President Donald Trump is nothing if not a narcissist, and that’s widespread information even amongst his MAGA base as he openly promotes himself each likelihood he will get. His years-long marketing campaign to win the Nobel Peace Prize is a living proof, as he boasted continually for the previous six months about settling wars and world conflicts, with a lot of it deceptive at finest and utterly false at worst.
Now he’s pushing to have his face etched for all eternity on the U.S. cash provide on a proposed $250 invoice.
And true to type, the 79-year-old president made his repeated calls for for the honour with a publish on his social media platform Fact Social Wednesday by selling a MAGA congressman’s opinion article on the Republicans’ “Donald J Trump $250 Invoice Act.”
Kentucky Rep. Andy Barr wrote the op-ed for the right-leaning Substack publication Washington Reporter proclaiming that placing Trump’s face on the proposed invoice is a good way to honor each Trump and the nation’s milestone 250th anniversary subsequent yr.
Barr wrote that he penned the opinion piece as Trump approaches his 250th day in workplace, insisting that the cash transfer is greater than “symbolic.”
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“It’s a tribute to a president who has reshaped America in historic methods. President Trump has revolutionized American politics, delivered the most important working households tax lower in American historical past, and is cleansing up the most important mess on our southern border ever,” Barr mentioned, persevering with to checklist what he considered as Trump’s achievements, together with brokering peace offers across the globe, securing the nation, reinvigorating navy recruitment and extra.
“That’s the reason I imagine the $250 invoice is the appropriate solution to commemorate each our nation’s upcoming 250th birthday and the management of essentially the most historic president of our time,” he droned on.
And naturally, he talked about that Trump deserved the Nobel Peace Prize, which he didn’t get. It was awarded Friday to Venezuelan democracy activist and opposition politician Maria Coria Machado.
Trump was basking within the reward as he reposted Barr’s gushingly flattering commentary, which ended with Barr insisting a Trump $250 invoice “just isn’t solely an acceptable tribute – it’s a highly effective reminder that America’s finest days are nonetheless forward.
The proposed Trump invoice is a part of different GOP efforts at immortalizing Trump, together with placing his face on Mount Rushmore, rebranding the D.C. Metro the Trump Prepare, renaming the Kennedy Heart for the Performing Arts and even changing Benjamin Franklin on the $100 invoice.
Trump almost definitely reposted Barr’s op-ed as a result of the proposed $250 Trump invoice laws, which was launched in February by South Carolina Rep. Joe Wilson, hasn’t gone anyplace.
That will have one thing to do with the U.S. legislation that people can solely seem on printed forex and cash after demise, based on an Act of Congress in 1866.
Social media wasn’t having any of it.
“Irredeemable megalomaniac,” this Instagram consumer accused Trump.
“He can maintain dreaming,” one other commented. “This man desires to be King so dangerous.”
“Put his face on Bathroom paper, how about that?” one other Instagram consumer responded.
“Trump has proposed a $250 invoice along with his face on it. You’ll be able to’t make these things up,” an X consumer said.
That’s not all. The Treasury Division defended its plan this week to place Trump’s mug on a $1 coin, insisting that the nation’s 250th anniversary subsequent yr permits it to disregard the 1866 legislation that makes it unlawful to place a dwelling particular person’s face on U.S. cash.
