Trumpiana: Me, my, mine is his signature tune!
From coins and currency to Strait of Hormuz , the Don wants to leave his mark everywhere
As Donnie boy played with his expensive war toys quickly expending 800 Tomahawk cruise missiles, he first gave Iran 48 hours to “FULLY OPEN, WITHOUT THREAT, the Strait of Hormuz,’’ or face obliteration of their “POWER PLANTS.”
Just before the deadline passed, Donald Trump gave “very different” and “strange” Iranian negotiators “begging us to make a deal,” another five days only to extend it by 10 more days to April 6 “per Iranian Government request.”
Even as Iranian leaders rejected his 15-point ceasefire proposal, Trump claimed on Truth Social “despite erroneous statements to the contrary by the Fake News Media, and others, they (talks) are going very well.”
But without a let up in his bravado, he asked a defiant insolent Iran — “Their leadership is gone, their navy and air force are dead.” — to accept his plan or “we’ll just keep blowing them away.”
Trump even winkingly referred to the Strait of Hormuz as the “Strait of Trump” saying Iran has to “open up the Strait of Trump — I mean, Hormuz.” As his remarks at the Future Investment Initiative in Miami, garnered a few laughs from the crowd, he made it clear it was no joke.
“Excuse me. I’m so sorry. Such a terrible mistake,” he said, feigning an apology before declaring, “The fake news will say, ‘He accidentally said’ — No, there’s no accidents with me, not too many. If there were, we’d have a major story.”
By evening, the Trump friendly New York Post had a story citing sources that POTUS is considering taking control of the strait and renaming it after himself, or calling it the “Strait of America,” as he previously relabelled the Gulf of Mexico.
Earlier on Monday, Trump had floated the possibility that the strait could be controlled jointly by “me and the ayatollah” as part of a resolution to the war.
Meanwhile, the White House’s social media posts mixing Iran war footage with clips from cartoons and video games earned widespread criticism, with service members and families who lost loved ones saying the memes and jokes trivialize combat and sacrifice.
While Trump aides claimed the backlash sent views soaring, it also launched a thousand counter memes with one on X portraying him as a brat attacking a map of Iran with his toy planes and missiles.
During a Cabinet meeting to discuss his ever expanding war, Trump downplayed the severity of the oil and gas price spikes saying energy prices “have not gone up as much as I thought.”
The military campaign is “not over, so maybe it’ll go up a little bit more,” he said. “It’s all going to come back down to where it was and probably lower.”
Trump also took a little time off to extoll the virtues of the Sharpie pen that he uses to sign his executive fiats and bills bragging about negotiating $5 personalized Sharpies painted black and embossed with “White House” in gold.
Calling it more economical and a better instrument than the fancier writing tools preferred by his predecessors, he cited it as an example of his business acumen.
“I came here. They have thousand-dollar pens, and, you know, you hand pens out, you’re signing and you hand them out,” he said. “You’re handing them with all these people, sometimes you have 30 or 40 people, and they were $1,000 a piece.”
“The bottom line is: They’re better pens,” he said. “It’s a business story. So for $5, it could be zero, but for $5, I get a much better pen than for $1,000.”
Meanwhile, as long lines grew at airports due to a partial government shutdown over an impasse on funding for the Department of Homeland Security, Trump sent ICE agents to help. While some have speculated the idea came from a conservative radio caller, Trump took credit comparing it to the invention of paper clip.
“That was like the paperclip. You know the story of the paperclip?” he told reporters. “One hundred and eighty-two years ago, a man discovered the paperclip. It was so simple. And everybody that looked at it said, ‘Why didn’t I think of that?’ ICE was my idea.”
Trump, who is pushing for a voting bill to curb mail-in voting, which he has decried as ‘cheat-in voting,’ himself used the facility to cast his ballot in a special election in Palm Beach County.
The President, who was in Palm Beach over the weekend, during the election’s early voting period, justified his action saying “because of the fact that I’m president of the United States, I did a mail-in ballot for elections that took place in Florida.”
Trump who is on a spree of re-installing monuments to controversial figures from America’s past, added one of Christopher Columbus to the White House. The statue was previously displayed in Baltimore until protesters dumped it in the city’s harbor in 2020.
And after a handpicked federal arts commission cleared the way for the U.S. Mint to produce commemorative 24-carat gold coins with Trump’s image on them, treasury department announced his signature will soon appear on U.S. paper currency.
To accommodate this change to commemorate America’s upcoming 250th anniversary on July 4, the treasurer’s signature will be removed for the first time since 1861.
“There is no more powerful way to recognize the historic achievements of our great country and President Donald J Trump than US dollar bills bearing his name,” stated Treasury secretary Scott Bessent .
The first $100 bills with Trump’s signature and that of Bessent will be printed in June, followed by other bills in subsequent months.
Presumably the Donald will sign America’s Happy Birthday bills with a Sharpie minus the last ‘d’ with a tale tale long tail appended on the birthday greetings that ‘he didn’t send’ to one Jeffrey Epstein.
