Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent on Monday gave Fox News’ Jesse Watters a preview of newly printed and minted money featuring President Donald Trump’s signature on bills and face on coins.
Bessent showed Watters $100 bills with Trump’s signature, which he said would hit circulation this fall.
But Trump’s signature won’t be limited to the Benjamins.
“It’s gonna be on all the currency for the 250th,” Bessent said.
It will be the first time a sitting president’s signature has appeared on U.S. bills; current bills have the signatures of the Treasury secretary and the treasurer of the United States.
Fox News also rolled footage of commemorative $1 coins being minted with Trump’s face on the front ― part of a push by the president and his allies to add his name and image to as many public places and objects as possible.
Trump slapped his name on the Kennedy Center, but a federal judge ordered him to remove it. As the name was removed, a tarp was installed to hide the work ― and it has remained up ever since.
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Trump has also transformed the U.S. Institute of Peace into the Donald J. Trump U.S. Institute of Peace ― something his ongoing war with Iran hasn’t changed ― and said he wants to name a new path connecting the Lincoln Memorial to the Potomac River “the Trump Promenade.” There were also reports last year that he wanted to name the planned White House ballroom for himself, although he later denied it.
Now, his face is coming to U.S. coins and his signature to paper currency.
Watters wondered aloud if liberals would “burn” bills with Trump’s signature.
“Well, that’s good for the U.S. government,” said Bessent, who then attempted a joke: “Their hair is on fire so they should keep it away from their hair.”
Critics on social media didn’t threaten to burn the money, as Watters suggested.
But some said they’d return any Trump coins to the bank, and more than a few suggested they would alter the Trump-signed bills.
And many were outraged at yet another effort by the president to slap his name on even more items: