A 17-year-old girl from San Francisco says she was just slapped with a cease and desist letter from the President of the United States of America.
“As I’m sure you’re aware,” the alleged letter reads, “the Trump name is internationally known and famous.”
Her offense?
Coding a website called TrumpPunch where users can click on Donald Trump’s face and watch him get punched by kitten paws.
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The girl’s name is Lucy. Her dream is to have a career in web development, so she made the site during a coding bootcamp as a “fun, little” project to put on her resume for when she applies for jobs after graduation.
To satisfy Trump and his attorneys, Lucy changed the name of the site from TrumpPunch.com to KittenFeed.com, at the advice of her family’s lawyer.
“But after changing,” she tells The Observer, “they still came at me.”
“It’s so sad that his administration is focused more on being liked, burying real news and taking down sites like mine as they supposedly make him look bad.”
The Trump Organization insists the story is #fakenews.
“This is completely false,” Alan Garten, executive vice president and chief legal officer at The Trump Organization, insisted in a statement. “No such letter was ever sent by us.”
But Lucy says it’s 100% true. And the White House has yet to comment.
Before Trump drew attention to the site, it only had about 1,200 hits. Since the alleged cease and desist letter, it has received almost 55,000 hits. In fact, interest in the site was so intense that it crashed the host’s server.
The site is currently down so adjustments can be made to the cache to accommodate the sudden spike in traffic.
“It’s … outrageous that the president of the United States has his team scouring the internet for sites like mine to send out cease and desists and legal action claims if we don’t shut down,” Lucy says, adding that she has no intention to taking the site down. Ever.
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whatevz
The racist leaky bag of pus in chief and his dumb foreign escort will not be made fun of!
Terrycloth
Our thin skinned , egotistical, self centered
Liar in chief hates anything and everything that doesn’t portray him the greatest light ever……He needs to grow up or be removed
1EqualityUSA
He showed restraint by not going nuc’ on her.
natekerchel
If this story is true it just confirms the level of pettiness and paranoia in the White House.
Giancarlo85
Mr Thin Skin loser who stole the Presidency needs to be impeached and locked up. That will be the real cease and desist of ruining this country.
Giancarlo85
By the way, legally Trump has no case here. Maybe somebody should get a permanent injunction against the White House effectively limiting their ability to ruin lives. And the stupid idiot gay Republicans on this site will keep yapping like little abused animals.
11jks13
He can’t do shit. FREEDOM of speech….oh sorry He doesn’t know what the Constitution says, He’s never read it nor has any of his cabinet picks.
Bob LaBlah
People, it is time to ask the editors of Queerty why they refuse to throw a little light on what is going on with this proposed health care bill and what it is going to eliminate if it gets passed. Enough with reporting on this insane fool’s tweets and such. We all know the man is crazy. Lets change the focus a bit for the good of those who can’t afford life sustaining medications.
http://www.nydailynews.com/opinion/congress-bring-back-hiv-aids-article-1.3006063
Giancarlo85
True.
Or live saving cancer treatments. I heard many stories.
The Unaffordable Don’t care Trump act, as I call it, would skyrocket premiums especially for those 50+. A man over 60 could see his premiums go up 200%.
Terrible stuff really.
Giancarlo85
BTW, I hear the tax cut for the rich bill (call it as it is lol) lacks votes even in the House of Representatives. And even if it were to pass it would die in the Senate.
Kangol
Now, now, everyone’s being very mean toward the Traitor, I mean, President. Singling out the Muscovian Candidate, er, Siberian Plant, er, Putin’s Sockpuppet is bound to make him very upset. Instead, what about a site where he’s being kissed by cute little kittens? Oh, that’s right, he hates animals and is a germophobe, so that would make him freak out too.
arj
Hey Hair Furor………now going after 17 year old girls……figures. Kinda rolls with your track record, eh pervert?
canuckdave
Even Canadians are embarrassed about Trump, that’s how awful he is perceived. For the sake of the planet start impeach procedures now.
bobbyjoe
The hilarious thing is that Trump put himself in a position where he will pretty much never be able to sue for slander or use of his name ever again, because he became the most public of public political figures and US courts generally consider that to mean you’re fair game for all sorts of parody and satire, even the most vicious. Just ask Larry Flynt about the Jerry Falwell case. Rather than change anything, this girl should start a companion site called “Take a Dump on Trump” where the cats poop on his head. He won’t be able to do anything.
1EqualityUSA
And then Democrats come in afterward and scoop the sand, making it livable and pleasant again until the GOP returns to screw everything up again.
Jokie
Orange is a public figure. He can’t do anything about the use of his name now. I don’t know why the girl was advised differently. I remember when Swartzeneggar tried to stop bobble heads from being made about him and he couldn’t do it. Incidentally, the letter could be posted online for verification. O:)
Jokie
Oops, that’s Schwarzenegger.
DCguy
This is Trump’s typical game. They send a lawyer letter demanding something that they don’t have standing to demand and hope that the person will cave.
Trump is a public figure, sorry, he has no case. And even better, if they keep harassing her, SHE will have a case against them. So the paranoid delicate tissue of false ego and Red Pepper hummus should probably leave this one alone!