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Senior Citizen Successfully Votes by Mail After Ranting Against Voting by Mail
Look! A mail-in voting success! Who would ever want to go on a years-long tirade against mail-in ballots and fight to make voting by mail more difficult? Oh yeah! That guy…
Donald Trump, the same person who said, “no more crooked mail-in ballots,” has successfully voted by mail in Florida, according to Palm Beach County records, in the special election between Emily Gregory (D) and Jon Maples (R) for the 87th District seat in the Florida State House. (Side bet, do you want to guess which candidate he endorsed?)
Since Trump was away from his primary Mar-a-Lago residence, he cast his ballot by mail. Look at our system at work! But hold on to your necks, because at a “Make America Safe Again” roundtable in Memphis on Monday, the president declared, “mail-in voting means mail-in cheating.”
Trump still refuses to let up on his fixation on painting mail-in ballots as fraudulent, including holding Congress for ransom until they approve his SAVE America Act. The bill, which Trump said would “guarantee the midterms,” would add hurdles for people who’ve had a name change (married women, divorced women, trans people, etc.) and also restrict the universal mail-in ballot system.
“As President Trump has said, the SAVE America Act has commonsense exceptions for Americans to use mail-in ballots for illness, disability, military, or travel—but universal mail-in voting should not be allowed because it’s highly susceptible to fraud,” White House spokesperson Olivia Wales said in a statement, even though election experts have long agreed that Trump’s claims of fraudulent mail-in voting are baseless.
Ultimately, he wants to eliminate mail-in voting entirely and has begged Republicans to add another provision to the bill. But if the SAVE America Act is passed, as is, if someone wanted to vote by mail (regardless of whether they’re senior citizens, military, disabled people, etc.), they would have to include a copy of their photo ID both when they request a ballot and when they return it.
“As everyone knows, the President is a resident of Palm Beach and participates in Florida elections, but he obviously primarily lives at the White House in Washington, D.C. This is a non-story,” Wales continued. Oh, this is a non-story? I don’t think so. A non-story would be how, at the same Memphis roundtable, Trump had Kash Patel and Stephen Miller go back and forth trying to out-compliment him. Is it highly embarrassing? yes! But a non-story nonetheless.
Miller: What President Trump is doing is a national miracle that will be studied not only for generations but for centuries to come.
Trump: Kash, see if you can top that.
Patel: Mr. President, thank you for delivering the safest country on God’s green Earth pic.twitter.com/G8HTyAcVd8
— Acyn (@Acyn) March 23, 2026
There are so many layers of irony at this point that my brain might implode. Here’s Trump, a guy with the resources and means to access his polling place in-person, choosing to vote by mail out of convenience, while fighting to take away the mail-in voting for people who actually need it.
His obsession with voting is confirmation that the people’s voting power frightens those sitting in the White House, which is why, from the moment he took office last year, they have been gearing up to take it down. Mail-in ballots might seem on the surface like a small enough hill to die on, but if it wasn’t important, they wouldn’t try to take it from us.