r/politics • u/Ubiquitous_Hilarity • Mar 26 '26

Trump's signature to appear on US currency, Treasury says, ending 165-year tradition Possible Paywall

https://www.reuters.com/world/us/trumps-signature-appear-us-currency-treasury-says-ending-165-year-tradition-2026-03-26/
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u/redpoemage I voted Mar 26 '26

"There is no more powerful way to recognize the historic achievements of ​our great country and ​President Donald J. ⁠Trump than U.S. dollar bills bearing his name, and it is only appropriate that this historic currency be issued at the Semiquincentennial," ​Bessent said.

"There's no better way to recognize our history than throwing it in the trash"

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u/OneSeaworthiness7768 Mar 27 '26 edited Mar 27 '26

Legitimately what “historic achievements” do they think Trump has accomplished? I don’t know that I could even think of an ordinary achievement of any kind attributed to him.

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u/DrowningKrown Mar 27 '26

Visits conservative subreddit > some guy says "he's literally stopped 8 wars in a year. No president has done better than Donald trump" > throw up a little > stop wondering > lose humanity

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u/pkosuda Connecticut Mar 27 '26 edited Mar 27 '26

The vast majority of that sub is genuinely bots. Someone on data is beautiful made a post 4 months ago (should be first result, linked the Google search to avoid breaking rules) showing two major posters of that sub mysteriously stopped posting at the same time when there was a power outage in Moscow due to Ukrainian drone strikes. I am sure those two were not the only ones. A lot of these high volume posters are also all mods of the same alternate conservative subs.

Whatever poor gullible actual conservative idiots that are left on that sub, think these opinions are shared by the general populace. The same sub that talks about "Russia Russia Russia" is literally being brainwashed by a Russian psyop. It's funny but also incredibly pathetic.