Another day, one other place for Donald Trump’s identify to look.
This time: U.S. paper forex.
On Thursday, the Treasury Department introduced that payments printed from this summer time will bear the president’s signature to mark America’s 250th anniversary.
It’s the primary time a sitting president’s signature might be featured on U.S. money.
The signature of Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent may also nonetheless be included.
In an announcement, Bessent claimed “there is no more powerful way to recognize the historic achievements of our great country and President Donald J. Trump than U.S. dollar bills bearing his name, and it is only appropriate that this historic currency be issued at the Semiquincentennial.”
Critics on social media, nonetheless, weren’t satisfied.
Some branded the transfer “disgusting,” narcissistic and but extra “vainglory” from Trump.
“Signing the hyperinflation himself. Amazing,” wrote one other, referencing the cost-of-living disaster that critics say has worsened in latest weeks amid Trump’s Iran conflict.
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