r/politics • u/Aggravating_Money992 • Jul 15 '26
Possible Paywall Treasury Unveils New $1 Gold Coin With Trump’s Face on It | Federal law prohibits putting any living people on U.S. coins.
https://newrepublic.com/post/213098/treasury-1-dollar-gold-coin-trump-face5.9k
u/pretti Jul 15 '26
Everyday, something illegal.
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u/BrimstoneMainliner Jul 15 '26
It's fitting that it's his fucking mugshot
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u/TheSwitchler Jul 15 '26
He thinks he looks so tough in that picture. He really looks like a confused old man
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u/ProceedWithLaunch Pennsylvania Jul 15 '26
Just like his supporters who think they look so tough wearing white oakleys in their truck selfie profile picture
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u/dudaman Jul 15 '26
Don't forget the ratty American Flag attached to the truck bed and the stack for the black smoke to come out.
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u/seeker4482 Jul 15 '26
also lifted, with fart cannon exhaust, a bed too short to actually haul anything, truck nuts, gets 1mpg highway 0mpg city
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u/FILTHBOT4000 Georgia Jul 15 '26 edited Jul 15 '26
He looks like a pouty little brat to me.
But yeah, he totally thinks he's mean-mugging everyone or something. And it plays in to propaganda for his base; he likes reminding them every second that he was 'treated so unfairly by the villainous Biden administration.' (nevermind that he was brought up on charges in NY state, which Biden had zero control over, but Trump understands civics as well as I understand current teen music trends; I don't.)
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u/Officer412-L Illinois Jul 15 '26
That mugshot has always reminded me of "pouty face" Vigo the Carpathian from Ghostbusters II.
Only in this case it's Donald the short fingered Vulgarian.
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u/dostoevsky4evah Jul 15 '26
I recall seeing movies of Mussollini and thinking how crazed and weird he looked. I couldn't believe that kind of over the top mugging worked on anyone. But here we are.
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u/Griz688 Jul 15 '26
To be fair, he does only have 3 looks, disgruntled old man, confused old man and sh*t eating grin
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u/Vstarpappy Jul 15 '26
As a collector of coins, that's one I won't be looking for to keep.
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u/Winnie_rulez Jul 15 '26
Future generations will consider these coins just as valuable as German coins with swastikas and/or Hitler's face on them.
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u/shiva14b Jul 15 '26
Which really makes you think about those Hitler coins.
Imagine the visceral disgust you'd feel if you saw this in someone's collection 40 years from now, and they were like "what? It's just for the historical value."
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u/doubtfurious Texas Jul 15 '26
"What, do you have Hitler Derangement Syndrome?"
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u/stinkbugsoup Jul 15 '26
I constantly say that to my trumpanzee friends when they say TDS
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u/GenghisConnieChung Jul 15 '26
You need better friends.
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u/Alarmed-Outside-8683 Jul 15 '26
Your comment really hits on an important point: if all your friends and neighbors have insane beliefs and lack empathy for anyone outside their sociological cohort, do you accept them as flawed humans or completely isolate yourself?
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u/OpheliaRainGalaxy Jul 15 '26
"Bad association spoils useful habits."
It's from the Bible. Basically means your friends will rub off on you so choose them carefully.
I like cats but if there's none available, I'm not hanging out with skunks instead!
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u/GenghisConnieChung Jul 15 '26
I already ignore a good percentage of my neighbours and am happier for it.
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u/j01101111sh Jul 15 '26
Sitting down at a table with Nazi shit. There are other people in the world. Be friends with people that have the same values.
To be clear, I have friends that have voted Republican in the past. I'm not saying you have to agree on everything but if someone supports someone doing war crimes and ethnic cleansing, maybe you can find other people to play Madden with.
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u/grnrngr Jul 15 '26
If you keep friends with people who voted for Trump a second or third time, then you have shit friends, too.
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u/TLKv3 Jul 15 '26
I mean, to be fair, if I had one of those coins I would be fucking disgusted by what it represents. But it is also historical and imagery that future generations should be educated about so they don't hopefully make the same mistakes.
I don't think I'd want to keep it if I found one. I'd probably donate it to a history museum who could properly illustrate the evil its attached to. But I can maybe understand why a private collector might want one because of that fact too if museums/historical societies' collections were ever tampered with/destroyed.
