Then there is the Presidential $1 Coin Act of 2005, which prohibited coins issued under that year’s Presidential series from depicting a living current or former president. The 2005 law also doesn’t apply to this situation (it’s not 2005 any more), and it sure looks like a petty Democratic Congress swipe at President Bush, the POTUS in 2005, because, after all, he stole the Presidency.

In December 2025, Democratic Senators Jeff Merkley of Oregon and Catherine Cortez Masto of Nevada introduced a bill seeking to block Trump’s likeness from appearing on the planned $1 commemorative coin. In April of this year, seven Democratic Senators also urged leaders of the Senate Appropriations Subcommittee on Financial Services and General Government to prohibit funding for coins or currency bearing a sitting President’s image or signature because You Know Who was “sitting”. The letter argued that George Washington “strongly opposed having his image on U.S. coins during his Presidency, viewing it as a contradiction to the war for independence from Kings.”

Right, it was the seven Senators’ reverence for George that prompted their concerns. GW’s Presidency was also a little early for the U.S. to be commemorating its founding, I think. Still, seven would have raised the same objection if Kamala was in the White House. Wouldn’t they?

The Circulating Collectible Coin Redesign Act of 2020 explicitly prohibits portraits of living people on the reverse of semiquincentennial (what would that word score in Scrabble?) coins but does not restrict such portraits on a coin’s obverse, which is where Trump’s portrait appears. Coolidge’s portrait was also on the obverse of the American Independence half-dollar. Is all this too technical? No: if The Deranged are going to argue that the coin is illegal, then such details are determinative.

Well, okay, it’s technically legal, but Daniel Weiner, the senior director of the Brennan Center’s Elections and Government Program, says this as an issue that goes “beyond law,” because this President keeps stretching “the bounds of executive power.” You know, like those other despots, Jackson, Polk, Lincoln, the Roosevelts, and whoever was pulling Biden’s strings. See, it was fine for Silent Cal to have his face on a coin, because he didn’t try to end birthright citizenship and rename the Gulf of Mexico.

Are you really going to go with that logic, Dan?

“To some extent, its legality is kind of beside the point,” Weiner insists. “There’s the broader context of removing checks on the President’s ability to dominate every action of the Executive Branch. The question is: What are we supposed to do in this situation?”

THIS situation? A bleeping commemorative coin? Gee, let me think….

The real question is whether the coin kerfuffle is the dumbest freak-out over Trump-related trivia yet. Here’s the always risible “New Republic”:

“President Donald Trump’s latest grift appears to be selling $1 coins for more than $2 apiece.” [Trump isn’t selling them and he isn’t getting the money.]…

“The coins aren’t even made of gold but have a “gold-like finish,” according to the Treasury Department.” [Yes, I think most people can figure out that an actual gold coin would be worth a lot nore than a dollar, but anyway, it is being promoted as a gold colored coin.]

“Trump has made more than $2.2 billion since being sworn in as president last year. While most of that is from cryptocurrency, he’s still making a pretty penny on merchandise, and now he’s got the U.S. Mint hawking his likeness on actual currency. It seems that there’s nothing Trump won’t do to make a buck, ethics be damned.” [There is literally nothing unethical about a commemorative coin no matter what it costs or who is on it.]

Translation of the above: “Ooooo, how we hatehatehatehate this man! We just hate him to pieces! HATE!” Thanks for sharing, NR.

My favorite bitch about the coin is that it has “a design flaw.” Can you see the “flaw”?

Supposedly the dash between the dates mistakenly suggests that the nation came to its end in 2026. Talk about confirmation bias! The only people who will read it that way are those who already believe that whatever happens under Trump’s Presidency is always wrong, stupid, and botched.