Donald Trump demands his own signature be on coronavirus stimulus checks to every American: report

[riversedge]

Source: raw story






Published 7 hours ago on March 27, 2020



On Friday, President Donald Trump signed into law a record $2 trillion stimulus bill to help those suffering from the coronavirus pandemic — part of which involves one-time cash payments being sent out to tens of millions of American households.

But according to The Wall Street Journal, Trump wants those checks to be sent out explicitly in his name.

“Mr. Trump has told people he wants his signature to appear on the direct payment checks that will go out to many Americans in the coming weeks, according to an administration official,” wrote Siobhan Hughes and Natalie Andrews. “Normally, a civil servant — the disbursing officer for the payment center — would sign federal checks, said Don Hammond, a former senior Treasury Department official.”
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Trump’s name has already appeared on the recent CDC mailers giving information about COVID-19. And according to Maggie Haberman of The New York Times, the president reportedly also wanted to appear in public service ads discussing the opioid crisis.

Read more: https://www.rawstory.com/2020/03/donald-trump-demands-his-own-signature-be-on-coronavirus-stimulus-checks-to-every-american-report/

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well then --take the money DIRECTLY FROM TRUMPS OWN BANK ACCOUNT. DAMN!

[hangaleft]

1. Signed: Donald J. Trump 2020

[CaptYossarian]

15. With his dementia, it should read "Melania, POA".

[gldstwmn]

63. +1

[EndlessWire]

69. LOL! n/t

[duforsure]

2. Anything to hold it up

And use this for PR now. Shows his thoughts are only about himself, and self promoting during a pandemic while refusing to help those in need.

[Scarsdale]

3. First he should pay back

the treasury for the over one million $$$ he has spent on golf, the money he has charged for SS agents to eat and stay at his hotels. The money his "kids" have charged taxpayers for their travels on business and pleasure and SS protection. The entire useless family has taken so much cash from the treasury, that Mnuchin will not let anyone see the expense accounts. He wants to wait until AFTER the next election. It would be like his taxes, never see the light of day. We are being flim-flamed by a bunch of CROOKS.

[Progressive Jones]

4. The balls on this jamoke! LMAO nt

[eShirl]

5. ONLY if he uses his own blood.

Enough to sign 300 million checks.

[videohead5]

6. Most people

Will be paid by direct deposit.

[CaptYossarian]

16. It's a shame the homeless don't have an address or an account.

Screwed all over again.

[BumRushDaShow]

7. "take the money DIRECTLY FROM TRUMPS OWN BANK ACCOUNT."

Bingo!

(of course most people get direct deposit so it's moot - I do still request a paper check for refunds because I prefer to decide which bank account I might want to put it in at the time of receipt - although I do get a federal CSRS annuity direct-deposited so will see if they decide to use that instead)

[progree]

8. It might be a few months for those deposits and checks to show up ...

Show me the relief money – no promises on when coronavirus checks are coming, MPR News, March 27, 2020

But despite promises that the one-time funds will be distributed "within the next three weeks," it will likely be months before the stimulus checks hit bank accounts according to experts.

Under the plan, single people earning incomes below $75,000 will receive as much as $1,200 as "direct payments into most people's deposit accounts," Treasury Secretary Steven Mnuchin said at a news briefing on Wednesday.

Married couples would get $2,400, and parents would receive $500 for each child under age 17. About 90 percent of households — approximately 165 million — would benefit from the checks, according to the Tax Policy Center.

... "I don't think physical checks will be in the mail for another three to four months," Pomerleau said, citing delays in the system in 2008 when the government last issued national stimulus payments under the George W. Bush administration.

More: https://www.mprnews.org/story/2020/03/26/npr-show-me-the-relief-money-no-promises-on-when-coronavirus-checks-are-coming

Some more info in my words:

It says the IRS will be handling this, and so people who have given direct deposit information to the IRS will likely see the money first.

Janet Holtzblatt, a senior fellow at the Tax Policy Center, suspects the IRS's infrastructure, or lack thereof, will create even more delays ... In the past it has taken several months for the government to develop, test and install the kind of software necessary to launch a rebate program

But the IRS has been closing down some service-critical missions—including return processing—and closing some facilities in response to states' stay-at-home orders.

And all this on top of their tax return processing season.

Progree reminder: federal tax returns aren't due until July 15, likewise payments for taxes due April 15 are now due July 15. But I think estimated tax payments due April 15 are still due April 15.

[DallasNE]

35. I Didn't Get A Check In 2008

And I doubt I will receive a check this time.

[progree]

57. Me neither. I keep a list of deposits I made or were made, and even checks that I simplied

cashed, and nope, nothing in 2008 or 2009. I've been filing taxes every year since the mid-70's, so I've been "on the grid" all that time.

