Banksy provided the quote linking Trump to Project 2025 in the "Joe Biden Could..." thread. Here's the fuller quote:

Yeah - 'cause he was speaking to them at the time. He was blowing smoke at them because he was in front of them in that moment. It's the literal definition of lip service.

It's just utterly inconsistent with everything we know about Trump to think he would outsource developing his agenda for his second term to an establishment republican institution.

How is it even remotely consistent with all the terrible things we know about Trump to imagine him deciding, "You know what I need? A policy binder!" Or for him to take the next step, that once he concluded he needed a policy binder that he would think, "You know what? I'm going to outsource my policy agenda binder to an establishment republican think tank."

That's just....an absurd idea. It's easy to picture Trump standing in front of a group and lying to them about how their ideas about the country are important, and impossible to imagine Trump actually thinking that anyone else's ideas about the country are important.