U.S. Treasurer Brandon Beach confirmed in a social media post that the draft coin depicting Trump is real. Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent shared Beach's post.
  • 4am@lemmy.zipEnglish
    7·
    9 hours ago

    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

  • webp@mander.xyzEnglish
    3·
    9 hours ago

    … Did an AI generate those pictures, or just an amateur or…? 🤣

  • Aceticon@lemmy.dbzer0.comEnglish
    10·
    14 hours ago

    Surely a 30 cent (or maybe 70 cent or some other not really believable and pretty much useless) coin value would better represent Trump.

    • ouRKaoS@lemmy.todayEnglish
      3·
      3 hours ago

      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.

  • FreeMindFreeAss@lemmy.worldEnglish
    7·
    15 hours ago

    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.

  • melsaskca@lemmy.caEnglish
    5·
    16 hours ago

    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.

    • Aljernon@lemmy.todayEnglish
      11·
      2 hours ago

      Maybe but they do illegal things all the time and no one is a position to stop them does anything

      • Kairos@lemmy.todayEnglish
        1·
        2 hours ago

        Okay so we should all just give up then? Act like laws don’t exist? Just let him?

    • Xraygoggles@lemmy.worldEnglish
      9·
      21 hours ago

      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).

      • skisnow@lemmy.caEnglish
        4·
        20 hours ago

        I don’t know much about the law, but it feels like the ‘Fight fight fight’ side is overtly party political.

  • hcf@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
    33·
    1 day ago

    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.

    • echo@lemmy.tfEnglish
      4·
      1 day ago

      There’s already shitloads of ads out there for privately minted Kuck rounds