Trump's Committee on the Arts and the Humanities put a secret message in their resignation letter

There is a secret message waiting for readers of this resignation letter, penned by the members of the President's Committee on the Arts and the Humanities:

The first letter of each paragraph spells "RESIST," keen-eyed readers on Twitter discovered. Kal Penn, who sat on the committee, confirmed the Easter egg was intentional.

The entirety of the President's Committee on the Arts and the Humanities resigned Friday over Trump's handling of the protests in Charlottesville, Virginia. "We cannot sit idly by, the way that your West Wing advisers have, without speaking out against your words and actions," the committee wrote. "Ignoring your hateful rhetoric would have made us complicit in your words and actions. We took a patriotic oath to support and defend the constitution of the United States against all enemies, foreign and domestic."

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Other eagle-eyed readers might have caught one other awkward thing about the letter: As Soledad O'Brien points out, first lady Melania Trump is the committee's honorary chair.