New Trump move to etch his face on $1 coin hits snag as critics note he'd have to be dead

[BumRushDaShow]

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]

1. When has the law stopped tsf? Never.

We’ll see his ugly ass on a coin well before we see the Epstein files.

[Buddyzbuddy]

2. It's a tough choice but, ok.

[Sneederbunk]

49. Good trade.

[slightlv]

71. This is the ONLY way I'd see trump's ugly face

etched into any of our currency! If he's dead, okay... I'll let the magas buy the $1.00 coin for the 39.95 dollar coins they sell on late night infomercials and use the money to build up our general welfare departments once again.

[PurgedVoter]

3. For $1 you can leave it face up in a urinal!

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]

10. Brilliant!

[Klondike Kat]

13. Just think of the increase in beer sales

in pubs across the country. But remember to find alternate transportation home.

[SergeStorms]

51. Depending on the size of the coin.....

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]

52. On Don We Piss

[Kid Berwyn]

57. Putting the crazy before the urinal.

[Harker]

86. The Nobel Piss Prize!

[ToxMarz]

66. A true MAGAt wouldn't care, they'd grab it up in the blink of an eye.

Probably lick it clean out of reverence.

[joho260]

89. fire hydrant

I would super glue it to the fire hydrant across the street -- it is regularly visited by the local canines.

[IzzaNuDay]

95. I buy dollar coins rolls at the bank

And I will unwrap every roll to make sure none of those coins are there and return them. Or I’ll follow your suggestion, find a urinal to put one in!

[James48]

4. I'm ok with that.

I won’t mind a bit.

[Grokenstein]

5. Yeah, seems like a bargain. Maybe we can have Miller on the penny?

[Submariner]

6. The funeral will fuckup the weekend, but I'm okay with it

[SergeStorms]

54. You could attend....

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]

67. With the pending funeral approaching

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]

7. maybe they could make that happen if they want the coin badly enough

[twodogsbarking]

8. Make it orange and worthless. Realism.

[chouchou]

23. Good one !

[Marthe48]

9. If he upholds the law

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]

25. Copper is orange colored..

Makes the phrase "dirty copper" come to mind.. although that's usually applied to polICE.

[Martin Eden]

11. First, Trump dies. I'm good with that.

But the only currency he deserves is a wooden nickel.

[SergeStorms]

56. Or the Treasury...

could coin the first 'shit nickel'.

[COL Mustard]

79. He could be on the

Newly created $3 coin.

[GusBob]

12. Some animals are more equal than others

The pigs don’t care about the laws

[progree]

14. They got rid of the penny to save minting costs, now they want to make a $1 coin that nobody wants?

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]

15. "I guess people prefer pouring in an endless stream of quarters into slots"

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]

17. More and more places are charging extra for using a credit card, including my favorite restaurant just started that

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]

58. Well like other transit systems

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]

62. MetroTransit (Minneapolis - St.Paul) has a Go Card, also an app

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

Serious crime is way up since before the death of George Floyd. In Minneapolis, homicides increased 43%, auto theft surged 67% and vandalism rose 73%, per data from the Minneapolis Crime Dashboard comparing Jan. 1-Sept. 15, 2019, vs. Jan. 1-Sept. 15, 2025. While facing some of the highest rates of crime and violence in Minneapolis’s history, CBS News reports, the Minneapolis police force is down 40% in the last four years

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[BumRushDaShow]

65. I have a SEPTA Keycard that I bought about 7 years ago

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]

35. When I was a checker at a grocery store I used to buy all the silver dollars & Kennedy half dollars that I came across.

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]

38. I keep stack of $2 bills

The banks all have them and they're good for adding to a tip when called for.

[CrispyQ]

39. There's a bill tracking site called Where's George? that I used to participate in.

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?

[jmowreader]

75. Use a butter knife to align the coins with the slot

[CrispyQ]

77. Good idea, but what an exercise in patience!! -nt

[jmowreader]

83. Tell me about it!

When I was a kid my mom had a ceramic piggy bank she got on her wedding day. Apparently there was a bank in Bonners Ferry, ID, that gave every woman who got married in Bonners one of these as a wedding gift. Well...it didn't have a plug. Once a year the whole family would gather round to coax the coins out of this monstrosity and roll them. It took all day.

