Federal law prohibits putting any living people on U.S. coins.
“As America commemorates 250 years of independence, the US Mint will begin striking this new $1 gold coin to honor the enduring legacy of liberty and a lasting symbol of patriotism,” Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent wrote Wednesday morning. “Featuring President Trump, it celebrates the strength of American values, and the promise of a nation dedicated to preserving freedom for all.”
This move is technically illegal, as 31 U.S. Code § 5112 proclaims that no coin shall “bear the image of a living former or current President,” until at least two years after their death. The Circulating Collectible Coin Redesign Act of 2020 also holds that living people cannot appear on the back of a coin. The Trump administration is trying to skirt those laws by arguing that the Circulating Collectible Coin Redesign Act allows the president to create memorial coins to celebrate America’s 250th.
A Treasury Department spokesperson told Axios the coin is already being made and will be released this fall. This move is technically illegal, as 31 U.S. Code § 5112 proclaims that no coin shall “bear the image of a living former or current President,” until at least two years after their death. The Circulating Collectible Coin Redesign Act of 2020 also holds that living people cannot appear on the back of a coin. The Trump administration is trying to skirt those laws by arguing that the Circulating Collectible Coin Redesign Act allows the president to create memorial coins to celebrate America’s 250th.
A Treasury Department spokesperson told Axios the coin is already being made and will be released this fall.
89 Comments
kboos1@lemmy.world · 49 pts · 34d
It's tradition to place a past hero on currency to honor them. This reeks of insecurity and desperation to be remembered as anything other than a pedo.
dual_sport_dork@lemmy.world · 46 pts · 34d
It's not just tradition. It's illegal.
(Edit: The legality, or lack thereof, is covered in the body text. I'm just saying. Tradition doesn't enter into it here.)
Tolookah@discuss.tchncs.de · 19 pts · 34d
We had Bitcoin, now we have pedocoin
kreskin@lemmy.world · 2 pts · 34d
Already have pedocoin: https://tr.okx.com/en/price/pedocoin-pedocoin
DarkFuture@lemmy.world · 10 pts · 34d
He's so desperate.
Leaders are remembered for the good or bad they do. He objectively hasn't done any good, so he's just going to be remembered as a felon rapist pedophile. That's his legacy and there's nothing he can do to change that.
Whostosay@sh.itjust.works · 2 pts · 34d
There's a reason why Google made search shitty without LLMs, it's to control information. Once you have that control, who's to say he didn't ever take a shit or piss, or ever golfed without always hitting a hole in one?
Zephorah@discuss.online · 35 pts · 34d
This is some Caligula level shit that has nothing to do with liberty or American values.
DarkFuture@lemmy.world · 34 pts · 34d
Illegal.
Not that it matters in this unlawful shithole.
I would destroy every one of these I came across. It's just a dollar. They'll end up becoming a rarity. Like collecting Nazi paraphernalia.
corsicanguppy@lemmy.ca · 10 pts · 34d
Scratch the face up (think: sidewalks and other rough concrete) and swap it at the bank for paper.
.... In theory...
wirebeads@lemmy.ca · 29 pts · 34d
Celebrating pedophiles by putting its face on everything. America is fucking gross.
lIlIlIlIlIlIl@lemmy.world · 4 pts · 34d
Yeah because America wants this.
Very honest and nuanced read of the situation, very well done.
DarkFuture@lemmy.world · 12 pts · 34d
America voted for it.
It's not like he was hiding his true self until after he was elected. It was all on the table. We even had him as president once already. And America voted for it again.
This is America.
Whostosay@sh.itjust.works · 1 pts · 34d
I'm honestly not convinced we did
lIlIlIlIlIlIl@lemmy.world · -5 pts · 34d
Compared to a shithead cop who didn’t win a primary. Context matters, of course - especially with statements lacking nuance
corsicanguppy@lemmy.ca · 10 pts · 34d
... Someone who fucking wasn't trump.
I cant believe this is a hard concept to get. Ignoring the fact that she had a clear record as a prosecutor - not a cop, if you still need to hate them - and of community leadership, of course, but that seems to have been lost when you were convinced somehow that she wasn't the least-worse option
OUT
OF
TWO.
