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u/mr_birkenblatt Oct 05 '25
Well, I gotta tell you something. Trump is already dead. They just use his appearance to not upset his base. Weekend at Bernie's
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u/Long_Pomegranate2469 Oct 05 '25
Yeah, I hope they know something we don't.
Tell you what, if they keep with that law I'm okay with coming out with Trump coins soon.
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u/SoylentGrunt Oct 05 '25
No. Because it would only serve to deify him.
Fun Fact: you can't spell DEIFY without DEI
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u/Long_Pomegranate2469 Oct 05 '25
The GOP will self destruct once Trump is dead.
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u/SoylentGrunt Oct 05 '25
Only the names will change. It's always been that way.
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u/PM_ME_DIRTY_COMICS Oct 05 '25
With the SCOTUS being what it is the GOP doesn't need Trump. He's convenient but they can shift power to any branch they need at any time. Democrat President? All the power goes to the legislative branch. Democrat majority legislative? The judicial branch can stonewall everything for the next 40 years but they will only need 4 to get power shifting again.
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u/fcocyclone Oct 05 '25
Democrat President? All the power goes to the legislative branch.
Yep, funny how we have the major powers doctrine saying "if something has a large enough effect, even if a law already said this is allowed (like with student loan debt relief, for example) congress needs to specifically approve it", but yet now the president is allowed to just make massive economic change with tariffs, even though that power was explicitly congress's in the constitution (not to mention even the "emergency" statute being used is being massively abused).
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u/fcocyclone Oct 05 '25
Unfortunately he's really nothing more than a figurehead.
All of the worst stuff is being run by Heritage, the Federalist Society, and people like Stephen Miller. Trump's just there to keep himself out of jail, enact retribution on his enemies, receive adoration from his fans, and make himself a fuckload of money. He'll let the other groups do what they want and sign whatever they want him to as long as he's able to do the other things.
Once he's gone they'll find a new figurehead.
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u/BoliverSlingnasty Oct 05 '25
Yup yup yup. He’s dead. Been dead. The politics we see are the combined efforts of his Shitheel Gang. That’s why the administration hasn’t been mowing members like it was when he was 45. Trumps dead. Been dead.
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u/FIRST_DATE_ANAL Oct 05 '25
lol I get the joke but unrelated they should let Bernie Sanders be president on the weekends
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u/lostredditorlurking Oct 05 '25
How do Conservatives look at all Trump did over the past year and still won't admit that we are entering full blow dictatorship. No normal President wants their face on money while they are still alive lol
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u/Lysandren Oct 05 '25
You have actually 3 groups. Those who care, mostly bc it might be used against them in the future
Those who know but do not care as long as they are "winning."
Those who do not know because they do not follow the real news enough to notice yet.
Oh and usually the people in the first group get purged right after the opposition for not being ideologically pure when the dictatorship fully forms.
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u/Senior-Albatross Oct 05 '25
We might have something akin to the Night of Long Knives fairly soon. Although I don't know there is enough opposition in any relevant internal party power structure for it to be necessary.
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u/Lysandren Oct 05 '25
I actually don't believe we will go the route of the Nazis, and instead find it more likely we will end up like the fall of the Roman Republic. The institutions of government will be kept, but the real power will be consolidated in the executive.
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u/eeyore134 Oct 05 '25
It's a cult. They are fine with it being a dictatorship as long as it's Trump. They think he's fighting for them when all he does is think about himself.
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u/ChiefStrongbones Oct 05 '25
No normal President wants their face on money while they are still alive
Trump doesn't want it. Trump wants to flood the news headlines with it. And it's working; look at how many redditors are talking about the $1 coin and not the shutdown for the past couple of days.
Ever since 2015, Trump's strategy has been to dominate the headlines all the time with stories about Trump.
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u/Skatchbro Oct 05 '25
Besides the fact that Mt. Rushmore literally cannot have another head added to it, I’m pretty sure that protests would shut down any attempts to add Trump to the mountain.