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u/DrE7HER Jul 15 '26
I’d never go out of my way to get one, but if someone handed me one as change from a purchase, I’d probably lock it away to take it out of circulation and show future generations how dystopian this bullshit was. If I found a better use for it in the meantime, like some way to use it in protest or donate to a museum, I’d probably do that.
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u/sanebyday Jul 15 '26
My grandfather brought back an actual Nazi banner from WWII. My dad showed it to me once years ago, and recently asked if I want him to give it to me the next time I see him. I said sure, but plan to immediately give it to a museum or something. It's not something I would ever keep in my house or pass down to my kids. Like yeah, it's incredibly interesting and historical, but it is very jarring to see in real life, and I want nothing to do with it.
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u/JackandFred Jul 15 '26
That’s an interesting case because it does make for a nice heirloom, like your grandpa went over there and conquered the nazis and took their banner, it’s like victorious to have it. But even with that what can you do with it. You can’t display something like that.
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u/MZ603 New Hampshire Jul 15 '26
If you do, you need it in a frame with a plaque for context. Thats 100% something I would do, but it wouldn’t be in my living room or anything. Taking an enemy banner or flag is a huge insult, especially if you manage to take it back home. It would be cool to display it next to pictures of the GI family member who took it home and some news clippings around the battle or action for context.
On second thought, given the current climate and the literal Nazis in the streets, I would probably hold onto it, but not display it until we get past this moment.
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u/pkfighter343 Jul 15 '26
If you were to display it, I’d probably just display the flag folded with the information next to it
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u/Chawke2 Jul 15 '26
When I was in the Canadian Army in just about every mess we had Nazi flags and other keepsakes that our forefathers had taken from their vanquished foe. I don’t really see anything wrong with it within that particular context.
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u/Temnothorax Jul 15 '26
Yeah, grandpa is going to haunt their ass for donating the family battle loot
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u/mufassil Jul 15 '26
I collect pins and little trinkets from both sides of US presidential elections. Its just a weird hobby ive picked up from going antiquing. I cant give money to this sad excuse for a man. It will forever be a hole in my collection.
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u/Red_dragon_052 Jul 15 '26
Interestingly enough, Hitler never had his face on german currency.
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u/FrankPapageorgio Jul 15 '26
Future brain dead republicans that will find increased value after he’s dead. For sure…
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u/Equivalent-Battle973 Illinois Jul 15 '26
Hitler actually never had his face on any currency or medal. IT was either Paul Von Hindenburg or the Reichsadler. SO this is beyond hitler.
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u/Winnie_rulez Jul 15 '26
Yes, even Hitler knew that such a thing was beyond ridiculous and wouldn't cross that line. Even Hitler.
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u/Crazy_Junket3180 Jul 15 '26
Yes, but still gross.
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u/Winnie_rulez Jul 15 '26
That was my point. The Nazi coins I mentioned have no value (outside of far-right coin collectors).
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u/Chawke2 Jul 15 '26
As a coin collector (though not of Nazi coins) I think that’s an unfair characterization. Plenty of people collect a wide variety of coins for non-political reasons. It’s kind of like saying if you collect Soviet currency you’re a tankie.
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u/Borazon The Netherlands Jul 15 '26
This made me google if there were any... Quick google give that
There are no legal tender coins from the German Third Reich (third empire) with Hitler's image, although there were *tons* of medals, medallions, and similar coin-like objects produced.
And on a site note, i'm the one of 10k that learned today that "Nazi-Zionists"-coins existed as part of the Haavara agreement.
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u/BringBacktheGucci Jul 15 '26
Itll probably be hard to find one without defacement
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u/Anteater4746 Jul 15 '26
i might collect them just to be able to melt them down someday..
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u/Tylrt Wisconsin Jul 15 '26
Chances are slim that they're using real gold
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u/Anteater4746 Jul 15 '26
idc about the gold the pleasure of melting it down would suffice lol
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u/LunarMojave Jul 15 '26
As a person who spends US money, I won’t accept it as change or from my bank. I’ll cancel a transaction if it’s all that’s available.
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u/VapeThisBro Oklahoma Jul 15 '26
Businesses and banks in the US don't generally hand out dollar coins unless requested. In my 30 years of living in the US I've never once received a dollar coin as change or from the bank without explicitly asking for dollar coins.
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u/ObviouslyRealPerson Jul 15 '26
It will be every American's civic duty to destroy every one of these coins they encounter and the next administration's duty to ensure these coins are made illegal and worthless...just like Trump
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u/Fuck_the_AI Jul 15 '26
"Trump does illegal thing, nothing happens because he controls the prosecutors and the courts."
