The Department of the Treasury announced Thursday that President Donald Trump will become the first sitting president to have his signature appear on U.S. paper currency. The move, presented as part of the nation’s 250th anniversary observances, will place signatures from both President Trump and Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent on upcoming Federal Reserve notes.
Treasury Secretary Bessent said issuing bills that include the president’s name is an appropriate recognition of historic achievements and will coincide with the Semiquincentennial. Historically, U.S. paper currency has carried the signatures of the Treasurer of the United States and the Treasury Secretary; adding a sitting president’s signature would depart from that long-standing practice.
According to Reuters, the first $100 bills bearing the signatures of Trump and Bessent are slated for printing in June, with other denominations to follow in the months after.
Trump’s name and likeness have appeared in other forms of currency and commemorative items. The U.S. Mint released three proposed $1 coin designs in late 2025 that feature a portrait of Trump and the motto “In God We Trust.” The administration has also overseen changes to the names of prominent sites, including a board-led renaming of the John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts to the “Donald J. Trump and the John F. Kennedy Memorial Center for the Performing Arts.” That renaming, reportedly driven by a board composed largely of Trump appointees, has drawn legal pushback from lawmakers who argue the change was made without Congressional authorization.
In the crypto space, Trump has been associated with a memecoin using his name and has launched NFT efforts such as Trump Digital Trading Cards.
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