In a mandated filing with the Office of Government Ethics released Thursday, President Donald Trump was found to have made more than 1,000 stock transactions in June, including thousands of dollars invested in energy companies that were…
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US Mint charges $2.44 for Trump's $1 coin, the same name that already cost investors $4 billion.
As it ran on the front
Wednesday at noon, the Mint opened sales on a new $1 coin bearing the president's face, timed to the country's 250th anniversary. Buy the roll of 25, and the government asks $61 — $2.44 a coin. Buy the brick of 100, and it's $154.50 — $1.545 a coin. Either way, the dollar coin does not cost a dollar, and the fewer you buy, the more each one runs you. The sworn face value stamped into the metal and the price the Mint's own website asks for it never land on the same number twice.
This is not the first product to carry that face and price above what it delivers. Four days before this rollout, Public Citizen — the federal watchdog whose entire job is running exactly this ledger — finished tallying $4.7 billion in investor losses tied to the president's cryptocurrency ventures, the bulk of it in the meme coin he launched three days before his second term began. Same face, different denomination, same gap between what people handed over and what came back.…
…(cont) The gap does not run only one direction. Financial disclosure forms filed with the Office of Government Ethics, covering the second quarter, show the president made more than 1,000 stock transactions in June alone, including positions in energy companies posting record profits off the Iran war his own administration was conducting that same quarter — a war paused for a ceasefire, then restarted, the market moving on cue each time. Investors in the coin ate the loss. The portfolio trading around the war did not.
Reconcile the two filings and the $1 coin stops being a novelty item and starts being the year's most honest disclosure. A dollar coin sold at $1.545 to $2.44 is a two-cent curiosity on any other president's watch. Sold under a name that has already cost the public $4.7 billion once, in the same season a separate filing shows that name posting gains off a war it was running, the markup on the coin is not a rounding error the Mint happened to make. It is the pattern the Mint happened to strike in metal, at a price low enough that everyone can afford to own a sample of it. The face is the same face on both sides of the ledger — the side that pays in, and the side that has yet to report a loss.
“They put his face on a dollar coin and charge you two-forty-four for it, and that's somehow the small con. The bigger one, the crypto coin with the same face on it, already took four-point-seven billion dollars out of regular people's accounts, and a federal watchdog had to write a whole report just to count it. Same guy, same face, two different coins — one overcharges you a buck fifty, the other one just doesn't give it back.”
“Commemorative coins have always carried a premium — that's basic numismatics, collectors expect a markup on a limited strike, this isn't new. As for the $4 billion figure, crypto is volatile, everyone who buys in knows the risk, that's not really a Mint issue, that's a completely separate — did I just connect those two? That's not — forget I said that.”
The receipts
President Trump’s face is now on a new $1 coin being sold by the US Mint, and collectors will have to shell out more than a buck to get their hands on one.
The U.S. Mint released a commemorative $1 coin on Wednesday, celebrating America’s 250th anniversary and bearing President Donald Trump’s face. The coins became available for purchase at noon on the Mint’s website, with 100 coins costing $154.50 or a roll of 25 coins for $61.
A report released Thursday by government watchdog Public Citizen estimates that President Donald Trump's assorted cryptocurrency products have left investors on the hook for billions of dollars in losses. In total, Public Citizen found…
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