As a sop to the monstrous ego of our president, the US Mint is issuing a Trump coin this fall. It’s ugly, even if they used artistic license to clean up his decaying face.
Of course it’s a fake gold color.
Daniel Phelps informs me that the only president who had his portrait on a coin while he was alive was Calvin Coolidge; ominously, the Great Depression hit shortly after he left office, so let’s hope that’s not predictive. Julius Caesar was assassinated shortly after his ego prompted him to issue a coin with his face on it, so maybe that’s the correlation to hope for.
If I somehow got one of these things, I’d immediately turn around and ask for a dollar bill instead. If I couldn’t get a quick refund, if I’d have to hang on to it for a while, I have access to all kinds of acids and a Dremel tool. It would not return to circulation unmarred.
What would you do if given one of these abominations?
“What would you do if given one of these abominations?” Coolidge and Julius were too early, missing the easiest yet most effective defacement for a tyrant’s coin: A Hitler toothbrush mustache. I think you’ll be seeing a lot of them with one.
I am like you. I would refuse to accept it. In the event that they didn’t have dollar bills, I would request four quarters.
Is that from his mug shot or is it merely a product of his perpetual scowl? Why is he always so angry? Discomfort due to festering bowel movements in his square pants contraption? Realizing Barack Hussein Obama will always be his better no matter how hard he tries to sully the guy? Wondering if Putin will ever divulge that damaging kompromat on him? Anger over what Vance keeps doing to the couch in the Oval Office?
Would it be wrong to draw a toothbrush mustache along his upper lip using a Sharpie, Trump’s favorite tool of exaggeration? Asking for a friend.
Hemidactylus: Black nail polish sticks to coins better than Sharpie. Years ago, a friend painted a bunch of quarters with nail polish, and I kept seeing the painted coins around for years.
Failing that, there are a lot of inexpensive engraving tools available that should be suitable for adding a permanent moustache. I’ve seen “pen style” engravers for as little as $8, not that much more than a Sharpie.
I’d have it affixed to the porcelain in my toilet bowl so I could $#!+ on it every day.
Somebody needs to manufacturer some punches for defacing Trump coins. Add Hitler style mustaches, googly eyes, pig snouts, pig ears etc.
This coin is also probably illegal.
US law prohibits putting the face of living people on US currency.
The Trump regime doesn’t care about Rule of Law and what is illegal or legal.
They just routinely break the law and then see if they get away with it.
So, the coin is illegal and they went ahead and made it anyway.
Legal or not, it is definitely tacky and malicious.
It won’t circulate much or for long.
Americans aren’t used to dollar coins and there have been a few and they never circulated for very long.
Sell it to a magat for $10. Rinse, repeat.
Another example of how out of touch Trump is. Who uses dollar colins in the US? No one as far as I can tell. In Canada we’d be forced to see his ugly mug every day if the Canadian Mint made a dollar Trump coin, since we use them regularly. In the US they’ll end up in proof sets and so on and never leave drawers.
put him on the three dollar bill.
Ooops, gotta add that no one uses dollar coins in the US either. Dollar colins are even less used.
I’d just hit the obverse repeatedly with a ball peen hammer. Literal defacement — completely legal, and so gratifying.
“What would you do if given one of these abominations?”
Target practice.
glue it in the right place, instead of a bee image. Finally, he would be useful to society…
Good coin for a wishing well. I know what my wish would be.
I have a Y2K Sacagawea $1 coin. I use for shopping carts.
Hemidactylus @3: It really is from his mug shot. He’s adopted it as a kind of semi-official portrait. Apparently he thinks it makes him look tough and defiant or something, instead of like, you know… the criminal he is.
A liar, a thief, a conman, a sleazebag, a philanderer, a pedo, a multiple bankrupt, a meteorologist with a sharpie, a misogynist, an Obama hater, a know it all, an “I don’t know him/her”, an “it wasn’t to pay employees for work done, an employer of porn stars for “piece” work, an evader of legal bills, a tax cheat, a secrets hoarder, a king and a snake oil salesman walk into a bar, not just any bar but the most wonderful, bigly bar, everybody says so.
The greeter tries to masquerade her 10 as a 2 to avoid the inevitable handshake between the legs. She meekly asks “a table for one?”
Western quick draw artists should use it as a target to shoot out of the air.
It has a ‘face value’ of one dollar. And, the face on it isn’t worth even one dollar. And, it’s just another arrogant ‘two-bit’ idea of tRUMP. (all puns and insults intended.)
I’m thinking that I would demand a full refund, leave what I was buying behind, and go shop somewhere else.
Perhaps if enough of us refuse to even touch the coin, and their businesses begin to suffer, the business owners will also begin to refuse the coin.
I might accept a 1 cent coin with DJT in a Mussolini outfit. Bald, pouting, taking one of those ridicilous poses BM used when making a speech.
That off-gold colour makes it look like a chocolate coin, but not even dollar-store quality chocolate. I’d say carob, but that’d be demeaning to carob. And the foil would probably discolour your fingers as you try to pry it off, anyways.
@Hemidactylus, # 3: He thinks it makes him look determined and resolute.
Great news! You can buy them from the US Mint for $1.44 each! And they’re guaranteed to have a $1.00 face value!
I have a micromotor handpiece and entire array of grinding and polishing bits. I think I would turn him into a rams-horned grim reaper or zombie shitler . Since the silver base metal will be exposed after reshaping it could look rather artful in two-toned bas relief. Plus the image would provide an interesting juxtaposition with the ‘In God we Trust’ motto.
A perfect symbol for the tyranny of late stage capitalism.
Since the Mint is selling them for more than a dollar, it would be foolish to use one as actual currency.
You can get a really cheap set of needle files from multiple retailers if you merely want to add a little mustache or remove his face entirely.
https://www.harborfreight.com/needle-file-set-12-piece-56743.html
CNN – Trump $1 coins out of stock hours after going on sale
People are quite silly. I just looked.
Collector/investors are obviously bound to be disappointed.
But hey, saps will be saps.
The U.S. Mint confirmed that exactly 250,000 of the 2026 Donald J. Trump $1 coins were struck with a special “July 4th” privy mark*, and has placed packaging limits on rolls and bags, but there is no official cap on the total mintage of the coins themselves.
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* https://bullionexchanges.com/blog/july-4th-privy-trump-dollar-surfaces-ahead-of-official-us-mint-issue
O, tackiness! Thy name is Trump!
Of course, Trump is about money and power, not good taste. He must have figured this can be parlayed into more money for him.
If these coins are anything like the other cheap tat Trump has hawked, he’s probably cut corners and had the metal adulterated with something unpleasant like antimony and arsenic. Keep them away from goldfish bowls. Don’t let small children put any in their mouths.
Rich, it is utterly trivial to check. How lazy of you!
(https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Presidential_dollar_coins)
Given that they cost more than their face value there is, mercifully, probably little chance of encountering one in the wild. Although etching a Hitler moustache on one would be very satisfying.
Melt it all down and made into parts for the toilet.