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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        She’s a plant to give the other three morons on that show a platform to spread propaganda.

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        No, if you can stomach the rest of that crew you will be very content with her actions. She is basically paid to be the “other” view point, the left. She is constantly attacked by the other 4 on that panel, Greg Gutfeld? mostly, and she attacks back. She is fun to watch but I can’t for long due to the others. Check out the show she is on, I’m sure you have seen her if the news people you watch use clips.

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          I wouldn’t check out the show, unless you do it in a way that doesn’t drive money into their pockets. It doesn’t really matter how good she is if she’s just a vehicle to peddle their bullshit.

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            I find the clips to be enough. She is on the other side to the rest, outnumbered 4:1 and still gets her points across, hopefully opening some rep voter eyes