Alan Rappeport, reporting for The New York Times:
President Trump’s signature will appear on U.S. dollars later this
year, the Treasury Department said on Thursday. The decision to
have Mr. Trump’s John Hancock on America’s paper currency
represented an unprecedented change, one that the department said
was being made in honor of the United States’ 250th anniversary.Mr. Trump is set to become the first sitting U.S. president to
have his signature on the greenback. His name will appear
alongside that of Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent. As a result,
the U.S. treasurer, whose name has been on the currency for more
than a century, will not appear on the currency.
Raquel Coronell Uribe, reporting for NBC News:
Trump’s signature will go on the bills in honor of the country’s
250th anniversary, the Treasury said. Historically, paper currency
carries the signatures of the treasury secretary and the
treasurer.“The President’s mark on history as the architect of America’s
Golden Age economic revival is undeniable,” Treasury Secretary
Scott Bessent said in a statement. “Printing his signature on the
American currency is not only appropriate, but also well
deserved.”
It’s certainly news that the sitting president — a man whom psychologists have publicly described as showing clear “symptoms of severe, untreatable personality disorder – malignant narcissism” — is putting his signature on U.S. currency. But why parrot the administration’s obviously false line that this gross, embarrassing change in longstanding tradition has anything whatsoever to do with “honoring” the United States’s 250th anniversary?
It makes no more sense that putting Trump’s signature on greenbacks “honors the nation” or its history than it would to claim that doing so will cure the common cold, reverse male pattern baldness, or keep us safe from Bigfoot. Call it what it is: sycophantic ego fellatio for a deeply unpopular narcissist who is losing his already tenuous grip on reality.