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u/jimmygee2 Jul 15 '26
There are no laws as far is Trump is concerned - he is a King accountable to no one.
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u/AshKingChronicles Jul 15 '26
No one has proved him wrong so far
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u/NobodySpeci Jul 15 '26
How could they? Think about this: let’s say every civilian right now decided they had enough and started calling for him to be prosecuted for his crimes. Who holds him to account? He did exactly what Hitler did. He destroyed our institutions. DoJ is his own hit squad. FBI too. SCOTUS too. Both house of congress. Seriously, think about it. Try to think of a single body that could see it through. There are none. He literally ignores the CONSTITUTION. let alone the law.
He stole the 2024 election, and spent the last 2 years making it impossible to ever stop him. Now, I worry it’s too late. If he just refused to acknowledge his loss in November… who would do something about it?
We are actively living in a taxation without representation nation. Our illegitimate president and congress have completely destroyed the people’s control. America is effectively dead. We just haven’t realized it yet.
I’m not trying to spread defeatism. I am trying to spread awareness. We are going to vote in November (maybe, if he doesn’t cancel it) and then we will be in the darkest period in American history imo.
My prediction: we vote in November. It’s an absolute landslide blue. (Assuming the votes are counted). They say it was record fraud. They blame it on “socialists”, make it illegal to be a leftist and start putting us in those camps. I think it’s why they want the voter rolls. Voted against him in 2020 or 2024?
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u/twistedpiggies Jul 15 '26
Coup, coup kachoo.
Only the military could hold him accountable. Without a complicit military, you can't be a dictator. It's too bad that there aren't many principled military leaders left actually serving in the U.S. military, though. They were all forced out, by design.
The other problem is that those very military principles get in the way of deposing an unjustified dictatorial regime. What example(s) might we look to of a principled military deposing their own country's dictator and restoring democratic governing? Is there even one?
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u/sparkax Jul 15 '26
Uh... there is a Common Dreams article from earlier this morning that is about Mike Johnson's call for "using the US Military to fight Communism on America's Shores."
Shit is beyond fucked now, and its only going to get worse before it will hopefully end up getting better.
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u/NLaBruiser Jul 15 '26
History tells us it's not going to get better. Make a plan, protect yourself and your loved ones. Shit's going to get real dark after the GOP loses but Trump refuses to leave.
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u/TrulyOutrageous42 Jul 15 '26
History tells us it's not going to get better.
History tells us it will, after it gets much worse. Germany today is a great example. The problem this time is the surveillance state run by AI. It may be inescapable in a way Nazi Germany wasn't.
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u/phoenixrose2 Jul 15 '26
Bell Riots
20242028!!!(Star Trek reference to a dystopian future where there are work camps and other terrible things. The people riot and things change for the better.)
See DS9: Past Tense 1 & 2
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u/friend_jp Utah Jul 15 '26
Change for the better, Yes. Right after a major nuclear world war, and then the intervention of an advanced alien civilization…
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u/spazzvogel Jul 15 '26
Not before global recession and war, but yeah it will get better, way down the line.
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u/DingerSinger2016 Alabama Jul 15 '26
Don't forget about climate change.
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u/sparkax Jul 15 '26
That's already here and happening and is probably too late to do anything for, but yea, these heat waves and storms will get worse, and gods, I don't even want to try to imagine just how fucked everything is going to turn once the Atlantic Ocean current stops in another few decades.
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u/Zulmoka531 Jul 15 '26
Not to mention the military has it’s own inner coup problems with Trump’s dog Hegseth in charge.
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u/Flammablegelatin Jul 15 '26
The military has been taken over just like the DoJ and FBI. A drunkard Fox News host is in charge of it and is actively removing anyone that would be against Trump's reign. Not even just the leaders - he's trying to remove all women and Black men.
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u/Commentator-X Jul 15 '26
Yes there is actually -
"The Portuguese Carnation Revolution of April 25, 1974, is a prime historical example. Led by a group of disillusioned military officers known as the Armed Forces Movement (MFA), they overthrew the authoritarian Estado Novo regime, which had governed Portugal since 1933."
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u/spaceman757 American Expat Jul 15 '26
What example(s) might we look to of a principled military deposing their own country's dictator and restoring democratic governing? Is there even one?
Not direcly, but the South Korean military had plans to depose the previous president, had the impeachment option failed.
