First of all, let me apologize to the readers at Daily Kos for this grotesque image. I had originally put a blur effect on it, but I don’t want to get visited by men in masks for further investigation after delivering subpoenas to Daily Kos for my identity as they may consider it a “terroristic threat.”
This ain’t no Franklin Mint scam. The US Treasury is planning a coin featuring the visage of Donald Trump in a maneuver more reminiscent of a King or Kim Jung On. They intend it to be legal tender, although many legal questions remain. My wonderful Senators Jeff Merkley and Ron Wyden et al, are proposing legislation, dubbed the Change Corruption Act, to clarify the law and ban the likeness of any sitting or living President. It is expected that Sen John Thune will not allow a vote.
Right now the coin is “commemorative.” Whether it could be circulated as legal tender seems to be an open issue. If anyone has clarification, please comment below.
I am astounded by “In God We Trust” under his image. Is it meant as irony or not? Another outstanding question is if the coin will have an orange patina.
You may see the back of the coin here… www.cnn.com/...
Sens. Jeff Merkley (D-Ore.) and Catherine Cortez Masto (D-Nev.) introduced legislation Tuesday to prevent President Trump or any sitting or living former president from being featured on U.S. currency, a bill that would thwart the U.S. Treasury’s plan to issue a commemorative $1 coin with Trump’s image on it.
The bill, titled the Change Corruption Act, is cosponsored by Democratic Sens. Ron Wyden (Ore.) and Richard Blumenthal (Conn.) and states: “No United States currency may feature the likeness of a living or sitting President.”
thehill.com/...
You have to have had a MAGA prefrontal lobotomy to see this as a patriotic expression of American values.
I am sure the educated readers at Daily Kos are aware of, and baffled by, the constant references to our Founding Fathers espousing values that are antithetical to their beliefs, e.g. “they were Christians,” proffered by “conservatives.”
One veteran numismatist seconded the idea of featuring Mr. Trump on a coin, notwithstanding American tradition. “I think George Washington would approve,” said Anthony Swiatek, the author of an encyclopedia of commemorative American coins. “Because of all that President Trump has accomplished.”
Douglas Brinkley, a professor of history at Rice University and the author of several books about the presidency. He said that the country’s 250th anniversary should celebrate the American republic and its people. Having the sitting president appear on a semiquincentennial coin, he said, only feeds “the cult of an individual perpetrated by that same individual” — exactly what Washington was intent on avoiding.
He added, “It is anti-American at its core.”
www.nytimes.com/...
