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

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    Shut the fuck up. No one’s going to “mark your words.” You’re not a prophet, you don’t have inside information, and you’re not even that bright given your comment history. You definitely didn’t put together clues than no one else was able to see.

    No one gives a fuck about your doomsday hunch while we’re all trying to navigate this real, factual hellscape that has and continues to present itself in new and terrifying ways every day.

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      Regardless of what I said being wrong or right, why are you being so rude? Your comment history speaks volumes.

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        You just casually asserted that thousands of people are going to die, providing a definite timeline and location for this attack - without a wisp of evidence - and your issue is that I responded rudely to your unhinged delusion?

        Mark my words, you’re a fucking idiot.

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          Not a word of what they said is out of bounds bud. It’s all a very real threat we all face. If you like optimistic sugar-coated feelgood takes, maybe you should avoid discussing American politics.

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            Yeah, the issue is that it wasn’t an optimistic, sugar-coated, feel-good take, and not that he named a specific target and tiny date range for an attack on Americam soil.

            Mark my words.

            Jesus Christ.

            Do you have further information that corroborates this imminent attack? Maybe your own gut feeling is telling you the specific city or the exact date? Please share!

            I love how some rando predicts the date and place of a lethal attack with absolutely zero evidence, and you chime in that nothing he said was out of bounds.

            Come to think of it, what’s the likelihood that two people in a small thread find each other to support insanity of that level? Are you an alt account, bud?

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              Do you honestly not know what an opinion is?

              Look, I’ll make this easier for you so you don’t have to get so upset at others for what they think:

              You go ahead and create a community and list in the rules, how everyone should think and what they should say. And then you can require everyone to memorize a list of things you find irritating and off-limits, and then test them on it before they’re ever allowed to post- we will all join it- and promptly never post.

              But there, you can have everything exactly as you want it and no one will ever disagree or say things that upset you.

              Mkay? Sound fun? Super!

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                But, bud, you’re pretty upset over what I said. In fact, most of your comments are angry and confrontational. Is that how you feel like you’re making a difference and not just making the world a little worse?

                Also, I love that you played the opinion card. That’s what your buddy Trump says when he’s caught asserting something ridiculous and gets called out on it. It’s an opinion! All I said was that something is going to happen and I made it up. It’s just an opinion!

                I wonder what the opinion of you is from people who have to deal with you in real life. I wonder if you’re not super popular. I wonder if that’s why you habitually talk down to people on the internet - no accountability, and you get to feel like your opinions are changing things, as you’re blind to the negativity you deposit all around the world.

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          I wouldn’t put it past this administration to perform a false-flag if things look dire enough.

          We’re talking about an actual insurrectionist here. A treacherous person in every definition of the word.

          More likely, they will take some minor protest or something, and use their propaganda network to wag-the-dog and make half the country think that the liberal cities are now effectively Mad Max (again).

          There doesn’t need to be another 9/11, they just need to make enough people believe there was.

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          Trump said that he would sacrifice San Diego or LA. He can’t keep his mouth shut and has likely spoken with conspirators about it. He won’t say that he won’t call martial law. Do you remember Jan. 6th? Do you remember when he was “shot at” during the election. He’s done this shit before.

          Do you think I’m the first person in history who thinks something like this could happen?

          You can contest someone’s point without being rude. Or can you?

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            Debate your 3 day old doomer account?

            What can be asserted without evidence can also be dismissed without evidence.

            You are dismissed.

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      I feel the same way, and I appreciate that you said what you said.

      This “it’s all shit from here so you should just roll over and die” comment four weeks out from the midterms is not accidental, and surprise, surprise, it’s a two day old account demanding that we all “mark its words” of doom and destruction, lol.

      Hell no. Keep the faith, brother. I appreciate you, and every one of us like you.

      Fuck the doomers and vote: if your vote weren’t so important, they wouldn’t be working this hard to discourage you from doing it.

      I wish you and all of us every success.