The White House’s postal service should be on the lookout for the snail mail flood of the century.
A massive writing campaign launched on Wednesday to coincide with the ominous Ides of March—March 15th, the day Julius Cesar was famously assassinated—aims to flood the White House with hand-written postcards addressed to President Donald Trump.
Aptly dubbed the “Ides of Trump,” the campaign will see thousands of jolly writers and illustrators sending ‘pink slips’ to the president to voice their concerns about his policies or simply poke fun at his Cheetos-colored hair.
“We will show the man, the media, and the politicians how vast our numbers are and we will bury the White House post office in pink slips, all informing the President that he’s fired!” reads the campaign site.
“No alternative fact or Russian translation will explain away our record-breaking, officially-verifiable, warehouse-filling flood of fury.”
Letters should be addressed to “The President (for now)”, organizers say, and mailers should post pictures of their notes on social media under the hashtag #TheIdesOfTrump to get the word out as far as possible.
Many people have already shared their postcards online.
“This is about protesting with humor and sarcasm, which are things which I don’t think [Trump] can handle very well and get under his skin” Ted Sullivan, a television writer and one of the organizers, told the Huffington Post.
The campaign is spearheaded by two friends from California, Sullivan and Zack Kushner, who were inspired by the witty protest signs they saw at the Women’s March on Washington in January.
“We’re both writers, so we thought it was particularly inspiring, and [Kushner] said, ‘I wish we could mail them to Trump,’” Sullivan said.
If the whole thing started as a joke between the two acolytes, things quickly escalated after over 55,000 people signed up to the Facebook page the pair had set up for the occasion.
Men and women all over the country coordinated their own letter-writing parties in much the same way anti-Trump protesters joined knitting circles this fall to make “pussy hats” en masse in preparation for the Women’s March.
Based on tweets, photos and groups, the organizers of “Ides of Trump” expect that the White House will received over a million postcards this month.
