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Posted on 05/28/2026 9:59:59 AM PDT by thegagline
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Key administration officials are pushing the Treasury Department’s Bureau of Engraving and Printing to design a $250 banknote with Trump’s image, the Washington Post reported.
Should the Treasury Department move ahead with the plan, it would mark the first time a living person’s face was slapped on a greenback since 1866.
The $250 note would be a nod to America’s 250th birthday***
Under the Thayer Amendment, which passed in 1866, it is illegal to put the likeness of a living person on official US currency, bonds, or other financial notes. Nonetheless, US Treasurer Brandon Beach and his top adviser, Mike Brown, pushed for development of the new banknote,***
The mock-ups featured Trump’s face in the middle of the $250 note as well as the president’s and Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent’s signatures.
Director of the Bureau of Engraving and Printing Patricia Solimene reportedly protested to Beach and Brown that there are legal and other hurdles the agency needs to clear to make a new banknote.
“She had told them we’re not authorized to do this. We can’t progress any further, and all the stakeholders have not even met to discuss the next steps,” a source told the outlet. “Currency often takes six to eight years to produce a new bill, particularly one of such high value.”
On April 27, Solimene was reassigned, telling her peers that she was departing the role with a “heavy heart” and that the change was “not my choice,” the WaPo claimed.
*** In addition to the Thayer Amendment, there is another law limiting Uncle Sam to specific denominations, and $250 isn’t on that list.
Speculation about Trump eventually pursuing a banknote with his face on it has swirled on Capitol Hill. Multiple Democrats have introduced legislation to bar that from happening. ***
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With inflation, a $250 bill makes sense. Having President Trump’s face on the currency makes him too much like the British monarch, whose face is on British and Commonwealth countries’ paper currencies. It would be better to honor another President, such as Theodore Roosevelt or Ronald Reagan.
Just another example of Trump’s civility being exceeded by his humility.
Just another example of Trump’s civility being exceeded by his humility.
$250 bill with trump on it... i’d get a bunch of those and hand them to my liberal friends and watch them embrace them...
back it with a gold standard and we have a start to something.
I do favor a US $100 bill with Hank Williams on it.
I love it! Americans will love it!
Instead of using credit cards, Americans would be proud to use the $250 bill when going to the grocery store or filling up their gas tanks.
I voted for Trump, for a number of reasons, and I still would, but, truthfully, this is where Trump’s narcissistic ego rears its ugly head.
I’d like to see Reagan’s face on the $500 bill.
LOL!
It’s just schtick. It won’t happen.
Trump on a $250 special edition Federal Reserve Note?
Are they hoping he’ll be assassinated just to make things nice and legal?
(See tagline, they’re getting closer to all nine lives...)
George Orwell would be most appropriate.
No. Just no.
Trump should bring back the $500 and $1000 bills. They were withdrawn from use by an executive order of Richard Nixon, as I recall.
Just start printing them.
$1000 today is only worth $100 when I was a teen in 1968!
Definitely bring back higher notes!
If he ends up saving the country, exposing the Deep State and locking up Obama and his cronies, it’s a well-deserved honor. Put him on the $250 bill.
And next we’ll have a new American flag with a Trump portrait on it.
Make it a thousand.
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