President Donald Trump’s signature will start appearing on U.S. currency — a first for a sitting president — taking the place of the U.S. treasurer on America’s folding money, the Treasury Department announced.
Trump’s signature will appear alongside Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent’s, but there’ll be no room for Treasurer Brandon Beach’s name, less than a year after Trump appointed the Atlanta-area state lawmaker to his post.
Beach, who backed Trump’s unsuccessful efforts to overturn the 2020 election results in Georgia and has a sport coat with a pattern of $100 Ben Franklin bills, didn’t seem to mind.
“The President’s mark on history as the architect of America’s Golden Age economic revival is undeniable,” Beach said in this week’s announcement. “Printing his signature on the American currency is not only appropriate, but also well deserved.”
Presidents’ faces adorn several denominations — Washington on the dollar bill, Jefferson on the $2, Lincoln on the $5, Jackson on the $20 and Grant on the $50. But no bills have signatures of any U.S. presidents; instead, they are signed by the Treasury secretary and the treasurer.
The move is being made ostensibly in honor of the 250th anniversary of the country’s founding this July, according to the information released by the department.
“There is no more powerful way to recognize the historic achievements of our great country and President Donald J. Trump than U.S dollar bills bearing his name,” Bessent said in a statement, “and it is only appropriate that this historic currency be issued at the Semiquincentennial.”
Details, including which bills Trump’s name will appear on, for how long and who made the decision, were not immediately clear. Spokespeople for the Treasury Department did not respond to questions from MS NOW on Friday.
The news comes as one of several efforts by the administration to put Trump’s stamp on American currency.
Earlier this month, a federal arts commission stacked with Trump loyalists approved a plan to create a 24-carat commemorative gold coin featuring the president, and urged the U.S. Mint and to make it “as large as possible,” MS NOW reported at the time.
In January, members of the same panel green-lit the design for a $1 coin emblazoned with Trump’s face, which the Treasury has confirmed it plans to manufacture; historically, those coins have only been issued after presidents die.
Democrats have slammed plans to put Trump’s image or autograph on currency, pointing to a variety of laws that appear to ban it and arguing it’s another example of the president and his allies being out-of-touch with Americans’ economic struggles.
Rep. Shontel Brown, D-Ohio, called the news about Trump adding his signature to bills “gross and un-American” in a post on X Thursday night.
“But at least it will remind us who to thank when we pay more for gas, goods, and groceries,” she added.
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