Donald Trump to replace Benjamin Franklin on $100 bill under GOP proposal
2 years ago by imvii to c/nottheonion
Four donalds, aka four hundred dollars ($400)
How much are goofies worth?
He just told you. $400
More likely this is so the money launderers can have icon recognition.
It's more a legally gray area in the US that as far as I can find from a quick search has never been settled in court. It likely isn't worth the time for police to go after either even if it was more explicitly illegal.
That might change if there's a sudden surge in people drawing on $100 bills, but who uses $100s that often anyway? Most ATMs I used only dispense $20s. It often isn't worth the trip to the bank, and the US is unfortunately mostly cashless now.
But to be clear: fuck this fascist bullshit and resist in whatever ways you can
There's an argument we shouldn't even be issuing $100 bills in the first place. Counterfeiters have to spend money to copy money. A $1 or $5 bill isn't worth the cost. A $50 is getting there, but if you put extra anti-counterfeiting measures around it, then it's pushed out of reach again.
Once you reach a $100 bill, though, it's hard to have enough anti-counterfeiting measures while also being cheap enough to produce by the actual US Mint. Drop it entirely, and the problem goes away.
Sorry, I'm gonna be that person... The US Mint makes coins, not the paper money. The Bureau of Engraving and Printing is responsible for printing, among other things, the paper money.
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There was a very good reason for it back when physical money was more necessary. Now, there's essentially no purpose except crime. Almost all purchases are payed cashless. If you really want to use cash, almost no transactions are prohibitive just using $20s or $50s. Maybe buying a car or house would be tough, and I'm sure someone does that with cash, but that'd just be the cost of choosing to use cash.
Considering that DOGE can likely withdraw money from bank accounts at will, relying on cash seems very legitimate. I don't want my life savings to just vanish because Musk felt like it. Or worse, replaced it with Muskcoin in a offer that no one can refuse.
Ngl I'd withdraw all my money in hundreds. Draw on them. Then return them to the bank.
It's also illegal for a living person to be featured in our currency.
"ThE rUlEs SaY a DoG cAnT pLaY bAsKeTbAlL!1!!"
18th consecutive golden retriever dunk
It's not illegal as long as you're not trying to get it out of circulation, advertise, or pass off one denomination as another. So deface away.
(note: I am not a lawyer, do not believe some random person on the internet)
Sidenote: I spent a couple of years working in Nigeria. Almost all bank notes there had some scribble on it, as it frequently doubled as note paper. When you don't have Post-its, cash will do, I guess.
This is super duper protected political speech. So, no, it's not illegal.
President Trump could be enjoying his golden years golfing and spending time with his family," Gill told Fox News Digital. "Instead, he took a bullet for this country and is now working overtime...
- Wasn't he golfing yesterday?
- We all know he hates his family and is happy to avoid them.
- "Took a bullet" is akin to me saying I was stabbed in the face by a deranged idiot when I cut myself shaving.
- Working overtime at what exactly? Are his tiny chode fingers getting tired from signing a few bits of paper?
I work at a hospital and have worked with hundreds of patients around his age. When you're that old, your skin is like paper thin and tears extremely easy. I've slid patients from one bed to another and tore skin. Donald Trump was tackled by secret service. Maybe it was his blood but I highly doubt he took a bullet or any shrapnel from glass or anything else.
Yeah... I'm willing to buy that he had immediate, top grade treatment, I'm willing to accept that the bullet barely grazed him and it bled a lot
But I'm not willing to believe he healed that fast or that perfectly. There's no notch from any angle, no scab, nothing - just a few days later there was no sign of it. And he was milking it for all he had... And yet, aside from that blood on the scene, all we ever saw was comically oversized bandages, then normal ones during more serious meetings, then nothing
Can your birthday be 10 years ago?
I mean, technically it was, assuming they are at least 10 years old.
I have a birthday every year.
Fingers fucking crossed.
That would be an excellent birthday present.
So....America....you guys really are about a step-and-a-half away from this?
Get your shit together. Christ.
If they do, the mountain would collapse. They should go for it.
Already nose diving face first. Steps are gone.
I don't know what this image is, but I'm pretty sure later in life he's going to assemble the power rangers.
It was Benito Mussolini's headquarters in Rome during WW2
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Man, these bootlickers are so pathetic. The lengths they go to to kiss his ass would be cringe even if it was towards an actual great person. The fact that it's directed at this hateful, disgusting man is the saddest thing...
What this guy said^^ focus on the real issues and watch out for the other sleight of hand cause in the end that's all it is. They want us bickering with each other while closed door deals are being finalized
Yeah, they've been pretty explicit in wanting to "flood the zone" with new shit everyday to annoy and outrage us, and so that the media doesn't have enough time to cover in depth what's really going on.
All of this stuff like "Gulf of America", "Red White and Blueland", adding Trump's face to Mt. Rushmore, putting Trump's face on the $100, etc. It's all a bunch of look-at-the-birdy bullshit.
