To those who have more guts than me....

[lisa58]

Saw this on facebook - do with it what you will...

Once upon a time, if you had a problem with something the President was doing, you could call up the White House's public comments line and complain to a staffer about it. Whether or not that grievance got heard is up for debate, but at least you could try. Of course, President Trump doesn't want to hear your SAD LOSER WHINING, so that public comments line got shut down, and folks with problems are urged to send messages through Facebook Messenger or whitehouse.gov/comment, where they are certain to disappear into the ether. As an alternative, an anonymous group of concerned citizens have compiled a resource full of White House phone numbers, so you can flood Team Trump with all of your outraged feedback.

The resource, cheekily dubbed "White House Comment Line," was aggregated by an anonymous group who wanted to make sure the public could still send a message to the White House. "Open communication is the foundation of a good, functioning democracy," a spokesperson for the group told Gothamist in a statement. "But it's a two-way street. Right now there's 'information' coming out of the White House to the people, but not much the other way around. They may have shut down the comment line, but we the people still have comments. In light of that, we wanted to create one way for the people to be heard."

The group that collected the numbers intentionally excluded any they believed had a role in national security, because they said they wanted to avoid disrupting them and keep the focus on transparency and domestic accountability. A solid chunk of the numbers were disconnected, probably during the Obama-to-Trump transition, but it's possible they'll be put back in use if Trump ever gets around to hiring White House staffers. We've been calling the numbers on the list and have found a few fun ones—somewhere in there you'll get a voice mailbox belonging to one "Conway, Kellyanne." See if you can leave her a message before it's disconnected.

Here are the ones that work, so far:

http://gothamist.com/2017/01/31/white_house_phone_numbers.php

[Angry Dragon]

1. My guess would be that when Dear Leader was draining the swamp

the phones got thrown out with the swamp water

[lisa58]

2. You may be right

[TrekLuver]

3. Oh yes I am working through the list and leaving messages. Of course no body is answering! But I

open with what happened to the White House comments line(sounding perplexed)? Is that an accident....it is incompetence or is it by design? I find it outrageous that I am not being allowed to call the White House which I pay for. Something fishy is going on over there and it will all come out in the wash.

And I always block my number of course.

[lisa58]

4. See?

That's what I mean by more guts than me (or info) but thank you...the numbers work?

[TrekLuver]

5. Yes they've been working...I'm calling a few per day.