[RazorbackExpat]

16. There have actually been 5 people depicted on US coins while they were still alive

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]

20. Yes, I believe there is an exception for "commemorative" coins.

Which would make this a non-story.

[FakeNoose]

30. But the real story is that WE DON'T WANT HIM on any coin, whether he's alive or dead is irrelevant

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]

26. The laws have been changed since at least 4 out of 5 of your examples....

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]

68. Commemorative coins issued by the US Mint are indeed, legal tender

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]

18. dRump envies King Chuckles, as this is what monarchies do for their sovereign.

[lonely bird]

19. Um...

Stronger, more prosperous and better than ever?

You have to be drunk, stoned, stupid or brain dead to believe that.

[COL Mustard]

81. I'll take drunk and stoned

Oh wait, it wasn’t a menu???

[lonely bird]

92. Hey...

One from column A, 2 from column B.😉😁

[AverageOldGuy]

21. If that's what it takes . . .

. . . I’ll gladly carry a couple of Trump dollar coins in my pocket.

[meow2u3]

22. Can that be arranged?

[chouchou]

24. Put his face on a 3 dollar bill. People would know it's a phony piece-of-shit.

[generalbetrayus]

48. And put Vance on a 17 dollar bill so you can get both as change for a 20.

[RazorbackExpat]

70. Like the old Nixon $3 bills

[chouchou]

82. Whoa..I forgot about those. Thanks!

[no_hypocrisy]

27. No thanks, I'll stick to my GW paper dollar.

[Jack Valentino]

28. Trump should visit one of those states where assisted suicide is legal---

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]

29. Well, that would be fine with me....

Dead is good.

[LetMyPeopleVote]

31. trump cannot appear on currency unless he has died

Link to tweet

[Kid Berwyn]

32. A more deserving memorial...

[LPBBEAR]

33. If that POS

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]

34. Deal ACCEPTED! Dead Trump for his ugly mug

On a coin. Yes please and twice on Sunday!

[Grins]

36. First question: "Whose idea was this????"

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]

37. Do such laws matter anymore?

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]

40. Hurry up donald

[Autumn]

41. Then he needs to get it done. Sooner rather than later.

[Bayard]

42. Make it so

[Rhiagel]

43. Oh, look. It's his fight for billionaires and pedophiles pose.

How inspirational.

[WestMichRad]

44. Someone (I'll let you guess the political party affiliation)

… has probably already written an amendment to the eventual must -pass budget bill, to overturn the 1866 Thayer Amendment.

[Turbineguy]

45. He already has his bitcoin.

And it's backed by Trump.

And you know, if it's backed by trump, you know it's good!

[LetMyPeopleVote]

46. This version of the trump coin makes me smile

Link to tweet

[BumRushDaShow]

47. ....

(I am glad I wasn't drinking my water when I saw your post! )

[SergeStorms]

50. In good conscience......

I can't recommend anything that has to do with that disgusting piece of excrement.

[CousinIT]

53. I'm fine with that. n/t

[PXR-5]

55. I used to work for Lionel Trains

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]

59. TACO's supreme court

TACO's supreme court will make a one time only exception for him.

[Midnight Writer]

60. I'd actually love to see Trump's image on coins, as long as they as inscribed with "Never Forget. Never Again."

[Deep State Witch]

61. Roman Emperors Did It

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]

63. The silver lining on a dark cloud.

[Pas-de-Calais]

64. Only 2 items his face belongs

Dart board

Toilet paper

[Orrex]

69. I hope that he acts quickly to resolve this snag

Godspeed, Mr President!

[ChicagoTeamster]

72. Maybe Treasury Sec Scott Bessent is hinting at something?

DO they know something they're not telling anybody?

