--- title: Steve Mnuchin: Yale Alums Call on Classmate to Resign description: Hundreds of alums from Yale's Class of 1985, the same Secretary of Treasury Steve Mnuchin graduated with, have called on him to resign canonical: https://time.com/4907740/steve-mnuchin-yale-class-resign-donald-trump/ author: TIME article:opinion: false article:content_tier: free article:published_time: 2017-08-19T14:08:43.000Z article:modified_time: 2026-08-04T07:54:09.217Z article:section: Politics og:title: Steve Mnuchin: Yale Alums Call On Classmate to Resign og:description: 'We are counting on you to do the right thing' og:url: https://time.com/4907740/steve-mnuchin-yale-class-resign-donald-trump/ og:site_name: TIME og:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/bltfedeb7546676ed86/6988da5e86f68e8dc56e611e/gettyimages-671240574.jpg?branch=production&width=3840&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=16:9 og:image:width: 1200 og:image:height: 675 og:image:alt: steve mnuchin resign yale og:type: article twitter:card: summary_large_image twitter:title: Steve Mnuchin: Yale Alums Call On Classmate to Resign twitter:description: 'We are counting on you to do the right thing' twitter:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/bltfedeb7546676ed86/6988da5e86f68e8dc56e611e/gettyimages-671240574.jpg?branch=production&width=3840&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=16:9 ---  # 'Do the Right Thing.' Steve Mnuchin's Yale Class Wants Him to Resign Over Donald Trump ## Video: President Trump Again Blames 'Both Sides' for Charlottesville Violence [Watch (HLS stream): President Trump Again Blames 'Both Sides' for Charlottesville Violence](https://cdn.jwplayer.com/manifests/EzwfOun0.m3u8) (1:32)  _Published 2017-08-15. President Donald Trump said Tuesday that anti-racism protesters bear some of the blame for the violent rallies in Charlottesville, returning to his original comments that "both sides" were responsible for the deadly clashes._ by [Lisa Marie Segarra](https://time.com/author/lisa-marie-segarra/) ## Lisa Marie Segarra Aug 19, 2017 2:08 PM UTC  U.S. President Donald Trump (L) listens as Secretary of Treasury Steven Mnuchin (R) delivers remarks in the US Treasury Department building. U.S. President Donald Trump (L) listens as Secretary of Treasury Steven Mnuchin (R) delivers remarks in the US Treasury Department building.Photograph by Shawn Thew—Pool/Getty by [Lisa Marie Segarra](https://time.com/author/lisa-marie-segarra/) ## Lisa Marie Segarra Aug 19, 2017 2:08 PM UTC Hundreds of alums from [Yale’s](http://time.com/4826721/yale-college-dean-resigns-yelp-reviews-june-chu/) Class of 1985, the same group that Secretary of Treasury [Steve Mnuchin](http://time.com/4832219/donald-melania-trump-mnuchin-wedding/) graduated with, have called on their former classmate to resign. “We call upon you, as our friend, our classmate, and as a fellow American, to resign in protest of President Trump’s support of Nazism and white supremacy. We know you are better than this, and we are counting on you to do the right thing,” [reads a letter posted online ](http://lettertostevemnuchin.com/)from more than 300 Yale alums. Matthew Countryman said he first proposed the idea in the Yale Class of 1985 [Facebook](http://time.com/money/4904454/americans-love-ordering-pizza-on-facebook/) page, where he was met with “instant” support, [according to CNN.](http://money.cnn.com/2017/08/18/news/mnuchin-letter-yale-classmates/index.html?iid=hp-stack-dom) The letter also notes that many Yale alumni have served in United States government in various positions, including as president without rarely, if ever, calling for a resignation. “We do so today because President Trump has declared himself a sympathizer with groups whose values are antithetical to those values we consider fundamental to our sacred honor as Americans, as men and women of Yale, and as decent human beings,” the letter added. The letter also makes a point of noting that the letter is not meant to be political saying, “We can be Republicans, Democrats, Libertarians, Greens, and a number of other things and still be friends, classmates, and patriots, but we cannot be Nazis and white supremacists.” ```json [{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"NewsArticle","@id":"https://time.com/4907740/steve-mnuchin-yale-class-resign-donald-trump/","mainEntityOfPage":{"@type":"WebPage","@id":"https://time.com/4907740/steve-mnuchin-yale-class-resign-donald-trump/"},"headline":"'Do the Right Thing.' 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