The Washington Post reports. Gift link.
I find this hard to believe. It's such a bad idea. I prefer to think it's just not true.
No living person has appeared on U.S. currency since 1866, when it was outlawed after the image of a mid-level Treasury bureaucrat showed up on a 5-cent note. Legislation that would allow Trump to appear on a $250 bill was introduced in Congress last year to commemorate the nation’s 250th anniversary but has languished. In a statement, a Treasury Department spokesperson said the printing office “is conducting appropriate planning and due diligence” in response to the proposed legislation. “Should this legislative mandate be signed into law, the BEP is moving proactively to produce a $250 commemorative note which will appropriately recognize the 250th Anniversary of our great nation,” the statement said.
So it is, essentially, not true. They went through the exercise of creating the note that might be issued if Congress passes a law permitting it, which is not going to happen. So meanwhile, you can see the thing and celebrate or get steamed up or whatever this latest provocation moves you to do.
Is that his mugshot?!
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Barney Frank was once considered for the Three Dollar Bill.
Cash is always good. When we had $500, $1000 and $10,000 bills (I've held one) in circulation large cash transactions were easy. Not thrilled about $250, as it's an odd amount. Bring back the $500 and $1000 though.
Performance art at its best.
Only the $500 bill was actually "in circulation" in my adult lifetime. The $10,000 bills were for intra-bank transfers only by the time ('78 probably) I saw one.
The mock-up hair looks wrong.
I’d like to have 3 or 4 in my belt. In case I need to get out of a jam.
Love the Scotty B sig.
More trolling. Trump's official portrait closely resembles his mugshot too. It's posted in every federal agency office.
As a country of the people, by the people, for the people we should have random citizens on the currency.
I suspect if I asked AI to create such a bill, it would do a better job.
I do think a new higher denomination bill is needed in circulation. A $250 bill makes as much sense as anything else. I think Biden should be on the bill, since it was his wasteful spending that created the inflation resulting in the need for higher denominations, but I'm fine with Obama, because Biden didn't build it.
The serial number is a nice touch. I assume it to mean: President Trump 45, 47, Donald Trump #1.
How much of this kind of thing is done by Trump himself, and how much by aides who have caught the Trump spirit?
During the day, I terrify Islamic terrorists and Communist warlords.
At night, I trigger Libs to relax.
I do not sleep.
Your money is safe.
I am on it.
"Is that his mugshot?!"
Hilarious.
Future leak to the NYT:
Donald Trump Plans To Download His Essence Into a 35-Year-Old Sexbot to Run in 2028
I clicked on the link to check out the outrage in the comments there but was promptly reminded that WaPo makes you register to use the gift link.
No thank you.
Nice catch Peter. Supports the idea that this is just a joke.
Trump is top comedian.
Screw you colbarf - you un funny commie hack.
"Have you seen what they are doing with A.I.? It's incredible. It will be like mini-me. Except bigger. It will be yuge. 9-foot-tall. We're going to raise the ceilings in the Lincoln bedroom. We have to. Otherwise, the sex robot could not get through the door. And his schlong, let me tell you, we are so proud."
There are limits to the energy and reach inherent in any organization. This administration's resources are not infinite; they should focus on what the voters sent them to Washington for. Nobody was clamoring for a $250 bill.
Put somebody in jail for fraud, already. And stop handing the opposition opportunities for making you look ridiculous, because they have a huge public relations firm called the Legacy Media which will do everything they can. They're not going to stop, and they're not going to learn. It's only when they run out of juicy material like this, that their own efforts look ridiculous instead. That is a winning strategy.
Once again, Trump overloads the outrage industry.
They went to a max $100 to make drug deals difficult owing to money volume.
“No living person has appeared on U.S. currency since 1866, when it was outlawed after the image of a mid-level Treasury bureaucrat showed up on a 5-cent note.”
The mid-level bureaucrat’s name was Daniel Plugg, hence the term “plugg nickel”…
"Trump administration officials have pressed the office responsible for printing the nation’s money to design a $250 bill featuring the president’s portrait..."
