In 1866, after a Treasury secretary snuck his own image onto a banknote, Congress passed a law prohibiting images of living persons on currency and coins. It codified a tradition started by George Washington who refused having his image on the first US silver dollar. The country had just thrown off the chains of a monarchy and wanted to avoid becoming another.
But now, Scott Bessent is the quisling working to make it happen, alongside Rep. Joe Wilson (R-SC), who has sponsored a bill to gut that prohibition.
Bessent: “I don’t think that there’s anything untoward about having the person who is president of the United States on the 250th-anniversary bill.”
The ayatollah would agree.
And we also have the banners on the buildings in Washington, straight from the playbook of the Nazis and the Iranian theocracy. The one in the image is at the USDA, but there are others. Here’s a short list of the quislings involved:
Justice has a banner…
Pam Bondi: “Your first 100 days has far exceeded that of any other presidency in this country.” That February 2025 gem inspired our “The Court of Invisible Silk” - our riff on The Emperor’s New Clothes. (She was fired anyway.)
Todd Blanche (acting AG, Trump’s former personal defense lawyer): Asked about Trump publicly ordering the DOJ to indict his political enemies, Blanche said it “should make every American happy” - proof, he explained, of “a chief executive that is making sure every one of his Cabinet members are working as hard as they should.”
Agriculture had the banner in the image above…
“The joy every day in getting to fight for America and save the country is the privilege of all of our lifetimes... just gratitude and joy for this work and so, so grateful to you.” - Brooke Rollins, Cabinet meeting, December 2025
Labor has a banner…
Keith Sonderling (acting secretary), on May 8, 2026: “America’s economic comeback is clearly accelerating under President Trump, with job growth now shattering expectations two months in a row.”
Banners are as old as Rome, but it was the Nazis who really went in big - their designs for Nuremberg rallies made the building-banner a signature of 20th-century authoritarianism.
Chairman Mao saw the utility - his 6 × 4.5 meter portrait hangs above Tiananmen Square. Ayatollah banners and billboards are all over Tehran.
Anyone who thinks living presidents belong on banners or currency doesn’t understand what the American Revolution was about.
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I think the $250 bank note should be orange to truly honor our great president!
I continue to be disgusted by this administration and the quislings in the spotlight that keep crawling out from their rocks. The last thing we need his That image on any bank note.