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So does that mean we use the pennies until there aren’t any in circulation or all businesses round up ?

Doesn't there need to be congressional approval for this. Oh right..

What makes anyone think that Donald Trump gives a second thought to the Constitution? It's just a worthless piece of paper to him.

They’ve been talking about this for decades. Then they realize that Illinois votes. 😆

www.nbcnews.com/news/world/p...

I feel like it was conservatives that insisted on keeping the penny.

“So they say they Lincon, he’s on the penny you know, is he such a great guy one the one cent? Small guy, very small, not worth much. We can save billions and billion if we stop printing these woke DEI pennies. I mean you can’t buy groceries with pennies they’re just too many. Way too many.”

Paging @johngreensbluesky.bsky.social - heartbreaking! The worst person you know just made a great point.

In Canada we got rid of pennies 12 years ago, even without being annexed by Dingbat Don.

With no pennies we use more nickels and those cost +13 cents to produce. Maybe this should be studied more if the point is to save money. Eliminate both.

Congratulations, you’ve now caught up to Canada 13 years ago… 🙄 😂

This is probably the only thing that this man could do, that I could agree with.

Maybe he is upset that he can no longer reach the ground to take them out of a homeless person's cup... so now nobody gets them.

Wow, a policy I actually agree with, LOL! 🤣

I gotta say, I think I’m with on this one. Also… youtu.be/PbrGR0Ac0Gc?...

Because in the middle of a Coup, pennies will somehow distract us? Impeach the felon!

Que pretende ? Cómo pagaré 6 centavos ? Será que debo pagar solo 5 o quizás ,10 debería aclarar ese punto

😂

Like he’s reinventing the Fkin wheel.. past administrations have been advocating for that for years

No, thanks. I’m progressive, but not that progressive. I already use 24 hour time though. 😀

Now get rid of the dollar bill and replace it with a well designed coin. Canada can help with that.

He has zero knowledge on how this will affect the economy and prices on consumer goods.

He is trying to make it seem like he is trying to save money without causing harm to Americans, when really, it's a distraction from inflation, tax increases, and the rest of the unethical and immoral actions he and his administration, including Elon Musk, have taken.

That means costs will be rounded up and life will be 'MORE EXPENSIVE' for our fellow Americans and that cost to economy is BY FAR MORE THAN THE COST OF PENNY PRODUCTION! That obviously is a MIScalculation and must be taken back immidiately!

It’s estimated it will cost consumers 600 million per year in rounding up. But hey why split hairs.

Do not completely hate this idea but it is not going to save that much money and seems like a waste of time.

I like pennies. I get they are becoming obsolete due to inflation; what once cost change now cost bills. But while treasury can reduce minting, Congress' coinage power is exclusive. Another Trump overreach. No matter how small it still matters. Make one thin penny; one thin dime...

I hate the man, but honestly this is not a crazy idea. Unfortunately I’m sure they have no plan on what to do when people will have to pay for things with no pennies.

I mean who’s gonna stop him 🙃 everything is chaos hooray ☠️

Hi, not within the scope of Presidential authority, whatsoever. Plainly stated congressional power. You should try reporting a little deeper than face value, sometime. Once, ever.

FUN FACT: It's only Constitutional for Congress to order this. bsky.app/profile/nyti...

Swifties 🤝 The resistance 🙏

Now he wants our pennies too! What happens when it's 9cents in change? He just pockets my 4 cents! Or they add it to the cost either way we loose!!

This is actually one true thing said by Trump and a smart decision. It will go down in history, like the penny.

Finally

Maybe he should forget this stuff and beef up the agencies to tackle the bird flu. This is just BS.

Don’t confuse him with facts and laws.

The only thing missing is the equivalent of The Enabling Act of 1933.

Trump wants total control over Congress. That's what Dictators do.

Thank you for pointing out what the New York Times SHOULD have included in their article. They've been trying to get rid of the penny via Congress since 1990.

My question exactly. Of course retailers are not going to round down.

rounding UP 4 cents. Never rounding down.

So…he wasn’t watching the halftime show?

He doesn’t have the legal authority…. Congress does.

That is another lie. The Treasury Departments decision. Move on to the next false narrative.

Because EM and DT don’t want to carry the pennies when they steal ALL the money … 💴

Long overdue. I have agreeing with him.

Maybe trump will end daylight savings and move us to the metric system. I don’t know why they haven’t been done before. I’d actually say something nice about him if he did 🤯

His absolute lack of understanding of how our government is supposed to work is, if not surprising, disappointing.

He’s trying to emulate Canada !

0.99 pricing came about A. So things would feel cheaper, and B. So people would have a penny to buy a newspaper. It wouldn't matter with online retailers, and brick and mortar could either go up to .00 or down to .95.

Wtf. Does he have EO's scheduled to send like emails?

