Trump sends lawyers after teen for site where kittens can punch POTUS

[Miles Archer]

http://www.rawstory.com/2017/03/trump-sends-lawyers-after-teen-for-site-where-kittens-can-punch-potus/

A 17-year-old is the target of legal attention by President Donald Trump’s general counsel over a site where kitten paws bat around images of President Trump’s face, according to a report from the New York Observer.

As the Observer reports, the site’s creator, named only as Lucy, initially made the site as a way to practice her coding skills. But after a few weeks, the site received a cease and desist letter from President Trump’s general counsel in New York. The cease and desist letter, which the Observer confirmed, mentions that “as I’m sure you’re aware, the Trump name is internationally known and famous.”

Lucy changed the site from TrumpScratch.com to KittenFeed.com, but said the Trump team contacted them again. According to a Whois lookup, KittenFeed.com was created on March 2 this year. Lucy told the Observer she was dumbfounded by the attention from President Trump’s legal team.

“I was going to just let this go, but I think it’s, pardon my French, (f------) 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 told the Observer in an email. “Meanwhile, he tweets about The Apprentice ratings and sends out power-drunk tweets about phone tapping. HOW ABOUT BEING THE PRESIDENT?”

[LaydeeBug]

1. Trying to grab pussies anyway he can smh nt

[NastyRiffraff]

12. An early thread winner!

[Cha]

61. lol

[LaydeeBug]

62. why thankyouverymuch nt

[Honeycombe8]

25. +1+1! nt

[Lucinda]

43. ...

[Achilleaze]

54. +1,000

calling attention to this site with republican-russian style bullying is pretty damn dumb

[colorado_ufo]

92. I salute you!

[shenmue]

2. Meow

[denverbill]

3. 17 year old owns Trump!!

[wcmagumba]

4. I did it...fun...nt

[KewlKat]

5. The newest site is still up.

http://www.kittenfeed.com/

[calimary]

74. Not anymore.

Just tried it.

[Maraya1969]

91. I hope she spreads the information to her friends and they all put the same type websites up. Kind

of like how the Russian bots throw up so many propaganda sites in an instant.

[niyad]

86. just went there. still not up.

[MontanaMama]

6. Lucy wins the internet today!

From the mouths of babes...

[AgadorSparticus]

7. That man has the maturity of a 12 yr old. And he just got schooled by a 17 yr old.

How in the hell is he POTUS?!?!! DAMN EMBARRASSING.

[3catwoman3]

13. More like a 2 year old.

Apologies to 2 yr olds.

[mythology]

18. When I was 2, I threw a public temper tantrum

My mom left me there. I learned at 2 bring a brat wouldn't get me anything. Unfortunately at 70 Trump still needs to learn that lesson.

[3catwoman3]

28. There is a common recommendation in pediatrics...

Last edited Wed Mar 22, 2017, 01:45 PM - Edit history (1)

...that when your child throws a temer tantrum in a public place, like the grocery store, the parent should calmly and quietly abndon the shopping cart,t ake the child out to the car, and quietly say, "When you behave like this, we will leave."

Most kids figure it out pretty quickly.

[AgadorSparticus]

34. Yes they do figure it out quickly!!

I remember my daughter tried that tantrum thing once. It didnt work and she moved on. She learned very quickly...

[Pacifist Patriot]

46. Yep, each of my kids had exactly one public trantrum.

[BlancheSplanchnik]

71. I never did a public tantrum.

My mother did, though. Fairly often. Oy vey.

But then she was severely disturbed.

[calimary]

82. Yep.

You do NOT reward OR reinforce bad behavior.

Notice that trump's sent his lawyers out to protect his brand. Not so much that their target was posing ANY kind of actual threat to him. She's abusing his precious fucking brand forcryingoutloud. Horrible-Terrible-Incredible.

[NewJeffCT]

72. My daughter just turned 14

most of her friends - male and female - were far more mature a few years ago than Trump is now.

[0rganism]

8. looking forward to getting some Trump dogtoys

my dog demolishes all stuffed toys in minutes, thoroughly. she will shred anything used as a toy, including stout rope. ceaselessly, tirelessly, with boundless zeal and determination. thinks it's her job or something.

i might buy a dozen of those things and toss them to her during certain televised "speeches".

[erronis]

85. Be careful with that orange dye in the toys - I hear it causes insanity and infertility

As well as megalomania and short extremities.

[gopiscrap]

9. trump is such a thin skinned motherfucking idiot

[SCantiGOP]

23. I'm trolling here

I'm actually a Trump attorney. And our paralegals are on the way to see all of you on this thread with bigly law suits, beautiful lawsuits. Sad.

[niyad]

87. getting blood from stones should prove interesting.

[localroger]

99. You missed the exclamation point, faker. Sad! /nt

[Maraya1969]

101. ......