Like, my dog can choose between 'cookie' and 'no cookie', but you struggle with his one. Really?
lIlIlIlIlIlIl@lemmy.world · 3 pts · 34d
I share your frustration. No fucking shit - anyone here with a brain was shocked. You don’t think we’ven been living the nightmare you’re describing? How fucking dense must you be to think that brow beating someone on your same side could do any good?
We are in agreement - it’s shocking and horrible that he won, even compared to an astoundingly shitty choice
stylusmobilus@aussie.zone · 4 pts · 34d
Yeah, they do
They vote these lunatics in, repeatedly. This one is there because the people put him there
It is nuanced; the problem is a lack of responsibility and an unwillingness to take that responsibility on behalf of the US, not a lack of nuance from observers outside.
Take some fucking responsibility.
lIlIlIlIlIlIl@lemmy.world · 1 pts · 34d
For voting against fascism? Then fine I take full responsibility
stylusmobilus@aussie.zone · -1 pts · 34d
I’m sure you do for your own vote.
The struggle is the country taking responsibility for its collective selfishness, then expecting individual understanding from those outside which Americans don’t offer themselves.
Wrufieotnak@feddit.org · 2 pts · 34d
Im not seeing people disposing him and his Junta. So yeah, USA sure isnt not wanting it strong enough
lIlIlIlIlIlIl@lemmy.world · 5 pts · 34d
Yeah, the people who love guns are also the timid weirdos who love to lick boot. So a percentage of us want this very badly, that’s for sure.
But I’m not getting shot for this by myself on a cold Tuesday morning. Any other ideas? I’m open to literally any of them
crystalmerchant@lemmy.world · 28 pts · 34d
Full dictator shit
SCmSTR@lemmy.blahaj.zone · 2 pts · 34d
Aladeen Bucks.
FreshParsnip@lemmy.ca · 17 pts · 34d
Wait, that's illegal
modus@lemmy.world · 4 pts · 33d
So is sodomizing pre-teen girls and burying their room-temperature corpse on your golf course.
Colonel_Panic_@eviltoast.org · 2 pts · 33d
Get in line mate.
medicsofanarchy@lemmy.world · 13 pts · 34d
If they delay releasing the coin until he's been dead 2 years, we could see it released in July 2028 if we're very lucky.
ulkesh@piefed.social · 1 pts · 34d
I hope he chokes on the coin and asphyxiates while people stand around and just watch.
But sadly the universe seems to want to give us the shittiest version of itself by allowing this asshole to continue living.
Colonel_Panic_@eviltoast.org · 1 pts · 33d
The universe is still punishing us for killing Harambe.
Ariselas@piefed.ca · 10 pts · 34d
shouldn't it be a $13 coin, so it matches his preferred age of victim?
TemplaerDude@sh.itjust.works · 10 pts · 34d
Hilarious how he’s just making a fool of the entire country at this point.
some_designer_dude@lemmy.world · 6 pts · 34d
This point?
As for this coin… I wouldn’t accept it as legal tender.
SCmSTR@lemmy.blahaj.zone · 4 pts · 34d
UR FASCIST MONEY ISN'T ANAY GOOD HEAH. NAH GIT OUTTA MAH SHOP. NA. GIT.
Catma@lemmy.world · 9 pts · 34d
You know what? Fuck it. Just rename everything after him.
US Dollar = A Trumpie
USA? Not anymore fucker its the Trump Trump of Trumps.
Think you live in New York? Nope. We just renamed it New Trump.
Want to Visit Yellowstone? Dont you mean Trumpstone?
numbermess@fedia.io · 6 pts · 34d
It says so right here in the Trumpstitution and the Trumplaration of Trumpdependence you libtard, get a brain u morans
Whostosay@sh.itjust.works · 2 pts · 34d
Thanks I fuckin hate it.
First part made me chortle
SharkAttak@kbin.melroy.org · 9 pts · 34d
But not putting coins inside living people...
Wataba@sh.itjust.works · 3 pts · 34d
Someone call Magneto.
TheHotze@lemmy.world · 2 pts · 34d
Or Kelsier. I've heard he really doesn't like rich people.
AmidFuror@fedia.io · 9 pts · 34d
RandAlThor@lemmy.ca · 8 pts · 34d
Now we know where to look when we want to piss on his face. Give new meaning to "golden shower".
FreshParsnip@lemmy.ca · 8 pts · 33d
Although it's a victimless crime, it's still alarming that they can just blatantly ignore the law for Trump. What next? Ignoring election laws?
