phil giraldi travels thru current events with an eye towards the greatest levels of government foolishness you couldn't imagine; 

 

I had thought the United States government had hit a new low point last week when the Federal Commission of Fine Arts approved a Semiquincentennial 250^th anniversary commemorative 24 karat gold coin featuring President Donald J Trump leaning on his his desk with clenched fists and scowling but that was before Secretary of War Pete Hegseth demanded $200 billion from America’s taxpayers to continue to fight the war against Iran, saying “It takes money to kill bad guys!”

Admittedly the approval for the coin was a slam-dunk as Trump had appointed all the members of the Commission, just as he did when he loaded the board after deciding to destroy and rename the Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts. The only concern during the discussion with US Mint officials was over the size of the coin, with the president urging the commissioners to go big with coins of maximum size measuring three inches in diameter. It is now expected that Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent, another Trump loyalist, will ‌order the coin to be minted.

I would point out that a president having a coin issued with his own portrait on it is not exactly an established American governmental tradition. In fact, most Americans just might find it absolutely in poor taste and even disgraceful, the act of a megalomaniac who just might be considered insane based on his own utterances and other behavior. Last week, Trump was meeting in the White House with the woman Prime Minister of Japan Sanae Takaichi when he made a joke responding to a journalist’s question about his decision to “surprise” Iran by attacking it, saying “Who knows better about surprise than Japan? OK? Why didn’t you tell me about Pearl Harbor? OK? Right?” Takaichi was clearly shocked..........more.........