Does this year's WH Christmas card look weird to you?

[dixiegrrrrl]

[hatrack]

1. Considering who signed it, yes, it does

[Dawson Leery]

5. LOL!

[lagomorph777]

64. Looks like Melanoma's and Barron's signatures are forged.

[enough]

2. Maybe Donald taught Melania how to write? NT

[Control-Z]

3. The first maggot's signature looks just like the maggot's?

Or Barron's looks like a kindergartner wrote it?

[BigmanPigman]

9. I taught first grade and 6th grade and am a handwriting expert

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in both cursive and print. I had to be able to decipher their letters and numbers on tests and homework for over 15 years. NOT EASY! Something is wrong here..no comment beyond that or DU will bust me.

[dixiegrrrrl]

24. Barron is incredibly tall, and he is only 10? 11?

(PM me..I am curious)

[BigmanPigman]

34. He is 11 and by that age he should have mastered cursive.

It is taught in 4th in CA. My 6th graders had to write their Spelling Tests in cursive and in print in case there was difficulty figuring out what they spelled correctly as opposed to whether or not their handwriting was legible. Barron's writing looks like my first graders more than my 6th graders.(age 11). This is odd to say the least.

[DetroitLegalBeagle]

35. The districts around me

quit teaching cursive a few years ago at least. My cousin's kids are 9 and 13. My cousin has taught her 9yo how to sign his name in cursive. The 13yo was taught how to her name, but not much beyond that apparently. They both go to public schools in a fairly well rated district.

[Princess Turandot]

41. Actually, NYS has made cursive teaching optional for well over a decade now...

leaving the decision in the hands of local school boards. NYC public schools just recommenced teaching it in 2017; I'm not sure if it's a requirement or just strongly encouraged.

There are private schools that stopped teaching it as well. I don't know if the private school that Barron Trump attended taught it or not, but they were under no obligation to do so AFAIK.

[kcr]

52. Cursive is a thing of the past.

If they still include it where you teach, your school is not the norm.

[lagomorph777]

63. I've lost the ability to write in cursive.

I always found cursive to be slow and ugly, and in my profession, block printing is the norm.

[BigmanPigman]

65. I use a hybrid combination of both. Most people do this now.

It is fast and legible.

[forgotmylogin]

30. By age 10 I had developed a cursive signature.

We learned cursive by third grade. I know they don't teach it anymore, so does that mean every Millenial going forward is going to print their name on their checks?

[BigmanPigman]

36. Some schools are trying to get rid of cursive.

This has been going on for years. Today's teenagers have some strange writing that is similar to print but it has strange slant, curves and angles. We do not teach it that way but by middle school they are all writing in the same style. They used to help me in my classroom and my first graders could print better than the high school kids. In fact, they would come up to me and ask me to figure out the written comments on their homework since they weren't familiar with this hybrid form and we would try to de-code it together.

[dixiegrrrrl]

48. I am having a hard time writing legibly now

because have used computer for the last 20 years, out of practice with using a pen, except for checks.

got a note from my middle aged kid, he printed, rather than cursive.

kinda sad all that beautiful copperplate writing has died out.

[eShirl]

45. Checks? What are those?

[forgotmylogin]

67. Those pieces of paper I have to sign

To pay my rent.

I guess signatures are worthless going forward.

Yes millennials. I acknowledge your sarcasm.

[Ms. Toad]

51. My daugter does (age 27)

As does my spouse (age 65)

[kcr]

53. I've wondered about that.

I think signatures will just become print. When mine have to sign a form now, they just print their name.

[lagomorph777]

66. Checks?

Going forward, those aren't a thing.

Signatures will be biometric or digital.

My signature has never been the same twice. Nobody has ever questioned it. That tells you the value of a signature for identification.

[MFM008]

11. Maggots all around!

[Control-Z]

14. Well, I don't think Barron is.

And I doubt that is even his signature. Looks like whoever put that mess of a card together just faked a kid's writing in glue before sprinkling the gold glitter over it.

[BigmanPigman]

39. You're probably right.

I hold my dog's paw to make her sign cards as a joke(to other dogs...we have a lot of dog lovers around here). Barron's signature looks like Spike wrote it...or one of my former first graders who went wild with her sparkly glue pen. Definitely not an 11 year old.

[jmowreader]

44. It's not "gold glitter"

This is an example of (very, very bad - I can't imagine sending work out that looks this bad, and I've printed pawn tickets) thermography. It's a fun process. You print a job on an offset press, then before the ink dries you sprinkle it with a special powdered plastic before sending it through a heat tunnel. The plastic reacts with the wet ink and swells up. It's also the cheapest form of raised printing...every used car dealer in the world has his business cards printed this way. It looks cheap and tawdry because it is. So...it's perfect for Asshole's Christmas card. What the hell ever happened to just printing in black ink on 18-point Strathmore Bristol Vellum with a reproduction of a Currier and Ives watercolor or something on the cover? It looks classy and it doesn't cost that much. (Which may be the reason he didn't do it that way.)

[Ilsa]

15. I think Barron's signature may be typical for these days.

Kids don't do much cursive writing; they type and print.

Barron may not have great fine motor skills yet.