[procon]

10. That's really cute! Smart girls rule, Trump drools! nt

[IronLionZion]

11. In that case, make lots more sites like it!

Lots and lots and lots of sites. Have puppies punch him and eagles bite him and cows lick his hair!



Stand strong Lucy

[Augiedog]

14. Sissy gets punched by pussy. What next? Couldn't make this stuff up if my life depended on it.

[NastyRiffraff]

15. Site can't be reached

I hope they haven't forcibly shut her down.

The so-called U.S. president threatened by, and threatening, a 17 year old. This is a new low even for Dump.

[metalbot]

48. If they hadn't sent a cease and desist, nobody would know about it

Now it's getting traffic

[BlancheSplanchnik]

69. Vlad, Comrade Peepeepants' unrequited love, was enjoying it.

Dat make don don vewy angwy.

[Plucketeer]

16. OH SHIT!

Wait'll Trump's Brown Shirts stumble across DU !!!

[wcmagumba]

17. Just reached it...slow but opened

and allowed me to play.

[progressoid]

64. And you get to hear some peppy music too!

http://www.kittenfeed.com/

[retrowire]

19. It's EXACTLY how Putin punishes any form of degrading representation of him in the media!

EXACTLY.

[GoCubsGo]

20. What a thin-skinned bully.

Ain't you such a tough guy, going after a teen-aged girl? I'm surprised he isn't hitting on her.

[Barack_America]

21. This needs a GIF.

[Miles Archer]

42. Here you go

http://observer.com/2017/03/trump-cease-and-desist-kitten-punch-site/

[BlancheSplanchnik]

68. Oh thank you!

I can't get the site to open.

[Miles Archer]

70. Servers are probably overloaded since this reporting appeared.

At least we got a taste of the serious, grave threat this unpatriotic teen posed to our mighty Commander in Chief.

[BlancheSplanchnik]

73. Sargent SprayTan conducts sewious bizzness.

With his blocks and erector set. 😏

[Crash2Parties]

22. This is America. You sit in the Big Chair, citizens get to say bad things about you. It's the law.

When was the last time we had a POTUS who had absolutely no idea how American law works?

I mean, this isn't some obscure point, it's one of our founding principles...

[update: site is swamped. It would be wonderful if she'd package it so it could be mirrored *everywhere*. Streisand Effect and all that...]

[drm604]

24. A grown man... the freaking President of the USA...

throwing a temper tantrum against an American exercising her right to political speech. Pathetic.

He's asking to get shot down by the so-called "so-called courts" again.

[Honeycombe8]

26. Unbelievable. If Obama's team had wasted time doing that,

that's all they would've been able to do, since there was so much across the internet aimed at taking Obama down.

[Rhiannon12866]

44. Exactly!

POTUS is not a job for the thin skinned. He is unsuited for the job by temperament alone - not to mention having been the most unqualified candidate in history.

[Honeycombe8]

100. +1. nt

[svpadgham]

27. The Trumpscratch redirects to porn.

It's a Trump parody.

[Leith]

32. Some Webhosts Do That

I found out the easy way. I used to have a portfolio of websites I created. I was updating the main page to add a couple more and I made a typo in the HTML code. When I clicked on all the links to check them, that one went to porn.

I freaked! The main page had my best pages and my resume. Thanks to my caution, I horribly embarrassing incident was avoided. Always check everything before releasing.

[tblue37]

63. She renamed it "kittenfeed". nt

[cullen7282]

29. Isn't he a public figure now?

Does he still have legal standing regarding his name "brand"?

[LisaL]

31. Now?

He has been a public figure for a long long time.

[cullen7282]

35. I mean as a politician.

I would think that his rights to his image are not as strong as they would be as a private citizen.

[exboyfil]

58. Especially a President

Political speech trumps commercial speech (that is until he gets enough lap dogs into the Federal judiciary). I am pretty sure how I know how Justice (Stuff is more important than a life) Gorsuch would vote.

[Dem2]

30. Took a while to load

He got scratched up

[TeamPooka]

33. Trump is a public figure and does not have the same brand protections to his image that he had befor

[cullen7282]

37. Thank you.

That's the point I was trying to make earlier.

[SCVDem]

36. Whatever shall we do

About all the racist disrespectful crap many in Congress shared?

That's different?

Dump is a thin skinned loser.

[defacto7]

38. He sure likes to pick on the young ones...

Typical... go after the poor, the old, the weak, and children. This looks like a psychological disorder to me, maybe several. Bully is an overused word but in this case it sure fits. Prey on what seems easy. If it bites back... run.

[rpannier]

39. My guess is he would lose

He may be internationally known and famous, but he is (pretending) to be the President of the United States. He loses a lot of protections because of it.
Sounds like a frivilous lawsuit and intimidation

[pstokely]

45. they're going after ones who don't have high powered lawyers

they can't bully SNL through a letter like than can some random 17 year old

http://www2.ljworld.com/news/2010/mar/26/joe-collegecom-close-wednesday-settlement-talks-co/

[exboyfil]

59. I suspect lots of pro bono lawyers

out there ready to use standing to embarrass the current fake President.

