I do so hope that this does not happen, but it is on the drafting board and this is what it looks like. This is a mockup of a $1.00 coin featuring you know who. The excuse is that Trump’s second term happens when our nation’s 250th (and possibly last) birthday will be celebrated. And of course, ironically, In God We Trust will be on the coin which features Satan. Sigh.
“Despite the radical left’s forced shutdown of our government, the facts are clear: Under the historic leadership of President Donald J. Trump, our nation is entering its 250th anniversary stronger, more prosperous, and better than ever before,” a Treasury Department spokesperson said in a statement. “While a final $1 dollar coin design has not yet been selected to commemorate the United States’ semiquincentennial, this first draft reflects well the enduring spirit of our country and democracy, even in the face of immense obstacles.”
I’d just like to sneak in the fact that the “radical left” is completely out of power now. We don’t hold either chamber of Congress, nor the White House. So *we* did not shut down the government. The government, unified under the GOP, is so utterly screwed that even when it’s unified it can’t govern. And that’s nothing new. Remember March of 2017 when Paul Ryan was finally going to end “the nightmare that is Obamacare” — and all he came up with was Obamacare 1.5? Go read about it sometime, it’s a real howler. Back to defiling our currency.
Congress in 2020 passed bipartisan legislation, signed by Trump during his first term, that authorizes the Treasury Secretary to issue one-dollar coins during the 2026 calendar year. The design of those coins must be “emblematic of the United States semiquincentennial.”
Beach, who supervises the U.S. Mint, said in a post on X Friday that the administration would share “more soon, once the obstructionist shutdown of the United States government is over.”
Living people are rarely featured on U.S. money. Congress has imposed various restrictions on the ability of Treasury to feature living people and living presidents on currency. It’s not clear whether the latest Trump coin envisioned by the Treasury Department would run afoul of those laws.
White House press secretary Karoline Leavitt on Friday told reporters she wasn’t sure whether Trump was aware of the effort to put his likeness on a coin.
“I’m not sure if he’s seen it but I’m sure he’ll love it,” she said.
I don’t doubt that for a moment. What I fear is that he’ll demand that it not be a $1.00 coin but the paper dollar — or maybe all of the money, every single denomination.
Hey…I’ve an idea…let him die first. A spoonful of sugar helps the medicine go down.