"New Coin Suggests Trump Is God'
If approved, the 24-karat gold coin will depict Trump leaning on a desk with clenched fists, based on a photograph taken by his chief White House photographer. This is the photograph at the National Portrait Gallery.
But here's the disturbing part. Check out the proposed gold coin.
The coin has an image of Trump and immediately below are the words "In God We Trust." This is not by accident. They are conflating an image of Donald J. Trump with the words "In God We Trust." They are deliberately suggesting that Trump IS God."
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"It all feels like an echo of one of the most notorious moments in the history of coinage, the minting of a coin in 44 B.C. bearing the profile of Julius Caesar with the abbreviated Latin words for "Caesar, Perpetual Dictator" on its face.
Caesar is cited as the first living person to use his image on a Roman coin, and it was considered an outrageous violation of norms.
One ancient historian, Cassius Dio, included the use of his image on coins among Caesar's most egregiously self-aggrandizing acts leading up to his assassination.
"It is this moment when you see a transition from the collective we,' meaning the Republic, to the them,' to the individual, and you start seeing emperors putting image on coins," Turco said."
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