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Ilsa

(61,695 posts)
Fri Dec 22, 2017, 07:54 PM Dec 2017

Vain DOTUS even defaced the presidential challenge coin




Trump took the eagle off of the Presidential coin.
He added his campaign slogan and his name.
HIS CAMPAIGN SLOGAN, ffs.http://wapo.st/2BB6yAZ?tid=ss_tw&utm_term=.3cdf20a46a9a …

4:57 PM - Dec 22, 2017






Trump has changed the "challenge coin":
—The presidential seal is replaced by an eagle bearing Trump’s signature
—The 13 arrows representing the original states are gone
—The national motto, “E pluribus unum,” is replaced with “Make America Great Again”https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/its-very-gold-the-presidential-coin-undergoes-a-trumpian-makeover/2017/12/22/23c8b11e-e5bb-11e7-ab50-621fe0588340_story.html?tid=ss_tw&utm_term=.cdc7b2fff21d …

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TreasonousBastard

(43,049 posts)
6. Probably, but I'm sure it was designed by someone doing some serious ass-kissing..
Fri Dec 22, 2017, 08:12 PM
Dec 2017

The best, maybe only, way to get into his good graces is flattery.

This is really low, though. Disgusting.

The Velveteen Ocelot

(115,719 posts)
8. Do you fucking believe this?
Fri Dec 22, 2017, 08:26 PM
Dec 2017

The coin is about the presidency, not the president. Previous presidents didn't spray their names all over the thing, but for Trump everything, even a little thing like this, is about him. ALL about him. I used to get pretty annoyed with W for putting the presidential seal all over everything (like his cowboy boots!), but at least it was the real presidential seal. But Trump has decided the presidential seal as it currently exists isn't big enough and gold enough and doesn't have his fucking name on it, so it wasn't good enough.

I hate that fucking guy and I'm running out of swear words.

gratuitous

(82,849 posts)
12. He removed the arrows and the motto? Is Trump trying to erase history?
Fri Dec 22, 2017, 08:35 PM
Dec 2017

Somebody want to ask this needy little man about that?

Nailzberg

(4,610 posts)
16. This would appear to be an ethical violation... if ethics were still a thing.
Fri Dec 22, 2017, 09:52 PM
Dec 2017

Replacing the Seal of the President with his campaign slogan makes this campaign material, and these should be paid for with campaign funds. No one with the power to stop him cares, though. They're all just drunk with power.

Hekate

(90,708 posts)
19. Every minute of every day is aaaaaalllllll about him. He is a black hole of ignorance about...
Fri Dec 22, 2017, 10:00 PM
Dec 2017

...everything to do with the presidency and federal government. And he does not give a damn what you and I think.

Solly Mack

(90,769 posts)
20. That man's ego needs to be brutally deflated.
Fri Dec 22, 2017, 10:03 PM
Dec 2017

Not simply because of this but the whole of all things tainted by his ego and what lies behind that ego and the damage caused by that ego.

And even knowing full well that he'd play the victim and cast himself as hero of his own failures, blaming others for his self-destructive behavior and well deserved abasement, that man still needs to be brought down and brought down with such finality that he never recovers.

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