President Donald Trump has made an "urgent" plea for his MAGA followers to donate to him — and revealed what he really thinks of his loyal supporters, an analyst pointed out on Wednesday.
Trump has made his latest attempt to pull in donations using a "MAGA survey" with a "triple-dog-dare-you maneuver that conveys urgency," wrote Sabrina Haake, political analyst and longtime federal trial attorney, on her Substack.
"The kicker is that the 'triple stamped rush envelope' was the pre-marked, pre-paid, 'No postage necessary if mailed in the United States' kind," Haake wrote. "Adding extra postage stamps to a prepaid postage envelope, according to the USPS, means Trump just wasted money (USPS bold, not mine). Trump, in one mailing, spent extra on an agency he accuses of waste, demonstrated his fiscal illiteracy, and declared his donors stupid. Another masterclass in Trump’s trifecta of incompetence."
Trump's letter targeted his voters and pushed the same narratives the president has repeated.
"The survey drills down on ‘Biden’s sky-high mortgage rates,’ and ‘reckless spending binge’ even though we’re now 1.5 years into Trump 2.0. It blames Biden for ‘today’s affordability squeeze,’ despite Trump’s economically unhinged tariffs and $94 billion war in Iran," Haake wrote. "Trump, who still thinks exporters pay tariffs, single handedly turbo-charged the price of energy, and tanked consumer confidence at the same time, all while demanding that Americans disbelieve their lyin’ eyes."
It also suggested specific monetary amounts for people to give.
"Four pages later, Trump urges True Patriots to make a True Patriotic donation of $2,026…. Or even just $47, by rushing back the MAGA survey using the enclosed TRIPLE-STAMPED Rush Return Envelope TODAY," Haake wrote.
Haake argued that his latest grift was better than his focus on foreign policy, including the Iran war.
"As Trump pivots to planning his upcoming Idiocracy-forward, lowest-common-denominator cage fight and IndyCar race at the White House, we should breathe a collective sigh of relief. Trump training his genius on tasteless pageantry at home may rightly inspire ridicule, but it is safer than poking all the bears at once," Haake added.