[MrWowWow]

73. Obituary of donald j. trump

Convicted career money laundering criminal, rapist,Russian asset, and reputed mobster, Donald "StankyFingerDollHands" Trump (P01135809), the Worst President in United States History, surprisingly died of complications due to a combination of an abrupt guilty conscience and terminal moral bankruptcy on [Date] at the age of [Age]. Trump's normally bloated, morbidly obese, lifeless body, found by his then, male odor wife, Malaria, was slumped over his fabled Gold-plated toilet, and dressed in what appeared to be WWII-era German Lederhosen. His hands were still desperately clutching a first edition, autographed copy of Mein Kampf. . Trump's death truly marked the end of a criminalized, tumultuous and polarizing era/error in American politics.

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Donald J. Trump's Epitaph:

There was a crooked man, and he walked a crooked mile,
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He found a crooked sixpence against a crooked stile;
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He wed a pornstar cat that caught a crooked rat,
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And they all lived together in a little crooked shack.
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-Pass it On. Repost it EVERYWHERE! The Power of Nonthreatening (the true intent and spirit of this harmless, satirically-flavored parody post), Positive Thinking Never Ceases to Amaze!

[TygrBright]

74. I could get behind that... n/t

[Ocelot II]

76. Not a bad trade-off, IMO.

[PatrickforB]

78. LOL, let's get those coins minted fast. Donnie, you know what you need to do... n/t

[OverBurn]

80. Trump, balls in your court, make it happen. He will never know we didn't follow through.

[Wonder Why]

84. Put his face on the front of a new $1,000 175 pound coint.

Everyone will remember how fat he is.

Nobody will be able to carry it around so nobody will see them

No stores or banks will take it because of the weight.

Of course, we can always put his picture on the front of a $1 bitcoin. Pffft!

[Hayabusa]

85. The only way that I personally could see this as any way acceptable

was if a special disposition was made for all 45 Presidents, living or dead, to be on coinage for the 250th celebration.

But we know that isn't going to happen.

[truthisfreedom]

87. Mexico has the peso, we'll have the pedo.

[Beartracks]

88. "Despite the radical left's forced shutdown of our government..."

The radical right doth protest and propagandize too much.

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[AllyCat]

90. That seems like a fair trade.

I still wouldn’t accept it as currency.

[babylonsister]

91. Just don't tell him about the dead part. nt

[CaptainTruth]

93. That can be arranged.

[Lucky Luciano]

94. I support him being on a coin within the legal bounds.

[LetMyPeopleVote]

96. MaddowBlog-Treasury eyes a commemorative dollar coin for Trump, with plans for a 2026 rollout

It might sound like a weird joke, but there’s an actual plan to make a legal tender $1 coin next year that would glorify the incumbent president.

Link to tweet

https://www.msnbc.com/rachel-maddow-show/maddowblog/trump-dollar-coin-2026-rollout-rcna235974

It’s against this backdrop that NBC News reported:

The Treasury on Friday shared draft images of a $1 commemorative coin, featuring President Donald Trump’s visage, that the United States Mint is preparing in honor of the 250th anniversary of the signing of the Declaration of Independence. Trump’s instantly recognizable profile is featured on the ‘heads’ side of the coin. On the ‘tails’ side, the coin will have an image of Trump with his first raised, standing in front of an American flag.

.....I should probably emphasize that this is not a joke. The report is not satire. This is not intended to make the administration look foolish for the sake of comedy......

Putting aside questions of propriety, how would this be legal? The answer is, it might not be. The New York Times reported:

The Treasury is authorized to mint the coins for a year, according to the Circulating Collectible Coin Redesign Act of 2020. The coins must have ‘designs emblematic of the U.S. semiquincentennial,’ the legislation says. It is not clear that Mr. Trump’s image can be featured on a coin. An 1866 law enshrined a tradition that only deceased people could appear on U.S. currency to avoid the appearance that America was a monarchy.

Let’s also not overlook the fact that the Circulating Collectible Coin Redesign Act of 2020 also states, “No head and shoulders portrait or bust of any person, living or dead, and no portrait of a living person may be included in the design on the reverse of any coin under subsections (x), (y), and (z).”

I wish that this was satire.

[Happy Hoosier]

97. I mean, maybe this is good news? He knows something we don't!