Latest / Independent Americans with Paul Rieckhoff
Trump Wants His Face On Your Money. Legacy Push Draws More Outrage. Plus: Keep Trump & Mamdani Away From The Knicks.
Trump wants his face on the money. Not on a coin after he's gone. Not on a statue some future generation can decide to keep or tear down. On a live, circulating $250 bill — while he's still in office and while it's still illegal under federal law to put a living person on US currency. Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent went on television and called it nothing untoward. The Angry Middle is calling it what it actually is: a strongman vanity project at a moment when most Americans can't scrape $250 together for groceries, gas, and rent.
In this conversation, Paul and the crew break down the legacy…
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