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
It sounds like another joke that got taken seriously.
There was talk of having more colorful currency in the 70s. European countries had already transitioned from the boring old bank notes. The idea didn't go anywhere in the US.
Hey, Dr we evil, I thought I was agreeing with you on ship naming. (current practice sucks)
I certainly did not mean any insult even if I mistook your comment
Apologies anyway for any perceived, certainty unintended, insult.
John Henry
Bob Boyd said...
Trump is head-squatting again.
He is teabagging them at this point.
And they have nothing better to do than gargle his nuts.
Jesus H. Christ, John Henry, proofread your comments before hitting Publish, if you don't want me to think you're an asshole. The names Dr Weevil. Only assholes like Jaq aka imTay change it to "we evil", and they do it intentionally. You just did it again.
Poe’s Law: Outrageous reality is indistinguishable from great parody, and vice versa.
Strictly unintentional and I agree my inline proofreading skills hV sucked for 30+ years.
I certainly don't think you are evil. You are one of a dozen or 2 commenters I always enjoy reading.
John Henry
Thanks, JH.
My first reaction: idiotic
My thoughtful reaction: Brilliant
You see the vast majority of high-denomination bills are held and used for transactions and the storage of wealth in overseas economies with high inflation and/or heavy government regulation of money.
The shadow economy in Argentina has operated for years on crisp (never torn or crushed) new $100 bills.
Dollar notes are much of the lubrication that keeps the Russian and Iranian economies running, ditto Cuba (as a side note, through seigniorage, they are effectively lending us this money for free).
And so under this plan, every time a shop-owner sells an appliance in Tehran, every case of vodka boosted out of a garage in Moscow, they will have to look Trump in the face to close the deal.
You have to love it.
This is hilarious. I want one.
If it were real, X.com would be filled with videos of businesses refusing to accept them.
I love my president's sense of humor
I love the idea of a $250 bill. Instead of a living person, if we did this, who should it be? Someone who has never been on currency. I say Teddy Roosevelt or Frederick Douglass. Or Ronald Reagan. Ike a solid choice too as a war hero/President but he was on the silver dollar in the 70's.
A dinner for four with tip at a casual place is minimum $250. Would be cool and easy to cover dinner with one CCL note. Or a Quarter K note.
By the way, $250 today has roughly the same purchasing power as about $29 in 1970.
I picked up a stack of 100 $2 bills last week. I didn't think about a run on them for graduation, but it was all good, because the bank did and had plenty of them.
Bruce Hayden said...
"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."
Carrying more than $10K by air requires you to declare it when flying domestic. More hoops if you're traveling out of country. But even if you're traveling by train, you're at risk for civil forfeiture.
Civil Asset Forfeiture Leaves Train Passenger Broke
"In a surprising twist on what starts out like a classic American dream story, Joseph Rivers just became the most recent casualty in a practice known as civil asset forfeiture, which allows law enforcement officials to take money and property from citizens, even if they haven’t been found guilty.
Rivers said good-bye to friends and family in Detroit and boarded a train to L.A. He was carrying with him $16,000 in cash which he planned to use to start a music video company. Shortly after his Amtrak train left Albuquerque, DEA agents boarded and began to question passengers on the train. Rivers believes that the fact that he was the sole black passenger on his section made him a target to agents.
The DEA agent asked Rivers his reasons for traveling, and Rivers gave him permission to search his belongings. When he found the cash, Rivers explained his reasons for carrying it. Even though his story was corroborated when the agent called his mother (Rivers had taken cash because of concerns that he might have trouble withdrawing a large sum from an out of state bank) and no traces of illegal activity were found in his belongings, the DEA agent confiscated the money.
Civil forfeiture not only allowed the DEA agent to take the cash, it also leaves the obligation to retrieve property taken from an innocent party to the citizen. While Rivers has retained a lawyer and hopes to see some of his money again, he has no guarantee in the matter."
It was right around that time (2015) that we traveled to Martinsburg, WV by train with $10K in my money belt in preparation for our move there. I'm glad no one asked about it because I would have volunteered that I had it.
We went to a credit union in town, explained that we were moving there in a few weeks, and wanted to open an account. Curiously, they told us we couldn't join because we didn't have a local ID or proof of residency. So when we returned home we had to take the cash back with us. Am I ever glad there were no DEA agents canvassing passengers on either leg of the trip!
Looks cooI! I can’t think of any other currency where the president is glaring right at you. Franklin sort of is, but he was never president.
Re $2 bills, be careful:
“ Danesiah Neal, an eighth grader at Fort Bend Independent School District's Christa McAuliffe Middle School outside of Houston, Texas, attempted to pay for lunch with a $2 bill given to her by her grandmother, Sharon Kay Joseph. However, cafeteria workers at the school didn't believe that it was real - they never see $2 bills, apparently - and she was sent to what Neal called "the police office." The school district has since clarified that the Fort Bend ISD has its own police department. According to Neal, the police officer told her that she could be in "big trouble" for using the bill which they believed to be counterfeit.”
Naturally, this happened at a school.
