While the rest of the nation paused last week to mourn the deaths of 21 innocent victims of yet another mass shooting, this one in Uvalde, Texas, there is one person who never blinked and who kept right on with his grifting, his shameless pleas for money from his supporters.
Donald John Trump.
Hell, he barely slowed down with his deluge of solicitation emails to even acknowledge the shootings in Buffalo and Uvalde. Real class.
I somehow ended up on his email list and I’m inundated daily with various come-ons, sham offers to become a member of his “gold card” club (not his golden shower club), my very own covfeee mug (discounted from $30 to $35), a founding membership (whatever the hell that is), or my very own Trump T-shirt.
There are two very important things he doesn’t tell you in these emails that are apparently sent to just about everyone with a pulse:
- First, if you sign up to donate to him, you do so on a recurring basis. He doesn’t tell you this, but your intended one-time “gift” will keep on giving – every month, even to the point of having drained the bank accounts of some supporters.
- Second, you will notice he is very careful NOT to say he is running for President in 2024. To do so, would make him a declared candidate and subject to Federal Elections Commission rules – rules like reporting the source of contributions and strict limits on the way the money can be spent. By not declaring as a candidate he (a) doesn’t have to report the source and (b) he can spend the money any damned way he pleases – even for hookers if he so chooses and certainly on salaries to his deadbeat children, Ivanka, Donnie, Jr., and Eric. Poor Tiffany is still pretty much ignored by the Trump royal family.
I didn’t bother to count the emails the day or the shooting (May 24), nor did I keep score the next four days. But take my word, they never slowed in appearing in my inbox. I deleted them as quickly as they came in but on Sunday, I decided to keep count.
Nine.
And on Monday, a day when the nation was supposed to be remembering its war dead, another seven, a slow day for Herr Trump.
But on Tuesday, he more than made up for Monday. The 19th solicitation came in at 8:33 p.m, thankfully, the last one of the day. Sometimes, they are from Donnie, Jr. and now and then, Sarah Palin will send one, but they’re all on behalf of the Trump organization.
From Donald Jr.Sunday, 6:33 pm:
Only YOU can stop the madness, Friend. We have our MAJOR FUNDRAISING DEADLINE coming up and President Trump needs every Patriot to do their part.
**My father wants to see an updated donor list first thing tomorrow morning. I want him to know that he has your support 100%.
Sunday, 5:35 pm:
We need you to activate your 2022 Trump Founding Membership before it’s TOO LATE.
You have 1 HOUR. Hurry.
Sunday, 4:34 pm:
Our MAJOR FUNDRAISING DEADLINE is almost here, and we cannot stress enough how important it is that we ABSOLUTELY CRUSH our goal.
Sunday, 2:33 pm:
President Trump activated a 700%-IMPACT FOR YOU.
Time is running OUT to claim.
Sunday, 1:05 pm from Donnie Jr.:
Our MAJOR FUNDRAISING DEADLINE is coming up, and I need you to know how IMPORTANT it is that we reach our $2 MILLION goal. If we fall short, we risk losing our country further to the radical Left.
Sunday, 11:33 am:
Our critical End-of-Month fundraising deadline is approaching. Once this deadline passes, it’ll be too late to step up. In a time when Joe Biden is FAILING, we cannot come up short.
Sunday, 10:03 am:
Our BEST SELLING COVFEFE MUG is ALMOST SOLD OUT, but President Trump REALLY wants YOU to have one, so he’s giving YOU an EXCLUSIVE MEMORIAL DAY WEEKEND DISCOUNT.
FOR A LIMITED TIME, YOU CAN GET YOUR OWN TRUMP COVFEFE MUG FOR ONLY $30 $25.
Sunday, 8:18 am:
Sunday, 8:03 am:
For the FIRST TIME EVER, President Trump is giving YOU the opportunity to get your very own PERSONALIZED Trump Gold Card for only $45 $35.
We have NEVER done this before, and we may never do it again. Your offer to take $10 OFF your Trump Gold Card membership is only valid for Memorial Day Weekend.
Monday, 6:33 pm
Our BEST SELLING COVFEFE MUG is ALMOST SOLD OUT, but President Trump REALLY wants YOU to have one, so he’s giving YOU an EXCLUSIVE MEMORIAL DAY WEEKEND DISCOUNT.
FOR A LIMITED TIME, YOU CAN GET YOUR OWN TRUMP COVFEFE MUG FOR ONLY $30 $25.
Monday, 4:03 pm
Friend,
This is it. We won’t email you again.
We need you to activate your 2022 Trump Founding Membership before it’s TOO LATE.
You have 1 HOUR. Hurry.
Please contribute ANY AMOUNT in the NEXT HOUR to RENEW your Official Trump Founding Member for 2022. >>
Monday 2:02 pm
TRUMP MEMORIAL DAY WEEKEND SALEORIGINAL PRICE = $45 >>>
MEMORIAL DAY SALE: $40 >>>
FOR A LIMITED TIME ONLY: you can get our ICONIC TRUMP ULTRA MAGA T-SHIRT FOR JUST $45 $40.
This sale is valid for TODAY, and we can only hold your ULTRA MAGA t-shirt for you for the NEXT HOUR.
