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
I’m fairly confident there won’t be any midterms this time around.
Trump doesn’t plan on leaving until he’s in a pine box.
This is just wrong. I’ve already voted in my state, my ballot has been received, and counted. I know my state will not bow to federal pressure on election interference.
It’s entirely possible the administration will work to quell and intimidate in person voting. They might try some post election fuckery like 2020, but the midterm vote will take place.
Spreading the claim that “there won’t be any midterms” will only serve to discourage those who would otherwise vote.
I think he might try and end up triggering a civil war instead when states ignore the order.
We still voted during the last Civil War.
Yeah? How do you see that playing out? Can you explain what civil war in that scenario would look like?
States that either ignore or block Donald attempts rig or cheat the voting system vs thos the unilateral back him and the federal gov. He seems to be indicating that he’s going to interfere with the system.
Whole states are going to go to war with other states, eh? People are just blindly going to engage in violent conflict because their elected officials tell them too? Are they going to war using line infantry too?
I encourage you to really think through your original statement and the actual likelihood of that outcome. Unless your goal was to just make a bombastic doomer comment that really means nothing.
He has all four branches of our military in his pocket. Dude. Downplaying a threat like this is dangerous. People need to be prepared.
If that were true it still wouldn’t be a civil war, it would be a military coup.
I think you’re getting trapped up in the small details, trying too hard to be right about something, and entirely missing the point. But I’ll help you with those endorphins and stand corrected.
Yes. It’s wouldn’t be a civil war.
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That’s what people voted for after J6.
Hopefully sooner rather than later.
The midterms are literally already happening.
Pine is too… Porous. He’s so toxic, we need concrete walls
Nah, put the fucker on a stick to rot in the sun. We need to be sure it’s over. Preferably while still breathing.
Naah. Launch him into the sun. We don’t need that cancer here.
Given gas prices, the Mussolini treatment might be the most culturally relevant.
I’m not a fan of giving him the Jesus treatment. He might pull a McConnell and come back after a few months
Lol I don’t think I’ve seen a man so universally hated in my life time.
Give him the spent neclear waste treatment, 50 gallon drum filled with concrete then entombed in more concrete and lead.
We’ll get to vote. He just won’t accept the results.