The Tony Michaels Podcast · Tony Michaels

Trump GUTTING Government with PROJECT 2025 | The Tony Michaels Podcast #1005

October 2, 2025·57 min·5 clips

Tony Michaels reveals how Project 2025, a Heritage Foundation plan, aims to dismantle the federal bureaucracy and undo decades of liberalism.

Project 2025 keeps coming back. Michaels opens by tying Trump's denial style comments and the Heritage Foundation plan to an inside job against the federal government. He says he warned people early. In his telling, the plan is built to tear apart the so-called deep state and rip 60 or 70 years of liberalism out of the bureaucracy. Then he turns on Democrats. The part that really sets him off is the possibility that some of them are letting the damage happen because it may help them politically. He imagines an economy hit by layoffs, foreclosures, credit defaults, car defaults, and consumer debt failures while leaders stand around assigning blame. The people paying for that game, he argues, would be working class people. The target is complacency. Michaels keeps pressing the same doubt: if the opposition will not fight now, why trust it to fight later to get the country back? The shutdown becomes part of his case. He rejects the idea that Democrats can shrug and say they have no power because Republicans hold the presidency, the Senate, the House, and the Supreme Court. That sounds like surrender to him. Article I matters here. He wants Democrats to act like they are still part of the government. The monologue keeps returning to executive power and the danger of waiting for one side's preferred dictator. By the end, the point is blunt: check executive power now and stop treating politics like a turn taking contest. The show closes in its usual house style, with a programming note, a return time reminder, and a raised fist signoff.

As heard by us

A furious Project 2025 warning that keeps its eyes on who gets hurt first.

Tony Michaels frames Project 2025 as a warning about how government can be hollowed out, sold off, and then blamed on whoever is left to absorb the fallout.

Read the full review in PlayNext →

Why you'd press play

A loud, raw rant about Project 2025 and the shutdown blame game.

Read the full recommendation in PlayNext →

Listen to the show on

Apple Podcasts Spotify

Play clips from this episode More from The Tony Michaels Podcast