Heaven, Tacos, and Tariff Checks: Inside Trump’s 2025 Fundraising Freak Show

We subscribe to Trump's fundraising emails so you don't have to The Trump Crime Family has turned the email donation grift up to 11.

Dean Blundell

Dec 1

December 1, 2025

According to the Archive of Political Emails, Trump’s operation has pumped out more than 22,000+ messages over the years — nearly 10 emails a day on average. It’s less a mailing list and more a digital hostage situation. You don’t subscribe so much as get spiritually waterboarded with ALL CAPS and fake “final notice” subject lines.

And 2025 has been peak weird, even by Trump standards.

This year alone he has:

Asked supporters for $15 to help him “get to Heaven.
Claimed that giving him money is “sowing a SEED OF FAITH” into the future of America.
Blasted out a “Taco Tuesday” email with an AI sombrero and “TCOS” instead of tacos.
Floated “tariff rebate checks” and DOGE-style “dividends” in emails that somehow all end on a donation page.
Sent a Thanksgiving email basically screaming “DO YOU LOVE ME?” and then asking people to prove it with cash.

We don’t get every single message the second it drops (only Trump’s data guys and whatever’s left of his IT team have that view), but between public archives and news reports we can see a lot of it. What follows are five of his latest, most unhinged money asks from 2025, starting with the Heaven one you’ve probably seen screenshotted to hell and back.

1. “I Want to Try and Get to Heaven” – The Afterlife Fundraiser

Let’s start with the one where the sitting President of the United States basically says:

“I want to try and get to Heaven.”

…then immediately drops a donation button.

In late August, Trump’s campaign started sending emails with that phrase as the subject line and headline, asking supporters to kick in $15 as part of a “24-HOUR TRUMP FUNDRAISING BLITZ.

The pitch goes like this:

He reminds you that he survived the 2024 rally shooting by “millimeters,” attributing it to the

He’s bundling:

Mortality anxiety – “I almost died.”
Religious identity – “God saved me for a purpose.”
Political urgency – “I can’t do this without you.”

…and alchemizing all of it into a tidy $15 debit on your credit card.

2. “Sowing a SEED OF FAITH” – When Campaign Emails Turn Into Sermons

A few weeks after the Heaven blast, Trump leans even harder into churchy language.

(Courtesy Meidas Touch)

In a late‑September fundraising email, he tells supporters that when they give to him, they’re “sowing a SEED OF FAITH into the future of our Nation,” quoting the Bible about mustard‑seed faith “moving mountains.”

(Courtesy Meidas Touch)

The email reads like a Sunday night televangelist pitch with better production value:

America is in a spiritual and political crisis.
The enemies of God and country are at the gates.
Your donation is both a political act and a holy act.

He explicitly positions contributions as spiritually loaded: not just “help the campaign,” but proof of faith that will “move America back to GOD… back to TRUTH… back to GREATNESS.”

It’s classic prosperity gospel logic:

Your money is a seed.
The bigger the seed, the bigger the blessing.

Only this time the “blessing” is a second‑term agenda and a fresh batch of yard signs.

Even conservative Christian commentators have pointed out that this is… not exactly how the New Testament talks about salvation, money, or, frankly, Jesus.People For+2thepensivequill.com+2 But from a fundraising standpoint, it’s a hell of a tactic: every small‑dollar gift gets reframed as an act of worship.

3. “It’s Taco Tuesday!” – The AI Sombrero Email That Can’t Spell “Tacos”

Then came Taco Tuesday. Because of course it did.

On November 5, the Trump campaign sent out a Mexican‑themed fundraising email titled “It’s Taco Tuesday!” with an AI‑generated image of Trump in a sombrero, holding a taco under a banner that spells “TCOS.”

(Courtesy Meidas Touch)

If you fed a stereotype into Midjourney and gave it a concussion, you’d get this graphic.

The copy does the same dance you’ve seen a hundred times:

Soft open – Lots of praise for “hard‑working” legal Mexican immigrants and their “delicious restaurants.”
Hard turn – A poll asking whether “EVERY illegal alien” should be deported.
Money hook – A push for $20.25 donations to “keep the MAGA momentum going,” conveniently pegged to the year.

Click the poll and — surprise — you end up on a donation page.

So in one email you get:

AI ethnic cosplay,
A misspelled food item,
And a deport‑them‑all policy “survey” glued directly onto a credit card form.

You almost have to admire the efficiency: culture war, identity politics, and small‑dollar fundraising, all packed into something that looks like a rejected Taco Bell promo.

4. “Would You Accept a Tariff Rebate Check?” – The Fake Stimulus Vibes

If the Heaven email was Trump’s televangelist era, the tariff rebate checks are his “what if the government was a sweepstakes?” era.

Starting in August and continuing into the fall, his political operation has been sending emails that sound like this:

“Be honest: Would you accept a tariff rebate check?”

One archived email, via the politicalemails.org project, literally opens by asking whether you’d accept a “tariff rebate check” from Trump and “MAGA leaders,” with big YES/NO buttons.