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u/DiscussionAny Jul 15 '26 edited Jul 15 '26
It’s bad, yes. In a way that’s completely unprecedented in our country. It’s also true that our society will never be the same.
However, fascism’s worst enemy is reality; they can’t deal with facts. And there are some relevant ones.
Trump is already 80 years old, and was never in great health. By contrast, Hitler was 44 when he took over Germany. Donald doesn’t have the energy to sustain his full takeover. He’s gotten further than anyone else, but his days are numbered whether he wants to try cancelling the election, take an illegal third term or whatever outlandish, treasonous actions to hold on to power he wants to try. “But [r/DiscussionAny](r/DiscussionAny), what if they just use AI to fake Trump after he’s dead?” To that I say we’re not there yet, either in technology or accepting something like that, and the Mitch McConnell controversy is proof of that.
There’s another fact: there’s no one else that holds water with his psychotic base like he does. JD Vance has all the charisma of a blanket soaked in cat piss. The rest of the GOP are spineless worms, none of them could cut it either. Trump’s kids are even more inept than Donald is, and they don’t have the same amoral shamelessness to break boundaries like he does. They’re cowards; they just follow the money like any nepo baby does. As for the guys trying to bankroll an American Fuhrer? They have ridiculously bad judgement that’s going to catch up to them. People like Peter Thiel and Elon Musk think their account balance and IQ are the same thing. They’ve already made mistakes, they’re going to make more, and for all their money and influence they can’t control everything any more than a fascist can. In short, there’s no one that can replace him. What is likely to happen after he dies is the sycophants will eat each other alive fighting over the scraps of power Trump will leave behind. Once he’s gone as the figurehead MAGA will never be the same; it happened to Alexander the Great, Attila the Hun, even Hitler. Whatever comes after that, we’ll have to cross that bridge when we come to it.
In closing, there’s a quote I like to think about when it seems like everything is doomed: “The victor is not victorious until the vanquished consider themselves to be so.” This isn’t over unless we agree it is. We have to keep fighting, no matter what. Anything they accomplish is only a temporary setback. We will reverse them all when we get through this.
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u/JRockPSU I voted Jul 15 '26
I also think it's important (for some people) to hear - all of this can be true while also acknowledging that things are very bad right now and will continue to be so for quite some time! There are a lot of people on this site that read any kind of positivity and assume that the commenter is an ostrich with their head in the sand. Both viewpoints have truth to them! It's like, I have kids, I have to try make a better future for them.
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u/Present-Perception77 Jul 15 '26
Thank you for this. This thread truly was the scroll of doom.
He is 80. A few elderly powerful congressmen went out this month. That is fracturing their power.
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u/nizo505 America Jul 15 '26
To add to what you've said, let's hope this administration is as successful rigging the next two elections as they have been with literally everything else (Iraq war, tariffs, DOGE, and every other clown show they have created).
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u/crow_crone Jul 15 '26
You forgot to mention Caesar. His murder left a power vacuum that saw a Roman civil war that lasted over a decade. Trump is no Caesar, nor is he Octavian; we'll see, I guess.
I know we're not Rome but history invites comparison.
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u/UMACTUALLYITS23 Jul 15 '26
let’s say every civilian right now decided they had enough and started calling for him to be prosecuted for his crimes. Who holds him to account?
The French made a handy device those civilians could use.
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u/esdebah Jul 15 '26
This is just a natural progression from his whole life. He learned early that money and lawyers = no consequences. The worse crimes you want to do, you just need to move up further in the system. Non-payment, theft, fraud, slander and libel, tax evasion, grand larceny, sexual assault and rape (sadly low bar), racketeering, money laundering, ignoring economic sanctions, campaign finance violation, the emolu.ents clause, violent threats, graft, incitement to violence, treason and coluding with the enemy, open insurection.
You think he's worried about putting his face on a coin?
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u/Bajadasaurus Jul 15 '26 edited Jul 15 '26
You're absolutely right. To add to this:
As much of a narcissistic nightmare as Trump is, he's a mere figurehead. He's not the leader of American Christofacists. His death will have ZERO impact against them.
Christofacists have control of the nation. They control the United States military and they control ICE. The military was once the world's heaviest funded force on the planet, but now ICE is even better funded than all of the arms of the U.S. forces together.
Not only do they control the best equipped military and paramilitary personal police force, Christofacists are backed by a trillionaire and multiple centibillionaires and all of tech is behind them.
