For two decades, the commander in chief has doled out distinguished-looking coins as personal mementos. Now, the presidential “challenge coin” has undergone a Trumpian transformation.
The presidential seal has been replaced by an eagle bearing President Trump’s signature. The eagle’s head faces right, not left, as on the seal. The 13 arrows representing the original states have disappeared. And the national motto, “E pluribus unum” — a Latin phrase that means “Out of many, one” — is gone.
Instead, both sides of the coin feature Trump’s campaign slogan, “Make America Great Again.”
The changes don’t stop there. In addition to his signature, Trump’s name appears three times on the coin, which is thicker than those made for past presidents. And forget the traditional subdued silver and copper: Trump’s coin, a White House aide marveled, is “very gold.”
The aide said the president, whose real estate properties are known for their gilded displays of wealth and status, was personally involved in redesigning the coin. Trump, who also had a hand in creating his famous red campaign hat, “wanted to weigh in on it,” the aide said. “It’s beautifully made.”
Actually it's gaudy and ostentatious and a complete embarrassment to our country.
I cannot imagine who would be impressed by this cheap looking bauble.
Oh, actually yes I can.
"FUKU all" with his Rictus 'lOOks Reichish' smugne$$ cra$$ atTITude 'MAGA' B$. Happy Holidayz.
ReplyDelete“Happy Holidays from [Trump Winery],” tweeted Eric Trump, the president’s son and a veteran of the 2016 presidential campaign during which Christmas restoration was a core issue. (On the trail, the president would often emphasize to roaring applause that if he became leader of the free world, “we’re gonna start saying ‘Merry Christmas’ again.”)
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https://www.huffingtonpost.com/entry/obama-channels-his-inner-santa_us_5a3c07e7e4b073a0ffd214b4?ncid=inblnkushpmg00000009
DeleteYou want a collectors item you can pass down to your grandchildren that will be worth A LOT of money somewhere down the line- gaudy as it may be....
ReplyDeleteThink, Antiques Road Show 2120.
Yes because he is going to jail!!!
DeleteSince he hands out,you won't be able to buy one.
DeleteBesides i don't think they have antiques road show in russia.
Antiques roadshow 2120.... fortune.
DeleteHis ego is like no other! The last thing I'd want is that gaudy piece of trash!
ReplyDeleteIt'll serve well as a bull's eye at your local down home "Honey, hold my beer" turkey shoots.
DeleteNo class. No taste. Typical Trump.
ReplyDeleteNot good for anything but scrap metal.
M from MD
N. Korea's dear leader helped him design it?
ReplyDeleteBigger, thicker,gaudier, has his name on it 3 times on one side.... I’m thinking somebody is overcompensating for something.
ReplyDeleteStubby-fingered vulgarians often do.
Delete"“We have the best properties in the world; they’re doing extraordinarily well,” he said, without providing details on the company’s financial performance. “And if we have to take a break for an eight-year period of time or a four-year period, then it is what it is.”"it’s not clear how poorly Trump’s organization is doing since they don’t release that information to shareholders. What we do know is that the tax scam rammed through the GOP Congress and signed by the president is likely to benefit Trump"
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he's been filling his pockets with our money since day one. poor kids don't need to eat. we have homeless here who may freeze to death this winter because the shelters are not big or safe enough. see you in HELL,donny.
Delete‘Going Breitbart’: Fox News staffers appalled as website moves from hard news to anti-Hillary, pro-Trump propaganda
ReplyDeleteFox News website beefs up and ‘goes a little Breitbart’
As competition surges on the right, Fox’s website increasingly follows the path of its prime-time hosts.
https://www.politico.com/story/2017/12/23/fox-news-website-breitbart-312326
“Plaintiff has a right, as a commissioner, to ‘fully participate’ in the proceedings of the Commission. In the Court’s view, his assertion that he will be unable to fully participate without the information contained in relevant documents that the Commission has not shared with the public has merit,” she wrote in her 24-page opinion. “He has a right to access documents that the Commission is considering relying on in the course of developing its final recommendations.”
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Russian submarine activity ‘highest since Cold War’ warns NATO chief
Alliance plans to set up a new command post for the Atlantic.
NATO chief Jens Stoltenberg warned about increased activity by Russian submarines in the Mediterranean Sea and Atlantic Ocean in an interview published Saturday.
“Russia has massively invested in its marine capability, especially in submarines,” the military alliance’s secretary-general told Frankfurter Allgemeine Sonntagszeitung, the sunday edition of the German daily, as well as two other international newspapers.
“Russia’s submarine activity is now at its highest level since the Cold War,” he said, pointing to thirteen additional submarines since 2014. Russian submarines are operating all over the Atlantic, as well as “closer to our shores,” he said.
That presents a threat to the trans-Atlantic military alliance by possibly undermining links between European and North American allies, he said.
“We’re a transatlantic alliance, and for that reason we have to be able to transport troups and equipment across the Atlantic,” he said. “For that, we need secure and open sea routes.”
Against this background, NATO also plans to set up a new command post for the Atlantic and is due to take more detailed decision on the new structure next year.
“NATO has reduced its marine capabilities after the end of the cold war, especially to fight submarines,” Stoltenberg said.
https://www.politico.eu/article/russia-submarine-activity-highest-since-cold-war-warns-nato-chief/
Oh, Donald. True to form; gaudy and ostentatious. LOL
ReplyDeletedon't forget"what the f! stupid!"
