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Treasury weighs minting $1 coin with Trump's face for U.S. 250th anniversary

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Treasury weighs minting $1 coin with Trump's face for U.S. 250th anniversary

www.cnbc.com /2025/10/03/trump-face-coin-treasury-dollar.html

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There's only one rule about whose faces can appear on currency in the US: the person has to be dead.
- I mean, I can tolerate a $1 Trump coin if the stipulations are met....very very soon.
Why the fuck not. The US didn't make it to 250; it's year 1 of post-US. Might as well.
But we're not a cult...nosiree. No cult here.
I hate this timeline.
- The good news is this is illegal.
  The bad news is Republicans probably don't care.
  
  Explain more
  
  Illegal? They've never heard the word.
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.
This is illegal unless he dies
- Oh! Then I support this coin!
  
  Yeah honestly at this point I want to see more unhinged shit so we can laugh at the history books.
- Yeah. I’m sure it being illegal will stop this.
- So is him running for a third term, but his office is filled with “Trump 2028” hats.
- Since when during this admin was legality considered?
  
  Just because some part of the U.S. government ignored the law doesn't mean the entire U.S. government ignores the law.
- Only after he's been dead for 2 years or more can his visage be printed on a U.S. coin.
  
  How do we know he hasn’t been Grok in a wig this whole time?
- I'm not quite sure about this one. I think that the current design on the reverse is an issue. But the front doesn't seem to break any laws.
  I'm assuming they print these under subsection Y of 31 U.S. Code § 5112 - Denominations, specifications, and design of coins. Which pertains to these 250th anniversary coins.
  The part I see mentioned in this thread frequently applies to a separate subsection (n) for a run of $1 presidential coins that has since ended.
  If you just read subsection Y in a vacuum, they are good to go. This part at the bottom though says that the reverse can't be a 'portrait'.
  So this isn't really slam dunk illegal, but I don't think that the draft of the coins reverse will make it to print. I would fully expect the front to come out just like that though based on my interpretation.
  (aa)Standards and General Provisions for Circulating Collectible Coins Under Subsections (x), (y), and (z).—
  (1)Prohibition on certain representations.—
  No head and shoulders portrait or bust of any person, living or dead, and no portrait of a living person may be included in the design on the reverse of any coin under subsections (x), (y), and (z).
  
  I don't know much about the law, but it feels like the 'Fight fight fight' side is overtly party political.
- They may be expecting that.
- If he does… I’ll happily approve of this coin.
- Maybe but they do illegal things all the time and no one is a position to stop them does anything
  
  Okay so we should all just give up then? Act like laws don't exist? Just let him?
Personality cult says what?
Whiskey Tango Foxtrot...
It was a good experiment that ended with Trump. Fitting.
Automatically devaluated to $zero.
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
Bleak.
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
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.
  
  A perfect match for the character of the man whose face would be on the coin!
What is one more felony? Perhaps someone can be found guilty and sentenced to no punishment.
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 we ever done this with a sitting president ever? This has such “great leader” vibes.
- No we haven't because we explicitly made that illegal for that very reason
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.
- It makes me think of every high school football marching band, with their "fight song" BS
- Drill a hole through his head.
Kings and queens have legal tender with their face on it during their tenure...
When is the official coronation of trump scheduled? 2027?
How about we reopen the government and release the Epstein files first?
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.
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.
... Did an AI generate those pictures, or just an amateur or...? 🤣
- The Orange Overlord himself, most likely.
"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.
Great idea .... no better way to celebrate how stupid this country has become than by sharing another dumb image of this idiot.
That date range seems about right.
not a cult!
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?
So... how easy would these be to load in a shotgun?
Asking for a friend. Who appreciates irony.
- Shocking easy and a whole hobby on itself
What is the most orange alloy? Copper gold? They should make it out of that.
I know one way this wouldn't be a thing...
I will literally throw any coins with that dipsticks face on it in the trash...
Anyone remember when Americans were up in arms because Clinton wanted his face on the 20?

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