IN AN effort to practise her coding, a 17-year-old girl from San Francisco designed a silly website about kittens. The online world is filled to the brim with content about cats, so it seemed like a harmless and inconsequential exercise, right?

Well evidently US president Donald Trump disagrees.

Lucy is the young girl behind the website called kittenfeed.com but despite its modest traffic, it has attracted the ire of her commander in chief.

That’s because the only thing the website offered visitors was the ability to virtually scratch at photos of Mr Trump’s head using the paws of a kitten.

The teenager built the website in February for a laugh while applying for web developer jobs, she said. It was originally called trumpscratch.com but a few weeks ago she received a cease and desist letter from The Trump Organisation, according to Observer which claims to have seen the letter.

The document informed Lucy that her website infringed on the “internationally known and famous” Trump trademark.

But even the name change to kittenfeed.com has not been sufficient to appease Mr Trump’s lawyers and Lucy has reportedly been sent a second threatening letter because the site harboured a link that took users to an Amazon page where they could buy an anti-Trump T-shirt.

Lucy — like many others on social media since the story broke — has been left bewildered by the actions of the Trump Organisation.

“I really just want people to be aware that this is a president who’s clearly more concerned about what people think of him than doing things of substance,” she told Hollywood Reporter.

“The fact that as president he still has teams going around bothering to shut down silly sites like mine is outrageous.”

The so-called leader of the free world has a lot of issues to deal with — a nuclear North Korea, controversial national healthcare reform, an FBI investigation into his team’s ties with Russia, climate change and an increasingly emboldened China, just to name a few.

But his team has clearly still found time to sweat the small stuff.

“Literally all my site is, is punching him with kitten paws. A president should not have the time or care to hire people to shut sites like mine down,” Lucy said.

She has complied with the requests of the letters but has taken a further swipe at her billionaire president by adding a new tagline to the website: “Trump seems tough at first, but he gets weaker with every scratch.”

However at the time of writing, the website has been taken down.

Thx Trump for keeping us safe: I haven't been able to sleep knowing there's a teen on the loose w/a site devoted to kittens punching Trump. — Bill Madden (@activist360) March 22, 2017

Teen made website where kittens punch Trump. So, Trump unleashed his lawyers

Because Trump only likes to grab pussies that don't punch back — Paul Lander (@paul_lander) March 22, 2017