Tribe: Trump's "obscene redo" of the presidential coin is close to "presidential pornography"

[highplainsdem]

Laurence Tribe was responding here to a tweet from someone who said the hideously revamped coin is reminiscent of the flattering official coins of Roman emperors:

Link to tweet

Yes! Trump’s obscene redo of the official Presidential Coin is the closest thing to presidential pornography I can imagine.

Editing to add links to the LBN topic about the coin

https://www.democraticunderground.com/10141946445

and the NYT article

https://www.nytimes.com/2017/12/23/us/trump-presidential-coin.html

for the photo.

[Atman]

1. Any pictures?

[babylonsister]

3. Trump presidential challenge coin says 'Make America Great Again' instead of national motto

http://thehill.com/blogs/blog-briefing-room/366259-trump-presidential-challenge-coin-says-make-america-great-again


From the WaPo:



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=sm_tw&utm_term=.784ed3d9f3b8

It’s ‘very gold’: The presidential coin undergoes a Trumpian makeover


I'm not surprised.

[cwydro]

31. Ugh. nt

[bdamomma]

50. nt

[Hekate]

4. They're around here -- someone will link. The coin is ALL about Trump...

It has to be obscene to be believed (pun intended)

[highplainsdem]

5. Just added links to the OP that will take you to photos comparig Trump's coin to others

and explaining the changes he made, including getting rid of "E pluribus unum" and adding "Make American Great Again."

[KewlKat]

2. Here it is

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[Fred Sanders]

9. Also here, compared to Obama, Biden and Pence coins:

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[Igel]

24. So which is it?

The 'coin' in post 2 or in your post?

They're different. Are there alternative versions?

[Bernardo de La Paz]

25. Front and back side. I think his name is on both sides. . . . nt

[dixiegrrrrl]

47. Nero's name ....I mean, Trump's name is featured 4 times on that damn coin

Four times!!

We are getting such a close up look into megalomania.

[GReedDiamond]

59. Where is the "Made in China" mark? - nt

[lagomorph777]

30. The obverse is obnoxious and the reverse is perverse.

[JI7]

58. It looks Cheap and Ugly

[JI7]

6. Tiny Hands

[madaboutharry]

7. That is absolutely outrageous.

There has to be someone somewhere who can stop this obscenity. The next thing he is going to do is start erecting statues of himself in town squares.

It is disgusting.

The new coin is evidence of the depth of Trump's sickness.

[KY_EnviroGuy]

33. Belieeeeve me, he's going to want...

all kinds of shit named after him like bridges, highways and parks. With his narcissism, he probably wants a state renamed after him (Florida?? - call it Trumpida).

Personally, I would like to see a jail cell named for him. Include a plaque coated with gold spray paint like the fixtures in his properties.

..................

[Generic Other]

55. So far all they keep doing is taking his name off stuff

http://assets.nydailynews.com/polopoly_fs/1.2876145.1479324319!/img/httpImage/image.jpg_gen/derivatives/article_750/trump-building-change.jpg

[KY_EnviroGuy]

57. Thanks, that's a good shot.

I would be very contented to never see or hear that name again!

[notdarkyet]

42. He wants to know why there hasnt been a parade honoring him for all hes done

So far. I’d like to see him heading the line of all his fellow traitors marched out of the WH and paraded single file to lock up. That would probably attract his largest crowd ever.

[dixiegrrrrl]

48. He HAD a parade. They carried tiki torches. n/t

[bdamomma]

51. watch out

he may do that......he's a wanna be dic...........tator.

[KewlKat]

8. Some of the changes

The presidential seal has been replaced by an eagle bearing President Trump’s signature. The eagle’s head faces right, not left, as on the seal. The 13 arrows representing the original states have disappeared. And the national motto, “E pluribus unum” — a Latin phrase that means “Out of many, one” — is gone.

Instead, both sides of the coin feature Trump’s campaign slogan, “Make America Great Again.”

The changes don’t stop there. In addition to his signature, Trump’s name appears three times on the coin, which is thicker than those made for past presidents. And forget the traditional subdued silver and copper: Trump’s coin, a White House aide marveled, is “very gold.”

The aide said the president, whose real estate properties are known for their gilded displays of wealth and status, was personally involved in redesigning the coin.

[Fred Sanders]

11. Eagle's head faces right instead of Presdential Seal left? Proof (more) of a twisted brain.

[EffieBlack]

43. The eagle on presidential seal faces left because thats the side its clutching the olive branch

representing peace. On the other side, it’s holding arrows, representing war.

I suspect that Trump changed the direction in order to signify something - likely, a wartime posture - something the presidential seal doesn’t do since the eagle always faces toward peace.

