. But us actual living Americans who genuinely want this fascism to stop have many things we can each do to put pressure against EVERY PART of this oncoming coup – including the legislators who will be required to legitimize the outcome should all other efforts fail.
Your solution to attempts to illegally coup the nation is phone calls to the side doing it to demand they support you instead?
And your solution is to be a part of the problem, quietly undermining anyone who suggests anything useful and helpful even as you display your own ignorance of how an American coup MUST work to be successful in the end.
For the rest of us, ABSOLUTELY add contacting your federal representatives to your list of to-do items before the midterms, and make sure you are still registered to vote by contacting your local elections office directly, and beware of fake sites that are data hoovers.
Barney’s right. They need to hear us. And they don’t . . . yet.
Everyone knows that if your bpd violent ex is in the middle of setting your car and house on fire you resolve it by waiting patiently for cuffing season to begin again and then text them cordially to ask them to work with you so this behavior can cease and turn into something more productive.
This is the inherit problem with democracy, or at least the American implementation of it.
If the government “goes rogue” and starts ignoring the pleas and will of the people, it can no longer be fixed within the system itself.
If the only solution is to work outside the system, then what is the point of democracy in the first place?
well… talk is cheap but no one has been SLAMMING Trump since he took office.
They are criminals who verifiably attempted to steal every election Trumps been involved with. There’s a reasonable chance they succeeded, and wouldn’t have won any without the various direct and indirect election fraud tactics (that go by other terms but are just as criminal; some are “legal” e.g. gerrymandering).
There is literally zero chance they don’t attempt to steal all future elections. That’s what psychopathic criminals do.
I hope the Democrats find some time to get Vought at a hearing to ask some very pointed questions about his little document there.
Wild that a Fox News host is talking about him stealing the election.
What about the multiple allegations or the literal ‘steal like hell’ quote do you thing clued him in?
Not if you know who she is, she is a jewel in that shit-mire
Say more please. I was confused as well. Will she get fired?
She’s a plant to give the other three morons on that show a platform to spread propaganda.
No, if you can stomach the rest of that crew you will be very content with her actions. She is basically paid to be the “other” view point, the left. She is constantly attacked by the other 4 on that panel, Greg Gutfeld? mostly, and she attacks back. She is fun to watch but I can’t for long due to the others. Check out the show she is on, I’m sure you have seen her if the news people you watch use clips.
I wouldn’t check out the show, unless you do it in a way that doesn’t drive money into their pockets. It doesn’t really matter how good she is if she’s just a vehicle to peddle their bullshit.
I find the clips to be enough. She is on the other side to the rest, outnumbered 4:1 and still gets her points across, hopefully opening some rep voter eyes
Maybe, but still don’t give them views.
You are clueless.
