Q&A for How to Contact the President of the United States

You will have to talk with the congressperson who represents your congressional district, and then go through a three-month background check. Then you may qualify to meet the POTUS, and maybe the First Lady as well.

You will get a faster response using email then regular mail.

Use the White House website to send a message to the President. The site even states that this is the fastest way to contact POTUS.

In most cases, a staff member will respond. In very special cases, the President himself may respond.

It depends on how you send your correspondence. Using social media makes your message available to the public. Sending a letter by regular mail keeps your information private. However, be aware that White House staff members will have access to your message, and if you send something inappropriate or threatening, other agencies are likely to get involved.

Yes, they are real. Call the number listed and you will be able to speak to a staff member at the White House.

Probably not. Unless the President has a special reason to speak to you, you will probably get a staff member instead.

Yes, but it would be very unlikely you would get in contact with the president himself. You will most likely get a response from a staff member, or no response at all.

Generally, the president replies to messages with a default letter thanking citizens for taking the time to write and reminding them that the administration was elected to work for the people. Therefore, you should expect to see some sort of reply to that effect.

You can formally invite him by contacting him via letter and giving him your school's address. Make sure that your principal and teachers agree, but don't be disappointed if he doesn't come. He is a very busy man.

The White House's address is 1600 Pennsylvania Avenue NW, Washington, DC 20500.

There probably is such a number, but it certainly isn't given out to civilians. You will have to go through staff to contact the President.

It could be a week, a month, a year, or maybe even never. The President receives thousands of letters and has countless other things to attend to. If you do get a response, it will usually be from a staff member.

Yes and no. The White House is a publicly administered facility, so it is open to the public and it is possible to take a tour of the facility, provided that you schedule a tour in advance with the relevant group responsible for hosting the White House tour. That being said, seeing the president on the tour is rather unlikely for a variety of reasons, foremost among them security concerns and scheduling conflicts, since the president spends a lot of his time out and about.

Yes, you can. Be forewarned though that using FedEx doesn’t guarantee that you will get a reply, it only guarantees that the letter will be tracked to the White House and that you’ll have confirmation that someone at the White House received it.

Use the White House website to contact a staff member. You can also call the White House to get in touch with a staff member. Explain your request over the phone to be directed to the appropriate person.

You can email him through the White House website (whitehouse.gov). It is unlikely that the President himself will read the message, but it is worth a try.

It is considered "safe," but whether or not you trust the government's safeguards is up to you.

Assuming you are referring to a digital means of contacting the president, the simplest solution would be to switch to a hard copy and mail a letter the old fashion way. Alternatively, if you are committed to sending your letter digitally, you may consider taking what you want to say and working it down to 2,500 characters or less by trimming, rewording, or otherwise omitting bits and pieces of your letter.