In yet another fit of petty vanity, Donald Trump wants to put his name on all of our paper money.
Would someone translate that from the Black Speech of Morgoth for the rest of us?
Don’t speak it aloud, though, I’m pretty sure it would summon calamity.
The U.S. Treasury Department plans to put President Donald Trump’s signature on all new U.S. paper currency, the agency announced on Thursday.
The move would be a first for a sitting president, since traditionally, U.S. paper currency carries the signatures of the Treasury Secretary and the Treasurer, not the president.
It’s the latest instance of Trump putting his name and likeness on American cultural institutions, following his renaming of the U.S. Institute of Peace, the Kennedy Center performing arts venue and a new class of battleships, among other tributes.
I can’t chisel his name off the Kennedy Center or the Institute of Peace, but I have an easy solution when he tries to scribble on the money in my wallet: I’ll scribble back. Every bill I get is going to have his name redacted. I’ve heard where some people are planning to add editorial comment, for instance, writing “PEDO” after his name. I don’t think I’ll be alone.
I don’t think the Treasury Department is prepared for the reality that all their paper money is going to be defaced very quickly.
United States of Trumpland/Donaldia?
Get TWO little rubber stamps for altering banknotes:
The PEDO after the pedo’s signature
AND one that says “EXCEPT FIREARMS” to apply to the part that says “THIS NOTE IS LEGAL TENDER FOR ALL DEBTS PUBLIC AND PRIVATE”.
Don’t be surprised if Trump, or some bootlicking idiot in his orbit, starts calling for Federal prosecution of every socialist poopyhead who defaces our precious Trump dollars. They’re gonna need SOMETHING to distract us from both the Iran fiasco and the Epstein files…
Since he famously dislikes the use of autopens, he should be made to sign each and every bill, including all paper currency, by hand.
Is this even legal?
Start the countdown for the lawsuits. 10 9 8 7…
I doubt if it is legal.
I missed where congress passed a law letting the US president design our currency.
This is like something out of the old USSR.
Are there going to be statues of Trump everywhere now?
I’ve a miscellany of old coins from various countries. Fascist Italy had Vittorio-Emanuelle’s profile. The Nazi German coins have the Eagle and Swastika but no picture of Hitler though the stamps of the period did. An 1876 Deutsches Reich 50 Pfennig doesn’t have Wilhelm 1 on it though Prussian coins of his reign did. No consistency but Trump will leave his mark of the beast fairly widely I’m sure.
I’ll keep it in mind, but then I remembered I don’t really use paper money all that often.
Next, once SCOTUS declares this legal, he’ll “ask” all the credit card companies to show their patriotism by adding his scribble to their cards.
Scribbliture, that’s the portmanteau I should have used…
I’ll settle for using just my credit and debit cards, coins for laundry, and older dollar bills, too.
Besides his signature is as downright ugly as that Stupid Idiot Dump, himself.
The second part of the signature looks like ‘Dummy’.
I got me one o’ these during Trump 1. Guess I’ll pull it out of the drawer where it has been for a couple of years.
Apologies for the OT comment here, but has anyone else seen this Guardian article saying the alleged “Christian revival” in England and Wales is based entirely on fraudulent data?
https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2026/mar/28/how-fraudulent-church-data-revealed-ais-threat-to-polling
Stories of swelling congregations, filled with young people returning to the flock, spurred on by everything from social media to a rise in bible sales appeared to be confirmed by a 2024 report from the Bible Society [VERY appropriate initials there!].
Based on data collected by a YouGov survey, it claimed church attendance was increasing in England and Wales. The findings drove headlines, and the narrative was established.
There was just one problem – the survey turned out to be based on “fraudulent” data and has been withdrawn. And academics and experts are warning that this episode should serve as a parable, not about a renaissance in religion, but of the false prophets of artificial intelligence…
Where have I seen this behavior before…oh yeah!
“And that no man might buy or sell, save he that had the mark, or the name of the beast, or the number of his name.”
Sometimes I think Trump actively enjoys failure-testing evangelical hypocrisy.
RE: Prosecution for defacing: I’d like to see them prove who defaced in-circulation tender.
“RE: Prosecution for defacing: I’d like to see them prove who defaced in-circulation tender.”
AND since none of the suggested ‘defacements’ are things that would affect the value of the notes, it should be claimed that they’re just free expression, protected by the 1st Amendment.
Not that I’d have confidence that asshole judges would see it that way.
Is he going to put “In Trump we trust” on there as well?
drksky “RE: Prosecution for defacing: I’d like to see them prove who defaced in-circulation tender.”
In the Trump Reich proof is not needed.
MAGA is going to attack all businesses that only accept electronic payments — whether dollars, crypto, whatever — for inhibiting the opportunity of the citizenry to… fondle documents with the Dear Leader’s signature on them.
The irony that this is happening during a period in which the US is transitioning toward (not to!) a cashless economy says some interesting things about “narcissism,” “desperate attention-seeking,” and “not as smart as he thinks he is.”
He doesn’t use an Autopen. He uses a seismograph.
I hardly use cash anymore… maybe I can wait this out.
I hope the banks will be ready for all the contaminated money to be traded in once cleaner bills become available again.
Could someone sell toilet paper with his signature on it?
I have used a silver marker to cross out “in god we trust” on many of my bills. It is very sneaky, difficult to pick up, but the statement is loud and clear. Stopped because the snack, soda and lottery machines would reject them. Guess I’ll have to start back up and add His Majesty’s signature to my artwork.
We use polymer notes here in Oz.
Even permanent marker writing on them can be removed with isopropyl or acetone.
(Ah, primitive banknotes!)