President Donald Trump is the first sitting president in a century to appear on a U.S. coin, reviving questions about whether the practice is legal.

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    1 day ago

    You only accept money in return for goods? You don’t labor?

    Weird flex, or you’re just not thinking this through, even though I spelt out a few different scenarios.

    Put yourself in the shoes of an average person. You go to a gas station and pay cash, your change is $1.23 and they give you a Trump coin and tell you that’s all in the register, what do you? You let the company keep your change? You take it and drive to a bank to exchange it?

    You buy a water from a vending machine on a hot day, you put in a $5 bill and the machine gives you a couple Trump coins back, you throw them away? You give them back to the machine?

    You may be able to avoid it, I don’t ever use USD cash, I’ll be able to avoid it, but the general public will be using it. If it proves unpopular like the 150 year anniversary coin that similarly carried a portrait of the sitting president, it’ll be removed from circulation and actually become a collectable that some moron will pay thousands for. If not, it’ll be used like any other coin.

    It’s already in circulation, arguing with facts because you don’t like them is dumb, just as dumb as someone suggesting they’ll destroy their own money “on principal”. This is burning your own shoes or destroying your own beer level stupid, since you like referencing dumb conservatives.