Quote (KungPeriodFu @ Apr 15 2020 01:00am)
Donald Trump wanted to formally sign the checks himself, to have his name on the signature line. Can you believe this clown? Like he wanted to say, "This money came from me. It's my money that I'm giving to you."
It amounts to a vainglorious and pretentious attempt at political advertising. The stimulus package concept wherein checks would be delivered to individuals wasn't even his idea. It was Mitt Romney's and Josh Hawley's idea. Donald Trump wanted to use some horseshit payroll tax cut that you never would have felt the effect of.
He actually made it halfway to the finish line with this impertinence: his name will be placed in the memo section of the checks - an unprecedented act. The Treasury is supposed to be nonpartisan: previous attempts such as these (George Bush attempted it in 2008 for example) were shut down by the more scrupled and upright IRS commissioners at those times.
The sad reality is that some people will actually fall for this stunt; they'll see Donald Trump in the memo line and think it was him, it was all him from the beginning, you can only thank him for that measly check.
While you're at it you can thank him for the shit-show that is the current state of affairs.
I don't see how this negatively impacts anyone.