Ahh yes, Benjamin Franklin, founding father, inventor of the bifocals, lightning rod, and Franklin stove, first postmaster general, founder of the University of Pennsylvania, signed the constitution and the declaration of independence along with drafting the latter. Definitely not nearly as important to this country as Donald Trump, who is singlehandedly keeping the orange spray tan market alive.
I know there's a lot of pushback of the founding fathers due to the general pushback against American exceptionalism but let's not lump up folks who were generally positive for society with active leaches.
Also adultery is the least of both their crimes, it just happens that as a politician, legal theorist, and scientist there's a lot that Benjamin Franklin did that helps give some positives to him. He was a shit person in many ways, but he was still decently intelligent. Trump is just shit with no respectable qualities and nothing to offer mankind except misery.
Imagine living in a country with the face of a felon rapist traitor on our currency.
Brought to you by dipshit conservatives.
Do you know about Andrew Jackson's behavior?
Doesn't DJT has to die soon for that?
Just in case people didn't know they were heading into a personality cult dictatorship already.
This was absolutely on my 2025 bingo card along with plans for a new face on Mount Rushmore and a mountain, river, or national park being named after him.
He will just make a mcdonalds a national park and name that after himself
I'm naming a toilet bowl after him.
I need to take a trump
MASA, Make America Shit Again!
I fear that Trump toilets are too shitty of a product to work...
I've named the contents of a toilet bowl after him.
I've seen 3D printed Mount Rushmore replicas that have trump as a 5th face.
What a massive waste of taxpayer money.
What a massive defacement of taxpayer money.
1 ruble
I know right, please do, I'll get fucking creative.
Shouldn't Trump be on the ruble?
lol .... by the time they do pass regulations and laws to do all this .... 1 Trump will be worth nothing
It will be like the German Reichsmark and they'll be printing out so much of it, that these paper bills will be more valuable as a fuel source to cook your food than in actually purchasing anything of value.
“1 Trump will be worth nothing” vs the immense value one Trump has now. lol.
"President Trump could be enjoying his golden years golfing and spending time with his family," Gill told Fox News Digital. "Instead, he took a bullet for this country and is now working overtime to secure our border, fix our uneven trade relationship with the rest of the world, make America energy independent again, and put America first by ending useless foreign aid."
I can’t I give up. I’m Canadian and America is fucked. There are no policies, no plans to make projects or fix problems. It’s all a campaign and political points. This is just pure trash satire at this point. URGH
2016 was the year that satire died
It was much earlier.
In 2010, a christian fundamentalist on youtube started to overanalyse Lady Gaga MVs, then moved onto other artists and eventually other media. He was pretty much the forerunner of those wokespotters (except not even SJW was a snarl word at that point), and yes eventually he dabbled into racism too, but he was also openly "not antisemitic" (he loved the sinner and hated the sin). When he first posted his videos, people, including me, thought it was a satire of conspiracy theorists. He was dead serious. I remember him nuking his old videos and making more sane sounding ones once gamergate hit mainstream, even backpedalling on his earlier analysises pointing out Freemasonry symbols and David Stars in media.
I thought he was broke and about to go to jail unless he became president and illegally stopped all investigations against him. So that he could again go to golf orgies where he could be a pedo. But okay.....
I'm sorry ma'am, the cash register is broken!
Oh I'm sorry, I don't have change for a hundred
Oh sir, we only accept 20's or lower currency. It's for our safety!
It has been since 2017 when he took office. Satire is dead.
Tanner was based on him, in case you didn’t know.
Edit; I put “Tannen” I swear.
Even worse.
Well, congress knows what to do now to get him on the bill. Just need an execution rider.
Idiots! Should have made a brand new $500 bill for this! Would work out a lot better with inflation. Great for buying eggs.
Musk can be the $1,000,000 bill in Weimer America, suitable for buying a single omelet.
The back can be a flaming depiction of the kinsey institute
Yeah when I was 20, $100 was grocery money for the month. Now it's groceries for 3-4 days. It doesn't help that I always have a house full of teenagers.
"Gazillion bucks". On the back put the Monopoly guy with a top hat and monocle.
good way to cause a run on $50 bills when everyone refuses to accept a $100
Don't you have to be dead to be on currency? If so he can be on any bill he wants long as he is dead.
I thought only deceased people with a positive influence on society could end up on money. The latter requirement will never happen, and the way he acts many will think it's about time the met the first requirment.
Guy who dissolved America's Bank on the 20. Guy who started it on the 10.
Guy who won a lot of duels on the 20. Guy who died in one on the 10.
Guy who started the New York manumission society and went on to trade slaves for his father in law on the ten, guy who did an unconstitutional and judicially rejected genocide on the 20.
Supposedly the smaller notes are the higher honor but the way the US works I'm not sure that's true.
Not putting him on the $100,000 bill is slap in the face.
the way trumpflation is going it'll be worth $100 anyway
That's actually a far point
When he's done, that bill will be as worthless as he is.
Less than worthless, my boy.
The dogs in the back of the pack.
Just build a temple to Trump Baal where they can make sacrifices to him.
I'd rather see George Clooney's asshole on the 100. Put this fuckers ugly face on the ruble.