Here’s the game:

The email frames it like a policy survey: where should the money from tariffs go? Straight back to Americans via checks, or somewhere else?
It name‑drops $2,000–$5,000 rebate or “dividend” checks in related coverage of Trump’s DOGE‑adjacent ideas, tying the whole thing to his fantasy “Government Efficiency” savings plan.
But if you click through, you don’t get closer to a government benefit. You get… a donation form for the Trump National Committee joint fundraising operation.

Experts have pointed out the obvious: there is no enacted law creating these checks, no guaranteed payout, and a decent chunk of Trump’s own party thinks the whole rebate idea is a non‑starter.

You’re not signing up to receive money; you’re being asked to send it. It’s effectively the Nigerian Prince scam using the Presidential seal.

5. “DO YOU LOVE ME?” – Thanksgiving, But Make It Needy

Finally, the Thanksgiving “DO YOU LOVE ME?” email. Because nothing says gratitude like emotional blackmail between bites of dry turkey.

On Thanksgiving Day, Trump’s team sent an email that, according to screenshots and coverage, literally asks supporters “DO YOU LOVE ME?” in giant type — and then tells them to prove it by donating.

The vibe:

Opens with standard holiday fluff about being thankful for patriots like you.
Quickly pivots into a warning about impeachment talk and witch hunts ramping back up.
Then the kicker: “Do you love me?” → click the button → land on a page asking for money.

We’ve gone from “support the movement” to “proove u luv me daddy” in one subject line.

This isn’t policy persuasion; it’s parasocial monetization. Trump isn’t just asking you to back his platform; he’s asking you to validate his feelings — and measuring that validation in dollars.

If the Heaven and Seed‑of‑Faith emails treat him like a weird mix of prophet and televangelist, the Thanksgiving blast treats him like that one friend who only texts when they need to “borrow 50 bucks till Friday.”

Why This Matters (Beyond the Dark Comedy)

On one level, all of this is grotesquely funny. Heaven points, AI tacos, rebate checks that don’t exist — it’s like someone fed every grift trope into ChatGPT and told it to write subject lines.

But buried inside the absurdity is a pretty serious reality:

This is how modern politics gets funded. Not just for Trump, but for everyone running “permanent campaign” operations. The manipulative stuff rises to the top because it works.
It normalizes a kind of emotional fraud. Spiritual anxiety, fear of immigrants, economic precarity, and personal devotion all get harvested into recurring payments.

You don’t have to like or hate Trump to see the pattern. The next time any campaign email hits your inbox — red, blue, or whatever color your favorite conspiracy podcast uses — it’s worth asking three basic questions:

What feeling is this trying to trigger — fear, guilt, love, outrage?
What is actually promised, and what’s just implied if you squint?
Who ends up measurably better off if you click “donate”?

If nothing else, Trump’s Heaven‑and‑tacos email era is one giant, flashing case study in how far a modern political operation will go to keep the money hose on.

And if there is a celestial audit at the end of all this, someone’s going to have a lot of email campaigns to explain.

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COMMENTS:

What is really sad is the people getting these emails are the true believers who can’t spare the cash to contribute to these grifts. Worse than that it was discovered during term one that once these people produced a credit card assuming it was a one time contribution they discovered their card was charged month after month. Naturally they could find no way to stop it. Trump preys on the poorest and most gullible among us. He knows they are vulnerable to his grift. Scum does this kind of thing and I don’t think we have to question if Trump is scum. He wins first prize at being the scummiest guy on the planet.

Thank you for subscribing so I don't have to. I would never be able to see that all the time - it was hard enough to just read through those. It is so hard to believe he is actually a president and he does this.

These stories would never make it to the stage as a farce; farces need to be 'grounded' in some sort of normalcy.

Or they could be Russian AI: how many Trumpers know what a 'millimeter' is?

I get lots of emails, Dean, but these take the cake! Sorry you have to read them – – enough to make you barf. Thank goodness I’ve somehow missed being on his lists. Won’t it be wonderful when there won’t be any more?

Half of people are below average intelligence

Thank you for the insight & grift!

P.T. BARNUM has been credited with saying 'THERE'S A SUCKER BORN EVERY MINUTE' although he never said it, but it's interesting that the article below draws parallels between BARNUM's philosophy & TRUMP's.

There’s A Sucker Born Every Minute: Analyzing Donald Trump Through the Lens of P.T. Barnum’s Philosophy

excerpt:

Conclusion

Through the lens of P.T. Barnum, Donald Trump’s philosophy and approach to public life reveal striking similarities in their reliance on spectacle, control over narrative, and an enduring commitment to profit and controversy. Both figures understand that public fascination is often more potent than approval, and that engagement—whether through awe, skepticism, or criticism—is the cornerstone of lasting influence. This analysis highlights how Trump’s strategies and persona are deeply rooted in a Barnum-esque view of fame, where entertainment, ambiguity, and showmanship hold the keys to power and relevance in the public eye.

https://www.misinformationsucks.com/blog/theres-a-sucker-born-every-minute-analyzing-donald-trump-through-the-lens-of-pt-barnums-philosophy

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