In one of the most depraved moves in American history, a federal arts commission staffed with Trump appointees in March approved a 24-karat coin, which shows a snarling Trump leaning on a desk with clenched fists. This vomitous affront to history - defiling a U.S. coin (featuring the inciter of the Jan.6th insurrection) is now up for consideration to mark the Nation's 250th. This execrable item will be up to three inches in diameter. The extravagance of size in design, we learn, personally approved by the megalomaniacal felon- in- chief.
Why does this orange fungal parasite have to have his miserable, traitor face on everything including the front of the Justice Dept.? Professor Timothy Snyder, author of 'On Tyranny', was clear in his Saturday a.m. appearance and interview on Velshi:
Trump with putting his image everywhere, is trying to create the impression that he is unstoppable. It also follows the track of other authoritarians in history including Hitler, Putin, Kim Jong Un and Mao Tse Tung. And this is what the celebration of the 250th anniversary of the nation means to him: glorification of him as the leader.
This is supported by Jacob Collins Levy in his June 3rd WSJ piece ('It' All About The Donalds', p. A l3), writing:
"This sort of leader worship is common among autocrats. In Cuba, Vietnam and China, images of Fidel Castro, Ho Chi Minh and Mao Tse dung have long been present in government building and school - not to mention T-shirt, coins and tourist kitsch"
As far as considering the actual manifestation of this atrocity there ought to be no second thoughts. It ought to be nixed, nullified on principle. Namely, that it is a direct attack on our history, a reprehensible revisionist emblem that ought to be removed from any potential sale, or circulation.
Fortunately, we subsequently learned (WaPo last Friday) Senate Democrats on Thursday urged the Trump administration to halt production of this commemorative 250th anniversary solid gold coin that would bear the traitor’s image. Did the Senate Dems use the obvious fact that a traitor's image should not desecrate any U.S. coin. No, of course not. Instead they invoked a vanilla technicality, citing concerns that some of the U.S. Mint’s gold could have links to foreign cartels.
In other words, the Trump gold coin should be shelved because of recent reports that
some gold used by the Mint was sourced from countries where the
precious metal is mined illegally. Harping on this, Sens. Elizabeth Warren (Massachusetts) and
Ron Wyden (Oregon) — the top Democrats on the Senate Banking and Finance
committees, respectively — argued this in a letter to Treasury Secretary Scott
Bessent and Mint Director Paul Hollis that was viewed by The Washington Post.
But both Warren and Wyden missed the point in their WaPo comment:
“At the very least, the Mint should ensure that a coin
intended to honor the nation’s 250th anniversary is not made of gold linked to
exploitation and criminal activity,”
No, at the very least NO traitor insurrectionist leader’s
image should ever, EVER be on a U.S. coin that values its history as opposed to dastardly
historical revisionism and a blatant effort to whitewash what transpired on January 6, 2021.
Warren and Wyden then asked the Mint to stop all production on
the coin and conduct a public audit of the supply chain. They said the coin “is
more befitting a monarchy than a democracy.”
But that's only a relatively tame point. In truth, it is more befitting the honoring of a traitor and felon and his yen for autocracy than a democracy. To approve this monstrosity would only add magnitudes more degeneracy to an already tainted 250th celebration. Worse, it would put a stamp of quasi legitimacy on Trump's entire despicable reign.
See Also:
Kudos To Federal Judge For Ordering Removal Of Trump's Name From Kennedy Center
And:
What Would My Revolutionary War Ancestors Think Of Our Nation's Present Predicament?
And:
With Respect For My Revolutionary War Ancestors I Won't Be Celebrating A 250th Under Trump
And:
by Thom Hartmann | June 2, 2026 - 5:32am | permalink
Donald Trump looked at America’s 250th birthday and neurotically concluded that he’s the main attraction.
A celebration intended to honor the founding of the United States is rapidly being repackaged as a celebration of Trump himself: his movement, his grievances, his white supremacy, his misogyny, and his power.
Every new announcement, from the MAGA rallies to the vanity projects to the carefully choreographed spectacles on the National Mall and White House lawn, reinforces the same message: this is no longer about America turning 250. It’s about Trump making sure America spends its 250th birthday talking about Trump and the power of white men.
And:
by Thom Hartmann | June 10, 2026 - 4:47am | permalink
If you’ve wandered anywhere near the White House this past week, you couldn’t have missed it, because there’s now a ninety-two-foot, six-hundred-ton tangle of steel and floodlights squatting on the South Lawn like a carnival ride that ate a cathedral. The UFC calls it “The Claw.”
It’s taller than the White House itself, tricked out like a Fourth of July beer can, and bolted down right over the patch of grass where Marine One usually lands, all so that on Trump’s birthday, June 14th, two grown men can punch and choke each other bloody in front of thousands of howling fans.
Trump liked it so much he floated leaving it up forever, then had his handlers walk it back when somebody gently reminded him the President still occasionally needs a helicopter. Replacing the torn-up lawn afterward will run about seven hundred thousand dollars, which is roughly seven hundred thousand dollars more than this spectacle is worth.
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