Make americans vote between the two. I feel like that's gonna be more decisive than the last election.
Will that lower grocery prices?
God Trump is such a narcissist. I'm sure he wanted every dollar bill but $100 is the highest denomination.
They'll probably settle on creating a higher denomination. I mean, it's not like it would be hard to justify having a higher denomination. The US Treasury used to issue higher denomination bank notes., but the highest has been the $100 note since 1934. We've had quite a lot of cumulative inflation since then. Sure, cash is less important now than it was in the past. But if just by inflation, a $1000 note would be appropriate. So maybe as a compromise you issue $250 and $500 notes.
Or maybe he'll just mint a ten trillion dollar platinum coin with his mug on it. Then have the treasury deposit it in the president's personal bank account as "a tip for good public service."
The ego inflation would go like this:
"Sir, we want to put you on a new $500 bill. The EU has a €500 bill as well, so economic studies show viabil-"
"They already have a 500? No, I want a $1,000 bill, then. Put Elon on the $500."
"Sir, yes sir, thank you sir." boot slurping noises
I can see Trump and Musk ordering new denominations to one-up each other. "Crypto DOGE is worth over $9,001!" waved sharpie "Nuh-uh, Trump Bucks gets you a dozen eggs, cause I say so!"
$250 is a dumb denomination that only US would do.
1, 2, 5, 10, 20, 50 ,100 is followed by 200, 500, 1000.
JFC every measurement of everything in that country gets decided by someone who flunked in maths.
Sigh. This is just a distraction to get people like you talking about it and keep his name in the news.
These conmen understand that all publicity is good publicity and you play right into their hands every time.
Newsweek is a tabloid.
And American politics is a farce, so they're well situated for a surface level inside scoop.
Not as much as you might expect, but that's beside the point.
As a Brit, for whom the colloquial for pennies is "pence" like "ten pence" is 10p, I feel he's missing a trick not putting his fat leather apron of a face on the nickel or dime. Because then you could have "Trump pence". You could call it a Trumpence
That is pretty clever. Except it would already be dated since Trump attempted to get Pence lynched by an angry mob a few years back
This will bring down the price of eggs. Bigly.
All about the trumps sounds like a nightmare of a reality show
All About The Trumps sounds like our actual reality.
Because America is too weak to put a felon rapist traitor and his Beverly Hillbilly family behind us.
All about the Donnies is not bad.
"proposal"
Guys like always with GOP proposals, theyre just not realistic in any way.
I could list a hundred reasons from drug cartel soft power to petrodollar to NK USD forging (they're the fucking best at it, better than US mints)
Changing the Gulf of Mexico was also just a proposal before he aped it for an eo.
Having one company change one field of text to add parentheses for some Trump delusional bs is a bit different than changing the US dollars in circulation.
I don't think you understand just how big of a difference it actually is.
Most of these bills aren't really intended to pass... I hope
Не Путин?
The next admin is going to have so much shit to clean up that it'll be like seeing your home after you rented it out to a massive drunken party.
Didnt another person submit for Trump to be on like a $250 bill?
Fuck it you know what put his face on every bill. Trump clearly saved the USA and should be considered its only founding father from now on. Replace all the symbolism and stuff on the back of bills with pictures of Mar a Lago and Bedminster. Maybe Trump Towers too.
God this is the worst timeline. Someone go back and save Harambe.
It's a joke based on multiverse theory. The joke is that if someone hadn't killed Harambe (RIP in peace), we would be living a timeline of events that is different than this stupid, shitty one.
Yes. It's in the linked article in fact
Every emperor mints coins bearing his face when accessing the throne.
Cool, dollars with clowns on them 🤡
Is it still illegal to burn money?
Wait, it is?
Only in the literal sense. Not in the sense that i burn money by spending it fast.
He's getting rid of the pennies and nickles in favor of this
Oh look frivolous spending.
He also wants to be on mt rushmore. Which from what I hear, the mountain wouldn't be able to support a 5th head, or a makeover of one of the 4.
So if they try, the whole thing will crumble. So go ahead. Just try. I'd love to see that whole monument crumble, and even better if it's just to try to satisfy one persons ego.
Aye let it crumble and give it back to the natives it was stolen from.
Well......I mean they're dead. That happened hundreds of years ago.
They having living descendants though.
"Only those evil live to see their own likeness in stone."
I now KNOW what Conservatives will do when they FINALLY get Epstein's BLACK BOOK!
Put the People on CURRENCY!
The only paper I want to see this man's face on is toilet paper.
Did Franklin own slaves?
Related trivia: Modern relatives of Benjamin Franklin include Kristin Wiig, Bill Macy and Amy Poehler.
Looks like I'll be buying American toilet paper after all! 😒
Good thing they already put the "TP" logo on there so I won't forget to wipe my ass with it.
Criminals like Trump mostly launder money in $100s
The casino takes them.
Just because many chain retailers don’t accept them does not make them unusable. They still are used for many large cash payments, and they have to be accepted for paying a dept (like at a restaurant).
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A great idea. Then, when you have to spend four donalds for a carton of eggs you'll remember why voting for con-men is a bad idea.
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