Democrats push to ban Trump's plan to put himself on a new $1 coin

[BumRushDaShow]

Source: The Independent

Tuesday 09 December 2025 11:15 EST


A group of Senate Democrats have put forward legislation that would prevent the government from minting coins featuring the likeness of President Donald Trump.

The bill, called the Change Corruption Act, was introduced by senators Jeff Merkley of Oregon and Catherine Cortez Masto of Nevada Tuesday, Punchbowl News reported. Co-sponsors include lawmakers, Richard Blumenthal of Connecticut and Ron Wyden of Oregon.

“No United States currency may feature the likeness of a living or sitting President,” the bill states.

Merkley compared Trump to global autocrats for his attempt to get his face on a coin. “President Trump’s self-celebrating maneuvers are authoritarian actions worthy of dictators like North Korea’s Kim Jong Un, not the United States of America,” the Oregon senator told Punchbowl News.

Read more: https://www.the-independent.com/news/world/americas/us-politics/democrats-ban-trump-coin-congress-b2881005.html

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Link to Sen. Merkley PRESS RELEASE - Merkley, Cortez Masto Lead New Bill to Block Donald Trump from Putting His Face on Dollar Coin

Link to BILL (PDF) - https://www.merkley.senate.gov/wp-content/uploads/Change-Corruption-Act.pdf

[mysteryowl]

1. OMG is such a sick person

Puke

[pwb]

2. Isn't there a requirement that Presidents be

dead first?
For a living tribute municipal dumps could be named, Trump Dumps?

[cloudbase]

4. Anybody. Not just presidents.

Same for stamps.

[Hieronymus Phact]

8. pair this up with reports of his imminent health issues and...

[Polybius]

13. I thought so too, but then why bother with this bill if that's already the law?

[orangecrush]

3. Gee, who could have seen this coming?

[angryxyouth]

5. The ugly coin will be collectible.

As soon as we get Democratic president again it will be discontinued. Hopefully it will be the only coin of a US president to be run out of office for treason and living in a country not a signature to the International Criminal Court where he will be ruled guilty of war crimes according to the Geneva Convention. Probably in the Jeddah Saudi ArabiaTrump Tower.

[cstanleytech]

6. I'd rather we not have any faces at all and instead just a large fancy $1 on one side and on the other just the words

'Divided We Part But Together We Stand'

It's then clear, concise and absolutely non-political in favoring any political party over another.

[Eugene]

7. This is what monarchies do. Dump is just a wannabe king.

In a democratic republic, this is just not done.

[twodogsbarking]

9. Hasn't the dollar suffered enough?

The United States Dollar has weakened and is down by 6.74% over the last 12 months

[twodogsbarking]

10. Got rid of the penny and replaced it with a dollar worth nothing.

[BOSSHOG]

11. Yes let's put more convicted felons and adjudicated rapists on coinage

[angrychair]

12. Isn't it already policy

That we didn't put living people or sitting/living presidents on money?

[Wonder Why]

14. Nobody likes the dollar coin. Nobody likes trump. Together, they will fail.

[phxjurist]

15. Make the one dollar coin the size of a penny.

[Initech]

16. This kind of malignant narcissism and ego-maniacism needs to be studied.

[niyad]

19. Assuming the world survives, there will be entire courses devoted

to him and the insanity surrounding this whole bizarre nightmare.

[ChicagoTeamster]

17. Tell him it will be released as soon as he's dead.

[niyad]

18. I have absolutely no problem witth his face on A coin (singular).

The one for the ferryman on the River Styx.