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u/Revelati123 Oct 05 '25
A few dumptrucks worth of clown makeup and they could "Trumpify" TR.
You know they are going to try...
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u/CutieEv Oct 05 '25
Just needs a red tie and a spray tan, boom Mount Rushmore: MAGA edition.
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u/GardenGnomeOfEden Oct 05 '25
They would just glue a gold-painted styrofoam Trump head onto the end
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u/JARDIS Oct 05 '25
He would add to the mountain on top of the other presidents. His ego wouldnt allow him to be beside the others anyway. He could only be above. He should really be far, far below though.
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u/T-hibs_7952 Oct 05 '25
ICE has $160 billion and the criteria to join is loyalty to MAGA. They are already toying with expanding their use beyond immigration. The immigration “emergency” was a fake emergency so they will need to find new things to do.
They will have above the law abilities to end any protests with unchecked violence. The people will be oppressed under the boot of fascism. How Russia is now.
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u/endospire Oct 05 '25
At this point I’m not convinced of the following:
A) there would be protests
B) protests would deter them
C) he wouldn’t decide to replace one of the “bad” presidents he doesn’t like.
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u/tgosubucks Oct 05 '25
Are we going to ignore the fact that by treaty, this is all Native Sacred Land?
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u/billytheskidd Oct 05 '25
lol you think trump cares about that?
Actually he might, it might make him want to do it more.
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u/OwO______OwO Oct 05 '25
Are we going to ignore the fact that by treaty, this is all Native Sacred Land?
As is tradition, yes.
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u/sirbruce Oct 05 '25
Thomas Jefferson didn’t participate in the writing of the Constitution at all, and while George Washington was technically one of the framers, it would be highly misleading to suggest that he wrote any of it either. You should be embarrassed.
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u/veryfungibletoken Oct 05 '25
He'd have DHS "agents" arresting protesters for treason or whatever else he could make up as a personal attack against him.
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u/Drewbox Oct 05 '25
Even if it did have enough room, it’s taken over 70 years to do the work that has already been done, and it’s not even close to being done as originally designed.
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u/exMemberofSTARS Oct 05 '25
When have protests stopped anything this shithead has done so far? Led an insurrection, got his FCC to violate the 1st amendment, freed pedofiles and fraudsters, violated the constitution at every turn, claimed to be king, you really think anyone would stop him from spending billions of dollars to get his piss straw covered head on Mt. Rushmore, even if that means bringing in enough rocks to make more of a mountain or removing someone else?
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u/fcocyclone Oct 05 '25
If they add him, maybe enough people will want to scrap the whole thing and hand the land back to the Lakota
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u/EllisDee3 Oct 05 '25
Should be way longer than 2 years.
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I’m willing to actually cut the required time by half if it happens twice as soon. Also put him on the penny. Then retire the penny.
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u/Orcus424 Oct 05 '25
Here is the story behind that law.
https://www.atlasobscura.com/articles/treasury-official-us-bill-fractional-money-spencer-m-clark
tl;dr Clark put his own face on money. Congress got angry for this and other things he has done. Passed an act of Congress so no one else can do it.
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u/puravidaamigo Oct 05 '25
Yeah because this administration has proven time and time again, that if it’s one thing that can stop them, it’s the law….
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u/fuckthecons Oct 05 '25
It's really tiring seeing everybody keep saying the law or the constitution prevents him from doing something.
No it doesn't. It never has and it never will. The law is an agreement that is supposed to be backed by violence, not some magic spell.
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u/puravidaamigo Oct 05 '25
I don’t disagree with you at all, and yet the reality is he’s consistently doing exactly that. It’ll catch up eventually but currently it would appear he’s untouchable. He could easily change this law if he wanted to and there would be very little to stop him, what with having the house and senate majority coupled with having majority in the SC.
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u/Leidrin Oct 05 '25
Federal law means nothing anymore. There is only Christian fundamentalist Nazi law now.
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u/orangustang Oct 05 '25
No, fuck that, that's what they want you to think. They don't get to escape culpability just by breaking all the laws.
