#Trump appointees push $250 banknote with his portrait

The printing director who resisted the effort said she was [coincidentally] “reassigned” last month. “The buck stopped here,” she wrote in her goodbye.

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https://www.washingtonpost.com/investigations/2026/05/28/trump-250-bill-pushed-by-treasury-appointees/

Trump appointees push $250 banknote with his portrait

The director of the Bureau of Engraving and Printing who resisted the effort was reassigned last month. “The buck stopped here,” she wrote in her goodbye email.

The Washington Post

#Trump admin officials have pressed the office responsible for printing the nation’s #money to design a $250 bill featuring Trump’s portrait, acc/to 4 current & fmr employees, in what would be the first appearance of a living person on #US #currency in >150 years.

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Starting last year, 2 political appointees at the #Treasury Dept— US Treasurer Brandon Beach & his snr adviser, Mike Brown — repeatedly urged staff at the agency’s Bureau of Engraving & Printing to prepare prototypes of the note, acc/to the employees, who said the move raised concerns because #federal #law currently allows only deceased people to appear on bills.

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As part of the effort, Beach in August & September provided bureau staff with mock-up designs for the note, including one that shows Trump’s face in the center of the $250 bill between the signatures of the president & #Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent, acc/to one of the employees & records reviewed by The Washington Post.

The artist who said he designed the mock-up told The Post that he had spoken with #Trump about it.

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British painter Iain Alexander said #Trump himself endorsed changes to his original design, such as adding the colors of the US flag & a logo commemorating the 250th anniversary of the nation’s founding.

…No living person has appeared on #US #currency since 1866, when it was #outlawed after the image of a mid-level #Treasury bureaucrat showed up on a 5-cent note.

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#Legislation that would allow #Trump to appear on a $250 bill was introduced in #Congress last year to commemorate the nation’s 250th anniversary but has languished.

…The director of the printing bureau, Patricia “Patty” Solimene, & other staff repeatedly explained to Beach & Brown that there were legal & procedural obstacles to producing the note & that it would take years longer than they envisioned, the four employees said.

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The two political appointees were dismissive in response, two of the current employees said.

“She had told them we’re not authorized to do this. We can’t progress any further, and all the stakeholders have not even met to discuss the next steps,” said one of the employees. “Currency often takes six to eight years to produce a new bill, particularly one of such high value.”

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Solimene said she was abruptly “reassigned” from her post by Treasury management on April 27, writing the next day in an email to colleagues that she was leaving with a “heavy heart.” She wrote in her goodbye email, a copy of which was obtained by The Post, that she had been reassigned to another job in the Treasury Department & that her departure was “not my choice.”

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She added that she “never sacrificed the values or character of myself or the organization & always prioritized the #US #Currency Program & the value each employee brings to the mission.”

“The buck stopped here,” she wrote.

Solimene did not specify in the email why she was reassigned & did not return calls seeking comment. A 24-year Army #veteran, she had been the first #female director of the bureau.

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Solimene & her staff had consented to another #Trump administration request: to print $100 bills featuring Trump’s signature, according to the four employees. They said those bills — the FIRST in American #history to bear a sitting president’s signature — are currently being printed at the bureau’s downtown Washington facility.

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While no #law prohibits printing bills with Trump’s signature, #US #currency experts say that producing a $250 note featuring the president‘s image would run afoul of current laws. One states only a “deceased individual” may be depicted on US currency. Another specifies which denominations the bureau may produce.

Larry R. Felix, a former director of the bureau, said “a $250 note is not statutorily authorized” without an act of #Congress.

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@Nonilex Allocations of funds, going to war — also constitionally Congress’s prerogative. In both cases, SCOTUS-anointed God Emperor Krasnov’s flaunted that. A picture on a piece of paper doesn’t exactly seem the bigger excess of authority, methinks.

@js

No but it adds to his long list of norm-busting, illegal acts and should not be ignored. He's not a king. People still need to be reminded of that. If for nothing else, so they understand why all of it will be dismantled when/if saner heads are ever in control again.

@Nonilex

@Nonilex

experts say that producing a $250 note featuring the president‘s image would run afoul of current laws. One states only a “deceased individual” may be depicted on US currency.

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@Legit_Spaghetti @Nonilex

I for one would be willing to take that trade off

@Nonilex since he will probably not wait to become a "deceased individual", I think I know what will happen!

He will ask FIFA to edit a version of the monopoly game where banknotes have a portrait of him 🙃

@Nonilex There may be a queue of people willing to ensure this law is impossible to break.

@Nonilex

he should just do this like disney bucks.

print worthless paper and his idiot followers will eagerly pay above $250 for that collectible, just like a franklin mint commemorative plate...

@Nonilex This story and the E. Jean Carroll story need to be taken together. They part of the flooding the zone with s__t strategy. Even his people quoted in the article say this $250 bill won’t (can’t) happen. Stay focused. Pam Bondi’s been called to testify about Epstein. The price of gas is $2-3 higher than before his war. His popularity is below 40%. He’s looking for your attention. Don’t give it to him.

@Nonilex

I shall take solace in the fact that these bills will be used mostly for drug deals.