His own stamp

Ick.

The administration plans to issue a $1 coin with President Donald Trump’s likeness on it next year, despite a century-old precedent of not honoring sitting, or even living former, presidents on coins.

Instead of quarters honoring the abolition of slavery, granting women the right to vote and the Civil Rights movement, the Treasury will instead issue historical quarters featuring white men from the 18th and 19th centuries who were already well represented on currency and in historical tributes.

It’s DEI-evil to honor the abolition of slavery, granting women the right to vote, and the Civil Rights movement.

The new coins, coming after the administration stopped issuing new pennies earlier this year, underscore Trump’s drive to put his own stamp on the presidency far beyond the confines of the White House – whether it’s by putting his own face and name on US institutions or by pulling back on diversity efforts to reframe the story of America itself.

Win-win. More about Trump, less about anyone else, much less about people ignored or persecuted for generations by rich powerful pale males like Trump.

The US Mint told CNN on Friday that instead of the previously recommended tribute quarters to abolition, suffrage and the Civil Rights movement, the new designs celebrate “American history and the founding of our great nation.”

Hey. Guess what. Abolition, suffrage, and the Civil Rights movement are American history. They’re much more significant to American history than a bonehead real estate hustler from Queens.

The panel recommended an abolition of slavery coin featuring Fredrick Douglass, a leading abolitionist and Civil Rights leader of the 19th century, on the front. A hand and arm breaking free of chains were on the back.

The women’s suffrage coin would have shown a woman carrying a banner calling for “Votes for Women.”

And the Civil Rights coin would have shown Ruby Bridges as a six-year-old girl, carrying her schoolbooks close to her chest as she integrated an elementary school in New Orleans in 1960. She and three other Black schoolmates were accompanied to class by federal marshals. The back of the coin showed Civil Rights marchers locked arm-in-arm.

The panel’s designs, developed over years, stemmed from legislation that Trump himself signed his final week of his first term in 2021.

He’ll be making his horse a senator soon.