That's it. That's the story. They thought it would be neat to have a mock up of a bill with Trump's face on it. There is no facts in this story to support the presumption that anybody is trying to make it real money.
Fake news.
The Washington Post reports WITHOUT EVIDENCE.
Trump is an extreme example with his pathetic obsession with monuments. But if you think about it this would actually be perfectly ironic: the Bronze Grifter’s mug on a US banknote for which the only practical use would be crime and money laundering.
The 500 euro note was discontinued because it was mostly used for drug trafficking and other illegal activity. Same would happen here, which is fitting.
Now you can bribe public officials with 60% smaller stacks of cash! (or as Trump would say, cut by 250%)
It's the difference between a million dollars fitting in a duffel bag versus fitting in a briefcase.
I’m all in favor of issuing large denomination dollar bills. They should bring back the $500 and $1,000 bills as a corrective to the anti-financial privacy laws and snoops. But please, if you are going to put a person’s image on the bills, make sure it’s a dead person. Thank you.
Welp, I'm convinced.
We live in the dumbest Timeline.
Since it's coming from the Washington comPost, it's false.
I'd go for a $47 note.
Oh, this is a nice little trick:
"....according to four current and former employees"
IOW, 3 people who no longer work there, and have no inside knowledge, and 1 person who does work there, who hates Trump. After all the constant lies of the MSM, especially those made up to attack Trump, why should we believe any of this?
Sorry, no sale.
According to 4 current and former White house employees.. Trump sucks.
Namely, Biden, Obama, Bush, and the white house janitor.
>. make sure it’s a dead person
The left is certainly trying.
Next book: The Art of the Troll
And any attempt to put him on the bill will be immediately be stopped by one of our Kings and Queens in Judicial robes.
The mugshot was my first thought. Tint it orange.
Someone in the Treasury dept. having fun with "due diligence.
Tint it orange.
Indeed, add some security into a new high denomination bill.
He could decree it by executive order.
I'd like a Bill Clinton bill with that painting of him in a blue dress. That's iconic.
Trump could single handedly run a herd of thousands of lefties right off a cliff. It's a superpower.
Hilarious! Trump and his employees really know how to troll the media. Gets them to issue raving inane responses. And they fall for it every time. I love it!!!
Having worked in Banking and the Financial industry I know that it is a lengthy process to change anything there. Layers of reviews etc etc...and then approval by Congress. Fat Chance of that. As a commemorative piece...it is also highly highly unlikely to be actual legal tender.
Our bank never "stocked" high denomination bills anyway. They had to be special ordered from the Federal Reserve Bank, and shipped to our location. Every year we had a local rancher who would order many!! $500 dollar bills to give to all of his family members and some employees. Who then came to the bank and deposited them and we had to return them to the Federal Reserve. Sigh. Only once a year though
Has anyone here ever tried to get a $100 bill at their bank? My branch is fairly large. When I travel I like to carry $500 or so cash.
I ask for 100s and 50s.mostly get $20s.
Them there is the problem of spending 100s many places just won't accept them.
I've been told by a banker that making humdos hard to get and use is govt policu
John Henry
My experience overseas is that everybody loves the Benjamins, but only the new version. Nobody will take the old version anymore.
The pilots who fly the arabs around know exactly how much $1 million weighs. Don’t mess with that…
How about emulate the post office with their commemorative stamps that are intended to be collected, not used.
Issue a $1,776 bill. Separately sell a special frame designed to be screwed to the wall. Maybe Al's a special frame holding 2 for folks who want to show front and back
Treasury sells the bill at face, gets $1776 revenue, and since the bill is never spent, it books the revenue.