Something Canada stopped doing in 2012. Not exactly a break-through move!

meh. whether it's smart or not, it shouldn't be a priority

Obviously a good idea, but coining money is a Congressional power, per the Constitution. Dealing with this trivial annoyance in a non-Constitutional way will only support the idea that Washington DC “politics as usual,” is broken and *only Trump can fix it.* On balance, I’m not thrilled.

Imagine being so racist that you go after the brown coins bearing the face of abolition.

Please do not omit that even if it’s a good idea, this is still an illegal order.

Can Trump possibly be more idiotic or less relevant? I know he got rid of 14th A but we still have 25th A.

tRump is replacing pennies with plastic straws…

Another way to raise prices. You think they will round down? Lolol

The fat man says only children use pennies and the fat man hates children

Can we just all agree that the 2026 pennies will be worth 5 cents and solve two problems at once?

This is the very first thing that Trump has done that actually makes sense. Finally.

He who does not honour the penny is not worth the thaler.

Like people have been saying since Everett Dirksen was in office. He alone stood countless attempts to can the penny because Lincoln’s image was on them and Ev represented Illinois.

Amen!

Maybe if we talk about how much we love nickels and flat bills, Trump can finally get some braille on the paper money just to own the libs. Then after that, we can complain about subtitling at the cinema and wheelchair ramps, so he’ll order more of them just to piss us off. Accessibility for the win

@johngreensbluesky.bsky.social didn't you make a video about pennies years ago? can you advise the president on the rest of his policy too?

And then when it’s necessary to mint more, we can change the face on the new ones to someone who is very intelligent, very healthy, and muchly popular.

Not sure he can do this . . . .

More accurate headline: “injured narcissist lashes out again.”

NYT, it's not "unclear" whether he has this authority. He doesn't. Congress does. It's. In. The. Constitution. Remember that thing? Maybe time to read up

Thank you sir!

Elon will need to change the punchline on his favorite joke

Now, let's do nickles as well. They also cost more to make than face value. And stop making dollar bills, making coins the thing. And add a $2 coin.

broken clocks.

I’m sick of Trump. Also, I start laughing About Kenye West Put a Deactivated Account From X/Twitter. Oops!! Bye!!

You realize that you need to fix all the systems that accept physical cash to round up or down to the nearest wholly divisible by two value now? Oh well. I guess everyone has to may more.

Oh crap. Its all most Americans will be able to spend soon once all our money goes to his billionaire brigade

This is not an unusual step, in fact most countries have removed their lowest denomination coinage from circulation. Australia got rid of its 1 and 2 cent coins years ago and other units are on the chopping block, indeed all cash is slated for disappearance as digital currency and payments rise.

But first, they should put Don's face on the penny, another useless orange POS.

An idea whose time has finally come

Oh, that pesky Constitution.

We haven’t used pennies for 10 years… it’s the only good idea someone gave him.🇨🇦

The Congress has this power, not Trump. Another phucking expensive tax dollar wasting lawsuit against this incompetent clown.

Alrighty. You win the Interwebs for today. 🏆

How about we focus on the "It is unclear whether Mr. Trump has the power to do this." part instead? Because it seems pretty clear that he doesn't, which goes for a whole lot of things he has been doing lately.

Not seeing the trillions in savings he needs to get to make sure billionaires get their tax breaks

Right up there with the straws. Lol

I mean this with all sincerity, take a break man…. He’s got to have Multiple teams working on this shit….

Right! Everything is done haphazardly.

Interesting. Trump and Musk bitcoin cost more to produce than their face value. (Because they are worthless).

Do you think he understands that they are not single use?

How am I gonna derail trains now?

Awful idea. A penny is not used only once. And we will pay for it. The consumer will have to take on the difference. If something is $1.51 — for us it will be $1.55 … this will add up.

Hello inflation. It's the reason we haven't done this before. Pennies keep costs down -- something we'll need with all these tariff increases on prices.

Not the worst hobby a kid can have :)

Breaking News: King Canute orders the tides to stop.

Except charities receive millions if not more in donations of “change” mostly pennies and rounding up. Hopefully, philanthropists will step up.

It’s been a bipartisan thing for years and it might be legal to do this. www.nytimes.com/2024/09/01/m...

Cash sales in Canada are rounded to the nearest five cents. Amounts ending in 1 or 2 round down, 3 and 4 round to 5, 6 and 7 round to 5 and 8 or 9 round to 10. Works out in the end.

I mean it's plain the man doesn't give a single shit about the cost of living.

Except Congress decides to mint or not mint pennies, or coins or bills.

#StopTheCoup

That's so fking rich coming from a useless POS who costs WAY more than he'll ever deliver. Like for example the GROTESQUE amount of Taxpayer's Dollars that were spent so he could attend the Super Bowl for a Photo Op & a PR Stunt. As soon as I heard he picked the Chiefs, I knew they were doomed.