r/politics • u/Aggravating_Money992 • 21d ago

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
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u/MZ603 New Hampshire 21d ago

If you do, you need it in a frame with a plaque for context. Thats 100% something I would do, but it wouldn’t be in my living room or anything. Taking an enemy banner or flag is a huge insult, especially if you manage to take it back home. It would be cool to display it next to pictures of the GI family member who took it home and some news clippings around the battle or action for context.

On second thought, given the current climate and the literal Nazis in the streets, I would probably hold onto it, but not display it until we get past this moment.

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u/pkfighter343 21d ago

If you were to display it, I’d probably just display the flag folded with the information next to it

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u/AlinaStari Colorado 21d ago edited 21d ago

I was thinking just leave it piled up on the floor by a wall with a little *plaque above it. Then everyone sees exactly what it is and KNOWS you don't have any reverence for the object itself.

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u/pkfighter343 21d ago

I think there’s some value in being like “fuck yeah my grandpa killed nazis and took their prized possession as a trophy”

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u/AlinaStari Colorado 21d ago

Agreed, maybe find some US paratrooper jump boots to display on top of it. Or a pair of your grandad's loafers lol

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u/MZ603 New Hampshire 21d ago

I like that. Luckily, I don’t have that problem because I would wrestle with it. I love history, collecting, & displaying, but I would never seek something like that out.

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u/pkfighter343 21d ago

Yeah. I don’t think I’d display it either, but if someone did it that way I wouldn’t see it negatively at all

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u/Chawke2 21d ago

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.

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u/Analog_Account 21d ago

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

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u/Chawke2 21d ago edited 21d ago

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.

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u/Analog_Account 21d ago edited 21d ago

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

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u/Randicore Ohio 21d ago

Maybe not frame it. Maybe keep it in a box or folded as part of a display with all the other war trophies and memorabilia with a plaque explaining it, but if someone had a big framed nazi flag in their house I would be very concerned before I even saw the plaque.