What does a TRUMP presidency look like?

[Syt]

There will be a 24k gold commemorative coin for the to celebrate the 250th anniversary. Yes, it has Trump's image.

https://apnews.com/article/trump-gold-coin-250th-anniversary-8be387e70ae561c62e27552bf47fb430

The design:

https://www.cfa.gov/system/files/meeting-materials/8-CFA-19MAR26-7-Mint-2026-Semiq-24K%20Trump%20coin-pres.pdf

[Zanza]

  Maybe he puts his face on Mount Rushmore next or replaces the Statue of Liberty with his likeness in gold.

[HVC]

They'll actually be 12k with the other 50% of the gold funnelled to trumps accounts as is the Trump tradition.

[The Minsky Moment]

Yes, and the comparison is an extremely apt one.  Sneak attacks during peace negotiations enraged the Greatest Generation, but Trump is as far from Greatest as it is possible to be, so he thinks that such attacks are admirable.

It was telling that he immediately recognized the parallel and yet embraced it.

Multiple high level Japanese officials were convicted of the crime of waging an aggressive war as a result of the Pearl Harbor attacks. Tojo was executed (for that and other crimes); others received long prison sentences. Not sure Trump knows that; I doubt that he cares.

The other aspect of the comment - the sheer idiocy of gratuitously insulting the leader of a major economic power at a time when the US is desperately scrambling to fine willing participants to help clean up its Persian mess  - is sadly just par for the Trump course.

[Syt]

Trump thinks not using sneak attack tactics is dumb. Why would you not use any advantage that you can against your enemies, or against your friends (who are also your enemies who are just useful to you at the moment)?

[Syt]

In the Transmetropolitan comics I always found it silly and over the top when "The Smiler" becomes president with the sole motivation that he thinks he should be, and with the goal of putting people in their place and making their lives miserable. With policies like kicking mental patients to the curb and encouraging "care in the community" instead. Or tearing down a notorious housing project of his predecessor that was built with toxic materials ... but not providing new shelters to the people. And censoring unpatriotic speech because "there ought to be limits to freedom. Doesn't seem so far fetched now.