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TRUMP DEMANDS HIS IMAGE ON $250 US CURRENCY

Trump wants new $250 bill to feature his Fulton County Jail mugshot 

President’s supporters try to change law so he can feature on banknote marking America’s 250th birthday 

(In a way, I think it would be fitting to have Trump, the only convicted felon and adjudicated sexual assaulter/rapist POTUS, put his mug shot on the US currency to document for posterity that 30% of the American population decided that a corrupt human being and criminal is what they worshipped and chose to represent America!)

NOTE:

In Mandarin Chinese, the number 250 (二百五, pronounced èr bǎi wǔ) is a common slang term that means "stupid person," "idiot," or "simpleton."Using it playfully calls someone a dummy, but it can be more disparaging depending on the tone. Because of this, pricing a product at ¥250 or giving it as a gift is generally avoided in Chinese culture to prevent accidentally insulting someone.

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Trump's insatiable lust for self-aggrandizement and for breaking laws is epic.

Federal law allows only deceased people to appear on currency.

Trump administration officials have pressed the office responsible for printing the nation’s money to design a $250 bill featuring the president’s portrait, according to four current and former employees, in what would be the first appearance of a living person on U.S. currency in more than 150 years.

Starting last year, two political appointees at the Treasury Department — U.S. Treasurer Brandon Beach and his senior adviser, Mike Brown — repeatedly urged staff at the agency’s Bureau of Engraving and Printing to prepare prototypes of the note, according to the employees, who said the move raised concerns because federal law currently allows only deceased people to appear on bills.

As part of the effort, Beach in August and September provided bureau staff with mock-up designs for the note, including one that shows President Donald Trump’s face in the center of the $250 bill between the signatures of the president and Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent, according to one of the employees and records reviewed by The Washington Post.

The artist who said he designed the mock-up told The Post that he had spoken with Trump about it.

From AI:

Donald Trump would be breaking the law if he placed his image on a $250 bill as it is currently designed.

The specific legal hurdles to this proposal include: The Living Person Ban: Federal law (Title 31, Section 5114 of the U.S. Code) explicitly states that only the portraits of deceased individuals may appear on U.S. currency and securities. 

This ban has been in place since 1866.

Lack of Authorization: A $250 bill is not currently recognized as a valid, statutorily authorized denomination of U.S. currency.

What needs to happen to make it legal?

For a $250 bill featuring President Trump to become a reality, Congress would need to pass specific legislation. This would require a brand-new law that both authorizes the $250 denomination and creates a specific legal exception for living presidents.

The idea of a $250 bill featuring Trump has been pushed by some administration officials and introduced in Congress via the proposed “Donald J. Trump $250 Bill Act,” but the legislation has not yet passed.

From The Other 98%:

The Treasury just pushed out the director of the currency printing bureau because she refused to put Trump's face on American money before Congress even passed a law allowing it.

Patricia Solimene, a 24-year Army veteran and the bureau's first female director, resisted pressure from Trump appointees Brandon Beach and his aide Mike Brown to fast-track designs for a $250 bill bearing the president's portrait. She was reassigned against her will. Brown now effectively runs the bureau. 

A career public servant who said "follow the law" got removed. The people who wanted to break it stayed.

The administration has been pressing the Bureau of Engraving and Printing to design the $250 note since at least last year, in what would be the first time a living person appeared on U.S. currency in over 150 years. 

That ban traces back to 1866, when Congress passed a law explicitly barring any living person from appearing on American currency after a Treasury official put his own face on a five-cent note. The Founders themselves rejected the practice as monarchical. 

And Trump isn't stopping at the bill. His signature already appears on all newly printed money. His face hangs on a banner over the Justice Department. The Kennedy Center bears his name. So does the U.S. Institute of Peace. There's a commemorative passport, a coin, a National Parks pass. 

House Minority Leader Hakeem Jeffries put it plainly: "Hard No on a Trump $250 bill. Get over yourself. The upcoming July 4th anniversary is not about a wannabe King." 

The Founders went to war over a king who taxed them without consent. We now have a president plastering his face on the institutions those Founders built, and firing the people who say no.

Some things don't need a monarchy to look exactly like one.

Rex gloriae! LOL!

