It is baffling what ~30% (his typical unwavering support for any policy) of Americans see in him.
It seems no-one within their political system is prepared to challenge him on even the smallest whims. Suppose that's what happens when you fill every role with sycophants. 🤷♂️
Perhaps the one positive to wrench from this is that as Americans pay more for their goods, at least they'll remember who to “thank”.
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As an aside, is it particularly common to have the Head of State sign banknotes?
I think we've always had the Chief Cashier or, in the case of the Treasury Notes, the Permanent Secretary to The Treasury. At least, so long as we've had fully printed banknotes, and I think even our half-printed.
Admittedly, they did try to get the King's signature for the Treasury ones but it was too short notice. But even then, the King has more of a constitutional role than functional governance.
It truly is a regime … Is anyone ever gonna say anything? Why are you letting him go on?
8 million people demonstrated against him yesterday.
Mid term primaries are coming up soon. Republicans up for re-election hesitate to speak against him now for fear as he will turn against them in the primaries. Expect that to change after the primaries when he can't hurt them anymore and it will help them in the general election.
As an aside, is it particularly common to have the Head of State sign banknotes?
Swaziland shows King Mswati III but not his signature. Libya 50 Dinar had Muammar Qaddafi in hat and sunglasses. So a few African nations (Zaire, etc) had the portraits of their kings or dictators. Cuba also had Castro on one of their notes I believe.
But the only nation featuring the signature of their president I can think of is the Philippines ("Bongbong" Marcos, son of Ferdinand Marcos). So the USA will be following the Philippines by allowing Trump to break tradition:
Aren't signatures on bank notes limited to the Leader of the Federal Reserve or whoever controls their central bank. Why would a sitting president sign a banknote. Don't recall Presidents on a banknote anywhere except in the pictorial cartouches.
Whats next calling the money Trumps, each made up of 100 Patriots or Freedom Pennies.
I love coins. Especially silver, gold and anything really old.
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As an aside, is it particularly common to have the Head of State sign banknotes?
Swaziland shows King Mswati III but not his signature. Libya 50 Dinar had Muammar Qaddafi in hat and sunglasses. So a few African nations (Zaire, etc) had the portraits of their kings or dictators. Cuba also had Castro on one of their notes I believe.
But the only nation featuring the signature of their president I can think of is the Philippines ("Bongbong" Marcos, son of Ferdinand Marcos). So the USA will be following the Philippines by allowing Trump to break tradition:
All those nations are hardly democratic - Eswatini under absolute control of the King, who has like 100 wives or something and his name to me sounds like some old tea called “Mazza wattee”. Gaddafi or however you spell his name was a dictator too and well Philippines vacillates between semi freedom and despots like Marcos and Duterte. We really should use the notes of democratic countries or constitutional monarachies for comparisons to the USA (Then again). Take my country, no Prime Minister or Governor General appears on any of our notes and the Queen appears on just one of the current series, everyone else was a ordinary person who did something extraordinary (Climbed the world's highest mountain first, Got female sufferage in 1893, the first for a whole country - not State), Started the Maori renaissance and Split the atom).
I love coins. Especially silver, gold and anything really old.
Member of the Royal Numismatic Society of New Zealand and the Auckland Numismatic Society
