Postcards to Trump- What, When, and Why
The #IdesOfTrump is Almost Here
One of this week’s acts of resistance against *CF Trump is happening this Saturday, March 15. Postcards to Trump is an event where we all write and send postcards expressing our displeasure with how he has been running things.
Here's how it works- you write down whatever it is you would like to say to him on a postcard, stamp it, and then mail it on Saturday to-
President (for now) Donald J. Trump
1600 Pennsylvania Avenue NW
Washington, DC 20500
You can send one postcard or a dozen. And write whatever is on your mind. Upset about cuts to Medicaid? Write it down! Displeased about the fact that he’s allowed Musk to have access to our personal information? Or his cuts to pediatric cancer research? The proposal to eliminate the Department of Education, his cabinet picks, his implementation of Project 2025, the way he treated Zelensky in the Oval Office and how he is sucking up to Putin, his dangerous and unnecessary tariffs which are likely to put us into a recession, etc. Trump has suggested that we no longer discuss egg prices so of course we need to discuss egg prices.
I mean there’s just so much material, it’s ridiculous. Instead of a postcard we could write a 10,000-page diatribe on how badly he is sucking at being President. Again.
The previous record for fan mail goes to Hank Aaron, who received 900,000 pieces in one year. This act of resistance is aiming for a million pieces of (non) fan mail in a single day. I think we can do it.
Why March 15th? The date is also known as the Ides of March which is the day when Julius Caesar met his demise. Fitting, right? You can include #IdesOfTrump on your postcard. Or you can use the hashtag on social media if you want to share your words.
As a writer, I happen to really like this particular act of resistance. I do occasionally go to marches, but I honestly hate crowds, and my feet hurt (I have plantar fasciitis and am currently nursing a bruised foot which I ever so gracefully banged into my couch.) So postcards are perfect for me. And I have a lot to say.
Trump is notoriously thin-skinned, and I think that receiving tons of hate mail will bother him, although he may claim it doesn’t. Or that he didn’t even know about it which is one of his favorite ways to deflect. Proud Boys? Never heard of them. Project 2025? Nope, doesn’t ring a bell. E. Jean Carroll? Never met her despite the pictures showing us together. And so forth and so on.
Writing is an excellent way to vent, and I have a feeling there will be a lot of venting going on through these postcards. And although stamp prices have gone up, it’s certainly cheaper than therapy.
I might say something like-
Dear (Convicted Felon) Trump-
You will go down as the worst, most divisive President in history. A stain on our country’s history and reputation. Years from now people will wonder how you got elected and they will learn it was through misinformation, the lies you repeatedly told, election interference from Russia, and billionaires paying so that they could run things and change our way of governance from a Democracy to an Oligarchy. You suck. To be continued in the next postcard.
Signed, Marlene Kern Fischer
I feel better already.
Purchase your postcards now, get your creative juices going, and tell all your friends. This is going to be fun.
*Convicted Felon
I am seriously considering one of postcards will have the word CONVICTED in BIG BLOCK LETTERS at the top, followed by the word felon - 34 times. That was the first idea that popped into my head. I have others. 😏
I'm looking forward to it.I have some postcards left from the past election that I am going to use.On the front it says,Save Our Democracy One Vote At a TimeYour Vote Is Your Voice.I also have some National Park ones and a couple Panama ones.We The People will prevail! I am going to try to find some showing the Gulf of Mexico.