New Trump move to etch his face on $1 coin hits snag as critics note he'd have to be dead
Source: Raw Story
October 3, 2025 5:16PM ET
The U.S. Treasury Department intends to mint a $1 coin with President Donald Trump on it, Fox Business News announced on Friday, but keen observers note a possible major snag.
"Despite the radical left's forced shutdown of our government, the facts are clear: Under the historic leadership of President Donald J. Trump, our nation is entering its 250th anniversary stronger, more prosperous, and better than ever," said a Treasury Department spokesperson in a statement to Fox Business.
Several people pointed out that the 1866 Thayer amendment, passed by Republican Martin Russell Thayer, and subsequent laws prohibit living people from being depicted on American currency. So, for Trump to put himself on a coin, the law says he would have to die.
Defector captured a page from the U.S. Treasury website that confirms the law in a "Frequently Asked Questions" section.
Read more: https://www.rawstory.com/trump-coin-2674153247/

chicoescuela
(2,367 posts)Well see his ugly ass on a coin well before we see the Epstein files.
Buddyzbuddy
(1,617 posts)Sneederbunk
(16,859 posts)PurgedVoter
(2,613 posts)So worth it. Just spend an extra dollar every time you have to pee while you are out and about. Soon enough folk will try to avoid getting them in change cause they don't know where it might have been.
Gimpyknee
(784 posts)Klondike Kat
(913 posts)in pubs across the country. But remember to find alternate transportation home.
SergeStorms
(19,795 posts)it might make a suitable tool for removing......"leftovers" from the solid waste area of the human anatomy. Then they could be flushed away to a place suitable for his likeness.
trusty elf
(7,513 posts)
Kid Berwyn
(22,064 posts)
ToxMarz
(2,572 posts)Probably lick it clean out of reverence.
James48
(4,969 posts)I wont mind a bit.
Grokenstein
(6,158 posts)Submariner
(13,150 posts)SergeStorms
(19,795 posts)one of the many celebrations that would certainly pop-up throughout the country. A three day Bacchanalia would undoubtedly destroy the brain cells which retain all memory of the putrid orange turd, and revive the human spirit within us all.
Submariner
(13,150 posts)I should probably spend more time leasing and shipping hundreds of these bicycle bars funeral procession vehicles to the DC parade route staging area. This is going to be such fun. I bet Stevie Miiler and Donnie Jr will be pissed when they see it.
LymphocyteLover
(8,834 posts)twodogsbarking
(16,060 posts)chouchou
(2,412 posts)
Marthe48
(21,986 posts)Fine.
He won't. But cheap alloy dollar coins aren't popular, and coinage in general, like traitor felon, is going the way of the dinosaur.
BattleRow
(1,842 posts)Makes the phrase "dirty copper" come to mind.. although that's usually applied to polICE.
Martin Eden
(14,920 posts)But the only currency he deserves is a wooden nickel.
SergeStorms
(19,795 posts)could coin the first 'shit nickel'.
GusBob
(8,006 posts)The pigs dont care about the laws
progree
(12,392 posts)Given how well-accepted past $1 coins have been - the Susan B. Anthony and the Sacagawea?
Actually I wish the $1 coins were more popular, but I guess people prefer pouring in an endless stream of quarters into slots or feeding $1 paper bills into temperamental bill readers.
BumRushDaShow
(161,104 posts)We are rapidly moving to the point of "tap and go" payments, with a whole generation who is averse to any "cash". Even the modern casino slot machines are slowly moving to "cashless" (with the pandemic accelerating that move) - U.S. casinos push for cashless gambling payments, citing virus
I think this is why many have pushed for a "transaction tax" as a revenue generator due to stuff like that.
progree
(12,392 posts)so as not to raise their menu prices (as much) while actually charging more. My second favorite place has been doing that for several years.
I have bus fare and soft-drink / snack vending machines in mind when I think of $1 coins.
