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[–] Zerlyna@lemmy.world 151 points 2 days ago (1 children)
[–] finitebanjo@piefed.world 138 points 2 days ago (2 children)

The good news is this is illegal.

The bad news is Republicans probably don't care.

[–] toiletobserver@lemmy.world 28 points 2 days ago (2 children)
[–] finitebanjo@piefed.world 132 points 2 days ago (9 children)

31 U.S. Code 5112 says “No coin issued may bear the image of a living former or current President,”

So, Trump just needs to die and it will be legal?

[–] devfuuu@lemmy.world 12 points 1 day ago (1 children)

Literally, who's going to stop them?

There's so much stuff that's absolutely illegal happening and nobody is stopping them. Being illegal or not is irrelevant if no one enforces it.

[–] finitebanjo@piefed.world 3 points 1 day ago

A lot of things are being held up by the courts, many things have been reversed by the courts, but yes they probably feel invincible at the moment.

[–] bobs_monkey@lemmy.zip 49 points 2 days ago

Yeah they won't care, they'll do it anyway, and then go after critics for being "unamerican" and "anti capitalist" per NSPM-7.

[–] Melkath@fedia.io 26 points 2 days ago

I was about to say, I was pretty sure that was a law, instituted to stop... oh, what was it again? Oh ya. FASCISM.

[–] Xraygoggles@lemmy.world 13 points 1 day ago (2 children)

Oh, this one's easy the way I understand things work now.

He is both former AND current, so fire up the mint.

[–] boonhet@sopuli.xyz 11 points 1 day ago
[–] Jesusaurus@lemmy.world 9 points 2 days ago

Amendment incoming!

[–] Goodlucksil@lemmy.dbzer0.com 1 points 1 day ago

Then they'll have to mint coins of Reagan.

[–] user224@lemmy.sdf.org 2 points 2 days ago (1 children)
[–] finitebanjo@piefed.world 1 points 1 day ago

FR after I posted this I saw a headline saying Trump started slurring speech and disappeared for days.

[–] AshMan85@lemmy.world 2 points 2 days ago

Heard of congressional approval?

[–] Ghyste@sh.itjust.works 1 points 1 day ago

Illegal? They've never heard the word.