Monday, 1:03 pm
While my father put AMERICA FIRST, Joe Biden is putting America LAST. It’s shameful really.
Only YOU can stop the madness, Friend. We have our MAJOR FUNDRAISING DEADLINE coming up and President Trump needs every Patriot to do their part.
Your support is SO CRITICAL that we’ve even activated a 700%-IMPACT on ALL GIFTS until 11:59 PM TONIGHT.
**My father wants to see an updated donor list first thing tomorrow morning. I want him to know that he has your support 100%.
Monday, 12:04 pm
Friend,
Your membership bill is ready to view, and your Trump Membership payment is scheduled for TODAY.
Monday, 11:34 am
Our Fundraising Deadline is in 1 DAY. If we don’t CRUSH it, we will lose everything to the Left.
700%-IMPACT to fight for President Trump.
Monday 8:19 am
Friend,
My father was a better President than Joe Biden will ever be. Do you agree?
Kind of like those middle school notes: Do you like me? Yes__ or No__, (only not nearly as mature.)
America was WINNING like never before under President Trump, and now we’re FAILING under Joe Biden’s dismal leadership (just take a look at our economy, the border, the chaos on our streets, the Ukraine crisis, and a more divided Nation than ever before).
Our MAJOR FUNDRAISING DEADLINE is coming up, and I need you to know how IMPORTANT it is that we reach our $2 MILLION goal. If we fall short, we risk losing our country further to the radical Left.
Monday, 8:04 am
Friend,
Our BEST SELLING COVFEFE MUG is ALMOST SOLD OUT, but President Trump REALLY wants YOU to have one, so he’s giving YOU an EXCLUSIVE MEMORIAL DAY WEEKEND DISCOUNT.
FOR A LIMITED TIME, YOU CAN GET YOUR OWN TRUMP COVFEFE MUG FOR ONLY $30 $25.
President Trump wants EVERY Patriot to have one of our Trump Covfefe mugs, and we are reserving (1) for YOU. Your discount offer is available for TODAY only, so hurry.
I could go on listing each email, but I won’t burden you with further redundancy – except to point out that I must be special because Donnie, Jr. just today offered me the unique opportunity to sign daddy’s birthday ecard “before ANYONE ELSE.” Nice to know that he didn’t send that to another individual anywhere on the planet before giving me, one of his most loyal supporters (he said so in other emails), the opportunity to be the very first to sign. To make it even more enticing, he noted that it was the former guy’s “ONLY Official Birthday Card.” (note the capitalization, driving home the point that it was an “official” birthday card.) And as icing on the cake, Trump his own self asked me to vote on my favorite of three photographs of his own self so that he could send it to me (he can’t decide because “they’re all so spectacular.” Really, that’s what he said. No false modesty there).
I think it’s fair to say that the former guy would rival any televangelist in wanton greed and avaricious willingness to bilk the very ones who hold him in such fawning reverence.
Louisiana Voice 
Beyond disgusted with this guy…..
The sad and somewhat scary part of this is that there must be many folks contributing to this obvious scam. I am always mystified as to why…but, have been asking that question for years now. Trump is an open con man and still we have folks “right here in River City” that remain loyal and will contribute. Maybe this is another downside of so much social media? I always wonder what do these folks think Trump has done/will do for them….the answers are scary, too.
Every once in a while out of curiosity over the years I’ll catch Swaggart’s Son Life radio or his TV station during a big fundraising drive. They rattle off the names of some donors, where they’re from and the amounts. A couple thousand or so might get you a “God bless you.” I have a feeling that Myrtle from Bullfrog Hollow, West Virginia, can’t afford the $500 to give, but there are a lot of people like that apparently.
It’s astonishing how many believe the evangelist cons, and this is not that different but on an even much larger scale and more ridiculous. Unfortunately though, this crap has always worked on a large part of the population.
In the early 80s I was so fascinated with Jim and Tammy Bakker that I made a crude documentary tracking their rise and fall. I honestly could not believe enough people were buying the P. T. Barnum style “religion” they were selling to allow them to live lavish lifestyles while rooking people into shady time-share and other utterly shady deals. Now that we have had an actual President of the United States of America who did and continues to do the same thing, it is apparent Jim and Tammy were pikers. Tammy is dead, but Jim Bakker still has enough of a following for his hucksterism to keep him comfortable. P. T. probably had no idea how right he was.
The honorable John Hays and I had a running dispute over which “great state”was more corrupt. Louisiana or New York. Well it seems that at least currently the nod has to go to NYS. Donald J Trump is a more invasive species in the Pelican State than any Louisiana pol has a grip on the Empire State
It’s a good thing Louisiana has an insecticide named Aswell.
They’re like a plague of locusts swarming my in-box. I’ve been offered Trump-designed golf balls in return for a contribution. He wants to see my name written on a wall in his office, and my, how he’s disappointed by not seeing my name on his top 10 list of patriots. I have no idea how the Trump organization got my email address ( I suspect a malicious co-worker) but, man, can he grift. He’s by far and away the best scammer on the net.
I get as many as 30 per day and they’re from Trump, Repug candidates and Repug operatives all over the country – evidence that the former guy sold his mailing list to these people. Your analogy of a plague of locusts is priceless!