BumRushDaShow
(161,104 posts)Philly has a "keycard" thing to "tap and go" and are (finally) moving to an app-fare option -
I know a lot of vending machines still require cash but some have moved to a debit/credit card option. The parking kiosks (both city parking and private lot kiosks) also have some kind of card or app scan option (where they were using $1 coins for change return in the past).
progree
(12,392 posts)I've been using the Go Card for over 15 years - just hold it up to or on the card reader thingy and wait for the beep.
I've always carried some quarters in case my card isn't working and they push me for alternative payment, but they never have.
I recently lost my card, so I paid for a couple trips with quarters until I got a new one.
I even screwed up with the quarters the first time. First I asked where they go, I couldn't figure it out in a moment or two. Then I dumped my 4 quarters in all at once (senior rate). Nope, that doesn't work, they have to be fed in one at a time.
As for the app, I've just never warmed up to it. Seems complicated, but anyway, one buys tickets in advance with it. Then one activates a ticket when one sees the bus coming. And then show the driver the phone with the ticket displayed. I've never used it.
The Go Card is easier than that. And I cannot warm up to getting on a bus with phone in hand and all that, especially when I'm hauling $150 in groceries at the same time. I don't like taking my phone out of my pocket unless I absolutely have to. Mostly because I may drop it or misplace it. But also because of the phone snatchers
Opinion Once vibrant, Minneapolis-St. Paul is in decline. What happened?
https://www.democraticunderground.com/105914948
BumRushDaShow
(161,104 posts)and have yet to use but have it "just in case". I rode public transit to school for 9 years (was at a close-by school to walk the first 3 years), and to work for the first 3 years and pretty much have driven since (not counting Amtrak trips).
The train schedules got worse and worse when I was working where it was faster (and cheaper when carpooling) to drive.
I was just happy with the "tap and go" credit cards with the RF chips (first time I used one on the first card I have that got that was when I was in Canada in Niagara Falls (on the Canadian side) 11 years ago in a restaurant.
I also keep quarters as there are still some old parking meters that don't have kiosks and when I get air for my tires, the machines take quarters (although some now have some kind of electronic pay option).
I will say that since they transferred my scripts to CVS from Rite Aid, I have had a dickens of a time dealing with the CVS "app check-in" thing. The app "works" when I'm at home putzing with it but in the pharmacy, there are apparently issues with the cell signals and the QR code page in the app just spins on my phone (a new T-Mobile iPhone 17 Pro) when trying to pull it up to scan on the kiosk thing.
CrispyQ
(40,278 posts)When I left that job I had about $700. Sounds impressive but I was there for 10 years. Now I have a piggy bank collection & nothing makes me happier than when I have to buy a new one.
I bought a couple of vintage banks, small ones, & after filling them realized they don't have stoppers to get the money out. Oops.
JohnnyRingo
(20,196 posts)The banks all have them and they're good for adding to a tip when called for.
CrispyQ
(40,278 posts)First you go to wheresgeorge.com & enter your bill serial numbers, where you got it, & what condition it's in. Then you stamp or mark your bills with a message to go to wheresgeorge.com to track the bill. It was fun & I got a few hits, which is surprising cuz I didn't circulate many bills. The son of a friend circulated a ton of new bills every month & he got a lot of hits. The best hit I got was a bill that ended up in Mexico. Since people don't use cash so much anymore I don't know if you'd get many hits. ???
Where's George?
RazorbackExpat
(628 posts)Governor Thomas Kilby was depicted on the 1921 Alabama centennial half dollar;
President Calvin Coolidge was depicted on the 1926 US sesquicentennial half dollar;
Senator Joseph T. Robinson was depicted on one of the Arkansas centennial half dollars of the 1930s;
Senator Carter Glass was depicted on the 1936 Lynchburg, Virginia commemorative half dollar;
Eunice Kennedy Shriver was depicted on the 1995 Special Olympics commemorative dollar
thesquanderer
(12,799 posts)Which would make this a non-story.
