A pair of Trump lackeys in the Treasury Department came up with the brilliant scheme to put Donald Trump's face on a new $250 bill, ostensibly to mark the nation's 250th birthday this summer. But really because adding Trump's signature to all our paper money and minting a special gold-plated dollar coin with Trump scowling at whomever had the misfortune to end up with one just wasn't enough.
They hired a British guy to design the portrait for the bill (I might have recommended the New York courtroom sketch artist from Trump's fraud trial, but they didn't ask me), and Trump's ever so servile Treasury Secretary presented the a mock-up of the bill to the nation as if he were announcing a sign from heaven above.
Now, the chances of the Donald Lookitme! Lookitme! Trump $250 bill being approved by the U.S. Congress, given that living persons are not allowed to be on U.S. currency, are thinner than an earthworm's mustache.
No living person has appeared on U.S. currency since 1866, when it was outlawed after the image of a mid-level Treasury bureaucrat showed up on a 5-cent note. Legislation that would allow Trump to appear on a $250 bill was introduced in Congress last year to commemorate the nation’s 250th anniversary but has languished.
There is also the slight problem that federal law mandates what banknote denominations the Treasury Department is authorized to produce, and $250 is not one of them.
Treasury employees who pointed out the obstacles to getting any Trump commemorative $250 bill out in time for the nation's sesquiquincentennial found themselves transferred to janitorial duties at the Adak, Alaska field office.
In any event, there are too many primaried Republican congressmen and senators who no longer have any political reason to suck up to Dear Leader before their forced retirement next January.
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