Critics Blast Fed Panel Decision to Mint Trump Gold Coin for US 250th Anniversary Celebration
A federal commission tasked with approving designs for coinage has approved a 24-karat gold coin featuring President Donald Trump, flouting precedent regarding commemorating living presidents and possibly violating federal law.
The coin, formally meant to celebrate the 250th anniversary of the signing of the Declaration of Independence and the founding of the United States, shows Trump standing behind a desk, firmly pushing his two fists on top of it while giving a stern look in the direction of the coin holder.
The unanimous vote from the U.S. Commission of Fine Arts occurred on Thursday. The commission is composed entirely of people appointed by the president, following his firing of its former members last fall.
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I thought a coin of a living president was illegal?
Laws don’t matter anymore. Just do crimes.
Being gay is now optional, the crimes part is not
If they're ignoring the law then we can ignore the law against defacement and destruction of US currency, right? Melt them down? Carve Hitler staches or penises in his fists?
That's the neat thing about laws. You shouldn't, but you can apply them selectively.
I thought that law only applied to altering the face value or completely and intentionally destroying notes and coins.
I’m sure the magical consequences fairy will be along any minute now to address that.
Looks like the coin of some authoritarian banana republic, pretty much on point therefore.
He looks like Frank Underwood from House of Cards. That plus it being illegal to mint coins of a living president tells me The Reaper has a spectacular joke lined up.
The people that are agreeing to do this are such pussies.
Stop catering to this asshole.
This is why they were put there. He pushed all previous members out.
DOGE's job was to fire anyone who might resist, argue, or fight back. Classic fascist purge.
DOGE had nothing to do with this. Trump did it himself esrly this term.
They can’t even get a picture of him that doesn’t look like a looming threat.
More like a pathetic threat wannabe
Just look how tense his shoulders are, because of all his fear
Behold the Hunchback of Maralago!
That actually makes him all the more terrifying.
Always something to prove to distract from his tiny
dickhandsEpstein files.Yeah, a frightened animal will leash out, but it's also easier to estimate it's actions - even if those actions will be stupid (and I'm not sure if the orange idiot even needs to be frightened for that)
Still, we can handle and model that, and work against it - because it's always the fucking same pattern
Here he looks constipated
I genuinely thought it was Sasquatch.
$100 says these are gold plated and sold as solid gold.
A dollar says they're actually chocolate.
Chocolate covered diaper shit
A nickel says they're actually chocolate flavored wax.
Too healthy
Gross. Imagine having that ugly fat fucks face on a coin for our 250th anniversary... Shameful. Guess since he's the one that destroyed what we have, it makes sense.
Pedophile rapist conman no-class-having low life.
This dick head loves gold.
Seemingly everyone lacking aesthetic taste loves gold
How shitty do gold armatures look?
And those dumbasses love it
You just can't buy having taste...
I think he likes the jaundiced, urine, sepia look of any room filled with cheap trinkets encrusted cheap plating.
You could melt it to increase its value, but you know it won’t be made of real gold. Anything with that man’s approval is a lie.
Someone needs to add a child’s head poking out from under the table to make it more historically accurate.
Is this real? This looks fucking ridiculous.
"Blasts"
*sigh
I counter Blast with SLAM!
I counter slam with 🤮
And that's why you got fired from the WWE.
but why does he look like an angry chimpanzee?
Why wouldn't the coin look like him?
I'm surprised he was willing to share space on the coin with God. Narcissistic fuckwit.
ass pennies
They caught him mid-shart
“No kings” indeed /s.
It already has the death year of the US in its design, it should be trivial to make him eligible with a tactical covfefe hamberder.
Deploy it in the middle of June, and it will be a nice, round 80.
Proof that trump died.
ever wonder why every coin says "liberty" in some random spot? the coinage act of 1792 mandates that all coins must depict liberty because the US framers did not like "too monarch-like" effigies, so the people in the 1900s just called it a day by slapping onto Amerindians and historical figures the word LIBERTY
::: spoiler however, this precise design no longer follows this law, due to the placement of the mounted head making it instead a depiction of LIBFRTY /j :::
Angry coins
Guess I can get back into target practice with coins again and feel good about it.
Why so surprised?
Once again:
THIS IS A FASCIST COUNTRY!
This is the least of what will change. And you have at least 50 years of it.
they should use a penny instead, it's more realistic and no one wants it.
How viable is it to destroy enough of these to force their retraction or otherwise fuck up their records.
Wasn’t there also controversy re the 200th anniversary coin as well?
I say we acquire as many of them as we can, however we can, legal or not, and burn them, shit on them, or otherwise.
It’s pure gold, it won’t burn
...it should melt?
It will melt in a furnace, but not in a normal open fire.
But as everything retarded coming out of this country, nobody stops the pedofile anyways, from doing what he likes..