Mara Liasson
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Calvin Coolidge, 100 years ago, had his face on a coin to commemorate the 150th anniversary of the United States.
His face was sort of behind George Washington's in the shadow.
And according to Scorinci,
And it was so controversial that they actually ended up melting down most of those coins.
And now that coin is a rare coin because it was so controversial at the time.
I think it's happening.
Like, I don't think we're monitoring much.
I think just wait for the money to show up.
Well, the Citizens' Coinage Advisory Committee's currency is a lawyer.
He believes that they don't actually have standing.
But that maybe Congress would have standing.
That's a punchline.
To do nothing.
Right.
So I have no reason to believe that the dollar coin won't go into circulation and the big golden commemorative coin won't show up on the Mint website at some point this year.
Living presidents are not on money, but living dictators and living monarchs are all over the world.
And so what Scorenzi said is that this isn't, as Mara said, this isn't just about a coin.
This is something bigger.
But let me just take a deep breath.
To try to give you the list of all the things that have now been imbued with Trumpiness.