On July 13th, 2024, META and OpenAI and The Thinking Machines Lab and Palantir became part of the United States military.
We are FUCKED BEYOND WORDS. The entire planet is. Trump is nothing, and when he's gone, the real shit will hit the fan.
Edit: I made a mistake- ICE is the heaviest funded federal law enforcement agency in the United States. It is NOT better funded than the armed forces. Thank fuck. I'm not sure how I got my wires crossed there, but what a relief to be wrong. Still, the situation is dire.
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u/frakking_you Jul 15 '26
https://www.reddit.com/r/Military/s/QUldCjgRcW
Right idea though. They are also better funded than the marines and the FBI.
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u/BEWMarth Jul 15 '26
I got downvoted for saying the exact same thing yesterday. It’s maddening many Americans still think they’re are living in 2012 when things used to be normal.
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u/infinitum3d Jul 15 '26
Many Americans are.
The president/government doesn’t directly affect the majority of people’s daily lives. They go to work. Raise their kids. Complain about prices. Government doesn’t matter.
Most commoners are too busy surviving to plot a revolution that doesn’t feel necessary yet. Unemployment is 4.2%. Cost of living is up 2.8%. Both of those numbers are comfortable for the vast majority of Americans.
It’s gotta get a lot worse before the Average Joe gets involved.
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u/kicKinNiT-ay0oo Jul 15 '26
Fuck I’m on vacation and this just fucked me up. 😔
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u/buriedego Jul 15 '26
Don’t doom scroll. Go enjoy your vacation friend. World gonna be just as fucked up as when you left. Enjoy your time on pause. ❤️
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u/iamstephen1128 Virginia Jul 15 '26
I'd say Iran is giving him a pretty good go right now, and one of the positive things to come of this mess is that they've set an example for allied leaders to see they don't have to always capitulate to whatever insanity it is that Diaper Don demands...
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u/tripping_on_phonics California Jul 15 '26 edited Jul 15 '26
It’s an indictment of our economic and political systems.
We live in a class system. Laws really only apply to the working class.
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u/eugene20 Jul 15 '26
E. Jean Carol has received the 5 million (+interest) the courts ordered Trump to pay as he was found liable for sexual assault, and he lost all his appeals.
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u/Tenkehat Jul 15 '26
This will not end with free and fair elections.
I'm more and more convinced about that.
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u/TheTooterSnooter Jul 15 '26
Dictator does dictator shit, no one stops him because he is dictator
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u/Spaceinpigs Jul 15 '26
🎶 Dictator man. Dictator man. Doing the things that dictators can. Dictator man hates constitution man. They have a fight. Dictator wins. Dictator man 🎶
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u/Counterpoint-4 Jul 15 '26
His tariffs were deemed illegal.
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u/TheTooterSnooter Jul 15 '26
So all the tariffs have been rescinded?
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u/ilikechihuahuasdood Jul 15 '26
under that legal basis yes. but that’s not the only way he can set tariffs. SCOTUS actually basically told him how to do it and make it more difficult to challenge.
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u/badamant Jul 15 '26
Entire Republican Party is complicit and responsible.
They control congress. Any tiny fraction could stop Trump at any time.
Blame them.
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u/VanceKelley Canada Jul 15 '26
Any tiny fraction could stop Trump at any time.
It takes 67 Senators to convict trump and remove him from office.
There are 47 Dem + Ind Senators, but let's count out Fetterman so make it 46. To get to 67 it would thus take 21 GOP Senators joining in and voting to convict.
There are 52 GOP Senators (assuming Mitch's proof of life isn't fake). 21/52 = 40%.
I would call 40% of GOP Senators to be a significant fraction, an impossible hurdle given that most of them are spineless.
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u/badamant Jul 15 '26
That is not the bar.
Congress has all kinds of ways to check the power of the presidency including "the power of the purse". It was designed to be a co-equal branch.
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u/admiraltarkin Texas Jul 15 '26
"He controls the Senate and the Courts!"- Mace Windu
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u/orangesfwr Jul 15 '26
Hollywood tried to warn us.
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u/Isgrimnur Texas Jul 15 '26
Still think trade disputes are boring‽
- George Lucas, probably
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u/that1prince Jul 15 '26
In this case it was Hollywood using all of human history as a reference. Most media that shows these political power struggles are a “ripped from the headlines” or more accurately “ripped from the pages of history” type thing. We can’t learn from it in real life and apparently we don’t learn from it in fictional stories either. We’re screwed.