[EndlessWire]

70. Yep

Nothing to get excited about.

[truthisfreedom]

9. Haha. He's a fake billionaire, not a fake trillionaire.

We don’t need his fake signature pretending he got us out of this when he got us into covfefe-19 though his denial, delays, and perpetual golfing as America burned.

Name the fucking virus after him if he wants to sign the checks.

[MarianJack]

10. Two points about this.

First, the ass hat wants to take credit for the refund.

Second, given his history of stiffing anyone to whom he owes money, I don't necessarily think that he knows how to sign a check.

RESIST

[forgotmylogin]

34. "Here's your check for the pandemic I caused."

What a tool.

[rustydog]

72. He probably thinks this will work as a non-disclosure-agreement

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and Americans have to stop complaining about people dying, cause they got money!

[Maeve]

11. Branding. It's all about branding

[LastLiberal in PalmSprings]

12. Next he'll want to replace the Secretary of the Treasury's signature on money with his own.

[MarianJack]

61. I wonder if he knows that you have to be dead to have your face on American money?

Of course HIS face would be perfect for a new $3 bill.

RESIST

[Vinca]

13. That amounts to buying votes. I'm so not surprised.

[no_hypocrisy]

14. 1. Direct Deposit -- No signature b/c no check

2. Even if there were checks mailed, Trump lacks legal authority. He isn't the head of the Dept of Treasury. It's the same reason why Trump's signature isn't on our paper currency.

[onenote]

42. If he doesn't have authority he can easily be given it by the Treas. Dept

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Not every check issued by the US Government is signed by the Secretary of the Treasury or even by an employee of the Treasury Department. Individuals throughout the government are designated as NTDOs: Non-Treasury Disbursing Officers. If the Office of the President isn't already so designated, the Secretary of the Treasury probably can make that designation with the stroke of a pen.

[mahannah]

17. Election year bullshit.

[pwb]

18. Maybe his name on the grave stones of those he killed

A lasting tribute to our most awful president.

[Hugin]

19. It has come to my attention that I'm only barely in the bottom of the stimulus 'doughnut hole'...

Y'know... Middle class. No need for stimulus. (I blame both parties for the hideous treatment of the so-called middle class in the United States)

Which is okay, because, even if it were a thimble full of water and I were crawling across a vast desert on my belly, I would immediately donate my allotment to some sort of verifiable non-profit relief organization on principle.

I glad to hear there's one benefit in not receiving a check. I don't have to see Donald Trump's pompous scrawl on anything I've had to pay for.

[Dem forever]

20. What !

. Senator Murphy says White House turned down emergency coronavirus funding in early February.
Thump said we got it covered no big deal. Put that on the fucking check.

[NickB79]

21. A few of my RW co-workers asked if I was going to take "Trump's money"

Since they know how much I hate him.

I asked if they were going to take the biggest socialism payout in US history, since they've been screaming about Bernie for the past 6 months. Free government money doesn't get more "socialist" for them.

I especially loved it when they realized all those Mexican and Somali immigrants would be getting it too. More, in fact, since they typically have bigger families.

My new phrase around the water cooler is "we're ALL socialists now." They are not fans 😂

[Harker]

28. "Trumpsky's money?"

That's a good one.

[obamanut2012]

39. I have told two people who asked me that it's our money, not Trump's

And, like you, asked why they are accepting a Socialist handout, and if they were true conservatives, they would refuse it.

[Heddi]

22. His hand is gonna get tired

Stupid fuck

[Marie Marie]

44. Exactly. I'd go along with this if he actually signed every damn one of them.

[RKP5637]

23. My bank would not accept any check signed Donald J. Trump as it would bounce! n/t

[DeeDeeNY]

38. Only the Stormy checks are good

[RKP5637]

40. I like that $35K. Hope he sends those out! n/t

[klook]

56. How could anybody tell if it's a forgery?

His illiterate “signature” looks like a fucking seismograph. Fitting since he’s a natural disaster, about an 8.5 on the Richter Scale.

[The Genealogist]

24. Next thing we'll hear

is that he is going to bare his ass and make over 300 million Americans line up and kiss it before they get any money.

[machoneman]

25. Hey, this could backfire badly too. Once that YUGE $1,000 payout is spent and folks still have...

weeks and months to go w/o any money, they'll remember that lousy $1,000 didn't go far at all.

[duforsure]

26. That's fine,

I'll put my signature on checks going to Joe Biden and Moscow Mitch's opponent too.

[Sneederbunk]

27. Not satisfied with having his name on the Trump Recession.

[usaf-vet]

29. I'll take the money no matter whose name is on it. But some of it will go to ActBlue to support Dems

[NCjack]

30. don't expect to get enough to help. My plan is to send the money

to NC DEM senator and representative candidates and to the food bank. After each contribution, I will send a postcard to self-aggrandizing#45imp'd that describes what I have done.

