Trump’s Signature to Appear on U.S. Paper Currency
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Via: hallux • 8 months ago • 7 commentsBy: Alyssa Lukpat and Richard Rubin - WSJ
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The Trump administration is putting President Trump’s signature on new U.S. paper currency in a first for a sitting president, the Treasury Department said Thursday.
The department said Trump’s name would appear alongside that of Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent in honor of the country’s 250th anniversary later this year.
“There is no more powerful way to recognize the historic achievements of our great country and President Donald J. Trump than U.S. dollar bills bearing his name,” Bessent said.
The U.S. treasury secretary and treasurer typically sign currency.
The administration has made several other moves to imprint Trump’s name and image around Washington, D.C. and on official items.
A banner featuring Trump’s visage hangs from the Labor Department building. The U.S. Mint has proposed making a commemorative gold coin featuring the president, a rare step for a sitting American leader, and officials have floated making a $1 coin with Trump’s face on it.
Administration officials added his name to the Kennedy Center in Washington, which was created as a memorial to slain President John F. Kennedy. Trump’s name also appears on the U.S. Institute of Peace.
GOP lawmakers seeking to score political points with the president have proposed bills to make his birthday a federal holiday and rename Dulles International Airport after him. Democrats said the shows of loyalty were a distraction.
A federal panel this month approved the design for the gold coin , which features a grim-faced Trump on the front and an eagle on the reverse. Typically, U.S. presidents don’t appear on coins until after they are dead, though Calvin Coolidge was on a coin celebrating the country’s 150th anniversary.
The watchdog group Citizens for Responsibility and Ethics in Washington said sitting presidents don’t sign currency because it is tied to the concept that money comes from the treasury, not a monarch.
“There’s a sad irony to saying it’s being done to honor the 250th anniversary of declaring our independence, because it is a symbol of the very thing we were declaring our independence from,” said Jordan Libowitz, a spokesman for the group.
Trump rose to fame with branding that put his name on hotels, golf courses, vodka, steaks and clothing. The approach has carried over into the presidency.
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One would need an experienced mountaineer to scale that ego.
... fitting, since trump is bound and determined to make american money worthless.
it seems as though trump supporters live to lick the ass of their imperial president and cult leader ...
Trump must have the anal orifice of a sanitized clean room...oh wait, on second thought the amount of sickly sycophant's and forever fealty felonious freak side phallic symbol show stoppers and meat and balls ploppers, it's more like a disease infested petri dish for all of the nastiest STD's and bacterial infections that scare stuff deep in the earth under rocks.
The first thing a new POTUS needs to do is tear his fckn name off EVERYTHIG, with the exception of an extremely nasty Prison, where all the corrupted fcks from his administration could live out their daze, cause these corrupted fckrs gotta pay
you don't warehouse toxic shit, you burn it or bury it in the desert ...
He invented the word "egregious".
The proper use of Trump and paper -
.... but, how can you tell if it hasn't already been used before?