'My Fellow American': Donald Trump letter to stimulus check recipients raises objections

[TomCADem]

Source: Columbus Dispatch

WASHINGTON – Americans who received a stimulus check from the federal government also are getting something else in the mail: a letter from President Donald Trump.

A one-page letter from Trump started arriving over the weekend in the mailboxes of millions of Americans who received stimulus payments of up to $1,200 under a new law designed to help the economy recover from the fallout of the coronavirus pandemic.

"Your Economic Impact Payment Has Arrived," says the letter's boldface heading. The letter, written on White House stationery, opens with the salutation, "My Fellow American."

"Our great country is experiencing an unprecedented public health and economic challenge as a result of the global coronavirus pandemic," the letter says. "Our top priority is your health and safety. As we wage total war on this invisible enemy, we are also working around the clock to protect hardworking Americans like you from the consequences of the economic shutdown. We are fully committed to ensuring that you and your family have the support you need to get through this time."

Read more: https://www.dispatch.com/zz/news/20200429/my-fellow-american-donald-trump-letter-to-stimulus-check-recipients-raises-objections

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It is going to be tough to beat Trump given the willingness of the Trump administration to do things like use the official to include Trump campaign mailers. The Trump campaign effectively has an unlimited budget.

[Newest Reality]

1. Let's see...

We pay for the Orange Cockwomble to campaign on our dime while we get our own tax money back, (we are paying us) and he gets to smear his fecal signature on it and imply that its from him?

Okay. Yeah, right. Yet, you can see some of the more information-challenged Americans thanking HIM for it. "See Martha, he's a good man! I toldcha so. Sent us this here free money help. Probably right outta' his pocket, I bet, he's so rich! Gonna' vote fer him again."

[doc03]

2. If I send it with a note saying F U will

I be audited? That would be what Trump would want.

[brewens]

3. It seems like sometimes a lot of the money is overkill. As long as our side has enough,

we should be okay. The people that give a shit reach a certain saturation point, ads have no effect on those that don't.

[turbinetree]

4. So can I send the letter back and tell him to Fuck Off.......your not my fellow American...........

and keep the check ........just asking..................

[marble falls]

7. Put it in another envlope with postage on it. Put a meesage on the letter in Sharpie supporting ...

the post office. I put too much postage on mine. On purpose, but that's just me. I think very highly of the Post Office having had to deal with the postal services of other countries. We have the best!

[turbinetree]

13. Good idea...... so you did send the letter back............

[marble falls]

15. Absolutely with "I support the US Post Office" in big black Sharpie letters across it.

[turbinetree]

16. Count me in..........still waiting...........

[Rebl2]

22. Wish I had thought of that

I shredded ours.

[marble falls]

23. Print a copy of a sample of his letter from the net and send that with an apt message.

[generalbetrayus]

5. My girlfriend received this letter a couple of days ago.

I offered to pee on it and send it back, but she tossed it in the recycle bin instead. I hope the recycle center conveyor belt spits it off the belt.

[marble falls]

6. Send it back to him with a Sharpied message supporting the Post Office, in another ...

envelope.

[BigmanPigman]

8. I like that idea!

[marble falls]

11. Its one of my too few, but I feel real good about it!

[Grokenstein]

10. I like the cut of your jib.

[marble falls]

12. My fan tail is squared away, too!

[Bernardo de La Paz]

9. Propaganda: "great" "total war" "invisible enemy" "protect you from economic shutdown"

The "invisible enemy" is the big one. Watch it become tRump, Greed Over People, and trumpanzee's favourite expression for Chinese and Chinese-Americans and Asian-Americans.

[yaesu]

14. awww, the pres pres sent us all a sheet of TP, now isn't that special. nt

[question everything]

17. But only to the ones who received the paper checks, right?

Had mine deposited a few weeks ago with no letter...

[mikewv]

19. Direct deposit but I received the letter anyways. nm

[Rebl2]

24. Ours

was direct deposited two weeks ago, but then last weekend we got a letter. What a waste of tax payers money! I find it to also be political campaigning if you ask me.

[riversedge]

28. I just got mine today. no letter yet.

[mikewv]

18. I wrote "Return to Sender" and put back in the mailbox. nm

[Totally Tunsie]

26. Not bad for a start, but for others thinking of this, placing it in another

envelope and stamping it helps the Post Office.

"Return to Sender" is at Post Office expense (unless you stamp it, too).

[riversedge]

30. thanks. I will remember that when I get it.

[Totally Tunsie]

31. Great!

[bucolic_frolic]

20. That was the chintziest smallest stationery, poorly printed, grandiose beyond exclamation, and lies

all over the place. It reads like a 14 year old with a real case on himself.

[Katinfl]

21. I trashed it!

There is no way anything with his name on it would stay in this house. Immediately went into the shredder.

[Mr. Ected]

25. Transparent attempt to buy a vote

If you're gullible enough to pin Trump's tail on the 2020 election's donkey, you weren't voting for Biden anyway.

If you're stupid enough to be undecided on April 29, 2020 for the general election, you weren't voting for Biden anyway.

We don't need to woo undecideds. We need to ignite everyone everywhere who can't take one more day of Trump to show up en masse and subvert whatever foreign/GOP plot to throw the election may be in place. If the people can't rise against this existential threat, what the fuck good is the Constitution anyway.

...sorry...I'm normally pretty calm...but the last 4 years have really taken their toll....

[riversedge]

27. I do believe I will send it back with a note on the back. Don't know what I will say at

this point yet but he will know that I do not approve of his cruelness, his crudeness, his selfishness etc.

[Demonaut]

29. I'm going to write "thanks for all the fish" and "return to sender"

with a double stamp

[forgotmylogin]

32. Wouldn't it be great if we could all support the USPS...

and mail these letters to the White house back to him with Sharpie written across it "Nope, still will not vote for you, but thanks for your inquiry."

[SunSeeker]

33. I think I'll write "Stop using taxpayer money to campaign, you criminal!"