Ok but put my name on it
The Treasury Department has ordered President Trump’s name printed on stimulus checks the Internal Revenue Service is rushing to send to tens of millions of Americans, a process that could slow their delivery by a few days, senior IRS officials said.
Also a process that coddles and encourages Trump’s disgusting vanity and egomania.
It will be the first time a president’s name appears on an IRS disbursement, whether a routine refund or one of the handful of checks the government has issued to taxpayers in recent decades either to stimulate a down economy or share the dividends of a strong one.
Because normal presidents, even the very empty-headed ones like Bush and Reagan, understand that they don’t cause everything.
Trump had privately suggested to Treasury Secretary Steven Mnuchin, who oversees the IRS, that he allow the president to formally sign the checks, according to three administration officials who spoke on the condition of anonymity because they were not authorized to speak publicly.
“Steve, can I sign them? Can I? Let me sign them, Steve. I hafta sign them. I’m the great and powerful Oz, and I need to sign the checks. Let me do it, Steve.”
But the president is not an authorized signer for legal disbursements by the U.S. Treasury. It is standard practice for a civil servant to sign checks issued by the Treasury Department to ensure that government payments are nonpartisan.
Huh? Whut? I don unnerstan, use shorter wurdz.
You could not make this stuff up. Incredible. Hilary Clinton should by now have realised that she was not being stalked on stage by Donald Trump. No.
It was the Emperor Nero, resurrected.
Perhaps it is a clever ploy to save money when large numbers of people do not cash the cheques but instead the disgusted will discard them and the disgusting will frame them.
We received our check yesterday, via direct deposit!
Bonus: no signature on a direct deposit!
Omar – I keep wishing I still had that Penguin paperback Suetonius.
OB: Noted.
It’s all about branding, that’s how the no-talents get name recognition.
Omar @ 5 – Haha ok it was a random comment…I just mean I’ve been thinning out my shelves slightly so as not to be too hoardery (and not to leave too much cleanup for others if the virus gets me) so a lot of Penguin classics went so I can’t compare the Suetonius Nero (which scholars consider an unreliable portrait to put it mildly) to Donnie the Puke.
I had the bright idea of reading I Claudius the other day but it’s so horrendously written I slapped it closed almost immediately. And put it on the “take to a Little Free Library” stack.