Trump Administration Announces New $20 Bill Design Honoring Harriet Tubman’s Owners

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WASHINGTON—Saying they wished to pay tribute to the legacies of these distinguished, law-abiding Americans, the Trump administration announced Friday that a long anticipated redesign of the $20 bill would honor Harriet Tubman’s owners. “These were patriotic business proprietors who followed the laws of their time to further their economic interests, and this new currency design finally recognizes these enterprising individuals for their success,” said Treasury Secretary Steven Mnuchin at an afternoon press conference, explaining that the bills commemorating those responsible for enslaving the famed abolitionist, Civil War nurse, and women’s rights activist for the first three decades of her life would be in circulation by 2018. “For too long, we’ve overlooked the achievements of these upstanding citizens and prosperous agriculturalists. The new $20 note, which will feature a portrait of the Brodess family on the front and a depiction of the Maryland plantation they operated on the back, will at last give them their proper place in American history.” Mnuchin then sought to assuage any concerns about the decision, assuring those in attendance that the Trump White House was already looking into ways to preserve Andrew Jackson’s likeness by having it replace Abraham Lincoln on the $5 bill.

 

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I'm not entirely sure this is a joke.

ChuckLane1 You really retweeted this?

Has the Executive, Cabinet, & Congress gone freakin 5150! This is insane to honor slave owners. WHAT HAS HAPPENED TO THE LAND OF THE FREE? Every American needs to vote that facist, racist criminal aka Trump out of office and into a jail cell.

I made a custom $20 for Trump and Mnuchin.

Jeez.... 🤦🏻‍♂️

kb_leecaster You are kidding? Trump and administration must go. realDonaldTrump

Augustus709 Actually, that sounds like something that moronic jackss would want to try to do....

A friend told me this today and for a second i believed him. That's how bad this administration is.

This guy, Dano Wall, his restocking his tubmanstamp shop.

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A slave owner is actually on the $20 bill right now.

Perfect!

Cc danpfeiffer

KevinMKruse Barely parody

jdhutch64 Surpised that’s not a real headline

tyleroffbench

This IS realDonaldTrump 's Presidency !

Their hair is counterfeit.

kampeas Cc BrentNYT KevinMKruse arappeport AsteadWesley RepPressley

anylaurie16 When you can’t tell truth from satire we are truly doomed.

Sadly, I can see this happening.

steveportigal Damn.

You joke, but give it a week.

Bullseye.

john_sipher Sad...

That shit not funny but it made my day😂😂😂💩

Augustus709 A half smile. America is dying.

john_sipher There’s barely a difference anymore between real life and satire. Surprised the Onion is still able to come up with headlines!

He is sick AF!

grudging1 A rare case where it's not funny ‘cause it's true

They can hear you,

Ouch. But true.

Ouch

Somewhere in Abilene, Tx this article was shared on fb and received multiple likes because they thought it was real.

I love you onion.✊🏿don’t let the shitheads dull your edge.🔪

Woo hoo; I was always curious what a wealthy white man would look like on currency!

TrumpDefined Wtf?

👁

That sentence was a rollercoaster of emotions.

And they came up with new imagery right away!

A little too close. Don't give him ideas.

WTF

😳

Job creators.

Yes and on the back you can have authentic lashing scars.

GerryDuggan Please don’t give these fuckers any ideas.

Superbly done. Thanks for making me crack a smile despite my solemn pledge never to do so again.

ConnorHirsch

Had to read this twice seems like something that they might do.

Damn, and I was hoping for Simon Lagree.

KevinMKruse The racism is killing me inside.

spot.fucking.on

God damn it onion... why are you so good at crossing lines.

Had a second where I believed this. Scary that such assholerry (sp?) isn't far fetched.

rkonizeski So not funny.

LosAngeles1850 Trump puts himself in black face on $20 bill.

It aint broke so dont fix it! Duh!

joshgerstein Proud supporters of the Democratic Party throughout the 19th century, right?

avitale am I living through this? I WILL ONLY APPROVE if they put a MAGA hat on the 'Owner'...............................................................

Jesus

BREAKING: Mnuchin won't put Tubman on bill because 'She was worth far more than twenty dollars.'

ThadCollins yooooooo

JalenRose djacoby

. also btw AndrewJackson was another HatefulPrick of enormous proportion. TrailofTears

So on point.

When you double take to make sure it was the Onion tweeting this. The times we live in.

KevinMKruse I laughed, but first I was momentarily convinced it was true. Satire can’t keep up with our times.

KevinMKruse Is this their way of buying the female vote ?

Don’t give them ideas

ФАК ОФФ 2

Can’t top this

Amazing

Yoooo yikes

joshgerstein Not entirely confident that wouldn't happen...

The onion is the real mvp...

I actually laughed out loud.

We get it, you're progressive.

Bahaha ! ettd

Ned_Donovan almost got me. i was like, what the fuck? then i noticed, it was the Onion 😄😄😂😂

Harriet Tubman has been replaced (they're redesigning, so they're putting Jackson on it for a second time), by a man who stopped the US Postal Service from working because people were mailing abolitionist literature to each other. Government censorship at its finest. 2/2

KevinMKruse I SCREAMED

This isn't a joke, it's real. Andrew Jackson was a slaveholder, and during his presidency he advocated for the rights of slaveholders. In 1835 he prohibited the postmaster general from circulating 'incendiary publications intended to instigate the slaves to insurrection.' 1/2

EricKleefeld

Bless you

KevinMKruse Oooooooof

2022 - Biden administration announces Strom Thurmond $20 bill. Baby boomers are calling it 'pragmatic centrism, a 4-dimenstional chess move if I ever saw one'.

bazinga!

On the back will be a remembrance of the 'Bowling Green Massacre'

KevinMKruse Woo, there they are again - two faces only a mother and/or gold digger wife would love.

Wow!!! Actually it is the truth.

Ouch

Is that where Owning the Libs comes from

DON’T. GIVE. THEM. IDEAS! DAMMIT!!!

The Munchkin will go to Kansas soon. And his little wife too...

GlennKesslerWP what the fuck? Wasn't Tubman suppose to go on the new $20? this is messed up in to many ways. leave it to this administration to find another way to worship the almighty dollar.

LOL YIKES

Nowadays, when you see a headline like this, you really have no idea if it is real or The Onion.

BruceBartlett

daveanthony Likely true.

U can’t just make up something outlandish and call it political satire. “Nancy Pelosi puts forth bill saying that eating ice cream is punishable by death” Trump has never defended slavery or anything close, and Pelosi has not indicated a bias toward ice cream eaters

It should be on the 100$.

This is fucking savage😂😂

I HaD tO dOuBlE cHeCk tHaT ThIs WaS aN oNiOn ArTiClE

dragging everyone out here.

They also plan on replacing 'In God We Trust' with 'Very Fine People'

It's fair bc they provided her with the train and shovels for her underground railroad.

launching it at the same time as the new nobel prize for golf

😭😭😭

The onion onions 👍🏾👍🏾👏🏽👏🏽

haha orange man racist

This is pretty great lol

insert OMG I can't tell if this is satire or not

*double checks to make sure it's an Onion article*

Stephen Miller is writing this on a sticky note right now.

I hope that I can hold it next to my Andrew Jackson $20 bill and the pictures will look like they're shaking hands or sharing a joke or something. I love little Easter eggs like that.

too real

Don't give them any ideas man geez.

whoa, don't give them any ideas!

Let’s not think that in 2019 this is not possible.

Oof

Sounds about right for this administration

Almost not even funny anymore

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