Should US put Trump's Picture on new $250 bill?

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US Congressman Proposes Bill To Put Trump On New $250 Bill In Celebration Of America’s 250th Birthday, & The Internet Has Some Thoughts

Hailey Minn·CULTURE·March 1, 2025



I’ll take my next paycheck in 250s, please!

Congressman Joe Wilson from South Carolina is the guy best known for shouting “You lie!” at Barack Obama back in 2009, and now his name is back out there for another hilarious statement, this time in the form of proposing the $250 bill featuring the face of our fearless leader, Donald J. Trump.

If a $250 bill doesn’t seem familiar to you, that’s because it doesn’t exist. So not only would it be a brand new US Currency value, it would be featuring Trump’s mug that we all know and love. Well, maybe not all love… but enough people love to secure him a landslide victory over Kamala Harris in last the presidential election.

His reasoning for this idea was to commemorate America’s 250th birthday coming up in 2026, and I have to say, I think it is just a fabulous way to celebrate.

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[Smokin Joe]

IIRC, there are no living presidents (or others, in the case of Franklin) on coins or currency.

[catfish1957]

IIRC, there are no living presidents (or others, in the case of Franklin) on coins or currency.

One historical exception, with an obvious asterisk attached

[Smokin Joe]

One historical exception, with an obvious asterisk attached

Well, He's not living now...

Arguably, not United States' Money.

But worth 4X face value or more...

[catfish1957]

Well, He's not living now...

Arguably, not United States' Money.

And hence the  asterisk     

[Wingnut]

Put Biden on it.  He's the only one who could make 500 dollars worth $250 again

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[MeganC]

Put Biden on it.  He's the only one who could make 500 dollars worth $250 again

 

[libertybele]

I believe Trump is deserving -- as long as he mails us each a couple of new $250's.  Otherwise, likely I'll never have my hands on one. 

[Gefn]

IIRC, there are no living presidents (or others, in the case of Franklin) on coins or currency.

Hamilton was never president and he is on a ten dollar bill. I have a $2 bill and that has Jefferson on it.

[DefiantMassRINO]

Congress, how's that FY2025 Budget coming along?  We're only 5 months in. 

Congress, you're lucky you don't have my teachers.  My teachers would never let me pass in a FY Budget 5 months overdue, and they would never accept a Continuing Resolution in lieu of a FY Budget.

Maybe we need to send Congress to Catholic parochial school to learn timeliness and responsibility ...

[catfish1957]

Fun fact:  There is no record of a living individual on a standard US bill or coin

However, there are a few examples of sanctioned mint commemorative coinage that have had  living people ,,, (1) the  one live at the time Apollo Astronaut (Aldrin), and (2) a few of the remaining living Tuskegee Airmen

[DefiantMassRINO]

What if GOP Congress declared Trump a living god?

Then, they'd have to put Trump's engraven image upon currency and coinage.  Because, 'In God We Trust' is already written on all of them.

[andy58-in-nh]

No, but I'd kinda like to see Pete Buttigieg's picture on a $3 bill.

Although I'd be afraid to have one in my pocket.

[jafo2010]

Catfish1957...

Fun fact:  There is no record of a living individual on a standard US bill or coin

Not true. 

Abraham Lincoln was on currency during the Civil War.  So was Salmon P. Chase.  It was when Spencer Clark, who ran the Bureau of Printing & Engraving,  put his mug on a 5 cent note that Congress passed a law that no living person could appear on US currency.

[Wingnut]

 

Abraham Lincoln was on currency during the Civil War.  So was Salmon P. Chase.  It was when Spencer Clark, who ran the Bureau of Printing & Engraving,  put his mug on a 5 cent note that Congress passed a law that no living person could appear on US currency.

Mark this as Things I didn't know till I was this many years old.
 

[Sighlass]

Put Biden on it.  He's the only one who could make 500 dollars worth $250 again

Ouch, lol...

Does this mean one can carry over $100.00 bills again?

[jafo2010]

I like the idea of Trump on some form of currency.  I do not think creating the $250 bill would be accepted by Congress.  Those clowns would have to approve such a thing.  No way they get 60 votes in the Senate.

And I think the time has come to end duplicate people on coin and paper currency.  And I think we need to cease the production of coins that one cannot buy something with.  There is nothing one can buy for a penny.  So end it already.  Nothng for a nickel either.

Gum balls cost at least a quarter.  So, why even have a dime?

And I think we should have a paper currency that each year changes and puts a different past POTUS on the front.

And if Biden is put on a currency, EVER, I say it is the $3 bill.  No one will want one but collectors.

[Smokin Joe]

I like the idea of Trump on some form of currency.  I do not think creating the $250 bill would be accepted by Congress.  Those clowns would have to approve such a thing.  No way they get 60 votes in the Senate.

