One other day, one other place for Donald Trump’s identify to seem.
This time: U.S. paper forex.
On Thursday, the Treasury Division introduced that payments printed from this summer time will bear the president’s signature to mark America’s 250th anniversary.
It’s the primary time a sitting president’s signature might be featured on U.S. money.
The signature of Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent will even nonetheless be included.
In a press release, Bessent claimed “there is no such thing as a extra highly effective technique to acknowledge the historic achievements of our nice nation and President Donald J. Trump than U.S. greenback payments bearing his identify, and it is just applicable that this historic forex be issued on the Semiquincentennial.”
Critics on social media, nonetheless, weren’t satisfied.
Some branded the transfer “disgusting,” narcissistic and but extra “vainglory” from Trump.
“Signing the hyperinflation himself. Superb,” wrote one other, referencing the cost-of-living disaster that critics say has worsened in current weeks amid Trump’s Iran warfare.