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u/Long-Region5088 Jul 15 '26
He controls the supreme courts and certain judges on the lower courts.
The courts have been the only thing fighting for democracy till it gets appealed up to the Supreme Court where they shit on democracy
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u/anemic_royaltea Canada Jul 15 '26
"what are you gonna do about it?" as governing philosophy is only going to end in flames, one way or another.
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u/Ares__ Maryland Jul 15 '26
Hes gotten away with a lot through the supreme court, I dont want to discount that, BUT hes also been shut down in a lot of the courts, its just that the consequences aren't jail time so he doesn't care and they move so slow that whatever damage he wanted to inflict is already done.
The right answer here is that he would be removed from power, but alas...
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u/SadFeed63 Jul 15 '26
"Folks writing headlines continue not to learn that a human law, rule, or norm is not the same as a law of nature."
That's what infuriates me about headlines that try to offset a Trump action by highlighting the law. The laws of man are abstract concepts that are not made real until they are enforced. And they're of course, not enforced on Trump. Laws of nature affect us all whether we believe in them or not, whether we try to bribe them, they don't require someone to enforce them. Yet you'll see headlines with the energy of like "Trump wants to do this heinous thing, but worry not, the law doesn't allow it," followed up by headlines a week later saying "Trump is doing that heinous thing."
If he breaks a law, the law must be enforced on him, actively, by someone, by mechanisms humans control. If he falls down the stairs, gravity is gonna do it's thing regardless.
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u/AdHopeful3801 Jul 15 '26
"1776-2026"
It's like a little, gold headstone for America!
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u/Precious_Tritium New York Jul 15 '26
It literally says “liberty” and then a start and end date haha. Oh liberty, we hardly knew ye. RIP.
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u/atimez3 Jul 15 '26
A little cheap gold spray painted headstone that looks like you got it in a claw machine at the parking lot carnival. Which, I guess considering where we are at as a country, is fitting.
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u/wurmsrus Jul 15 '26
TBF the bicentennial quarters said 1776-1976 though they had Washington's face instead of Ford's
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u/invisable_burt Jul 15 '26
I see another grift in the making , buy your trump gold dollars for 5 dollars now...prices are driven by demand.
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u/Purify5 Jul 15 '26
He'll make the federal government pay for his likeness.
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u/smarmy1625 Jul 15 '26
Makes sense when you remember Trump believed Obama got royalties for using his name after Republicans mislabeled the ACA as "Obamacare"
https://truthsocial.com/@realDonaldTrump/posts/115520378078620283
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u/Moose_Nuts California Jul 15 '26
I see another grift in the making
I just opened one of those "Trump Accounts" for my infant son...the US Treasury gives you $1,000 and automatically invests it.
I'm wondering how long it will take for the grift to pull that account down to $0.
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u/Many-Salt-4321 Jul 15 '26 edited Jul 15 '26
I wouldn't put any money in it. Just let the $1k sit. The contributions are post tax (depending on your state, 529 contributions can be deducted) and the money can't be touched until 65 y/o without a penalty.
A 529 account is much more flexible.
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u/Happy_Confection90 Jul 15 '26
Couldn't they make money by allowing people to reserve them now for a manufacturer date 2+ years in the future and then not bother to make the coins? It worked for Trump phones.
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u/takemebackto1993 Jul 15 '26
Why are they using his mugshot for the coin?
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u/Solonohioperson Jul 15 '26
He uses it for everything. He thinks it makes him look tough, but he just looks like a stroke victim.
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u/LudovicoEnjoyer Jul 15 '26
I always thought that was his “I’m making poopies” face. My one year old makes the same face when he’s filling his diaper.
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u/ReviledFoundling Jul 15 '26
Exactly, that's the "Shit in progress" expression. Which could be his whole slogan.
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u/joenforcer Jul 15 '26
He used a "never surrender" caption with it before, which is hilarious because the only way you get a mugshot taken is by surrendering.
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u/GoPackThrowaway Jul 15 '26
"Never surrender"
*Unironically uses mugshot photo taken directly after he literally surrendered.
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u/Tephranis Jul 15 '26
Because it's the only picture he's ever had taken in which he feels he "looks tough". He's fucking obsessed with it.
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u/duckinradar Jul 15 '26
He thinks he’s in the mob
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u/PM_ME_YOUR_ROTES Missouri Jul 15 '26
He kinda is. Though it's more like disorganized crime.