[4139]

4. Picking in kids is out of bounds....

... even if they remind you of The Shining 😮

[LastLiberal in PalmSprings]

20. Agreed. The joke could be made with just Ivanka's signature matching Trump's

That would refer to all the times Donnie Two Scoops has seemed to have written self-aggrandizing letters of support saying how he is he smartest, best and overall smartest person in the world, but put someone else's name on them. Or his letter from the crazy-looking doctor that says he'll be the healthiest person to ever be President. He also used to make phone calls while pretending to be his own publicist. http://1clickurls.com/L164CmK

It also references the idea that Ivanka is nothing but an eye-candy trophy wife who isn't smart enough to even sign her name.

The only thing missing is a photo of him holding the Christmas card up for everyone to see, like he does with Executive Orders. "Look what I did, Mommy!"



Baron should be totally off limits.

[dixiegrrrrl]

31. I think you mean Melania, as his wife? n/t

[LastLiberal in PalmSprings]

50. Oops! Melania is right. I guess I got Trump's legal wife confused with his fantasy one.

[TheCowsCameHome]

6. Yes. Eric and Donald Jr. are missing.

[LeftishBrit]

13. Not to mention Ivanka

[Mike Nelson]

7. Lol...

...looks like Crooked Donald signed for all...

[Glimmer of Hope]

27. Yes. I see it now.

[The Wielding Truth]

55. If this is the real card. It does.

[mercuryblues]

8. I finally have it figured out

Malaria's signature makes it obviously clear, She loves him, deeply. All those sour faces she makes is because the only way to get him to notice her is by acting and doing things like him, so he can see his reflection when he looks at her.

[riversedge]

10. gold plated. no surprise

[magicarpet]

43. Rather than 24carat gold ink...

They should have loaded watered down diarrhea in an ink cartridge and then signed it with that.

(Barron excluded).

[LeftishBrit]

12. Donald's and Melania's signatures look identical...

as though one signed for the other, or a staff member signed for both.

[TheCowsCameHome]

16. I thought it was their EKGs

Silly me.

[hatrack]

17. Not nearly flat enough . . .

.

[customerserviceguy]

25. I think you mean

EEG's!

[Dave Starsky]

60. I wish Diaper Don's EKG looked like that.

I hold out hope that Colonel Sanders will finish the job.

[lpbk2713]

18. The two adults' sigs look like they failed a polygraph.

Understandable.

[Thomas Hurt]

19. Huh? Are these the real cards?

What happened to having Christ in Christmas. Don't we need a crucifix or a manger and baby Jesus. If I were a fundie winger I would feel cheated after all the complaints about the shortcomings of O's Christmas cards.

[jmowreader]

46. The front is just the Presidential seal

[Raine1967]

21. Is this the WH 2017 Xmas card? eom

[dixiegrrrrl]

32. Yes, supposed to be. n/t

[trueblue2007]

22. what an UGLY ugly christmas card. Hideous

[BigmanPigman]

40. Consider the source.

[LisaM]

23. OMG, I think this is the real card!!!

I thought maybe someone had taken an old card of theirs and Photoshopped the 2017 in, but it appears that this is the actual card.

I have no words.

[Skittles]

26. the signatures of Donald and Melania look like KKK rallies

[underpants]

59. That's funny

[Sophia4]

28. Are there separate greetings for those among us who celebrate other holidays like

Hanukkah and others?

[dixiegrrrrl]

33. No clue. bet prolly not. n/t

[COLGATE4]

61. Yep. They say "Accept Christ or die" nt

[Shrike47]

29. Good thing the kid signed it or you would not know who it was from.

Vulgar, pretentious and totally ignoring millions of Americans of diverse faiths. Yep, that’s DJT.

[TeamPooka]

37. Donald signed for Barron.

[Puzzler]

38. Both top signatures look like they are by the same person...

... at least to my very untrained eye.

What do the real experts think?

(Not that this is a exactly of earth-shattering importance)


-Puzzler

[3catwoman3]

42. At the rate education/ literacy/ penmanship...

...are declining, we will be back to making our marks with an "X" before too long.

I feel like I am living in Haiti.

[radical noodle]

47. I think it's rather common

for people who think they're important, to have a signature that is distinctive and cannot be easily copied. The trump part of his and Melanie's signatures are not the same but they seem to have a similar structure. I bet she copied her style from him. Just a guess.

I've had employers with equally weird signatures.

[SoCalDem]

49. My 5 year old grandaughter's signature looks like that

My heart breaks for poor Barron.. I know his Mom loves him, but he always seems, to me at least, to be an accessory.

[renate]

54. I am being absolutely sincere when I say that I think it's sweet that they included Barron

I really truly do.

I've been inclined to like Barron ever since the inauguration when he was sweet and playing with one of his little nieces or nephews. I still like him.

There's no use pretending that his signature isn't more like that of a child a few years younger. But that's none of our business. (And I helped the teacher grade my son's classmates' homework when he was that age, and it's not dramatically different from what's typical, really.) I think it's really nice that it was included on the card anyway, since it's not representative of the image his father would probably like to present.

Thus endeth what is probably the last nice thing I will ever say about his dad.

[LisaM]

56. This card doesn't look as if it was even done by a professional company.

It looks like a title card from al TV show in the 1950s....very "I Love Lucy".

[syringis]

57. It hurts the eyes...

Not pleasant at all to watch, not enough contrast, not a very nice font, a bit pompous.

Melania and Donald's signature looks like they had their fingers in an electric socket...

[Ken Burch]

58. I suspect the gold filagree was obtained by extracting the teeth of Muslim child refugees.

[Dave Starsky]

62. Who are Dinah Dummph and Indian Jenny?

And why did they sign with Barron Trump?