That was the same initial thought I had.
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www.independent.co.ukGeez, that’s not embarrassing and degrading or anything.President Donald Trump’s ambassadors are begging companies around the globe to fund celebrations for America’s 250th birthday this year, a new report reveals.
U.S. diplomats at various foreign outposts — including in Hong Kong, Japan and Singapore — have sought to rake in tens of millions of dollars for the anniversary extravaganza.
“I think there is a competitive environment between some of the ambassadors right now of who can raise the most,” Ted Osius, a former U.S. ambassador to Vietnam, told The New York Times.
America’s semiquincentennial arrives on July 4, 2026, but celebrations will span an entire year, kicking off on Memorial Day. Federal agencies and private partners have collaborated to plan and finance the events, according to the White House.
As part of the celebrations, a UFC event will be held on the White House lawn, and Trump has proposed constructing a victory arch near the Potomac River.
In February, Anjani Sinha, the U.S. Ambassador to Singapore, told executives over a five-course meal, “I need your money,” according to a recording obtained by the Times. He noted that the funds would go towards a Rockefeller tree lighting and an American rodeo.……
Trump’s ambassadors are begging companies to fund ‘America 250’ celebrations: report
‘I need your money,’ the US ambassador to Singapore reportedly told executives at a dinner earlier this month
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A commission handpicked by the president could soon approve a design for a commemorative $1 gold coin that features a portrait of Donald Trump.
Despite a longstanding tradition of omitting sitting presidents from commemorative coin designs, a proposal before the U.S. Commission of Fine Arts suggests using a portrait of the president standing over his resolute desk with his knuckles pressed firmly down while staring into the camera.
The coin design is being considered as part of the Semiquincentennial Coin Program, in which the U.S. Treasury will mint a series of commemorative coins to honor the United States’ 250th anniversary.
The U.S. Mint is considering three designs, each featuring a different up-close portrait of Trump, for the 2026 commemorative $1 coin.
Several Democratic senators have pushed to pass legislation that would prohibit the government from minting coins featuring the likeness of a living or sitting president.
“President Trump’s self-celebrating maneuvers are authoritarian actions worthy of dictators like North Korea’s Kim Jong Un, not the United States of America,” Oregon Senator Jeff Merkley said in a statement.
“While monarchs put their faces on coins, America has never had and never will have a king,” Nevada Senator Catherine Cortez Masto added. “Our legislation would codify this country’s long-standing tradition of not putting living Presidents on American coins. Congress must pass it without delay.”..........
Commission picked by Trump approves putting his picture on commemorative gold coin
The design features a portrait of Trump standing above the Resolute Desk on a 14k gold coin
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of course trump picked it he thinks he looks like this."It's a very strong, very tough image of him," said Chamberlain Harris, a member of the committee and deputy director of Oval Office operations at the White House. "It's fitting to have a current sitting president who's presiding over the 250th year on a commemorative coin for said year."
Megan Sullivan, acting chief of the mint's Office of Design Management, said the treasury secretary presented a series of designs to Trump before submitting the proposal to the commission. Trump, she said, approved this image. The coin will have a denomination, though it has not yet been chosen, Sullivan said.
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