Gemini says the posoffice gets & 200m/yr selling commemorative stamps that are never used. The Elvis stamp alone generated $35mm
John Henry
Putting a living person's picture on currency doesn't seem much worse than naming an aircraft carrier after a living person. That's been done two or three times, though all three are now dead. The two were John Stennis (whoever he was - don't tell me, I don't care enough to look him up) and George H. W. Bush. The third doesn't really count, since Ronald Reagan was far gone in Alzheimer's when his namesake was lunched, and never knew about it. He died a year later. Carriers Bill Clinton and George W. Bush are under construction. Jimmy Carter had a submarine named after him many years before he died. Lots more examples of this shameful practice.
Oops. I think I am wrong....Congress might not need to approve of the changes. Someone tell me?
Otherwise...still a great trolling of the media.
@John Henry.....our bank it was and still is easy to get hundreds. Unless you want a lot of them. Then we order them. Unlike Scrooge McDuck representations. The Banks don't have enormous amounts of cash on hand normally. We would order cash up when we knew that demand would be higher than norm... special events, busy holidays etc..
The absurdity is that larger bills were discontinued in order to screw up the drug trade, but then they inflated the money supply so the $100 bills are worth that much less. Awhile back, I sold a Polaris ATV for almost $10k cash. And had to fly with that thick wad of cash. Wouldn’t fit in any wallet, of course. I think that it went into a couple of thick envelopes. But then didn’t trust TSA enough to send it through their machines.
When the currency from almost every other country in the world loses value, they just print bigger denominations.For example, Iran just released bigger bills.The US can’t do that, due to the War on Drugs. We are stuck with $100 bills. That are worth a fraction of what they were worth, when larger bills were banned.
Much like the rest of MAGA nation, I judge an action by one metric and one metric only: does it piss off the Demonrats? If so proceed. If I was In an inflatable life raft with a libtard, I would deflate the raft so he would sink.
Suck it commies!
Jeez, Dr we evil, don't get me started on current naval ship naming convention.
There used to be a strict protocol. Battleships for states, carriers (mainly) for revolutionary battles of flight (kitty hawk) and so on.
Naming carriers after congress critters stinks.
John Henry
John henry said...
Has anyone here ever tried to get a $100 bill at their bank?
Did you mean $500? I get $100 bills at my bank nearly every time I go there. Sometimes it is annoying, because it seems that's the only bills still left in the ATMs. When I go to the teller; it is usually to get smaller denominations like $1, $2, and $5. I get lots of $2 bills that I use as tips. The waitstaff remember me for the bills, and I get great service.
The War on Drugs is a cover for the War on unregulated, untraceable, untaxable cash transactions.
Congress should approve $1.776 billion in Trump Bucks for the anti-weaponization grift. Payees could redeem the Trump Bucks for selections from a catalog of MAGA-themed items.
It looks like there is some interesting, multi-layered trolling going on here.
I don't think I've ever been offered $2bills but the couple times I've asked they've had them. I use them to screw with Wendy's cashiers who have never seen the.
Ditto the Susan b Anthony coins.
I keep meaning to do a wozniak. In his bio he tells how he buys sheets of $2bills and when paying, cuts off the appropriate amount.
He does it to screw with people
I justified my experience wit $2s as curiosity about how well they are accepted. (and to screw with people)
John Henry
Asked for $2s at my bank, I meant
John Henry
If you make Trump Bucks the currency for the anti-weaponization fund, then the mugshot design makes perfect sense.
What to say to an intelligent comment with a gratuitous insult included, like John Henry's at 10:57am? I suppose a hearty "Fuck you, asshole!" is the best response.
Trump is head-squatting again.
Leftmediaswine will be leftmediaswine.
Who's signature is on that image in the bottom right? "something' Alex-der '25"
Dr. Weevil at 11:16. Don’t discount the possibility that predictive text is out to get you.
One of my favorite parts of Trump’s second term is his rent-free life in so many lefty skulls.
JH, the Wells Fargo ATM near me gives 100s, 50s and 20s. Possibly because it is near the State Dept and some international quangoes.
Chase ATMs give you the option of 10s, which help keep you from buying stuff that almost costs 20 bucks just to get change. CC, JSM
should have red, white, blue accents
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