Trump Gives Presidential Challenge Coin a Makeover, and It Shows
Source: NY Times
Whats big and shiny and gold and features Donald J. Trumps name splashed across the front? No, its not a new development on the West Side of Manhattan. Its the redesigned presidential challenge coin.
A custom dating back 20 years, presidential challenge coins have traditionally been handed out to service members in commemoration of special achievements and milestones. President Trumps coin, which many saw on Friday for the first time, is unmistakably different from its predecessors.
Gone is the national motto, E pluribus unum, meaning out of many, one. In its place appears the presidents campaign slogan, Make America Great Again, which the administration has also used on official White House documents.
The traditional presidential seal has been replaced by an eagle looking rightward, with President Trumps signature beneath it. Instead of holding the customary 13 arrows representing the original states, or an olive branch, the eagle is perched behind a red, white and blue shield, with 13 stars around its wings.
Read more: https://www.nytimes.com/2017/12/23/us/trump-presidential-coin.html?smid=fb-nytimes&smtyp=cur
NastyRiffraff
(12,448 posts)Not to mention scorning an honorable national motto: E pluribus unum. And all that ugly gold.
UncleTomsEvilBrother
(945 posts)...after enabling Nazis, admitted assault on women, compromising the security of the country, proving himself to have no real knowledge of the office....
....this stands out, to me, as the most absurd of all.
I...just...cannot.
DonViejo
(60,536 posts)Clockwise from left, the coins for Vice President Mike Pence, Vice President Joe Biden, President Barack Obama and President Trump. Credit Bill O'Leary/The Washington Post, via Getty Images
Roy Rolling
(6,925 posts)Perhaps a 40-cent version made in China would be a big seller, because you know he will be selling a $50 version in his online store.
dalton99a
(81,565 posts)just like him
TexasBushwhacker
(20,209 posts)of the President or VP.
2naSalit
(86,743 posts)ugh.
longship
(40,416 posts)Sorry!
Couldn't resist.
At this point in events, I see ridicule as the chief weapon.
Ridicule him! Laugh at him! Drive him over the brink.
Iliyah
(25,111 posts)JDC
(10,130 posts)He is pure trash
TreasonousBastard
(43,049 posts)or at least make a face at it.
It's not beyond belief, because it is Trump, but it is beneath contempt.
TheCowsCameHome
(40,168 posts)He is such a classless piece of shit.
TreasonousBastard
(43,049 posts)It wasn't made in China, was it?
crazycatlady
(4,492 posts)Norbert
(6,040 posts)Order in the next hour and receive two Make America Great again baseball caps for JUST $29.95 each extra.
Roland99
(53,342 posts)Response to Sgent (Original post)
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TheCowsCameHome
(40,168 posts)Fitting, because pisses everyone off, and he is such a turd.
iluvtennis
(19,868 posts)Hekate
(90,769 posts)WePurrsevere
(24,259 posts)That money (or the illusion of having it) can't buy true class.
japple
(9,838 posts)Leave it to tRUMP a rump a pum pum
enough
(13,262 posts)marble falls
(57,145 posts)JohnnyRingo
(18,638 posts)Now we'll have to hear him tell how he's the only president on a US coin.
I went and looked. It's not round, so it's really not even a coin. It's a souvenir paperweight.
There apparently wasn't enough room so he had them add a huuge banner across the bottom so we can see his name, something I can happily go the rest of my life and never do.
Blue Owl
(50,482 posts)n/t
riversedge
(70,272 posts)Scum of the earth!
https://www.nytimes.com/2017/12/23/us/trump-presidential-coin.html?smid=fb-nytimes&smtyp=cur
.................President Barack Obamas coin, in contrast, had the presidential seal on the front and was smaller in both circumference and thickness. His name appeared on the back of the coin, above a depiction of the White House with his signature below it.
President George W. Bushs coin had the presidential seal on the front and the White House on the flip side, with his name above it. It had no signature and was a similar size to President Obamas.
The White House and the Republican National Committee, which said on Friday that it was paying for the coin, did not respond to emails seeking comment, but The Washington Post reported that the coin may soon be handed out to supporters and campaign donors in addition to military service members.
The banner at the bottom of the coin is designed as a rocking-horse-style base to allow it to be positioned upright. But some might say that, even without that feature, the coin already stands on its own.
trusty elf
(7,398 posts)malthaussen
(17,215 posts)... you know what stuff with Hitler's signature goes for these days?
-- Mal
sandensea
(21,650 posts)The kind you get when you can't catch the gorilla with the cymbals.