[Fred Sanders]

45. Eagle now faces towards war...America is truly the new world axis of evil.

[dixiegrrrrl]

49. Trumps name appears three ( four times) times on the coin,

the eagle side has his name printed twice plus once with a copy of his signature ( under the eagle)
The reverse side the name once.
Plus he personalized it by marking "the 45th President" instead of the traditional form of merely President.

I am thinking vivid thoughts of the scene in Game of Thrones when the Dothraki gave Daenerys' brother his crown of gold, by pouring molten gold over his head.

very vivid thoughts.

[Grassy Knoll]

10. His First Choice Was Rejected...

[BlancheSplanchnik]

20. Dear Sweet Baby Jesus; SOMEbody SAVE ME. ****hurrrllll****

🤢🤮


But I am one-hundred-and-fifty-three percent certain that Lord Fatass would love that.

[highplainsdem]

12. Raw Story calls it "dictator chic" but "perfect holiday gift for your racist uncle":

https://www.rawstory.com/2017/12/its-very-gold-trumps-dictator-chic-presidential-coin-is-the-perfect-holiday-gift-for-your-racist-uncle/

[highplainsdem]

13. Do you suppose Trump even knows that "E pluribus unum" is the national motto?

Do any of the aides he trusts most know?

Or would any of them even mind that he ditched the national motto in favor of his campaign slogan?

[dalton99a]

18. +1

[dixiegrrrrl]

19. As Tyrion so aptly said...

"We've had vicious kings, and we've had idiot kings, but I don't think we've ever been cursed with a vicious idiot king before."
Game of Thrones Season 2

[dalton99a]

22. Spot on.

[highplainsdem]

35. Great line about King Joffrey...and George R.R. Martin said Trump is like Joffrey:

http://www.esquire.com/entertainment/a55226/kit-harington-after-game-of-thrones/

Martin is gratified to see his books and the show used to discuss everything from global warming to Donald Trump. "I think Joffrey is now the king in America," Martin told me, referring to Thrones' sadistic, power-mad brat. "And he's grown up just as petulant and irrational as he was when he was thirteen in the books."

[snort]

40. "I drink and I know things"

Its not working but I'm going to keep trying.

[Amimnoch]

21. The official language of the US is English.

We don't need none of that Spanish writing on the Presidential seal. We'll make it the greatest seal ever!



(and yes, I do know it's actually Latin, and English isn't the official language of the US.. we don't have one.)

[3catwoman3]

36. But, but, but...

...they speak that there Latin in Latin America, right?

[highplainsdem]

14. NY Post: "Trump makes official presidential coin all about him":

https://nypost.com/2017/12/23/trump-makes-official-presidential-coin-all-about-him/

[Irish_Dem]

15. Perfectly matches his preferred Palace of Versailles decor.

His interior decorator must have designed the new coin.

[NurseJackie]

16. This... from the man who thinks Baroque Bordello is "classy".

[dixiegrrrrl]

46. Baroque Bordello ......

[BlancheSplanchnik]

17. I clicked. I looked.

I hurled.

[ornotna]

34. Loosely translated

tetigit. vidi. Evomerem.

[BlancheSplanchnik]

39. You spoke Latin! Im in Love!!

[jmowreader]

23. Aren't they missing a few things?

Where are the crosses, the guns, the wall? Shouldn't there be an eagle with a big bag of money in one claw and Ted Nugent's personal M-60 machine gun in the other?

[highplainsdem]

27. They're going to need a bigger coin.

[jmowreader]

28. Not really...

[Takket]

26. Clearly compensating for something

[silverweb]

29. Donnie's inspiration, perhaps ... ?

[gristy]

32. Indeed. And no doubt he would have much preferred to use the eagle too.

But Obama had an eagle on his. So that idea was DOA.

[C_U_L8R]

38. It harkens back to Trump's office eagle

[RobinA]

41. The Ironic Thing

is that not even THAT has anybody’s name on it.

[Blue_Tires]

37. It always amuses me when people pretend to be shocked that for all his billions,

Trump is completely lacking in class, taste and refinement... I mean, the cartoon character Trump from the 1980s is the same guy now -- He has NEVER changed.

[Cha]

44. trumptard is a fucking pervert for real.

[appleannie1943]

52. Bottom of picture

Trump Gives Presidential Challenge Coin a Makeover, and It Shows

[appleannie1943]

53. He thinks his name makes it better than all the others that did not have a name.

[Turbineguy]

54. The bottom of the coin

can be cunningly modified for organizing cocaine on a mirror!

[NBachers]

56. How many of these can his Cabinet members pin to their own heaving bosoms?

[mikehiggins]

60. Dick Nixon's uniforms for white house security

I guess only us old codgers remember Nixon's old sketches for the white house staff. Amazing ridicule arose. They oughta dig out the designs and see if the Trumpster would like them.

[Scurrilous]

61. K&R

[MagickMuffin]

62. Awwww, he could turn it into a belt buckle

So, we can ALL remember who he is!!!