Send all your lovin’ to Donald
We invite individual visual and performing artists, writers, bookstores, book clubs, brave non-profit or government organizations and other individuals or groups across the USA to independently “flood the zone” with creativity, for Create to Liberate, Saturday, April 19, 2025.
Think of the following idea as a pilot light for the creative fire within you (if yours needs to be lit.)
Create to Liberate Idea No. 14
Yesterday, several Abbetuck members participated in a national campaign called “Postcards to Trump.”
Beware the Ides of March!
One member shared copies of her cards with me. My favorite of these included a quote from Elon’s Musk’s support human, bullet shield, PR accessory and son whose name is X Æ A-Xii.
While in the Oval Office, X (as he’s known) pulled his finger out of his nose, turned to Trump, and said:
“You’re not the president here. You need to go away.”
This was the perfect sentiment to include on a postcard!
Break the record
The previous record for fan mail goes to Hank Aaron, one of the greatest baseball players in history. He received 900,000 mail pieces in one year. “Postcards to Trump” aimed for a million pieces of non-fan mail in a single day. We will never know if they reached that goal on March 15 but there is no reason to stop now.
Sending postcards from the edge could also be an art activism activity for Create to Liberate on April 19.
An Abbetuck member suggests we write whatever is on our minds. “Upset about cuts to Medicaid? Write it down! Displeased about the fact that he’s allowed Musk to have access to our personal information?
“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…
“Trump has suggested that we no longer discuss egg prices,” our friend adds. “So, of course we need to discuss egg prices.”
How snail mail postcards work
- Write down whatever it is you would like to say to him on a postcard or appropriately sized cardstock.
- Have fun with your message (e.g., ask how his supply of catsup is holding up given the tariffs … or suggest how sexy he would look in a snug Ukrainian knit top like Zelenskyy’s).
- Do NOT issue any physical threats (you don’t want to get handcuffed, led away from your pregnant wife, and sent to a Louisiana detention facility).
- Do NOT include your return address (we feel like we must reinforce this).
- Put a stamp on it (we feel like we also need to say this).
- Address it to:
President (for now) Donald J. Trump
1600 Pennsylvania Avenue NW
Washington, DC 20500
or
Chief Felon Trump
Mar-a-Lago
1100 S Ocean Blvd, Palm Beach, FL 33480
- Drop your card or cards in a USPS mailbox or a mail slot at a post office (the mail carrier who comes to your house knows too much as it is)
My plan is to go to a drugstore in touristy downtown Dallas and pick up a dozen or so of the tackiest Texas postcards I can find.
Perhaps something featuring our governor holding an AR-15.
I’m a-gonna wrap myself in paper,
I’m gonna daub myself with glue,
Stick some stamps on top of my head;
I’m gonna mail myself to you.
From “Mail Myself To You” by Woody Guthrie
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