Project 25: The Flood Trump Promised and the Founders Feared

If America’s Founding Fathers could rise from their graves today, they’d probably look around, see Project 2025, and immediately beg to be reinterred. After all, this is exactly why they built a divided government — not to frustrate progress, but to keep one man’s ambitions from becoming a national weather event.

Unfortunately, those constitutional levees — the checks, balances, and separation of powers — are now as reliable as New Orleans flood defenses during Hurricane Katrina. And Trump’s “Project 25” is the political storm surge threatening to wash away whatever remains of America’s democratic coastline.

The Founding Fathers’ Nightmare Fuel

Back in 1787, the Founders created three branches of government precisely to prevent an imperial presidency. They imagined a system where Congress legislates, the President executes, and the Courts adjudicate.
Enter Project 25 — a manifesto that politely says, “Nice branches you have there, shame if something happened to them.”

Its goal? To turn the federal government into a family business with one shareholder — Donald J. Trump. Every independent agency would report to the Oval Office, every civil servant would salute the MAGA flag, and every dissenting judge would be replaced by a “loyal patriot” (read: unpaid intern with a Truth Social account).

The Return of the Divine Right of the Donald

Project 25 reads less like policy and more like scripture — the Book of Trumpocalypse. It preaches the gospel of absolute executive control, as if the White House were a one-man monarchy with cabinet members serving as loyal jesters.

Imagine Washington as a medieval court where the Attorney General doubles as royal executioner and the EPA’s new mission is “Operation Drill Everywhere.” The Department of Education? Renamed “Trump University 2.0.”

When the Levees Broke

The American system was built to withstand bad presidents — even the slightly unhinged ones who believed they could nuke hurricanes. But when an entire party starts believing the storm is divine, the floodgates don’t just leak — they collapse.

Congress, once the jealous guardian of its powers, now acts like a choir in Trump’s cathedral, chanting “Four More Years” instead of “Article I Authority.” The Supreme Court seems to be on an extended holiday from accountability, and the Justice Department may soon be rebranded as “Department of Retribution.”

The Founders wanted ambition to counteract ambition. What they got instead is submission to counteract subpoenas.

Postcards from the Rubble

Some Americans still insist this is “draining the swamp.” But it looks more like bulldozing the levees. And when the political floodwaters rise, no one is spared — not the press, not the courts, not even the concept of facts.

Trump doesn’t need to rewrite the Constitution. He’s just treating it like software — click “Ignore Update” until it crashes.

Epilogue: Democracy in Sandbags

The Founders built a government of laws, not of men. Project 25 dreams of a government of Trump, not of laws. The levees are straining, the waters are rising, and the only sandbags left are op-eds, late-night jokes, and a few brave civil servants clinging to their oaths.

So yes, Project 25 is proof that America’s system of divided government is flooding fast. The only question is whether the citizens can paddle faster than the Constitution sinks.

Because when the hurricane’s name is Donald, “draining the swamp” becomes a national disaster warning.