And I think the time has come to end duplicate people on coin and paper currency.  And I think we need to cease the production of coins that one cannot buy something with.  There is nothing one can buy for a penny.  So end it already.  Nothng for a nickel either.

Gum balls cost at least a quarter.  So, why even have a dime?

And I think we should have a paper currency that each year changes and puts a different past POTUS on the front.

And if Biden is put on a currency, EVER, I say it is the $3 bill.  No one will want one but collectors.

Bring back the $500.

[libertybele]

Congress, how's that FY2025 Budget coming along?  We're only 5 months in. 

Congress, you're lucky you don't have my teachers.  My teachers would never let me pass in a FY Budget 5 months overdue, and they would never accept a Continuing Resolution in lieu of a FY Budget.

Maybe we need to send Congress to Catholic parochial school to learn timeliness and responsibility ...

Agreed Congree needs to get their act together. 

(My favorite movie by the way).

[The_Reader_David]

I'm still waiting for Andrew Jackson to be replaced with Harriet Tubman on the 20 dollar bill as had been proposed.

Get rid of the founder of the modern Democrat party, and a genocidal maniac into the bargain -- there is a reason the Indians force marche (with their slaves) to Oklahoma were called the "Five Civilized Tribes"; they were not savages from whom people of European ancestry needed to be protected, it was to protect white-owned businesses and plantations from economic competition that they were driven out -- and replace him with a gun-toting Republican.

[MeganC]

Why have $250 bills when if you take it through an airport the pirates from the TSA and DEA will steal it from you?

Why have cash at all since it is defacto illegal to have more than a few bills on you?

[Smokin Joe]

Why have $250 bills when if you take it through an airport the pirates from the TSA and DEA will steal it from you?

Why have cash at all since it is defacto illegal to have more than a few bills on you?

Keep the big bills in your socks, hide some in your wallet, and ladies have always had a place to tuck a few. Just sayin'...  (TSA precheck eliminates some of the hasssle, too)

[MeganC]

Keep the big bills in your socks, hide some in your wallet, and ladies have always had a place to tuck a few. Just sayin'...  (TSA precheck eliminates some of the hasssle, too)

More to the point, why do we put up with this shit? 

[DefiantMassRINO]

I think Trump would prefer to be on a $1,000 dollar bill.

Bill Clinton could be on the $3 Bill to even things out with the Dems.

[Hoodat]

If they can put Pete Buttigieg on a three dollar bill, then they can put Trump on a $250 bill.

[Weird Tolkienish Figure]

Bill Clinton could be on the $3 Bill to even things out with the Dems.

Is there a $69 bill?

[Smokin Joe]

More to the point, why do we put up with this shit?

Sometimes, I don't. Last time I went cross country, I drove. Six days, 4500 miles (round trip), and brought back a 1 ton van full of stuff from my folks' house before they sold the house. Considering I'm used to traveling without luxuries for the oil patch, and had couches to crash on in Fargo and Ohio, that meant only two days of truck stop naps in the van. Not bad, about the same cost as flying, (without what the freight would have cost). Under 5 over, and always use turn signals. Light check before I left. No hassles, except a bad crankshaft sensor in Missouri (replaced in about 15 minutes once the parts place opened up), and bad fuel in Western MD/PA (don't use Sunoco there). Otherwise, a relatively uneventful trip.

I only fly when I am pressed for time. But that's why I got the Pre-check number to avoid most of the pro forma search stuff.   


Besides, it makes us 'safe', dontcha know. (Except for the people on the ramp. and maintaining the planes, and the ATCs, and...)

[MeganC]

Sometimes, I don't. Last time I went cross country, I drove. Six days, 4500 miles (round trip), and brought back a 1 ton van full of stuff from my folks' house before they sold the house. Considering I'm used to traveling without luxuries for the oil patch, and had couches to crash on in Fargo and Ohio, that meant only two days of truck stop naps in the van. Not bad, about the same cost as flying, (without what the freight would have cost). Under 5 over, and always use turn signals. Light check before I left. No hassles, except a bad crankshaft sensor in Missouri (replaced in about 15 minutes once the parts place opened up), and bad fuel in Western MD/PA (don't use Sunoco there). Otherwise, a relatively uneventful trip.

I only fly when I am pressed for time. But that's why I got the Pre-check number to avoid most of the pro forma search stuff.   


Besides, it makes us 'safe', dontcha know. (Except for the people on the ramp. and maintaining the planes, and the ATCs, and...)

It has been a few years but I got stopped on my way to Texas from Wyoming and the first thing the officer did was ask me if I had "a large sum of cash". He didn't start by asking for my license and registration.

I asked him if he was going to rob me and he laughed and told me to get out of the car. I then gave him a free demonstration of my Krav Maga skills before getting back in my truck and moving on.

It felt good to visit harm upon a criminal.

[mountaineer]

Creating a new currency seems an unnecessary expenditure. Eliminate the debt first.