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silence7@slrpnk.net to politics @lemmy.worldEnglish · 1 day ago

Treasury Department Has Plans To Mint Dollar Coin Featuring Donald Trump's Likeness

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Treasury Department Has Plans To Mint Dollar Coin Featuring Donald Trump's Likeness

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silence7@slrpnk.net to politics @lemmy.worldEnglish · 1 day ago
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Treasury Department Has Plans To Mint Dollar Coin Featuring Donald Trump's Likeness | Defector
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The United States Department of the Treasury has developed, to the brink of production, a dollar coin that features the face and likeness of President Donald Trump, according to a source within the Treasury who spoke with Defector, and as first reported by Fox Business. The die, a stamp that presses the design onto the…
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    Does this mean he’s gonna die? Cause in the Untied States, you’re supposed to die before your face can be on coins.

    In Canada, we put the current monarch’s face on coins. Does this mean Trump is fixing to declare himself king?

    • silence7@slrpnk.netOP
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      No. They just took the part about there being a law against coins and bills with the image of a living person off the Treasury website.

      An explanation of the legislation on an archived page from the Treasury’s website noted that the act “was caused by an uproar over the actions of the chief of the Bureau of Engraving and Printing, Spencer Clark,” who had “placed himself on a five-cent note and had a large quantity of them printed before it was noticed.”

      That webpage has been removed from the Treasury’s website.

      • FreshParsnip@lemmy.ca
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        Is that how the Untied States changes laws now? Just editing the books? No need for court decisions or debating bills in congress?

        • silence7@slrpnk.netOP
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          Not even the law books; just the government websites which acknowledge that the law exists.

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    I a couple decades this will be illegal to own just like nazi memorabilia, and for the same reasons.

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    The Thayer amendment, added by a Republican representative to a federal appropriations bill in 1866, states explicitly that “no portrait or likeness of any living person shall be engraved or placed upon any of the bonds, securities, notes, or postal currency of the United States.”

    Maybe the rumors of bad health are true and they’re getting ready 🤞

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      Law, what law?

      An explanation of the legislation on an archived page from the Treasury’s website noted that the act “was caused by an uproar over the actions of the chief of the Bureau of Engraving and Printing, Spencer Clark,” who had “placed himself on a five-cent note and had a large quantity of them printed before it was noticed.”

      That webpage has been removed from the Treasury’s website.

      A Treasury spokesman did not immediately respond to a request for comment about the legality of featuring Mr. Trump on the coin.

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      I hope so too, but I’m sure it’s just sycophants doing sycophant stuff.

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    “In god we trust”

    That is very poorly placed

  • schnapsman@lemmy.world
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    The sleaze is spreading

  • Gates9@sh.itjust.works
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    USD should be changed to CRNG on the trading markets

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    Fixed

    • qualia@lemmy.world
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      Swastika is mirrored…

      • ThePantser@sh.itjust.works
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        Flag flying the other way?

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    Ass Pennies.

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    What in the living hell. Fight fight fight?? Please. The money is trump propaganda.

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    Grifters gonna grift.

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    What The Fuck?!

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    What a way to instantly devalue a coin.

  • RampantParanoia2365@lemmy.world
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    I will melt that down before it touches my pockets

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    I don’t expect to ever happen across one of these from a normal transaction, but on the off chance I do, it’s getting a swastica stamped onto the forehead.

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    So pathetic and so not Christian.

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