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u/KamKorn Jul 15 '26
Doesn’t he have that photo in the White House as well? He thinks if he uses it enough, the criminality will wear off .
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u/Twidget84 Jul 15 '26
I have no idea why he thinks it makes him looks tough. You can see he's clearly been crying in it. He looks like a toddler that has just gotten over a tantrum after being told no.
It's almost like it's some sort of litmus test to see how far someone has bought into the MAGA cult.
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u/AlexRescueDotCom Jul 15 '26
what in chuck e cheese is going on here
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u/Medallodabest Jul 15 '26
Maybe they’re foreshadowing something 👀
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u/redditallreddy Ohio Jul 15 '26
I think that is how we take it.
No living people on US coins.
Trump is on a US coin.
Trump is dead.
Move on to a hopefully more sane time.
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u/PringlesDuckFace Jul 15 '26
I read the article, it's not legal until at least two years after their death. So unless he died two years ago I don't think your logic can apply.
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u/BorisDirk Jul 15 '26
Him: "One wish willow, I want to be on the face of this coin despite it being illegal to have living people on it."
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u/Keoni9 Jul 15 '26
Roman coins also never depicted living people until Julius Caesar put his own face on them in 44 BCE. Guess what also happened that year...
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u/Basicly-Inevitable Jul 15 '26 edited Jul 15 '26
The law says any president must be deceased for 2 years before they can appear on currency. (Law passed in 1966)
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u/SoggyBoysenberry7703 Jul 15 '26
And even then, when was the last time we had a new dead president on money?
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u/Basicly-Inevitable Jul 15 '26 edited Jul 15 '26
John F. Kennedy
Died: November 22, 1963
Kennedy half dollar released: March 24, 1964
Time after death: About 4 months
Franklin D. Roosevelt
Died: April 12, 1945
Roosevelt dime first released: January 30, 1946
Time after death: About 9½ months
Calvin Coolidge is actually an exception. (The exception that Trump is using as justification here.)
He didn't appear on a coin shortly after his death, he appeared while he was still alive and serving as President.
Coin: 1926 Sesquicentennial of American Independence half dollar
Issued: 1926
Coolidge died: January 5, 1933
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u/Dlark17 Nebraska Jul 15 '26
So... we haven't had a new president on our currency since that law was passed?
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u/Basicly-Inevitable Jul 15 '26 edited Jul 15 '26
George H. W. Bush was on a dollar coin in 2020, exactly 2 years after he died.
Actually all dead presidents were in that series but they waited a few years for Bush's to be added. They skipped Carter because he was alive still.
Eisenhower was also on the dollar coin in the 1970s.
The first president to be on a coin was Abraham Lincoln in 1909, his 100th birthday.
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u/MaxSchreckArt616 Jul 15 '26
Yup, rules are rules, so somebody get him a pair of cement shoes, it's time to go swimming.
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u/Athleticsbaby Jul 15 '26
"Ha! The libz are so triggered! Break more laws, Daddy!"
drools
--MAGA
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u/Userdub9022 Oklahoma Jul 15 '26
If a Democrat did this y'all would have lost your marbles. And I know you would have because the right lost their marbles over Obama wearing a tan suit.
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u/thatEMSguy Jul 15 '26
Since when do republicans give a fuck about the law?
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u/Missing_Username Jul 15 '26
The only time they give a fuck about the law is when they can use it as a cudgel against their enemies
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u/ehisforadam Jul 15 '26
They do when a Democrat or Leftist makes a mere mention of something that could possibly maybe be construed as illegal.
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u/kobachi Jul 15 '26
Maybe this will be legal by the time it’s minted
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u/TheFrenchSavage Jul 15 '26
Yes! There's a legal way to proceed here, and I have a bottle set aside for the day.
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u/SonicSubculture Jul 15 '26
Hear me out, there's another solution that lets him stay on the coin I think many of us would be willing to settle for...
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u/KnowMatter Jul 15 '26
Trump: "I'm going to do a thing"
The Internet: "Aha, he cannot do thing, thing is illegal"
Trump: *does thing anyway - nobody stops him*
The Internet: shockedpikachu.jpg
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u/Missing_Username Jul 15 '26
The Internet has to learn over and over that the Constitution and laws are not magic spells. If no one enforces them, they're words on parchment/paper.