FakeNoose
(38,853 posts)When Chump finally kicks the bucket - hopefully soon - I never want to see his face again.
I never want to read a news story about him ever again.
Memorials and commemoratives are off the table.
Nobody will visit his effing "Library" in Miami either, except maybe to burn it down.
Jack Valentino
(3,454 posts)and "commemorative coins" are not US legal tender....
I have a President Obama coin in a drawer somewhere,
but it was not issued by the United States Government....
RazorbackExpat
(628 posts)Any coin produced by any US Mint, since the first Cent was produced at Philadelphia in 1793, is technically legal tender (exceptions are coins produced for foreign entities, such as the Philippine and Panama issues). Most modern commemorative coins do not circulate because their issue price or precious metal price is far above their face value. For example, the gold San Francisco Old Mint coin of 2006 has a face value of $5, but the gold in it is worth around $900. But the 4 half dollar coins I mentioned actually circulated at one time.
Eugene
(66,445 posts)lonely bird
(2,562 posts)Stronger, more prosperous and better than ever?
You have to be drunk, stoned, stupid or brain dead to believe that.
AverageOldGuy
(3,025 posts). . . Ill gladly carry a couple of Trump dollar coins in my pocket.
meow2u3
(25,215 posts)
chouchou
(2,412 posts)generalbetrayus
(1,262 posts)
no_hypocrisy
(53,266 posts)Jack Valentino
(3,454 posts)then he can legally get his decapitated head to appear on a U.S. coin that is legal....
Hell, he should do that regardless of the coin issues....
Figarosmom
(8,883 posts)Dead is good.
LetMyPeopleVote
(170,645 posts)Kid Berwyn
(22,064 posts)
LPBBEAR
(578 posts)manages to get his ugly mug on currency I won't accept it. The stores and the banks will just have to give me real money, not monopoly money.
DenaliDemocrat
(1,691 posts)On a coin. Yes please and twice on Sunday!
Grins
(8,913 posts)Did some apparatchik reach deep into his ass and pull this one out? Or did it come from on-high? Really high?
Did the seething clinical-narcissist and black hole of despair and debauchery personally come up with this one? Like he did with the Covid checks that he INSISTED be signed by him and not the Treasure Secretary?
JohnnyRingo
(20,196 posts)If congress allows it and the courts shrug their robed shoulders, who's going to stop it?
We're in a bad place right now.
Historic NY
(39,323 posts)Autumn
(48,423 posts)Bayard
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Rhiagel
(1,808 posts)How inspirational.
WestMichRad
(2,671 posts)has probably already written an amendment to the eventual must -pass budget bill, to overturn the 1866 Thayer Amendment.
Turbineguy
(39,456 posts)And it's backed by Trump.
And you know, if it's backed by trump, you know it's good!
LetMyPeopleVote
(170,645 posts)BumRushDaShow
(161,104 posts)
(I am glad I wasn't drinking my water when I saw your post!

SergeStorms
(19,795 posts)I can't recommend anything that has to do with that disgusting piece of excrement.
CousinIT
(11,904 posts)PXR-5
(548 posts)Back during his first term. We always made train cars in honor of past presidents. The board said let's do Trump, but we had the same policy that the president had to be dead.
Keep in mind the company was composed of mostly liberals, but for the sake of money, they made an exception and produced a Trump car. It was one of the best selling cars ever, like nothing we've ever seen before. Despicable.
MissouriDem47
(295 posts)TACO's supreme court will make a one time only exception for him.
Midnight Writer
(24,818 posts)Deep State Witch
(12,278 posts)Why can't he? I mean, who wouldn't want a side shot of Orange Julius Caesar and his wattles on their coin?
I just wonder if the gold will come off like his bronzer does?
cstanleytech
(27,959 posts)Pas-de-Calais
(10,191 posts)Dart board
Toilet paper
Orrex
(66,126 posts)Godspeed, Mr President!