[Firestorm49]

31. If that's the case, RUN, DON'T WALK, TO THE BANK TO CASH IT.

[doc03]

32. I won't see it I have direct deposit nt

[dem4decades]

76. I wonder if the deposit on your statement will say Donald J Trump?

[Botany]

33. No problem as long as person who gets sick and or dies from C-19 and their families and friends ...

.... all get to see that Donald Trump is responsible for this "shit storm."

Maybe Trump's picture on every obit of every person who dies of C-19.

[TryLogic]

36. Self promotion always comes first for the con man.

[BlueIdaho]

37. Electronic Funds Transfer.

Very few people will be getting physical checks in the mail - most will get direct deposit into their accounts.

But maybe it’s a good idea to have his name on the biggest federal cash giveaway in history. Pretty hard to bad mouth socialism when your name is on the check.

[DeminPennswoods]

46. Exactly

Almost all government money benefits, both federal and state, are done by EFT now. I know the federal civilian employees don't even get the option to be paid with a check, it's all EFT.

[onenote]

48. Very few equals tens of millions of physical checks.

There were around 156,000,000 returns filed in 2019. Direct deposit refunds were paid with respect to 92,000,000 of them. Hard to say how many of those not getting a direct deposit refund will qualify for the stimulus check, but its probably more than you think.

[Javaman]

41. Are there enough crayons for that to happen?

😂

[KPN]

43. Isn't this illegal? Is there no law that forbid promoting oneself while an official candidate for

federal office using federal funds to do so?

Time for a bunch of lawsuits.

[onenote]

47. no its not illegal.

And no one is filing any lawsuits.

[AC_Mem]

45. I could care less

aren't most payments being direct deposited? Idiot. And people are STILL going to hate him and they STILL will not vote for him. He is paying us with our own tax dollars, so who gives a flying f if he wants to put his electocardiogram scribble on it.

[onenote]

49. Still a lot of non-direct deposit payments. Probably millions of them.

IRS statistics indicate that in 2019, almost 156,000,000 returns were received. Direct deposit refunds were paid with respect to 92 million of them. Not sure how many returns that didn't have direct deposit refunds were from people qualifying for a stimulus check.

[TheFourthMind]

50. Dictator 101. n/t

[ProudMNDemocrat]

51. Trump wants ALL of the credit. ..Just an election ploy....

[Yo_Mama_Been_Loggin]

53. Needy Amin

It's usually the US Treasurer's signature on the checks.

Guess I'm glad I'm direct deposit. I won't have to look at Turdface's chicken scratch.

[Sapient Donkey]

54. Assuming this is true, how are Trump supporters not embarrassed by this?

I would be so disappointed if Obama made some weird demands like this when he was president.

[Paladin]

58. MotherFUCK that shit! (nt)

[efhmc]

59. As a taxpayer I want my name on there.

Since he has probably never paid any taxes, my name (and yours) is much more realistic.

[vishnura]

60. Is he going to sigh the death certificates too?

He's toast this November!

[keithbvadu2]

65. BINGO! Put his name right on them.

[gldstwmn]

62. I thought it was a direct deposit?

[JustABozoOnThisBus]

64. His signature may be on the thousand he gives to me, but ...

... there will be no signature or fingerprints on the billions he gives to his cronies.

Just a wink and a nod.

[la-trucker]

66. Does he think people are so stupid to think he is giving his own money?

He is such a narcissistic buffoon

[BrightKnight]

67. People are stupid enough to think that and he knows it.

[mainer]

68. "As long as his signature is also on every death certificate"

Wrote someone on Twitter.

[TexasBushwhacker]

71. It's not HIS money. It's ours!

It is funded by people and companies that PAY taxes. Not him. He's still carrying over losses. I bet he hasn't paid income taxes in 25 years. Plenty of big corporations don't pay taxes either.

[OriginalGeek]

73. Would the check still be good if I

wrote in "is a shiny-faced knob-end" after the signature?

[LastLiberal in PalmSprings]

74. Take it from his campaign account and make him sign each check by hand.

In my 70 years I have never seen such a dishonest and corrupt president. If he's re-elected I'm leaving the country until he's gone. I don't want to live the rest of my life in a country which would keep him in office, now that everyone can see what kind of person he is, and what he's done to the nation -- both domestically and on the world stage -- in less than four years.

[ReformedGOPer]

75. Since the checks go in via Direct Deposit, what does it matter?

[mercuryblues]

77. let's start a protest

on the check can we write thank you Nancy, Fuck trump, or something to that effect?

[jayschool2013]

78. This

Just write "Fuck" right in front of his signature and cash it anyway.

[Steelrolled]

79. Stupid politics. Don't care.