Democrats are outraged over the news that the administration is considering issuing a $250 bill in commemoration of the nation’s 250th anniversary, with President Trump’s picture on it. Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent displayed a mockup of the hypothetical bill:
I think this is a marvelous troll on the part of President Trump. Trump has a sense of humor, and his critics generally don’t. Thus, they often fail to understand when Trump is putting them on, as I think he is here.
There is no need or demand for a $250 bill. Moreover, U.S. currency is authorized by statute. By law, the Treasury is authorized to issue bills in various denominations up to $100–but not $250. Thus, it would take an act of Congress to implement the $250 bill idea, and that isn’t going to happen.
But I think the hilarious point is that the photo of Trump used on the hypothetical mockup–Bessent said that Treasury was just being prepared, in case Congress does decree a $250 bill–is the mug shot that was taken in connection with one of the Democrats’ failed criminal prosecutions of the President, as I recall, the one in Georgia. It is a wonderful idea to put that mug shot on official U.S. currency, but I am pretty sure the whole thing is a joke meant to set off the Democrats, as it has done.