[Warren DeMontague]

40. What a brave man.

you laugh, but kittens can be dangerous.

[dalton99a]

41. Worse than the Onion

as usual

[Crunchy Frog]

47. Sounds like a clear violation of the 1st Ammendment.

I hope there's someone whose going to fight this for her.

[jmbar2]

49. Agree - may be time for a fundraiser for legal fees.

Pussies have the right to scratch back in self defense don't they?

[DinahMoeHum]

50. Yep, this is about SATIRE, which is protected speech. . .

. . .under the First Amendment.

And this is a classic case of the Trump people standing on a brick to kick a duck in the ass.

[spanone]

51. president asshole.

[OldHippieChick]

52. Anything that might possibly lead to any profit, no matter

how small, heir Drumpf wants to own. I daresay if Lucy offered him a percentage the attorneys would back off.

[PoliticAverse]

53. "Kittens are attacking me? Sad!" n/t

[ananda]

55. Geezus, doesn't he have anything better to do ..

.. than play golf, hobnob with the Russians, and shut down
sites that have kittens in them?

Words fail.

[DinahMoeHum]

57. Grumpy Cat mocks Trump. . .

[democratisphere]

60. drumpf doesn't like pets or animals.

Probably having nightmares over Kitty's punching his ugly face.

[SunSeeker]

65. Unfuckingbelievable. Is the 1st Am suspended now?!

[Grammy23]

66. Well, if he didn't like getting slapped around by a kitten....

He is gonna really get his knickers in a twist over the chihuahua humping the stuffed tRump doll! Saw that on Facebook several times.

He better get his crack team of legal counsel busy shutting these people down before it can cause HARM to the respected tRump name.

[Akamai]

67. Her response appears to be very, very mature and insightful! I sure wish she was the President

instead of Trump.

That lawsuit is just ridiculous! Claiming that one's name is a "brand name" and therefore cannot be cited as a transparent way to avoid being criticized at all. I am sure that dumpster-Trump would not mind a bit if someone used his name and praised him.

Good for you, Lucy!

[lark]

75. "HOW ABOUT BEING THE PRESIDENT?

Oh, dear child, that's be way too much work for lazy, spoiled brat Drumpf.

[Gothmog]

76. Trump lacks a sense of humor

[littlemissmartypants]

83. More evidence of brain dysfunction.

In addition to just being an asshole. I call...

Witzelsucht

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Witzelsucht

[pkdu]

77. Gotta love www.archive.org

http://web.archive.org/web/20170322065245/http://www.kittenfeed.com/

[KewlKat]

84. thank you for the link. the game is there!

[bettyellen]

89. I enjoyed playing ! Thanks

[BlancheSplanchnik]

97. Heeee that was enjoyable.

[longship]

78. CA has an anti-SLAPP ordinance.

SLAPP = Strategic Lawsuit Against Public Participation. (Wiki)

In CA, folks who file SLAPP lawsuits are specifically disadvantaged in court. A good lawyer would have this suit dismissed quickly.

[niyad]

79. okay, that was creepy. went to kittenfeed. says not yet loaded. went to trumpscratch-

got a porn site!!



the orange madman has NO sense of humour. one of my favourite sites during chimpy's nightmare reign was the one when you could bounce and drag him all over the room.

[shireen]

80. Do you know who owns the NY Observer?

Trump's son-in-law, Jared Kushner

http://observer.com/2017/03/trump-cease-and-desist-kitten-punch-site/

[riversedge]

81. I was going to just let this go, but I think its, pardon my French, fucking outrageous that the pr

Love it!!



http://observer.com/2017/03/trump-cease-and-desist-kitten-punch-site/

............But what was meant as nothing more than a jokey website for coding practice has turned into a legal nightmare. Now Lucy is facing the wrath of the big man himself.

“I was going to just let this go, but I think it’s, pardon my French, fucking 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 told the Observer in an email. “Meanwhile, he tweets about The Apprentice ratings and sends out power-drunk tweets about phone tapping. HOW ABOUT BEING THE PRESIDENT?”................


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[Initech]

88. Trump is such a fucking bully!

[orangecrush]

90. Putinesque

Nasty bullying.

[bucolic_frolic]

93. 1st Amendment

There were always sites pummeling GWB

It's political speech

[skypilot]

94. A little over 74,000 visits to that sight...

...and 72,000 of them were TODAY.

[pansypoo53219]

95. no actual CLAWS seen tho.

[Jason433]

96. Bully

Trump thinks it's right to bully?

[ancianita]

98. Putin-style intimidation of Americans.