In yet another fit of petty vanity, Donald Trump wants to put his name on all of our paper money.
Would someone translate that from the Black Speech of Morgoth for the rest of us?
Don’t speak it aloud, though, I’m pretty sure it would summon calamity.
The U.S. Treasury Department plans to put President Donald Trump’s signature on all new U.S. paper currency, the agency announced on Thursday.
The move would be a first for a sitting president, since traditionally, U.S. paper currency carries the signatures of the Treasury Secretary and the Treasurer, not the president.
It’s the latest instance of Trump putting his name and likeness on American cultural institutions, following his renaming of the U.S. Institute of Peace, the Kennedy Center performing arts venue and a new class of battleships, among other tributes.
I can’t chisel his name off the Kennedy Center or the Institute of Peace, but I have an easy solution when he tries to scribble on the money in my wallet: I’ll scribble back. Every bill I get is going to have his name redacted. I’ve heard where some people are planning to add editorial comment, for instance, writing “PEDO” after his name. I don’t think I’ll be alone.
I don’t think the Treasury Department is prepared for the reality that all their paper money is going to be defaced very quickly.
United States of Trumpland/Donaldia?
Get TWO little rubber stamps for altering banknotes:
The PEDO after the pedo’s signature
AND one that says “EXCEPT FIREARMS” to apply to the part that says “THIS NOTE IS LEGAL TENDER FOR ALL DEBTS PUBLIC AND PRIVATE”.
Don’t be surprised if Trump, or some bootlicking idiot in his orbit, starts calling for Federal prosecution of every socialist poopyhead who defaces our precious Trump dollars. They’re gonna need SOMETHING to distract us from both the Iran fiasco and the Epstein files…
Since he famously dislikes the use of autopens, he should be made to sign each and every bill, including all paper currency, by hand.
Is this even legal?
Start the countdown for the lawsuits. 10 9 8 7…
I doubt if it is legal.
I missed where congress passed a law letting the US president design our currency.
This is like something out of the old USSR.
Are there going to be statues of Trump everywhere now?
I’ve a miscellany of old coins from various countries. Fascist Italy had Vittorio-Emanuelle’s profile. The Nazi German coins have the Eagle and Swastika but no picture of Hitler though the stamps of the period did. An 1876 Deutsches Reich 50 Pfennig doesn’t have Wilhelm 1 on it though Prussian coins of his reign did. No consistency but Trump will leave his mark of the beast fairly widely I’m sure.
I’ll keep it in mind, but then I remembered I don’t really use paper money all that often.
Next, once SCOTUS declares this legal, he’ll “ask” all the credit card companies to show their patriotism by adding his scribble to their cards.
Scribbliture, that’s the portmanteau I should have used…
I’ll settle for using just my credit and debit cards, coins for laundry, and older dollar bills, too.