NPR Agitated Over Trump Possibly Being On New $1 Coin

 NPR reports that "New redesigned coins marking nation's 250th birthday begin circulating today." The author is palpably irked that the new coins will feature yucky "pilgrims and early presidents — George Washington, Thomas Jefferson and James Madison. But other coins honoring civil rights figures and suffragettes won't be minted." 

    The [Citizens Coinage Advisory Committee] ultimately recommended five commemorative quarters to roll out during the year. One would feature Frederick Douglass, to mark the abolition of slavery. Another would highlight the 19th Amendment, which gave women the right to vote. A third coin would have shown 6-year-old Ruby Bridges, to celebrate school desegregation and the civil rights movement.

    The idea of the series was to honor not only the 250-year-old Declaration of Independence but also some of the battles fought in the centuries that followed to help realize that founding creed.

    "We struggled as a nation with civil rights," Scarinci says. "We struggled as a nation with women's suffrage. But we persevered and we've made, at least in some situations, some progress."

    But when the Trump administration unveiled the new anniversary coins a few weeks ago, the Frederick Douglass, Ruby Bridges and suffragette quarters had been scrapped, replaced by coins featuring pilgrims, the Revolutionary War and the Gettysburg Address.    

But to further troll the Left, "[i]n a break with tradition, the U.S. Mint is also considering issuing a $1 coin with the face of the current president, Donald Trump, a move usually shunned as a symbol of monarchy." Well, overcoming substantial voting and judicial fraud to be elected President a second time seems in line with the coins showing "some of the battles fought ... to help realize that founding creed," so I'll support it. 

Proposed design of $1 coin featuring President Trump (Source: "New redesigned coins marking nation's 250th birthday begin circulating today"--NPR)