(By arrangement with The American Bazaar, www.americanbazaaaronline.com)
As Donnie boy played with his expensive war toys quickly expending 800 Tomahawk cruise missiles, he first gave Iran 48 hours to “FULLY OPEN, WITHOUT THREAT, the Strait of Hormuz,’’ or face obliteration of their “POWER PLANTS.”
Just before the deadline passed, Donald Trump gave “very different” and “strange” Iranian negotiators “begging us to make a deal,” another five days only to extend it by 10 more days to April 6 “per Iranian Government request.”
Even as Iranian leaders rejected his 15-point ceasefire proposal, Trump claimed on Truth Social “despite erroneous statements to the contrary by the Fake News Media, and others, they (talks) are going very well.”
But without a let up in his bravado, he asked a defiant insolent Iran — “Their leadership is gone, their navy and air force are dead.” — to accept his plan or “we’ll just keep blowing them away.”
Trump even winkingly referred to the Strait of Hormuz as the “Strait of Trump” saying Iran has to “open up the Strait of Trump — I mean, Hormuz.” As his remarks at the Future Investment Initiative in Miami, garnered a few laughs from the crowd, he made it clear it was no joke.
“Excuse me. I’m so sorry. Such a terrible mistake,” he said, feigning an apology before declaring, “The fake news will say, ‘He accidentally said’ — No, there’s no accidents with me, not too many. If there were, we’d have a major story.”
By evening, the Trump friendly New York Post had a story citing sources that POTUS is considering taking control of the strait and renaming it after himself, or calling it the “Strait of America,” as he previously relabelled the Gulf of Mexico.
Earlier on Monday, Trump had floated the possibility that the strait could be controlled jointly by “me and the ayatollah” as part of a resolution to the war.
Meanwhile, the White House’s social media posts mixing Iran war footage with clips from cartoons and video games earned widespread criticism, with service members and families who lost loved ones saying the memes and jokes trivialize combat and sacrifice.
While Trump aides claimed the backlash sent views soaring, it also launched a thousand counter memes with one on X portraying him as a brat attacking a map of Iran with his toy planes and missiles.
During a Cabinet meeting to discuss his ever expanding war, Trump downplayed the severity of the oil and gas price spikes saying energy prices “have not gone up as much as I thought.”
The military campaign is “not over, so maybe it’ll go up a little bit more,” he said. “It’s all going to come back down to where it was and probably lower.”
Trump also took a little time off to extoll the virtues of the Sharpie pen that he uses to sign his executive fiats and bills bragging about negotiating $5 personalized Sharpies painted black and embossed with “White House” in gold.
Calling it more economical and a better instrument than the fancier writing tools preferred by his predecessors, he cited it as an example of his business acumen.
“I came here. They have thousand-dollar pens, and, you know, you hand pens out, you’re signing and you hand them out,” he said. “You’re handing them with all these people, sometimes you have 30 or 40 people, and they were $1,000 a piece.”
“The bottom line is: They’re better pens,” he said. “It’s a business story. So for $5, it could be zero, but for $5, I get a much better pen than for $1,000.”
Meanwhile, as long lines grew at airports due to a partial government shutdown over an impasse on funding for the Department of Homeland Security, Trump sent ICE agents to help. While some have speculated the idea came from a conservative radio caller, Trump took credit comparing it to the invention of paper clip.
“That was like the paperclip. You know the story of the paperclip?” he told reporters. “One hundred and eighty-two years ago, a man discovered the paperclip. It was so simple. And everybody that looked at it said, ‘Why didn’t I think of that?’ ICE was my idea.”
Trump, who is pushing for a voting bill to curb mail-in voting, which he has decried as ‘cheat-in voting,’ himself used the facility to cast his ballot in a special election in Palm Beach County.
The President, who was in Palm Beach over the weekend, during the election’s early voting period, justified his action saying “because of the fact that I’m president of the United States, I did a mail-in ballot for elections that took place in Florida.”
Trump who is on a spree of re-installing monuments to controversial figures from America’s past, added one of Christopher Columbus to the White House. The statue was previously displayed in Baltimore until protesters dumped it in the city’s harbor in 2020.
And after a handpicked federal arts commission cleared the way for the U.S. Mint to produce commemorative 24-carat gold coins with Trump’s image on them, treasury department announced his signature will soon appear on U.S. paper currency.
To accommodate this change to commemorate America’s upcoming 250th anniversary on July 4, the treasurer’s signature will be removed for the first time since 1861.
“There is no more powerful way to recognize the historic achievements of our great country and President Donald J Trump than US dollar bills bearing his name,” stated Treasury secretary Scott Bessent .
The first $100 bills with Trump’s signature and that of Bessent will be printed in June, followed by other bills in subsequent months.
Presumably the Donald will sign America’s Happy Birthday bills with a Sharpie minus the last ‘d’ with a tale tale long tail appended on the birthday greetings that ‘he didn’t send’ to one Jeffrey Epstein.
(By arrangement with The American Bazaar, www.americanbazaaaronline.com)
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