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Greening the reflecting pool. He put his name on the Kennedy Center. Partial demolition of the White House. Battlefield on the White House lawn.
Even his face is on some people’s passports!
Donald Trump’s latest tribute to himself is in America money. And no, we don’t just mean high prices.
The commemorative symbol is a $1 gold coin featuring his face, ostensibly to commemorate America’s 250th anniversary.
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This week, the Trump regime unveiled the final design for what is supposed to be a commemorative symbol of America’s 250th.
It is a gold coin worth one dollar, The Guardian details.
One side is fairly straightforward, reading “United States of America” and “One Dollar” around the Great Seal of the United States.
The other side bears an approximation of Trump’s face, giving him more hair and less face and neck than the real thing.
Next to his stern face was clearly written: “In God We Trust.” This is on all the money, Constitution be damned, but it seems a bit rude when placed next to Trump’s rough cut.
The U.S. Mint will begin issuing a $1 gold coin bearing the image of President Trump, Treasury Secretary Bessent announced.
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— Steve Herman (@newsguy.bsky.social) July 15, 2026 at 6:56 am
Obviously there are a lot of issues with this.
The first is that no living president in US history has been depicted on coins in this way while alive. It’s beautiful too especially illegal.
In 1866, the Thayer Amendment prohibited the appearance of any living person on “the bonds, securities, notes, or postal currency of the United States.”
However, there was a close call on a 1926 half dollar coin, which depicted then-President Calvin Coolidge alongside President George Washington. Coolidge was alive at the time, but it was a commemorative coin – apparently an exception.
In 2005, the Presidential One Dollar Coin Act specifically banned any coin bearing the “portrait of a living former or sitting president.”
No one will stop him?
Two years ago, SCOTUS effectively declared that Trump was a king of sorts.
In recent years, the court’s conservative majority has consistently ruled that Trump, specifically, has broad executive powers and is largely immune from prosecution for actions he takes while in office.
It turns out that Nixon was partly right: in the eyes of these six individuals, if the president did that, it would be a mistake. no illegal.
(Of course, this is the same crowd that said Biden can’t forgive student loans. These broad executive powers apparently don’t apply to every US president.)
We mention this to point out that Trump does this because he does not expect to get into any trouble because of it. His comrades help him for the same reason.
One funny piece of information about these hideous little tokens is that they are not actually gold coins.
Despite the initial concept, the revised version is just a gold edition.I finish. Just like Trump’s hideous redesign of the Oval Office and other aspects of the still-standing parts of the White House.
(To be fair, at the current value of gold, there would have been a rush to obtain these items and then melt them down – albeit illegally – if they were pure gold. Alas.)
Like the Greenwater scandal in The Reflecting Pool, this seems to be just heavy-handed symbolism about Trump and his harmful influence on the United States in every way.
Probably no one can stop him from printing all the ugly gold coins he wants. And perhaps, as with his meme coin that generated ten-figure profits, sycophants and sycophants will rush to scoop it up.