UnderpantsWeevil@lemmy.world · 7 pts · 33d
Laws are only worth something if they're enforced. Trump's been Teflon his entire adult life, whether he was doing coke and real estate frauds in the 80s or embezzlement and racketeering in the 90s or child sex trafficking in the 00s or President Crimes in the 10s and 20s.
Biden's AG looked into Trump for four years and came back with "There's literally nothing we could possibly prosecute him for so we won't even try." And this was a guy who got nailed on 34 counts of whatever it is Alvin Bragg indicted him over (paying off a prostitute with campaign donations, I think?) in a trial that ended with no actual punishment being assigned.
Like, whatchagonna do? Laws are clearly for little people. Trump (and Musk and Eric Prince and Ron DeSantis and Bill Gates and Robert Richards IV and Prince Andrew and - really - anyone with the correct volume of money and power) can do whatever they damned please. Nobody is going to stop them.
lilacintheshade@lemmy.zip · 2 pts · 33d
I used to be hopeful that mechanisms for structural reform would prevail, but the wealthy seem hellbent on welding shut all the safety valves and unplugging the control panels to get a surge of power without anyone being able to stop them. Or even know how long before everything goes critical.
But my centrist, apolitical friends don't seem worried. I'm sure it's fine.
Sunflier@lemmy.world · 6 pts · 33d
They literally attacked the Capitol
FreshParsnip@lemmy.ca · 2 pts · 33d
But ultimately, the election results were upheld in the end. I'm imagining a scenario where the democrats win and it's simply ignored and MAGA stays in power anyway
Sassinake@mastodon.social · 2 pts · 33d
@FreshParsnip @Sunflier
Alex Garland made an excellent movie exploring the consequences of a President that refuses to concede defeat.
Sunflier@lemmy.world · 0 pts · 33d
They're announcing their plan to fuck with voting tonight
FreshParsnip@lemmy.ca · 1 pts · 33d
Did you reply to the wrong part of my comment? Yes, I'm aware they're going to fuck with the election, WHICH IS EXACTLY WHAT I'M SAYING THEY'RE GOING TO DO! that doesn't change the fact that the January 6th attack failed and Biden still became president. The election results weren't ignored in the end. I'm agreeing with you that they're going to be ignored in the future, that was my point to begin with
SalmonTractor@discuss.tchncs.de · 4 pts · 33d
They are already ignoring the Constitution and many other laws. This is not new. It is just more.
Colonel_Panic_@eviltoast.org · 3 pts · 33d
We already are. Jan 6th... He can't legally hold any public office after that.
MajorasTerribleFate@lemmy.zip · 2 pts · 33d
Not sure I'd quite call it victimless. We use the choice of who or what to commemorate on cash and coins as a way to culturally recognize the collective value we as a society place on people, places, events, etc. By hijacking a new coin, Trump is removing our ability, at least for a time, to celebrate someone or something more meaningful. It's a kind of softer victimization, but it's not harmless.
DarkSurferZA@lemmy.world · 7 pts · 33d
Well, the only way this coin becomes legal is for a very specific thing to happen.
Also, man, I sure hope this coin becomes legal...
JennyLaFae@lemmy.blahaj.zone · 6 pts · 34d
I feel like it's a good time to invest in those old penny press machines, just for novelty sake
GarboDog@lemmy.world · 6 pts · 34d
Will the coins be made of gold? Or of any useful metals? Asking for our hungry furnace
pneumaticFax@lemmy.world · 5 pts · 33d
Just a heavy coat of spray tan.
GarboDog@lemmy.world · 1 pts · 33d
discocactus@lemmy.world · 6 pts · 34d
🤮
CombatWombat@feddit.online · 5 pts · 34d
In Canada, they call their one dollar coin a loonie as a tribute to the figure on the coin. We'd have to spell it a bit differently, but the US should do the same thing for the same reason.
northernlights@lemmy.today · 5 pts · 34d
Let's just call it a "pedo".
RedEyeFlightControl@lemmy.world · 6 pts · 34d
The pedollar
SaltySalamander@fedia.io · 5 pts · 33d
Easy enough to deface.
notsure@fedia.io · 5 pts · 34d
...it is a federal crime to deface currency..
kreskin@lemmy.world · 3 pts · 34d
its a crime to deface the flag too, but that doesnt stop the cops doing it with their fascist blue line flags.
agamemnonymous@sh.itjust.works · 2 pts · 34d
Only with fraudulent intent, like trying to pass it off as a higher denomination. Artistic modifications are perfectly legal, or those penny crank machines would be illegal.
notsure@fedia.io · 1 pts · 34d
do i need to add a /s to this, fuck...
