This is all a part of Project 2025 brehs.
Heās an idiot, sureābut heās still on track.
Per GPT:
Hereās the breakdown:
1.
Yes, this aligns with Project 2025 ā conditionally.
Project 2025 (Heritage Foundation) outlines an ultra-restrictionist immigration policy:
- Mass deportations
- End of birthright citizenship
- Militarized enforcement
- Reclassification of immigrants as national security threats
But it also emphasizes a āpresidential personnel strategyā ā purging bureaucrats and installing loyalists to execute political discretion aggressively but selectively.
So Trump pausing or delaying deportations for economic (especially ag) reasons is not contradictory ā itās tactical. Project 2025 isnāt rigid; itās a toolbox.
2.
Trumpās statement is not a reversal ā itās a recalibration.
āWe canāt take farmers and take all their people and send them backā¦ā
Heās not scrapping deportations. Heās signaling:
- Exempt certain labor sectors
- Possibly push for guest worker programs (not amnesty)
- Shift blame to Biden (āwe inherited chaosā)
That aligns with how Trump historically uses ācarve-outsā (e.g., DACA waffling, farm labor exceptions in ICE raids).
3.
Strategic contradiction is part of the model.
- Public rhetoric: āMass deportations!ā
- Private governance: āLetās not tank agriculture/real estate/construction.ā
This duality is baked into how Trump governs ā loud, chaotic signals masking tailored realpolitik.
Conclusion:
No, this is not against his ultimate plan. Itās how he implements it ā a selective enforcement regime that uses fear as policy, but preserves economic dependency on undocumented labor. Itās Project 2025 with fine print.