Trump’s hand-picked clones have already agreed to put him on a 24k gold memorial coin and they’re actively talking about putting him on the dime. Now this:
President Donald Trump has spent much of his second term in office working to leave his mark on Washington, DC. He’s draped enormous banners of his face over government buildings, plastered his name onto the Carrara walls of the Kennedy Center, and covered the White House in gold accents while demolishing the East Wing to build a 90,000-square-foot ballroom.
Now the Trump administration is taking another unprecedented step toward brand ubiquity: His Treasury Department plans to add his signature to US currency.
Trump’s autograph will be added to all denominations of US bills, Vanity Fair has learned. The process of developing new printing plates is underway, I’m told, and the new bills will go into circulation in the coming months.
The measure is not temporary: Trump’s name will appear on bills until a future administration decides to take it off.
This will be the first time in US history that the sitting president’s signature will appear on American currency. US bills typically feature the signatures of the Treasury secretary and the US treasurer. Trump’s signature will replace that of the latter official, Brandon Beach, and sit alongside Scott Bessent’s.
“As the 250th anniversary of our great nation approaches, American currency will continue to stand as a symbol of prosperity, strength, and the unshakable spirit of the American people under President Trump’s leadership,” Beach said in a statement to Vanity Fair. “The president’s mark on history as the architect of America’s golden age economic revival is undeniable. Printing his signature on the American currency is not only appropriate, but also well deserved.”
It is appalling. All of it. But Trump is intent upon slapping his disgusting brand on every American symbol he can, from the White House to coins to airports and beyond.
Once he is out of office it’s vitally important that the Democrats rid the country of all this but I honestly don’t think they will. It will infuriate the MAGAs and they won’t want to create more friction by tearing down their dear leader while they’re still screaming in agony over the election being stolen. (Yes, they will assume that.) But we really can’t continue to have him be a ubiquitous figure in American society. It’s poison and it needs to be purged.
I hope that some rich person will fund a citizens effort to lobby for the removal of his hideous name from every public building and retire all the money with his name on it.It may take years but it has to be done.