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You’re fired!

March 4, 2025 by Guest Post

by Mark Van Loon, Hamilton

Dear Donald Trump

In the United States’ continuing effort to rid itself of waste, fraud and abuse, we have determined that your substandard performance is inadequate to continue to serve the people of the United States, therefore you are fired, effective yesterday.

As just one example, we list your golfing. In 2016 you chastised then President Obama for his playing golf and promised you’d be too busy to play. In eight years, Obama played 300 times. In just four years, you played 260 times. A 2019 report found that your first four trips to Mar-a-Lago cost almost $14 million of taxpayers’ dollars – travel costs for your entourage and security, which you charged at full price on your properties.

As of noon on Thursday, Feb. 20, you will have been president for 31 full days, spending all or part of 16 of those days at four Trump Organization properties. You played golf on 10 of those days. You have spent 19 nights at the White House and 12 nights at your private properties. You have spent precisely zero Friday or Saturday nights at the executive mansion.

DOGE will determine it is far more cost effective for you to come downstairs to the Oval Office for business rather than traveling to your private properties, saving much more than cancelling magazine subscriptions.  

Please do not let the door hit you in the derriere on your way out.  

No thank you for your ‘service’.  

Very truly yours, The American People

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  1. Mike Miller says

    March 9, 2025 at 9:57 AM

    Hey Loon: “elections have consequences, and, in case there was any doubt, {Trump} won.”

  2. Frank says

    March 5, 2025 at 8:15 AM

    Your letter is laughable after the incompetence we had to endure under Biden. Like Trump said last night,
    “The media and our friends in the Democratic Party kept saying we needed new legislation to secure the border. But it turns out all we really needed was a new President!”
    Thank God for Trump!

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