DeleteWell, you know, now that the wall along the border with Mexico is complete, and Mexico has paid for it, and North Korea's nuclear capability has been removed, and Jared has negotiated peace in the Middle East, and Puerto Rico has been rebuilt after all the hurricane damage . . . now Trump has time to turn his magnificent management skills to lesser tasks such as redesigning the presidential coin.
ReplyDeleteI felt sorry for Track and decided to take him a bottle of vodka and some oxy pills to celebrate his parole.
ReplyDeletenot the topic.
DeleteIs anything he does NOT gaudy?
ReplyDeleteI"m just surprised Trumps fat ugly profile is not on it with Trump in a toga and a laurel wreath around his mop of a comb over.
DeleteHe's saving that for when he has the dollar coin redesigned with his profile on it.
DeleteSMH...how he thinks those hotel rooms gonna be cleaned...and where he thinks all those landscapers
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Narcissistic nincompoop. In his own mind, all there is is Trump.
ReplyDeleteI'd buy them all for putin.
ReplyDeleteTrump cares about Trump. The idiots who voted for him still don't get it. He loves himself long-time everyday. He is their messiah.
ReplyDeleteChange america to russia
ReplyDeleteTrump mafia . No matter what they will always be low rent.
ReplyDeleteZero class and stupid and shallow.
Money can't buy class,as trump proves once again.
ReplyDeleteNo matter how much money or titles he has he will always be crass,white trash.
I sort of feel sorry for melanomia who has to live in that tasteless penthouse decorated by wife number one.
I'm surprised he didn't put his face on it. Be thankful for small mercies.
ReplyDeleteHa Ha the emperor wears no clothes..
ReplyDeleteOnly someone as low class as trump,who has no respect for traditions and has continually debased the dignity of the office of the president, would put a campaign bumper sticker on the presidential coin.
As for his made in china bubba hats,hope all the men that wear them 24/7,go bald.
It was too difficult to mold his tiny butt hole mouth.
ReplyDelete"Pathetic" isn't sufficient to describe this clown, but "tacky" works.
ReplyDeletetasteless.
DeleteHow much did these campaign slogan coins cost the taxpayers???
ReplyDeleteOh I'll bet Sarah Palin thinks it's just classy as hell.
ReplyDeleteMonEy MonEy MonEy
ReplyDelete" tweeted that the No. 2 FBI official is "racing the clock to retire with full benefits."
"How can FBI Deputy Director Andrew McCabe, the man in charge, along with leakin’ James Comey, of the Phony Hillary Clinton investigation (including her 33,000 illegally deleted emails) be given $700,000 for wife’s campaign by Clinton Puppets during investigation?" the president tweeted."<$hitgibbon
http://thehill.com/homenews/administration/366318-trump-needles-fbi-deputy-amid-news-of-retirement
FV"Attention: Citizens of Rome! Orange Julius Caesar has issued his own commemorative coin. On the taxpayer's dime. Digby observes:
ReplyDelete"It's one thing for supporters and opportunists to manufacture and sell wingnut kitsch. There are always people willing to pay for team gear. But this is official government product and it's supposed to be about the presidency not the person. To actually eliminate the national motto in favor of his plagiarized campaign slogan and plaster his name all over the thing is just too much.""
waaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaay too much.
DeleteSieg Heil, Hair Furor!
ReplyDeleteDoes anyone else thinks this looks a little like the Eagle emblem the Nazis used during WWII?
Those changes? Just another baby step on the road to The Fascist States of AmeriKKKa.
Hitler was the most evil man ever-but in his own way he was a genius. you noticed none of his family worked for him. he might have won the war if he had bothered to learn from Napoleon. never attack Russia in winter. that and his use of drugs. trump is just an evil stupid little man. so easy to manipulate. don't mess with the Russians-Hitler can tell you that, while he paints roses in hell.
DeleteHe also didn't learn that you can't win a war when you're fighting on two fronts.
DeleteNow if he had left Russia alone and concentrated to the west, he would have had all of Europe including the UK. Once consolidated, he could have then pushed southeast and taken Egypt and the middle east. Then he either pushes into Russia in the Spring with huge, consolidated forces or he uses his conquests as leverage to negotiate with Russia against the U.S., which had it's own problems in the Pacific with Japan.
I think the bottom line is that egomaniacs, malignant narcissists always make mistakes the lead to their own failures. Hitler amassed a group of advisors he eventually ignored. Trump is doing the same.
You always hope there are enough people who recognize history repeated itself that something can be done but look at where we are. We've gone from repeating Germany in the 30s to repeating our own history of the robber barons. Now Trump is going to scrap most of the regulations that kept our air, water and food clean and disease free. Apparently he doesn't care how many rat turds or hairs are in those burgers he eats. Salmonella in the chicken? Not *his* KFC, only the other guys stuff.
The only way to win with Trump is to make it all about him. Fix the ACA and brand it Trump Care and he'll fight to get it passed permanently.
In some ways Trump is worse than Hitler. They both have a final solution, but Trump's is much more subtle and will take longer. But the results will be the same.
it looks just like trump. wait, his skin colour-is he trying to turn himself gold? so he'll match his toilet?
ReplyDeleteIt looks more like a law enforcement badge than a challenge coin.
ReplyDeleteTypical of Trump. Tacky, in bad taste and covered in gold.
ReplyDeleteremember those teddy bears every one hoped were fake? the trump ones? they are real. i saw on TV, very late at nite when i was sick. they made me sicker. look for them in the nearest trailer park. ticky tacky ungh. i may be poor, but i'm not stupid and having trash like that in your house makes you look trashy. i don't think my Pinhead figures are high class but i keep them in a box in the closet.
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