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Trump Autographs US Currency · Mark and Pete

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  Trump autographs US currency. Welcome to Mark and Pete, where
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  we look at our favorite current U.S.
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  President and what he's doing with the money and his own
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  branding. Yes, this is Mark and Pete, 2
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  blokes with half an opinion. Now here's our first thought.
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  Mark of amusement, When there's demand for your autograph, you
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  can write your way into history. Unless it's viewed with a belly
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  laugh, then your appeal is a mystery.
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  Yes, and some people might say that when we come to the subject
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  of Donald Trump, yes, he is in fact the set to become the first
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  sitting U.S. President to have his signature
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  on U.S. bank notes. And that's quite an achievement.
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  Well, I think that what we really need to note here is that
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  Donald Trump has made this moved in other ways.
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  He's changing the name of buildings.
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  He's changing the name of government programs in his own
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  name, but placing his signature on a currency note that could be
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  big bucks. So Mr. Pete, I ask you, what do
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  you think about this measure? I'm sure that Donald Trump is
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  rubbing his hands with Glee. It's interesting 1 of this,
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  isn't it? Because it's actually not a not
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  a massive move if you think about it.
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  I mean, so it's not a big move to have presidency which
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  prominently appear, you know, and you can see it.
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  But of course, knowing Trump's skill, main skill, some would
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  say the reason for his success is branding.
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  And if you've got your name on the currency of the country,
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  you've got your name on the money.
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  Visibility is, is going to be there.
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  You know, Trump has gone around, but he's sapping his name on
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  buildings. And sometimes it's just his name
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  on the building. And he had very little to do
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  with the, the architecture or in fact the ownership and, or the
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  building of the building. His name is on the and with the
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  money with with his name on the money, it's sort of almost gives
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  an ownership to it as well as great publicity.
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  His name is there being passed around.
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  You could whether you like him or not, you can see Trump and on
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  money, which is symbolic of power, of course.
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  So I think this is possibly the Britain, the most brilliant
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  brand move that that anyone's done well maybe ever, but
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  certainly in a long time. Well, what what do you think,
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  Mark? You're the the business expert
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  here or the business person that branding, Yeah, good for Trump
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  and the the Trump family brand going forward if it's on the
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  money. Well, I think yes, there's no
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  doubt about that. It's definitely on the money.
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  There's no question about that in in this latest move by the
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  administration. Yes, this latest move by the
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  administration by placing Trump's name with his signature
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  on and he's got a very distinctive signature as well.
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  It's very spiky of many people may have known that in itself.
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  If you talk to a graphologist will reveal a lot of character
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  traits, but his signature is going to go on the 1st $100
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  bills with the signature of Trump and it will be printed in
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  June of 2026. Now the thing here from a
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  business perspective, that means that anyone who's trading,
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  buying things, selling things, yes, what you're doing is
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  effectively passing through Donald Trump.
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  Yes, you are. You are seeing all over the
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  place. Here's what he needs to do next,
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  I guess. You know, that's on banknotes,
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  of course. So what he needs to do, he's get
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  get his name onto digital currency as well.
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  Well, he started that, isn't he with the Trump?
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  Isn't there a Trump coin? And so you know, he's going to
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  get his name everywhere. But yes, on banknotes, it's
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  certainly a good step in the right direction to to, to a good
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  direction, right direction to promoting your brand and giving
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  the impression of power. Well, power for sure.
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  What I'm also curious about is to how long they'll stay in
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  circulation that Donald Trump's got at least another three years
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  to go. Now, of course, once that he
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  comes out of administration, some of those notes are still
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  going to be in circulation. Of course, there are many people
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  who will definitely be probably thinking if I actually could
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  have some of the first notes and if you were to keep them.
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  So here's a here's a thought folks.
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  Why not just keep them? Keep one at least because it
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  might be very valuable, because I can almost certain that I
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  think what's going to happen is people are going to strip them
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  out at the moment he's gone. And if you've still got one or
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  two left and they've not been incinerated, they can be worth
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  quite a lot as a sort of valuable antique.
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  So it's an antique of the future that may be coming up here.
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  Yes, yes, future, future antique.
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  Look, an interesting historical point is that throughout
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  history, putting your name on Monday and often your image on
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  money has been this assertion of power because you're then
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  saying, well, look, I'm in control of trade, which of
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  course just controls people's lives.
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  Back in the the biblical days, while in the time of Jesus,
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  Jesus commented on the fact that Caesar's name was on the coins
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  and said in famous exchange, rent and render unto Caesar that
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  which is Caesar's and to God that which is God's.
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  And you know, the God, yes, Caesar has control of that, but
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  you know, you're, you're the way that you live your life,
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  etcetera, etcetera. That's something that is between
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  you and God. Caesar has no say in it.
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  That's true. But, well, the reason I'm
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  mentioning now is that there's the historical precedent for
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  this, that getting your name on the money asserts authority.
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  Well, indeed, Now I think that there's no doubt that I think
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  that many people would see that. Certainly when you look at
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  people of significance in authority, having the image of
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  person is one thing, but my goodness, the very thought of
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  wandering around in commerce, retail and many other places
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  that you have Donald Trump wandering around in your wallet,
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  there's a thought.