Trump admin created challenge coin featuring Mar-a-Lago

[Yo_Mama_Been_Loggin]

The Trump administration created a special challenge coin featuring President Trump’s Mar-a-Lago estate, The New York Times reported Sunday.

The White House Communications Agency, a military unit that designs and creates the coins, created the Mar-a-Lago coin in recent months.

The group has also designed coins featuring Pope Francis and Trump, and killed plans for a coin featuring Trump Tower in Manhattan and the president’s golf course in Bedminister, N.J. after the Times asked about the coins.

The agency — the same group that created a highly-publicized coin for Trump’s summit with Kim Jong Un — also created a “Make America Great Again” coin that was funded by the Republican National Committee (RNC), according to the Times.

Challenge coins are often created to mark presidential trips or events.

Ethics watchdogs told the Times that coins depicting Trump’s properties shouldn’t be created with government resources, as it could violate federal laws banning the use of public resources to promote private institutions.

http://thehill.com/homenews/administration/393860-trump-admin-created-challenge-coin-featuring-mar-a-lago

And the sleaze rolls on.

[Vinca]

1. "Challenge coins" piss me off - no matter who's creating them.

We work hard for our money and pay a pretty good chunk of change (no pun intended) in taxes. The idea the loot is being flushed down the crapper making "challenge coins" is infuriating.

[Totally Tunsie]

2. Agreed - It's all self-congratulatory bullshit.