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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 49 points 2 months ago (3 children)

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 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months 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 2 months ago (1 children)

We had Bitcoin, now we have pedocoin

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[–] DarkFuture@lemmy.world 10 points 2 months ago (1 children)

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 2 months ago

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

[–] DarkFuture@lemmy.world 34 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago) (1 children)

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 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago)

Scratch the face up (think: sidewalks and other rough concrete) and swap it at the bank for paper.

.... In theory...

[–] wirebeads@lemmy.ca 28 points 2 months ago (1 children)

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

[–] lIlIlIlIlIlIl@lemmy.world 4 points 2 months ago (4 children)

Yeah because America wants this.

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

[–] DarkFuture@lemmy.world 12 points 2 months ago (4 children)

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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[–] stylusmobilus@aussie.zone 4 points 2 months ago (2 children)

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 2 months ago (1 children)
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[–] FreshParsnip@lemmy.ca 17 points 2 months ago (2 children)
[–] modus@lemmy.world 4 points 2 months 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 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago) (2 children)

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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[–] Ariselas@piefed.ca 10 points 2 months ago

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

[–] TemplaerDude@sh.itjust.works 10 points 2 months ago (1 children)

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

[–] some_designer_dude@lemmy.world 6 points 2 months ago (1 children)

This point?

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

[–] SCmSTR@lemmy.blahaj.zone 4 points 2 months ago

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

[–] AmidFuror@fedia.io 9 points 2 months ago

A Treasury Department spokesperson told Axios the coin is already being made and will be released this fall.

[–] Catma@lemmy.world 9 points 2 months ago (1 children)

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 2 months ago (1 children)

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

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[–] SharkAttak@kbin.melroy.org 9 points 2 months ago (1 children)

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

But not putting coins inside living people...

[–] Wataba@sh.itjust.works 3 points 2 months ago (1 children)
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[–] FreshParsnip@lemmy.ca 8 points 2 months ago (5 children)

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 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago) (1 children)

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 2 months ago (3 children)

What next? Ignoring election laws?

They literally attacked the Capitol

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[–] SalmonTractor@discuss.tchncs.de 4 points 2 months 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 2 months ago

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

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[–] RandAlThor@lemmy.ca 8 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago)

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

[–] DarkSurferZA@lemmy.world 7 points 2 months 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 2 months ago (1 children)

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

[–] pneumaticFax@lemmy.world 5 points 2 months ago (1 children)

Just a heavy coat of spray tan.

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[–] JennyLaFae@lemmy.blahaj.zone 6 points 2 months ago

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

[–] discocactus@lemmy.world 6 points 2 months ago
[–] SaltySalamander@fedia.io 5 points 2 months ago

Easy enough to deface.

[–] notsure@fedia.io 5 points 2 months ago (3 children)

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

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[–] CombatWombat@feddit.online 5 points 2 months ago (1 children)

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 2 months ago (1 children)

Let's just call it a "pedo".

[–] RedEyeFlightControl@lemmy.world 6 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago)

The pedollar

[–] Monument@piefed.world 4 points 2 months ago (2 children)

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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[–] Sanctus@anarchist.nexus 4 points 2 months ago

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

[–] stretch2m@infosec.pub 3 points 2 months 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

[–] darthsundhaft@piefed.social 3 points 2 months ago (1 children)

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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[–] kreskin@lemmy.world 3 points 2 months ago (2 children)

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 2 months ago (6 children)

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

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