Its a commemorative bill, take a break
The problems in charging anyone are noted in the imdictment of the broadview six
That julie kelly pointed out
Things like civil asset forfeiture and squatter law, are embarrassments to our Constitution and our nation. Directly against American ideals and spirit of the law. The kind of abominations only lawyers and thieves would try to defend.
Trump has a framed New York Post front page hanging just outside the Oval Office.
Just Say No.
No. Just, no.
It raises a big meh?
"... according to four current and former employees"
Well, let's see...
"Merrick Garland molests squirrels, according to four current and former employees."
"Barack Obama sucks toads, say unnamed sources."
"Hillary Clinton and Kamala Harris get together regularly to get drunk, based on reports from anonymous ex-staffers."
See? It's so easy anybody can do it and you don't even need a degree from a prestigious, expensive university.
"...A $250 bill with Trump's portrait is being designed, Treasury Secretary Bessent confirmed to Fox News. Bills in the House and Senate would lift the ban on living individuals appearing on U.S. currency....."
https://x.com/i/status/2060079385378521293
All these people who claimed he was trolling libs just got epically trolled by Bessent confirming the truth of the story.
Waiting for an updated blog post.
I spec nuttin less from da most gangsta 'ministration in hizztary!
According to Neal, the police officer told her that she could be in "big trouble" for using the bill which they believed to be counterfeit.”
I once inadvertently tried to use a counterfeit $10 bill, at of all places the cafeteria of a Federal Reserve Bank. I'd received the bill the night before as change from a cab driver, and never looked at it in the light of day. It was a pretty obvious counterfeit, printed on a color printer. I did not get in trouble. I think they realized that no one would be so stupid as to knowingly try that.
Euros come in both 200 and 500 denominations (in addition to 100 and below).
I think it's possible that the whole thing including Bessent's confirmation is another elaborate prank on the hysterical Left that is never intended to come to fruition.
If he really intends to follow through on this, I think it's a big mistake and he should not do it. Symbols like this can carry great weight. Remember that Julius Caesar was assassinated after being presented with a jeweled royal diadem, even though he refused it three times. The mere fact of him being popular enough to merit a kingship in the eyes of his followers was considered a danger to the Roman Republic.
Trump can wind up the brittle lefties almost as effectively by putting Ronald Reagan on the new note. Why not do that instead? As much as I love his moxie and respect what he's done for the country, I don't want to see America have living people on coins and banknotes and stamps, let alone politicians who are still in office. That's banana-republic bullshit.
Not remotely the same thing,
They went to a max $100 to make drug deals difficult owing to money volume.
You think our politicians, especially Democrats, give a shit about drug dealing? They got rid of the large bills to make taxes easier to collect.
I think we should issue $1000 bills as an act of economic warfare to undermine the tax farms of Europe and the rapacious Democrat states like California. Imagine the seigniorage...
Dr Weevil said...
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.
Yeah, you didn't want to know but The History Guy literally did an episode yesterday on Stennis, and he definitely deserved it. Though he was from Mississippi and had no real connection to the Navy he wound up the Ranking Member and then Chairman of the Naval Affairs Committee in the House in the 1920s and 1930s, and was a good friend of FDR's from FDR's service as Undersecretary of the Navy during WWI. He is probably the man most responsible for the recovery of the United States Navy in time to actually win the fight in the Pacific. He was responsible for shepherding the funding for the initial US carriers as well as the later fast battleships of the South Dakota and Iowa classes. If he hadn't gotten their keels laid in the 1930s we would have been hurting badly after Pearl Harbor trying to building from scratch during the war.
How many people would panic if Trump suddenly became incapacitated or died before they were granted a pardon?
What is a realistic timeline for the passage of legislation? Probably such a bill in both House and Senate could be rammed through in the latter part of the year, but given that mid-terms are going to chew through every single Representative's available time, I don't see it happening. The Senate, less so. I'm not familiar enough with the Parliamentary tricks that could attach it to something else and put it onto the cloture process, but still, I think it's a long shot, at least partly a vanity project, and a waste of the taxpayer's patience.
Mark said...
All these people who claimed he was trolling libs just got epically trolled by Bessent confirming the truth of the story.
Waiting for an updated blog post.
You are talented.
You can open your mouth wide enough to gargle Trump's nuts like a champ.
Aren't populists supposed to try to make themselves popular?
Achilles, who promised food riots in China by this date.
Perhaps the tenuous tie-in with America 250 is enough to get it done, but IDK about the Senate. Those McConnell Club members really despise Trump.
The mug shot photo!! Ahhh. Genius!
Pardoned for what? Dumbass.
My first thought was in a similar vein to John Henry's stamp comment.
The mint stopped pressing pennies when the cost to produce exceeded the face value. The mint also produces (e.g.) a one Troy ounce silver "coin" with a face value of $1. Legal tender. Of course no one spends them like $1 coins. They sell for over the spot price of silver. The mint collects the profit for the treasury.
Announce the run formally, add that this was a one time only printing of "X" of the two-fiddies and watch the collectors pounce.
The almost $250 profit would net a crap ton of money especially if people bought them and put them away for perceived future value.
Not to mention most severe TDS sufferers who would gleefully burn them as a message.....as viewed on TikTok.
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