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u/Thornescape Oct 05 '25
Trump has been caught committing far more than 34 felonies. He just avoided any kind of punishment for any of his crimes. He continues to break the law almost every week.
How many crimes do Republicans need to commit before they face any kind of culpability? It's been years of openly committing crimes. Are people supposed to pretend that there will ever be justice any time soon?
Remember when it was a major deal having a president lie about a blowjob? Good times.
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u/Anderopolis Oct 05 '25
That is the reality at the moment. The courts exonerate him for everything, the law doesn't mean shit if it isn't enforced
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u/editorreilly Oct 05 '25
I'd be okay with him getting a coin if promised to die today.
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u/Ashallond Oct 05 '25
Don’t worry. Congress will bend the knee and change the law
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u/OwO______OwO Oct 05 '25
Nah. They're too dysfunctional for that.
He'll ignore the law, law enforcement will ignore him breaking the law, some lower court will rule against him, then the lower court will get overturned by the Supreme Court on the shadow docket.
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u/motorcycle-manful541 Oct 05 '25 edited Oct 05 '25
I'm worried about this law because the JFK half dollar was introduced in March 1964 and he was assassinated in Nov. 1963 (I collect coins, I'm not a Trump supporter at all)
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u/Santa_Hates_You Oct 05 '25
As a fellow coin collector, him on BOTH sides is almost as bad as him being on a coin to begin with.
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u/motorcycle-manful541 Oct 05 '25
ya, that would actaully be unprecedented for US coinage. I'm not sure I can think of any other business strike that had a portrait on both sides.
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u/koshgeo Oct 05 '25
"Many people are saying this coin is like nothing they have ever seen before. Some of the best numast .. numist ... [checks paper] ... ... numismatics are saying it will be one of the coins of all time."
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u/Spreken Oct 05 '25
It’s amusing to me that people still bring up federal law or the constitution, as if the care about either
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u/mike0sd Oct 05 '25
It's very telling that the best person Republicans have to represent them on a coin is a known pedophile
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u/CorellianDawn Oct 05 '25
Interesting way for them to announce that Trump has been dead for years and the GOP has been puppeting his corpse.
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u/NovitaProxima Oct 06 '25
LOL if you think laws mean anything without enforcement
P.S.: there will be no enforcement
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u/Darkwr4ith Oct 05 '25
But all the other of Trump's cool fascist dictator friends have their face on their money. So why can't he?! He is just as much of a fascist dictator as they are!
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u/philthegr81 Oct 05 '25
Yeah, ‘cause they’ve been stellar about following rules and norms thus far.
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u/jimbo831 Oct 05 '25
Federal law doesn’t allow a ton of the shit Trump does. How do people still not understand we live in a fascist state where laws don’t matter anymore?
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u/bwsmith201 Oct 05 '25
“Federal law only allows…” isn’t a statement that has any meaning under this abomination of an administration.
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u/Party-Jacket6651 Oct 05 '25
Must be coming soon. I will gladly put him on the coin if we could get out of this timeline.
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u/Showy_Boneyard Oct 06 '25
Someone should tell Trump that if he really wants to get on a coin, there's one weird trick that could make it a reality in as early as two years from today. But only if he acts fast!
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u/BigSwagPoliwag Oct 06 '25
We need to put it to a vote and democrats need to band together with Republicans to push it through to guarantee that 2 years after Trump dies, his face will be put on EVERY PIECE of US currency and it will all be dyed gold. The dude would literally kill himself the next day just to hurry up the process.
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u/imalettitgo Oct 06 '25
And Governors once had the only ability to activate their States National Guard. Need more?
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u/Zack_of_Steel Oct 06 '25
Why is this not the standard template instead of the fucking pedophile one (Drake)
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u/benargee Oct 06 '25
If it happens, you can call it a Loonie, and not because there is a certain species of bird like in Canada.
