Critics Blast Fed Panel Decision to Mint Trump Gold Coin for US 250th Anniversary Celebration
3 months ago by technocrit to c/news
A federal commission tasked with approving designs for coinage has approved a 24-karat gold coin featuring President Donald Trump, flouting precedent regarding commemorating living presidents and possibly violating federal law.
The coin, formally meant to celebrate the 250th anniversary of the signing of the Declaration of Independence and the founding of the United States, shows Trump standing behind a desk, firmly pushing his two fists on top of it while giving a stern look in the direction of the coin holder.
The unanimous vote from the U.S. Commission of Fine Arts occurred on Thursday. The commission is composed entirely of people appointed by the president, following his firing of its former members last fall.
Laws don’t matter anymore. Just do crimes.
If they're ignoring the law then we can ignore the law against defacement and destruction of US currency, right? Melt them down? Carve Hitler staches or penises in his fists?
The people that are agreeing to do this are such pussies.
Stop catering to this asshole.
They can’t even get a picture of him that doesn’t look like a looming threat.
That actually makes him all the more terrifying.
Always something to prove to distract from his tiny dick hands Epstein files.
Yeah, a frightened animal will leash out, but it's also easier to estimate it's actions - even if those actions will be stupid (and I'm not sure if the orange idiot even needs to be frightened for that)
Still, we can handle and model that, and work against it - because it's always the fucking same pattern
I genuinely thought it was Sasquatch.
A dollar says they're actually chocolate.
Chocolate covered diaper shit
Gross. Imagine having that ugly fat fucks face on a coin for our 250th anniversary... Shameful. Guess since he's the one that destroyed what we have, it makes sense.
Pedophile rapist conman no-class-having low life.
Someone needs to add a child’s head poking out from under the table to make it more historically accurate.
"Blasts"
*sigh
I counter Blast with SLAM!
I counter slam with 🤮
And that's why you got fired from the WWE.
Why wouldn't the coin look like him?
ever wonder why every coin says "liberty" in some random spot? the coinage act of 1792 mandates that all coins must depict liberty because the US framers did not like "too monarch-like" effigies, so the people in the 1900s just called it a day by slapping onto Amerindians and historical figures the word LIBERTY
however, this precise design no longer follows this law, due to the placement of the mounted head making it instead a depiction of LIBFRTY
/j
Angry coins
Why so surprised?
Once again:
THIS IS A FASCIST COUNTRY!
This is the least of what will change. And you have at least 50 years of it.
How viable is it to destroy enough of these to force their retraction or otherwise fuck up their records.
I say we acquire as many of them as we can, however we can, legal or not, and burn them, shit on them, or otherwise.
...it should melt?
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I thought a coin of a living president was illegal?
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