Sanctus@anarchist.nexus · 4 pts · 34d
Its always the Donvict Stare they choose to put on everything. It mirrors that ridiculous architecture from Mussolini's HQ.
Monument@piefed.world · 4 pts · 34d
Me, someday soon:
Spending an afternoon with a hardened punch and several rolls of these. Or my desktop CNC.
Modify to “In Pedo we rust” or just grind the same area flat and engrave “Trump rapes kids” into each one?
agamemnonymous@sh.itjust.works · 3 pts · 34d
Who's gonna actually read it? Don't waste the effort. Swastikas are dead simple to CNC, or punch
swab148@lemmy.dbzer0.com · 2 pts · 34d
I might get one of these machines and learn how to use it, just for this
darthsundhaft@piefed.social · 3 pts · 34d
So they stopped making pennies so that we could have any equally if not more than useless coin? Remind me again why that fucker still breathes?
Colonel_Panic_@eviltoast.org · 2 pts · 33d
We're being punished for killing Harambe.
floquant@lemmy.dbzer0.com · 3 pts · 33d
*All does not include anyone who is not a white male
CitizenKong@lemmy.world · 3 pts · 33d
Rich white male.
Colonel_Panic_@eviltoast.org · 1 pts · 33d
Terms and Conditions Apply, not valid in all areas, not available in all colors.
stretch2m@infosec.pub · 3 pts · 34d
I don't know who that is supposed to be on the front of that coin, but he's about 40 kg too skinny
kreskin@lemmy.world · 3 pts · 34d
Any coin made of gold that worth a single US dollar is going to be microscopic. Are we making coins for ants? Or will we just spend 8000 per coin "worth 1 dollar" and let trumpers buy them all and melt them back down to gold?
klugerama@lemmy.world · 5 pts · 34d
I'm sure it will be gold plated, like the Sacagawea dollar.
YouTalkinToMe@lemmy.wtf · 1 pts · 34d
We have to expect its gold painted with Home Depot paint.
SCmSTR@lemmy.blahaj.zone · 2 pts · 34d
Gold plating can be WAY thinner than that. I think modern techniques can be like half a micron or even less, and that's if you use pure real gold.
But that's beyond the point. Why is he introducing fucking coins, again? And, what are we gonna do with this wasted garbage once he leaves office? These things are out in the world. Immediately cancel the entire program, government capture it all, let collectors have their way, and move on?
YouTalkinToMe@lemmy.wtf · 2 pts · 33d
I did gold sputtering myself, it can be a few nanometer if needed. But gold paint doesn’t contain any gold, at most some copper particles.
The reason? Another grift, what else?
SCmSTR@lemmy.blahaj.zone · 1 pts · 33d
Did the gold phone end up being even gold plated?
SaltySalamander@fedia.io · 2 pts · 33d
From what I've read, gold-colored plastic.
SCmSTR@lemmy.blahaj.zone · 1 pts · 33d
Jfc srsly? Lmaooo
Sunflier@lemmy.world · 1 pts · 34d
The coin says $1, but the treasury usually sells those types of coins for a few grand to the numismatic people.
corsicanguppy@lemmy.ca · 2 pts · 34d
Well Canada has its 1$ Loonie, so America will replace its Sacajaweas (which replaced SusieBs?) in subway change with this loser's face?
Given he's a two-bit con-man, I woulda thought he'd be on the quarter.
Brainstorming lightning round: Call it the queso peso. Bucktard? Cheetoken? Pedollar? Chump change?
Yep. Call them Chumps.
AnotherMadHatter@lemmy.world · 1 pts · 34d
Get a small tool steel stamp made with whatever phrase you would like to stamp everyone you come across.
EchoCranium@lemmy.zip · 1 pts · 33d
I was thinking about using an engraving pen to etch PEDO across Trump's face. I would be fine with putting those back out into circulation.
AnotherMadHatter@lemmy.world · 1 pts · 33d
I like that idea too. I just have terrible handwriting, and I want people to understand what I wrote, and not just be like "Wow, who let a 5 y/o scratch this coin"... 😂