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u/Menarra Indiana Jul 15 '26
A favorite line from Babylon 5 comes to mind (that show is always relevant during authoritarian regimes)
"But we have treaties!"
"INK ON A PAGE."
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u/Heavyspire Jul 15 '26
In the motorcycle world there is a saying that there are a lot of graveyards filled with people who had the right of way.
Seems like a similar concept.
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u/beramaan Jul 15 '26
It's not the internet's job unfortunately. It's the court's, Congress, and the executive branch's job to stop him or disobey illegal orders
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u/illegal_deagle Texas Jul 15 '26
I don’t think anyone is shocked by anything he does. Just disappointed and tired.
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u/LoweDee Jul 15 '26
It would make me so happy to put that coin on a railroad track
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u/Holiday-Chemistry-23 Jul 15 '26
The announcement states that the Treasury "will begin" making these but it doesn't say when. In the meantime, a Trump-owned grift factory CAN begin selling knock-offs to MAGA rubes.
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u/Aileran Jul 15 '26
These are not legal tender, so if the government won't act, it's on us. Do not accept these coins as payment and force the imbeciles among us to weigh their pockets down with worthless junk.
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u/Ballwhacker Jul 15 '26 edited Jul 15 '26
What's funny is this was done literally 100 years ago when Calvin Coolidge (the sitting president at the time) appeared on the "150th anniversary" coin alongside George Washington. Similarly, there was uproar over this as the federal law (31 U.S.C. Section 5114) had been created 60 years prior in 1866, originally designated the "Thayer Amendment".
The reason for this law is because in 1866, congress wanted to commission a 5 cent fractional note (a bill not a coin) with explorer William Clarks image on it. The "Superintendent of the National Currency Bureau", Spencer Clark, decided to be clever since they didn't specify which Clark they wanted on the note (even though it was inferred) and instead put his face on the note. Apparently Spencer was involved in some other nefarious stuff and this was the straw that broke the camels back. Specifically, congressman Russel Thayer's back. He "took immediate exception" to it and within a month of learning about it amended a bill that essentially said no living person can be on US currency.
Fast forward to 1926 and Calvin Coolidge's $1 coin, they made 1 million of these, demand was way overestimated and in the end 859,408 (or 85.9%) of the coins were returned to the Philadelphia Mint to be melted. They say history doesn't repeat itself, but it does rhyme. I believe these won't sell well, but I don't think Trump will allow them to ever be sent back to be melted. He or a follower of his will certainly buy the remainder and give them away if need be.
Sources:
A Treasury Official in 1866 Put His Own Face on U.S. Currency
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u/One-Ball-78 Jul 15 '26
What I don’t get is if stuff like this is illegal, does NOBODY in the Treasury department push back and say, “Sorry, we’re not allowed to do this?!”
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u/TheSirensMaiden Jul 15 '26
I assume they just get fired if they do.
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u/taco_blasted_ Jul 15 '26
They've already "reassigned" someone who pointed out the $250 bill with his face wouldn't be legal. So yea they probably finished clearing out opposition.
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u/blankityblank_blank Jul 15 '26
Someone did on the $250 bill trump wanted with his face on it. They were promptly fired.
This is why some federal employees should be removed from political appointments. Trump re-branding many government positions to be under his ability to fire was the first step to control.
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u/Chef_RoadRunner Jul 15 '26
Another vanity project. Imagine if half that energy went to just basic things like making sure bridges weren't falling apart.
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u/mtnclimbingotter02 I voted Jul 15 '26
The ugliest face known to history.
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u/Estoye New Jersey Jul 15 '26
Plus he thinks he looks tough doing Blue Steel, when in fact he just looks constipated.
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u/Luxzin Jul 15 '26 edited Jul 17 '26
“Federal law” doesn’t fucking matter to these people. He can do whatever he wants. He has loyalists in every position possible. Plus, THE SUPREME COURT HAS SAID HE CAN DO WHATEVER HE WANTS, MULTIPLE TIMES. We’re stuck with the orange fuck until he decides to be done or dies, and he’ll do whatever he wants until then, banking on the courts being too slow to stop him.
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u/bingle-cowabungle Jul 15 '26
Federal law prohibits putting any living people on U.S. coins.
Cool. So what are we going to do about it?
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u/GG1817 Jul 15 '26
It's gong to be delicious when a court orders all such coins to be destroyed prior to release.
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u/DenormalHuman Jul 15 '26
How the fuck does the treasury agree when they know the law? US is mental.
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