Janet Yellen's signature is being removed from new American currency.
Starting this summer, the name that goes on every dollar bill printed in the United States belongs to Donald Trump.
Democrats are calling it "gross and un-American" – which tells you everything you need to know about why Trump did it.
Trump Signature on Dollar Bill Replaces a 165-Year Tradition
The Treasury Department announced Thursday that Trump's signature replaces the U.S. Treasurer's on all paper currency – the first time that spot has changed hands in 165 years.
Since 1861, Americans have carried bills signed by a long line of treasurers nobody remembers.
Starting in June, every $100 bill rolls off the press bearing Donald Trump's name.
Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent said it plainly: "There is no more powerful way to recognize the historic achievements of our great country and President Donald J. Trump than U.S. dollar bills bearing his name."
Treasurer Brandon Beach called it "not only appropriate, but also well deserved" – crediting Trump as "the architect of America's Golden Age economic revival."
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The first $100 bills roll off the press in June, with every other denomination following in subsequent months.
Why Trump on US Currency Is Permanent and Democrats Cannot Undo It
The last time a sitting president appeared on American currency was 1926.
Calvin Coolidge – the president who presided over the Roaring Twenties – appeared on the Sesquicentennial half dollar marking America's 150th birthday.
Coolidge at the 150th.
Trump at the 250th.
Democrats introduced legislation to stop it.
They failed.
The announcement comes alongside a federal arts panel's approval of a commemorative 24-karat gold coin bearing Trump's image – the first sitting president on a coin since Coolidge.
Trump's name already marks the Kennedy Center, the U.S. Institute of Peace, a new class of battleships, and a prescription drug program called TrumpRx.
Now it goes on the dollar bill itself.
And here's what the left cannot stand about any of this: it's permanent.
Democrats Attack Trump Dollar Bill Decision While Defending Biden Inflation
Rep. Shontel Brown of Ohio called the announcement "gross and un-American" – then accidentally made the strongest case for it.
"At least it will remind us who to thank when we pay more for gas, goods, and groceries," she said.
Shontel, that's exactly the point.
Biden printed trillions of dollars and triggered the worst inflation in 40 years.
His Treasury secretary – the same Janet Yellen whose signature is now being removed – told Americans inflation was "transitory" while grocery bills doubled.
Trump came back, stabilized the dollar, and now his name goes on it.
Gavin Newsom piled on from Sacramento, claiming Americans will "know who to blame" for their bills.
This from the man who turned California into the most expensive state in America while homeless camps spread outside his mansion.
What Democrats understand – and what makes them so furious – is that signatures on currency aren't campaign slogans.
They don't come down after an election.
Long after Biden is forgotten, long after Newsom's presidential ambitions collapse, those bills will still be in circulation.
Your grandchildren will pull a $100 bill out of their wallets and see one name.
Sources:
- Louis Casiano, "Treasury to place Trump's signature on paper currency to mark nation's 250th anniversary," Fox News, March 26, 2026.
- "Treasury Announces President Donald J. Trump's Signature to Appear on Future U.S. Paper Currency," U.S. Department of the Treasury, March 26, 2026.
- David Lawder, "Trump Signature to Appear on US Currency, Ending 165-Year Tradition," Reuters, March 26, 2026.
