Trump signature to appear on US currency, ending 165-year tradition
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Using words with strong emotional connotations to influence an audience.
Fact-Check Results
“The redesigned notes, planned to mark the 250th anniversary of American independence, will also for the first time in 165 years drop the signature of the U.S. treasurer”
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— No evidence in archive to confirm or refute the claim about removing the U.S. treasurer's signature
“The first $100 bills with Trump's signature and that of U.S. Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent will be printed in June”
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— No evidence in archive to verify the June printing date of $100 bills with Trump/Bessent signatures
“The new bills may take several weeks to circulate through banks”
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— No evidence in archive to assess the timeline for new currency circulation
“The Treasury is still producing notes bearing the signatures of former President Joe Biden's Treasury secretary, Janet Yellen, and former Treasurer Lynn Malerba”
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— No evidence in archive to confirm ongoing production of bills with Yellen/Malerba signatures
“Malerba will be the last of an unbroken line of treasurers whose signatures have appeared on U.S. federal currency since 1861”
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— No evidence in archive to verify Malerba's status as the final treasurer's signer
“The signature change is the latest effort by the Trump administration and its allies to put the president's name on buildings, institutions, government programs, warships and coins”
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— No evidence in archive to link the signature change to Trump's broader naming efforts
“A federal arts panel, whose members Trump appointed, approved last week the design for a commemorative gold coin with Trump's image”
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— No evidence in archive to confirm the Trump-appointed panel's approval of the gold coin design
“An effort for a circulating $1 Trump coin was set back by laws prohibiting the depiction of living individuals on U.S. coins”
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— No evidence in archive to verify legal barriers to a circulating $1 Trump coin
“A statute governing the printing of Federal Reserve notes gives the Treasury broad discretion to change designs to guard against counterfeiting”
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— No evidence in archive to confirm Treasury's legal authority to modify currency designs
“The law requires keeping certain elements, including the words 'In God We Trust,' and only allows portraits of deceased individuals”
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— No evidence in archive to verify legal requirements for currency design elements
“A mock-up of the $100 bill with Trump's signature was not immediately available”
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“Vanity Fair was the first to report the news”
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“The overall designs of bills will not change, except for Trump's signature replacing the Treasurer's”
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