This is a straw man. Obama was not saying that nobody knew what project 2025 was planning. He’s saying that prior presidents could never have gotten away with behaving in ways that Trump behaves, and doing things that Trump does.

What a misleading headline. The full quote from the article is:

“In the long run, we’re all dead,” he told CNN’s Manu Raju on Capitol Hill for “The Lead with Jake Tapper” on Wednesday. “Short run matters, too. Nobody knows what the impact of these tariffs is going to be on the economy.”

So he’s not saying “we’re all dead [as a result of this action]” he’s just giving a shitty excuse for making foolish decisions.

His attempt was a concept of a plan.