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

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    This is FALSE because Donald Trump TOLD ME he DIDNT know what Project 2025 was!

    -LITERALLY Republican Voters!

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    He most likely will try, but it’s Trump. His track record speaks for itself: he will fuck it up. Bigly.

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    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.”

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    In other words:

    Stay tuned for his next totally illegal, but totally allowed grift of what’s left on American democracy.

    He raped kids. Lady Justice is not off-limits.

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    Here’s a quick summary of what I think he is gonna do.

    1. Declare a state of emergency in order to prevent the midterms.
    2. if step 1 doesn’t happen then he will have armed guards at as many polling stations as possible, especially in blue/poor states.
    3. when the republicans are hopefully defeated in the midterms he will cry foul and that the democrats cheated. Calling for another January 6th across the nation.
    4. regardless of the outcome Donny will then invaded Iran.
    5. going into the Christmas holiday or the beginning of 2027 he will try to get the Supreme Court to give him the right to run a 3rd term.
    6. when that doesn’t happen (fingers crossed) he will still run for a 3rd term anyway.
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    “Well, our Democratic governor took away our plastic grocery bags and last summer, suggested that people in big cities turn their AC down to avoid brown outs, so I’m OK with whatever Republicans can do to fix those things.” - My low information voting family.

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    The time to prepare for him to steal the election has long since passed. And we all know with absolute certainty he will scream to the rooftops every single day that the midterms were stolen if democrats manage to take the House and/or Senate. What the democrats should be doing now is prebunking these claims. They should all be talking about how he will claim the election was stolen and then explain the psychology behind these statements. It lessens its impact.

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      The P25 that the current VP wrote the forward to when it was published as a fucking book?

      The same P25 he said the only agenda he has is Project 47?

      Yes, that exact one that stated they were going to hack n slash Medicare/Medicaid (which they did), install a bunch of “loyalists” (which they did), eliminate the Dept of Education (which they’ve been slowly doing), eliminate unions and worker protections (which theyve been chipping away at)…

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    A literal coup, seizing voting machines and denying results, arresting Democratic candidates who won their elections. We’ve already established that the law and the constitution means nothing to this administration so everything is on the table.

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      Don’t forget banning international voting oversight. I have no confidence in your election results.

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        That’s why he did it, because he will question the outcome and international observers won’t be able to say they didn’t see anything. Our elections are heavily decentralized so it’s genuinely hard to mess with them at scale.

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          She’s a plant to give the other three morons on that show a platform to spread propaganda.

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          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.

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            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.

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              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

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    Watch Americans do nothing, if y’all do nothing when Donald’s nulifyed the election, nobody is going to respect what you say or do anymore, no matter what. You think euros are annoying now making fun of you, just wait until Donald trys nullifying states rights.

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      We did noting when we found out he raped children. Complacency is support.

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      Most of us agree with you, We’ve had protests; we just haven’t dialed it up to France.

      outside of a general strike, nothing will change, no chance of that happening until he nulls the midterms, slim chance after that.