Despite clocking in at the biological age of 73, Donald Trump’s mental, emotional, and developmental age is more on par with that of a small child. We know this because for most of his presidency, he’s acted less like the leader of the free world and more like a cranky toddler, from the time he thought he could just buy another country (and threw an epic temper tantrum when he was informed that’s not how any of this works) to his obsession with starting a “space force” to his unbridled joy at getting to pretend to ride in a big rig in front of the White House and honking the horn like a real-life trucker. So, really, it’s not that surprising to learn that in the midst of an unprecedented health and economic disaster, Trump demanded that his name appear on the $1,200 stimulus checks being sent to struggling Americans, despite the fact that the absurd request may delay the distribution of the funds.

The Washington Post reports that the Treasury Department has ordered Trump’s name be printed on the checks the Internal Revenue Service is scrambling to send to millions of Americans, a process “that could slow their delivery by a few days,” senior IRS officials said. For those of you wondering if this is a normal ask, the answer is no, it is 100% not. First, because most presidents are grown-ups, and second, because these things are supposed to be nonpolitical. “It’s absolutely unprecedented,” Nina Olson, who spent 18 years as the National Taxpayer Advocate, told reporter Lisa Rein, recalling that when the Bush administration launched a $168 billion stimulus package in 2008, the checks were signed by a Treasury official, and when the White House asked in 2001 to include in a letter to taxpayers receiving economic rebate checks that Team Bush was responsible for “giving you your money back,” the IRS commissioner refused. Chad Hooper, who serves as national president of the IRS’s Professional Managers Association, called the move “an abuse of government resources,” adding, “In this time of need for additional resources, anything that takes our focus from getting those checks out the door and hampers the equitable, fair administration of the tax code is not something we can support.”

Unfortunately, Hooper and other rational people don’t get to decide, and because this administration is mostly stocked with lackeys, the president’s demand, however ridiculous and counterproductive it may be, is moving forward.