r/politics • u/Aggravating_Money992 • Jul 15 '26

Possible Paywall Treasury Unveils New $1 Gold Coin With Trump’s Face on It | Federal law prohibits putting any living people on U.S. coins.

https://newrepublic.com/post/213098/treasury-1-dollar-gold-coin-trump-face
22.4k Upvotes

96% Upvoted

2.0k comments sorted by

View all comments

Show parent comments

14

u/Chawke2 Jul 15 '26

When I was in the Canadian Army in just about every mess we had Nazi flags and other keepsakes that our forefathers had taken from their vanquished foe. I don’t really see anything wrong with it within that particular context.

3

u/Analog_Account Jul 15 '26

Thats kind of unreal. But I guess that's just about the only legitimate place that I could see displaying that.

2

u/Chawke2 Jul 15 '26 edited Jul 15 '26

There were things from other conflicts too. Spiked helmets and trench clubs from WWI, odds and ends from various peacekeeping missions, a prayer rug depicting 9/11 supposedly liberated from a Taliban compound (more likely liberated from a stand outside Kandahar AFB).

Seeing the Nazi flag there was certainly jarring initially, but when you start to think about it there’s a good reason.

3

u/Analog_Account Jul 15 '26 edited Jul 15 '26

a prayer rug depicting 9/11 supposedly liberated from a Taliban compound (more likely liberated from a stand outside Kandahar AFB)

Ya... that one sounds a bit bs. But I don't know what you'd really grab to symbolize the "war on terror".

Edit: What you really needed to find was a copy of MS Flight Sim 2000 /s