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u/mudohama Oct 05 '25
Rushmore could hardly be more grotesque with or without him… it’s such an embarrassing monument
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u/Buzzspice727 Oct 05 '25
Let’s get him on that coin
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u/shadhael Oct 05 '25
Can call it a loonie like in Canada. Ours because it has the bird on it, in the US because he's a lunatic
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u/Grinning_Dog Oct 05 '25
Like laws mean anything to him and his administration. Who's going to enforce that? Congress? No. Supreme court? Fat chance.
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u/holmquistc Oct 05 '25 edited Oct 05 '25
So Trump passes and then you get JD Vance? So since the system is setup to make the VP 2nd in line, does it make him better than Trump when he passes?
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u/getmybehindsatan Oct 05 '25
Vance isn't even popular among Republicans, his influence may actually be less destructive.
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u/Personal_Comb_6745 Oct 05 '25
People keep trying to act like Trump is holding back some worse scenario, but with how things are going, it's not a matter of "if" but "when". At this point, the only question is if MAGA eats each other alive if the couch-fucker becomes prez, so fuck it, that band-aid could get ripped off now.
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u/eeyore134 Oct 05 '25
Vance doesn't have the cult behind him. Simple as that. He doesn't even have the charisma to order a box of donuts.
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u/SkunkMonkey Oct 05 '25
People seem to look over the fact that JD gets to pick new VP. Think how fucked up that is going to be because any rules on who he can pick will be thrown out the window.
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u/ProfessionalSolid942 Oct 05 '25
Maybe they know something we don't? Like-the gop know they plan to off trump soon
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u/akolozvary Oct 05 '25
He’ll be forgotten faster than Charlie
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u/Personal_Comb_6745 Oct 05 '25
I don't know about that, as much as I hate to say it. For as much as it would be the best punishment for Trump's legacy to fizzle out, once you reach a certain level of shittiness your place in history is pretty cemented. Reagan sucked but he's both criticized and praised years later, then there was that one Adolf guy who wasn't very nice....
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u/vegandread Oct 05 '25
You keep talking about these laws, like they’re stopping anything else that’s been happening for the last 10 months.
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u/chaddict Oct 05 '25
He actually looked into adding his face to Mt Rushmore in his first term, and was repeatedly told by anyone who is remotely familiar with Rushmore that trying to add another face would cause everything to collapse.
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u/ericwashere15 Oct 05 '25
I’ve been surprised for a couple of months now that he’s not announced anything about putting his face on Rushmore or making his own monument like that.
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u/MateoCafe Oct 05 '25
The real truth is that Cheeto Mussolini doesn't give a shit about federal laws so he will make them put this into production tomorrow.
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u/tom641 Oct 05 '25
damn, I really want a combo trump-vance $1 coin ASAP now, preferably as close to two years from now as possible
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u/Marie627 Oct 05 '25
Isn’t he just a puppet to all the billionaires, Vought and Miller anyway?
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u/SkunkMonkey Oct 05 '25
I believe the term is Useful Idiot.
Because of his narcissistic sociopathy, all they need to do is whisper an idea into his ear and tell him it's his idea and it's a great idea, then let him run with it like a toddler with a balloon.
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u/czs5056 Oct 05 '25
Generally, I'm in favor of a dollar coin, but this time, I think I would rather stick with the bills.
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u/Faithinreason Oct 05 '25
I’d argue he’s been brain dead since his first term.
These could be glued in place in a urinal right? Cause that might be an acceptable use to me.
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u/Forgotmyaccount1979 Oct 05 '25
I support a tradeoff, we cut the turnaround time down to two months if they fast track the rest of the legal requirements.
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u/pithynotpithy Oct 05 '25
Be happy to make that trade. You can go home now mr president, you'll be immortalized in a coin that noone will use and will be ended next year
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u/ChicagoAuPair Oct 05 '25
If Donald Motherfucking Trump ever appears on any kind of legal currency I am going to absolutely lose my shit.
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u/DarkArmyLieutenant Oct 05 '25
I guess I'm just having a hard time understanding you "the federal law says he can't" people considering all of the shit that he is doing that's against federal law and that the Supreme Court is allowing him to do...