 

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Judge Orders President’s Name Off Kennedy Center, and He Reacts With Fury

Apparently, Trump becomes infuriated when the courts tell him he's broken the law!

CORRUPTION IN PLAIN SIGHT

 

THE SENATE RACE IN TEXAS IS GETTING INTERESTING

 

Convicted felon, Donald Trump, proudly endorsed indicted felon, Ken Paxton for Texas Senate.

(Again, can anyone imagine if former President Obama had been involved in this shameful situation? This is why so many Americans label this disgrace as "White Privilege." Why do these two people get a pass, when we absolutely know Conservatives would be in paroxysms of fury if Mr. Obama did this?)

Ken Paxton beat long-time Republican Senator John Cornyn after Trump endorsed Paxton in Texas's recent primary.

And why not?

Paxton is the perfect embodiment of what the once proud Republican Party has become with Trump as its leader:

Venal and unprincipled.

(As well as a refuge for antisemites, xenophobic isolationists, Nazis, white nationalists, and extreme fundamentalist Christians who do not believe in the separation of their religion and government, as is set out in the US Constitution. Have I left anything out?)

Hmmm. Decisions, decisions.  Which way will the good people of Texas vote with these two men?

Stay tuned.

Oh, and there's this disgusting leniency Paxton gifted to a convicted pedophile after he, Adam Hoffman, was found guilty of sexually assaulting a young boy:

"A convicted child sexual abuser who received leniency from Republican Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton’s office was released after just 30 days in a McLennan County jail, KWTX reported. 

Former Waco attorney Adam Hoffman walked free on good behavior halfway through his 60-day sentence for sexually abusing a child, according to the outlet. 

Hoffman’s case sparked bipartisan criticism of Paxton after prosecutors in his office allowed the abuser to plead down his charges following a deadlocked jury and the victim’s unwillingness to testify again." --Daily Caller

At this point, why would anyone, in good conscience, want to be associated with the Republican Party?

Trump threatened to blow up a US ally in today’s wild cabinet meeting.

 

Just another day in the Trump circus that's pretending to be the US government. His enablers will shrug this off as "Trump being Trump," when in fact they should be talking about invoking the 25th Amendment.

Trump is clearly insane.

“Oman will behave just like everybody else or we'll have to blow them up. They understand that. They'll be fine,” Trump added. 

It is unclear whether the President misspoke or why he would threaten to attack a Middle Eastern partner.

The  Daily Mail has contacted the White House for comment. The Strait of Hormuz, which normally carries one-fifth of the world's oil, has been shut since Iran closed it after US and Israeli airstrikes in late February. 

The strait's reopening remains a key sticking point in peace talks. Oman has a history of serving as a friendly mediator between the White House and the Iranian regime. 

The country helped broker the 2015 Iranian nuclear deal and has acted as a US defense partner in the Middle East since 1980.” Excerpt From “Trump threatens to BOMB US ally sparking confusion in wild Cabinet meeting” —Daily Mail

GUEST POST BY DAVE MILLER

 

Questions, questions, questions...

Since Grey One talks sass likes questionnaires, here’s another five.

Again, as before, five simple answers is the cost of discussion admission.

1. Should the US be paying money to people found guilty or who have pleaded guilty to beating US Police Officers and defacing the US Capitol on Jan 6?

2. Is it unpatriotic and/or un-American for people in the US and Congress to push back against a president’s agenda?

3. If a politician votes with his or her party over 90% of the time, should that party attack that person for disloyalty? I’m thinking Rep Massie and Sen Fetterman here.

4. Should the US government provide an official US Federal Voter ID card to all citizens of our country on their 18th birthday, free of charge and demand use of that card as the single, mandatory ID to vote in our country?

5. Would you support a 20 year term limit for justices of the Supreme Court?

My answers?

No.
No.
No.
Yes.
Yes.

Yours?

BTW... I'm beside myself these days. Why are building warehouses in the US to house hundreds of thousands of immigrants? Are we going to put them there? How much worse politically can the Iran War go? $1.7 billion!!!??? A president tweeting AI photos of himself with aliens, as a super hero and more all night long? A Sec Def openly campaigning against a Republican for wanting to support Ukraine and believes the Epstein files need to be released as per the law the president himself signed?