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- President Donald Trump sent a campaign fundraising email to his supporters on Tuesday, Jan. 13
- The email’s subject line read, “I’m alone and in the dark”
- Trump, 79, also wrote, “I’m dead serious: miss this goal and the MAGA Movement crumbles”
President Donald Trump sent out an unusual fundraising email to his supporters earlier this week.
Trump, 79, emailed his supporters just after midnight on Tuesday, Jan. 13, with the subject line: “I’m alone and in the dark,” as seen in the Archive of Political Emails.
Political commentator Harry Sisson posted screenshots of the email on X on Jan. 13, which quickly garnered 1.4 million views.
The email itself began with, “Some people are saying: This is SAD!”
“I’m sitting here. Alone. In the war room. Fighting for you,” he wrote.
“The rest of the staff went home hours ago. It’s just me, one dying laptop, and the 72-hour countdown clock to my first mid-month deadline of the year just RANG.”
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The president continued by saying the “radical Left” will flip the House and Senate in 2026 if the fundraising goal doesn’t “crush [his] first mid-month deadline of the year.” If this were to happen, Trump added in the email that the political left would “open borders forever,” confiscate firearms and make “your kids brainwashed.”
“And worst of all your favorite President (ME!) might just go through another FAKE impeachment!”
The email also claimed that Democrats are “spending BILLIONS (Dirty Money, I bet) to bury US and bury YOU!,” and that Trump “need[s] a small sacrifice from every red-blooded American who wants to save the country!”
“I’m dead serious: miss this goal and the MAGA Movement crumbles,” the email continued. He added if people donate $47 within “the next 30 minutes” of the email, they will receive a “limited-edition 2026 Trump Calendar,” but then said it’s “nothing compared to losing the country.”
A big blue button below the text read: “This is it. No second chances.”
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As the email concluded, Trump wrote that although “we have been fighting for years,” he fears “the end is near.”
“The woke mind virus is infiltrating more and more Americans every day. This could be our last chance!, ” the email concluded. “Do it for America, show them MAGA is strong!”
The email was sent one day before the president spoke with Reuters on Wednesday, Jan. 14, and suggested that the country should call off its upcoming midterm elections.
“It’s some deep psychological thing, but when you win the presidency, you don’t win the midterms,” Trump said, and boasted that the first year of his second term had gone so well that “when you think of it, we shouldn’t even have an election.”
The president’s comments come amid reports from The Lincoln Project that 18 House races have recently shifted in the Democrats’ favor, and the Senate is thought to be up for grabs as well.
The day after Trump’s Reuters interview, White House press secretary Karoline Leavitt attempted to walk back the president’s comments and insisted he was “joking” about doing away with elections. “He was speaking facetiously,” Leavitt said.
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However, the dismissal of electoral due process aligns with Trump’s repeated references to a third term in office, despite the Constitution explicitly forbidding it.
His efforts have extended to the sale of “TRUMP 2028” hats in the White House gift shop only a few months into his second term.
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