The Republican Party Screed 2025, as Stated by Donald Trump

The words of the guru that reveal the heart and soul of the modern Republican Party. Here’s what it takes to be a Republican in the Age of Trump

• Make over 30,000 false or misleading statements (lies) as President
• Spend weeks downplaying the coronavirus threat and stating it would soon “just disappear,” leaving the nation unprepared for the full force of the pandemic
• In later interviews with Bob Woodward, admit that you lied in giving your optimistic view
• Recommend that Americans ingest bleach to cure Covid-19
• During the 2020 Presidential campaign, refuse to commit to a peaceful transfer of power and disparage mail-in voting in a transparent effort to set the stage for an extra-legal or illegal challenge of the vote
• Create out of whole cloth the Big Lie that massive fraud prevented you and other Republicans from winning in 2020
• Have your followers launch numerous frivolous legal challenges to the lawful election results, all of which are thrown out of court.
• Pressure state election officials to illegally alter the official election results, including a flagrant appeal to the Georgia Secretary of State that results in your being subjected to a criminal investigation by a District Attorney
• Use the Big Lie about voter fraud to mobilize a rally in Washington on January 6, 2021 and incite the participants to stage a violent invasion of the Capitol
• After the rioters spend over an hour viciously beating Capitol policemen and vandalizing and looting the Capitol, appear in public to refer to the mob as “my kind of people.”
• Follow up by describing the violent insurrection as a “day of love.”
• When informed that the life of Vice President Pence is at risk from the rioters, respond by saying “so what.”
• Describe the violent insurrectionists as “patriots” and state your willingness to abrogate the rule of law by saying you will pardon them if re-elected president
• Label your political opponents “the enemy within” and indicate you are prepared to use the military to seek retribution against them
• Make up a Big Lie about how two Georgia election workers engaged in criminal activity to manipulate the ballot count, and engage his lawyer, Rudolf Giuliani, in a publicity campaign to spread the lie, unleashing a torrent of threats and intimidation of the two that turns their lives into a living hell.
• Keep the vile lie going for three years until a trial and decisions by two juries exonerates the two and juries order Giuliani to pay almost $150 million in damages.
• After your presidential term ends, mobilize the Republican Party to launch an attack on democracy itself, with the aim of stealing the 2022 and 2024 elections by passing laws to allow extreme voter suppression and to place partisan hacks in charge of state electoral processes.
• At the end of your presidential term, steal classified documents and hide them from the FBI.
• Call for the Republican party to "purge" individuals who oppose him. Well into 2024, keep up a drumbeat of condemnation of Georgia Republicans who resisted his attempt to enlist them in a criminal conspiracy to alter the lawful outcome of the 2020 election, in which Biden won Georgia’s electoral college votes.
• During the 2024 presidential campaign, spread a false claim that Haitian migrants in a small Ohio city were stealing and eating the pets of their neighbors.
• Tell a Big Lie that “Every job in this country produced over the last two and a half years has gone to illegal aliens — every job.”
• State publicly that Springfield, Ohio would be one of the places where Trump would start “the largest deportation in the history of our country” — despite the fact that officials said correctly that a majority of Haitian migrants in Springfield and elsewhere are in the country legally.
• In a presidential campaign, use rhetoric that becomes increasingly violent and rambling. State publicly that it would be a legitimate act to murder the former Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, General Milley.
• In another explicit appeal to violence, depict a scene with Harris standing “with nine barrels shooting at her…with the guns trained on her face."
• When virtually all the former high-level appointees in your own Administration warn the country what a disaster you would be as President, condemn them with rhetoric that once would have been thought to be too coarse, vulgar, and demeaning to be used in presidential contest.
• Call your former national security adviser a "real dope" and "nut job." Lambast a former Republican Congressman from Illinois as a "total whack job," and call Rep. Adam Schiff, a Democrat from California, a "watermelon head."
• In a live interview, say that Kamala Harris is a “very dumb individual, very dumb…a radical war hawk.”
• Also, call Harris “retarded,” “mentally disabled,” and “a sh-- vice president”
• “Donald Trump’s recent speeches have lapsed into an incoherence that’s striking even for him — and it’s causing a whole new level of panic over his possible return to the White House, an MSNBC columnist wrote.”
• Approve suspending the Constitution
• Talk about using the Federal Communications Commission and the Internal Revenue Service to punish media organizations and anyone else who crosses him.
• Demean the military service of John McCain and insult his memory by raising the White House flag back to full mast while his memorial services were underway
• Mock a handicapped person
• Kidnap children and lock them in wire cages
• Talk about Hispanic immigrants and demonize them the way Hitler talked about the Jews. Say they are “animals” who are “infesting” America and “poisoning the blood of our country.”
• In a talk with a right-wing group in September, Trump singled out migrant children as the cause of suffering for American school children. “Our country is being poisoned. And your schools and your children are suffering greatly because (the migrant children) are going into the classrooms, they’re taking the seats and they don’t even speak English.”
• Tell brazen lies about the extent of criminality among Hispanic migrants. In an interview in October 2024, claim that among people coming to an open border, “13,000 of which were murderers, many of them murdered far more than one person…I believe this, it’s in their genes. And we got a lot of bad genes in our country right now.”
