President Donald Trump posted a new image Friday of a $100 bill bearing his signature, months after the Treasury Department introduced that, for the primary time, a sitting president’s signature could be featured on US paper foreign money.
Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent said in March that the administration deliberate to function Trump’s signature on the Benjamin in honor of the 250th anniversary of the United States. NCS has reached out to Treasury inquiring whether or not the $100 payments with Trump’s signature are presently being printed.
The image exhibits the president’s signature above Bessent’s. Previously, the $100 bill featured the signatures of the Treasury secretary and the treasurer of the United States, however not the sitting president.
“The President’s mark on history as the architect of America’s Golden Age economic revival is undeniable. Printing his signature on the American currency is not only appropriate, but also well deserved,” US Treasurer Brandon Beach mentioned within the March announcement.
Trump has made it a ardour mission to get his title and likeness on a wide-ranging array of US paperwork and landmarks. His administration additionally has put his image, title or each on a commemorative US passport, nationwide parks passes, banners outdoors numerous businesses in DC, cultural establishments just like the US Institute of Peace and particular funding accounts for infants. Florida additionally renamed the Palm Beach International Airport after him.
Some in Congress have wished to go a step additional and put Trump’s likeness on foreign money, introducing a bill to get his portrait on a $250 anniversary bill. That final result is much much less seemingly, given it might want the help of Democratic senators in Congress. US code states that “Only the portrait of a deceased individual may appear on United States currency and securities,” however the House bill seeks to “create an exception for individuals who are or were President of the United States.”
Earlier this yr, workers on the Bureau of Engraving and Printing have been getting ready prototypes for the $250 bill that includes Trump’s portrait and signature. Bessent informed NCS’s Kaitlan Collins at a White House press briefing in May that he didn’t suppose “there’s anything untoward” about placing Trump’s portrait on US foreign money.
“I don’t think that there’s anything untoward about having the President of the United States — that the person who was President of the United States on the 250th anniversary bill,” Bessent mentioned.
Asked by Collins if political appointees have been concerned, Bessent responded: “Yeah, of course. But we prepare for everything if it gets passed.”