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Treasury Unveils New $1 Gold Coin With Trump’s Face on It (newrepublic.com)

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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.

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[-] kboos1@lemmy.world 46 points 1 week ago

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 43 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago)

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 18 points 1 week ago

We had Bitcoin, now we have pedocoin

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[-] DarkFuture@lemmy.world 10 points 1 week ago

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.

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[-] Zephorah@discuss.online 34 points 1 week ago

This is some Caligula level shit that has nothing to do with liberty or American values.

[-] DarkFuture@lemmy.world 32 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago)

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.

[-] wirebeads@lemmy.ca 30 points 1 week ago

Celebrating pedophiles by putting its face on everything. America is fucking gross.

[-] lIlIlIlIlIlIl@lemmy.world 11 points 1 week ago

Yeah because America wants this.

Very honest and nuanced read of the situation, very well done.

[-] DarkFuture@lemmy.world 13 points 1 week ago

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.

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[-] Wrufieotnak@feddit.org 6 points 1 week ago

Im not seeing people disposing him and his Junta. So yeah, USA sure isnt not wanting it strong enough

[-] lIlIlIlIlIlIl@lemmy.world 5 points 1 week ago

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

[-] stylusmobilus@aussie.zone 5 points 1 week ago

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.

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[-] crystalmerchant@lemmy.world 27 points 1 week ago

Full dictator shit

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[-] FreshParsnip@lemmy.ca 17 points 1 week ago

Wait, that's illegal

[-] modus@lemmy.world 4 points 1 week ago

So is sodomizing pre-teen girls and burying their room-temperature corpse on your golf course.

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[-] medicsofanarchy@lemmy.world 12 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago)

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.

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[-] Catma@lemmy.world 11 points 1 week ago

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 points 1 week ago

It says so right here in the Trumpstitution and the Trumplaration of Trumpdependence you libtard, get a brain u morans

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[-] Ariselas@piefed.ca 10 points 1 week ago

shouldn't it be a $13 coin, so it matches his preferred age of victim?

[-] TemplaerDude@sh.itjust.works 10 points 1 week ago

Hilarious how he’s just making a fool of the entire country at this point.

[-] some_designer_dude@lemmy.world 6 points 1 week ago

This point?

As for this coin… I wouldn’t accept it as legal tender.

[-] SCmSTR 4 points 1 week ago

UR FASCIST MONEY ISN'T ANAY GOOD HEAH. NAH GIT OUTTA MAH SHOP. NA. GIT.

[-] SharkAttak@kbin.melroy.org 9 points 1 week ago

Federal law prohibits putting any living people on U.S. coins.

But not putting coins inside living people...

[-] Wataba@sh.itjust.works 3 points 1 week ago

Someone call Magneto.

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[-] RandAlThor@lemmy.ca 8 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago)

Now we know where to look when we want to piss on his face. Give new meaning to "golden shower".

[-] FreshParsnip@lemmy.ca 8 points 1 week ago

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 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago)

it’s still alarming that they can just blatantly ignore the law for Trump

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.

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[-] Sunflier@lemmy.world 5 points 1 week ago

What next? Ignoring election laws?

They literally attacked the Capitol

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[-] SalmonTractor@discuss.tchncs.de 4 points 1 week ago

They are already ignoring the Constitution and many other laws. This is not new. It is just more.

[-] Colonel_Panic_@eviltoast.org 3 points 1 week ago

We already are. Jan 6th... He can't legally hold any public office after that.

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[-] DarkSurferZA@lemmy.world 7 points 1 week ago

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...

[-] GarboDog@lemmy.world 6 points 1 week ago

Will the coins be made of gold? Or of any useful metals? Asking for our hungry furnace

[-] pneumaticFax@lemmy.world 5 points 1 week ago

Just a heavy coat of spray tan.

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[-] notsure@fedia.io 6 points 1 week ago

...it is a federal crime to deface currency..

[-] kreskin@lemmy.world 3 points 1 week ago

it is a federal crime to deface currency

its a crime to deface the flag too, but that doesnt stop the cops doing it with their fascist blue line flags.

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[-] discocactus@lemmy.world 6 points 1 week ago

🤮

[-] JennyLaFae 6 points 1 week ago

I feel like it's a good time to invest in those old penny press machines, just for novelty sake

[-] CombatWombat@feddit.online 6 points 1 week ago

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 points 1 week ago

Let's just call it a "pedo".

[-] RedEyeFlightControl@lemmy.world 6 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago)

The pedollar

[-] SaltySalamander@fedia.io 5 points 1 week ago

Easy enough to deface.

[-] Sanctus@anarchist.nexus 4 points 1 week ago

Its always the Donvict Stare they choose to put on everything. It mirrors that ridiculous architecture from Mussolini's HQ.

[-] kreskin@lemmy.world 4 points 1 week ago

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 points 1 week ago

I'm sure it will be gold plated, like the Sacagawea dollar.

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[-] Monument@piefed.world 4 points 1 week ago

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?

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[-] floquant@lemmy.dbzer0.com 3 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago)

The strength of American values and the promise of a nation dedicated to preserving freedom for all*.

*All does not include anyone who is not a white male

[-] CitizenKong@lemmy.world 3 points 1 week ago

Rich white male.

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[-] darthsundhaft@piefed.social 3 points 1 week ago

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?

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[-] stretch2m@infosec.pub 3 points 1 week ago

I don't know who that is supposed to be on the front of that coin, but he's about 40 kg too skinny

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