Donald Trump's sneering face must be kept off America's currency

[Yo_Mama_Been_Loggin]

On a hiking trip in Kenya, some years back, I tuned into Nairobi TV.

Its news broadcasts began with the inevitable nine words: “His Excellency The President, Daniel Toroitich arap Moi, said (or declared) today…”

Displays of the leader, and his visage, are the stuff of which dictators are made. As our democracy marks its two hundred and fiftieth anniversary, Donald Trump is thrusting himself at us. Our new Gilded Age is taking on indisputable tackiness.

To celebrate the country’s semiquincentennial, the U.S. Mint is turning out a 24 karat gold commemorative coin featuring the visage of our wannabe dictator, glowering as if pained by bone spurs. Trump is leaning forward, as he is in a display at the National Portrait Gallery. A smaller $1 Trump coin will soon go into circulation.

https://www.nwprogressive.org/weblog/2026/03/donald-trumps-sneering-face-must-be-kept-off-americas-currency.html

[Deuxcents]

1. If TSF turns up on our legal tender, paper or coin, I will refuse it and demand an exchange

I don’t speak his name in my house, I turn the mute on all the time these days and I’ll be damned if I’m gonna carry around his image in my pocketbook

[Permanut]

3. I think the mute button may be saving our sanity..

For Mrs. Permanut and me.

[Deuxcents]

4. Me, too. I have the remote in plan view and close when the tv is on

[sinkingfeeling]

2. I liked it better when only dead people's images were allowed on currency.

[hermetic]

5. Dead or not

I will forever refuse to have his face, or name, on anything in my home.

[tanyev]

6. It should be pretty easy to avoid.

I hardly ever use cash anymore.

[FakeNoose]

7. I predict this coin will be cancelled as soon as Chump is out of the White House

Collectors might want them but surely nobody else will.

If he manages to finish his 2nd term (an iffy prospect) he will be hated as much by January 2029 as he was in January 2021.