There's only one rule about whose faces can appear on currency in the US: the person has to be dead.
this post was submitted on 04 Oct 2025
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I mean, I can tolerate a $1 Trump coin if the stipulations are met....very very soon.
How about printing his face on the Epstein Files instead
His face is already all over those files!
Someone will make a press that puts epstein in there.
Why the fuck not. The US didn't make it to 250; it's year 1 of post-US. Might as well.
Personality cult says what?
This is just bait for people to point out that it's illegal to commemorate a living president.
At which point they'll feign "oopsies" and—surprising absolutely nobody—proceed to roll out a Charlie Kirk coin.
There's already shitloads of ads out there for privately minted Kuck rounds
Whiskey Tango Foxtrot...
But we're not a cult...nosiree. No cult here.
I knew it, Steven Miller has been “Weekend-at-Bernie’s”-ing him for two years and so now he’s eligible to have his face on money
Automatically devaluated to $zero.
What is one more felony? Perhaps someone can be found guilty and sentenced to no punishment.
Surely a 30 cent (or maybe 70 cent or some other not really believable and pretty much useless) coin value would better represent Trump.
I'd say a 47¢ coin would be perfect. Plays into his ego, impossible to do math with so no one would actually use it, and it's a few cents short of a normal functioning thing.
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Bleak.
If such a coin exists ever exists, I hope all of them end up with deep scratches across the face.
Also, “Fight fight fight” sounds more like the Itchy and Scratchy theme song than some democratic saying.
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It was a good experiment that ended with Trump. Fitting.
Kings and queens have legal tender with their face on it during their tenure...
When is the official coronation of trump scheduled? 2027?
NO living person should be commemorated on a coin, regardless of political ideology.
Hopefully, this abomination will go over about as well as the Sacajawea dollar coin.
I loved those coins. Super easy to use in vending machines that could take them. Way better than fucking around with an old paper dollar.
"FIGHT FIGHT FIGHT"
Sounds like inciting violence to me.
Given that it doesn't meet the legal requirements for currency but they would be passing it off as real money, it sounds more like counterfeiting to me. One more charge to add to the list.
One time I came home drunk at night and had a campfire out back. For some reason, I had the urge to burn a few dollar bills that I had in my pocket, I think because money was such a concern for me at the time and the simple act of burning a few of these life-tickets upon which we all depend felt freeing.
Now this, I would invest in a torch and smelting pot for these ones. Or stamp Epstein on the other side and leave them strewn about.
Have them commission a trump trillion dollar coin to get the nation back on it's feet again and end the shutdown. His ego would love that idea and the rest of the country could get on with their business.
Nah, its too heavy, dont bother. He is a cunt anyway.
[...] it was long-standing tradition to only feature portraits of deceased individuals on currency and coin.
That tradition became law with an 1866 Act of Congress
Does the treasury department know something that we don't about events that may or may not happen before the anniversary?
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