• (A range of studies by academics and think tanks have shown that immigrants do not commit crime at a higher rate than native-born Americans. A more limited universe of studies specifically examine criminality among immigrants in the U.S. illegally but also find that they do not commit crimes at a higher rate. Click here for a review of the scientific studies that refute Trump’s claims about immigrant crime).
• Pledge to deport up to 12 million undocumented immigrants. Justify this plan by citing a false storyabout Venezuelan gang members taking over an apartment complex in a Denver suburb, although police there say no such thing happened.
• State, yourself, that expelling migrants from the country “will be a bloody story.”
• Impugn the integrity of a respected Federal judge based on his family’s Mexican heritage
• Brag about sexually assaulting women
• Call various women bimbo, dog, ugly, of low intellect, & Miss Piggy
• Refer to a United States female Senator by the racist-tinged term “Pocahontas”
• Subject a woman to a vicious sexual assault (a judge labeled it rape) and spend years slandering and libeling her for telling her account
• Support a known sex offender for the Senate from Alabama
• Publicly boast that you take the word of Putin over U.S. intelligence services about Russian interference in U.S. elections
• Come across as an obsequious lapdog of Putin in a 2018 joint press conference
• Refuse to take serious steps to counter Russian cyber warfare aimed at the U.S.
• Spread the proven Russian Big Lie about Ukraine interfering in U.S. elections
• Pressure Ukrainian President Zelenski to launch a fake investigation of his political opponent, using a cutoff of U.S. military aid as leverage
• State that the United States was no better than Russia in its moral values
• Insult and demean the United States’ democratic allies
• Call for the dissolution of NATO
• Press for Russia to be invited to the annual meeting of the G-7, despite our allies’ opposition
• Order the removal of 11,000 troops from Germany without prior consultation with our NATO allies
• Publicly and frequently express fulsome praise for murderous thugs Vladimir Putin, North Korean leader Kim Jung Un, Chinese President Xi, Hungarian strongman Orban. Even call the terrorist organization Hezbollah "very smart."
• Proclaim that you are in love with Kim Jung Un
• Remain unstinting in your praise of Putin and Kim Jung Un after they are revealed as ordering the assassination of their political opponents abroad
• Urge Americans to vote twice, a criminal as well as moral offense
• Establish a long track record of incendiary and disparaging remarks about veterans and military service. Include in the disparagement veterans who were wounded, captured, or missing in action, and call those killed in combat “suckers” and “losers.”
• Proclaim publicly that the civilian Presidential Medal of Freedom is "better" than the Medal of Honor for military valor.
• In a meeting with top U.S. generals, call them “losers” and “a bunch of dopes and babies,”
• Support torture
• Engage in the character assassination of a respected U.S. Ambassador
• Treat as trivial the brutal murder of American journalist Jamal Khashoggi on orders of the Saudi Crown Prince
• Praise neo-Nazi demonstrators in Charlottesville in 2017 who were chanting "Jews will not replace us"
• Say it’s OK to accept damaging information on political rivals from a foreign government
• Run political campaigns overtly supporting racism, xenophobia, and white nationalism
• Use fear-mongering and race-baiting to support that campaign
• Clasp to your bosom the extremist crackpot organization QAnon, which believes a cabal of pedophiles and cannibals is waging a Satanic conspiracy against Trump, by effusively praising QAnon’s chief Georgia advocate for winning a Congressional primary
• Sum up QAnon by saying, “I don’t know much about the movement other than I understand they like me very much, which I appreciate.”
• Falsely accuse Barack Obama of engaging in a criminal conspiracy to hide his real birthplace
• Tell U.S. Congresswomen of color to “go back where you came from.”
• Call African countries "s---holes"
• Continue to call for the punishment of five Black and Latino teenagers wrongfully convicted of rape, even after legal authorities had completely exonerated them
• In a transparently racist appeal, warn “suburban housewives” that Democratic housing policies would “destroy” the suburbs
• Incite followers to violence
• Have police authorities assault peaceful protestors to clear a path for you to walk across the street and pose in front of a church holding a Bible
• Imply that the Second Amendment could be invoked to justify assassinating Hillary Clinton
• Tell law enforcement officers that they should feel free to rough up detainees and break the law, and be guaranteed a pardon
• Call a Republican U.S. Congressman who body-slammed a newsman “my kind of guy”
• In a talk with a right-wing political group, assert that schools were essentially creating transgender students by forcing children to undergo gender reassignment surgery without even obtaining parents' permission.
• "Think of it, your kid goes to school and comes home a few days later with an operation."
• Approve Howard Stern's calling your daughter "a piece of a--"
• Overrule U.S. security services and grant Jared Kushner a security clearance
• Belittle a Gold Star American mother
• Create a sham “university” to defraud average citizens of their money
• Have a court order the closing of your foundation because of financial impropriety
• Play up being called “the chosen one,” an appellation usually reserved for Jesus Christ
• Subvert the military’s due process by pardoning three officers duly convicted of atrocities against civilians in separate instances
• Do the same to civilian courts by pardoning Joe Arpaio, the former Arizona sheriff who housed Latino prisoners outdoors in inhumane conditions and was convicted on federal contempt-of-court charges
• Accuse TV personality Joe Scarborough of being a murderer
• Falsely accuse a senior citizen protestor assaulted by police of being an anti-government conspirator
• Violate the Constitution’s emolument clause and enrich yourself and your family by welcoming foreign delegations to your hotels and resorts
• • Finally, have good words to say about:

  -The “very good people” (armed protesters) who showed up in the Michigan Capitol to intimidate lawmakers

  -The person who allegedly shot and killed two people at a protest in Wisconsin

  -The “Great Patriots” who drove into Portland, Ore., hurling paintballs and pepper spray at demonstrators

  -Officers who kill unarmed African Americans. Claim they simply “choke” under pressure.