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If there’s anything Trump loves, it’s slapping his face and name on things: vodka, steaks, passports, and even monuments to other people. Now he wants to emblazon his likeness on paper currency.<\/p>\n
According to The Washington Post<\/a><\/em>,\u00a0Trump appointees are pushing the Bureau of Engraving and Printing, the agency tasked with printing the nation’s money, to prepare a banknote with the president’s face on it. They want the value to be $250\u2014a nod to the country’s 250th anniversary this year.<\/p>\n If this initiative proceeds, it would also require changing policy. Federal law only allows deceased people to be printed on the bills. (In fact, the last time a living figure appeared on a bill was in 1866 when the Superintendent of the National Currency Bureau put his face on a 50-cent note.)<\/p>\n According to the report, U.S. Treasurer Brandon Beach and his senior adviser, Mike Brown, have been pushing for a banknote prototype since last year. They even mocked up a design with Trump’s official portrait. The note would also feature Trump’s signature and a graphic that reads “250 America Anniversary.” In 2025, Congress also introduced a bill<\/a> that would allow living people who have served as president to appear on currency.<\/p>\n Approving a new banknote is not a quick and easy process. And to produce a bill with such high value and with the image of a sitting president would require authorization from Congress that could take years to accomplish.<\/p>\n \u201cThese guys think you can just print something overnight and it\u2019s going to work in an ATM. It\u2019s just crazy,\u201d a source told The Post<\/em>. \u201cIt takes years and years and years to produce these notes so they are reliable for the public.\u201d<\/p>\n Unsurprisingly, many users online have taken to social media to post about their disapproval, including former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton.<\/p>\n “By the end of Trump\u2019s term, it\u2019ll be just enough to buy one gallon of gas and a carton of eggs,” she shared on X<\/a> alongside a screenshot of the news.<\/p>\n Plastering the president’s name and face on new things is not a new trend. In March, a Trump coin was approved under several workarounds including making the coin 24-karat gold\u00a0and commemorative rather than for circulation, and tying it to the nation’s birthday.<\/p>\n “The president and administration have taken unprecedented action to stamp his name and likeness across the federal government in a way that mirrors propaganda campaigns of foreign authoritarian regimes,” Fast Company<\/em> contributor Hunter Schwarz wrote.<\/p>\n Like the coin before it, the banknote might not enter circulation, but it might still get made.<\/p>\n \n