Trump's face on a gold coin? His hand-picked panel will decide.

[Zorro]

Source: Washington Post



A federal arts commission will weigh whether to approve a commemorative gold coin featuring Donald Trump on Thursday, the administration’s latest effort to celebrate the president, even as Democrats and members of another federal committee say the idea is deeply inappropriate and potentially illegal.

The proposal calls for a 24-karat gold coin depicting Trump leaning on a desk with clenched fists, based on a photograph taken by his chief White House photographer and now displayed in the Smithsonian’s National Portrait Gallery. Such gold coins from the U.S. Mint typically sell for several thousand dollars.

The Commission of Fine Arts — composed entirely of Trump appointees, including a 26-year-old executive assistant whose only listed credential for the post was managing Trump’s portrait — has so far signaled support for the administration’s projects, including unanimously approving Trump’s White House ballroom last month.

But new coin designs are supposed to receive approval from two panels — and that second panel, the bipartisan Citizens Coinage Advisory Committee, refused last month to consider the proposed gold coin. In interviews, members opposed putting a sitting president on currency, saying it would break with democratic norms and reek of subservience to royalty.

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[hauckeye]

1. OMG that's disgusting 🤢

[pat_k]

11. Truly nauseating.

If they mint it and I ever get offered one in change, I will refuse to touch it.

At least it won't be as in-your-face as those big brother-esque banners are for the poor residents of D.C.

But just knowing of it's existence would be an awful feeling.

[wnylib]

13. Accept the coin and then just melt it down?

[JustABozoOnThisBus]

14. Go ahead, try to melt it. You'll just burn the gold paint off the zinc disc.

[wnylib]

15. LOL

[mwmisses4289]

2. What is it with all his angry I'm getting ready to throw a temper tantrum pics lately?

Does he think it makes him look tough or something?

[quakerboy]

3. Gold is at 4500 or so per ounce

If they make it a 1 oz coin, im sure they will sell well at $4000.

Id buy some. Although I figure they would likely be offered to China and Russia at those prices with no chance for US citizens to profit. And then announced as the mints best selling collectable coin evar. All the more so because gold is soft and easy to shape, so they would quickly become rare.

[Ray Bruns]

4. It looks like he's trying to pass gas

[The Madcap]

5. The coin has two lies and one truth (if he is not impeached).

The truth is the date range.

[pwb]

6. In Jesus we trust?

.

[Historic NY]

7. We don't put living persons on coins, call us when he's dead.

[bagimin]

8. Like

this afternoon.

[lastlib]

17. Yeah, this.

Tomorrow would be good. Yesterday would be better.

[Vinca]

9. Lovely image. It looks like he's shitting his diaper.

[SunSeeker]

10. He really is sick. His sycophants should be in jail.

Total waste of taxpayer resources. An abomination.

[liberalgunwilltravel]

12. Put his fat ass

on a lead slug!

[twodogsbarking]

16. I want to see his picture in the obituaries.

[lastlib]

18. I would buy one---

just to drill a BIG hole in his f*cking face.

[uppityperson]

19. He looks constipated

[Grim Chieftain]

21. Cause he's full of poop?

[Grim Chieftain]

20. The only thing his face should be on is a toilet bowl brush

or a poop scooper. Well, actually dog poop is too good for him.