Donald Trump became this Sunday in the final of the Professional American Football League, the sporting event of the year in the country. Trump took the disgust that they were looking to make history with his third consecutive title of the NFL. On the way to the game, he announced that he will decree the incoming week that also impose them on American products. And he gave other news: he has ordered the treasure to keep coins of a penny of dollar for the high cost of manufacturing the zinc coin with copper coating.
“For too long, the United States has coined coins of a penny that literally cost us more than two cents. This is a waste! I have instructed my US Treasury Secretary to stop producing new currency of a penny. Let us eliminate the waste of the budget of our great nation, even if it is cent to Centa ”,
The United States Currency House reported that it lost 85.3 million dollars in fiscal year 2024, which ended last September, in the almost 3.2 billion cents it produced, reports Associated Press. Each penny cost almost $ 0.037, compared to $ 0.031 in the previous year. The currency house also loses money by coining the coins of five cents, which cost almost 0.14 dollars.
Trump had not mentioned his desire to eliminate the penny during his campaign. But the so -called Government Efficiency Department (Doge) of Elon Musk raised the possibility highlighting the cost of the Pentavo. “The manufacture of each penny costs more than 3 cents,” he said. “The Mint produced more than 4,500 million pence in fiscal year 2023, about 40 % of the 11.4 billion currencies put into circulation,” he added.
It is not clear if Trump has the power to unilaterally eliminate the currency of a penny, since the specifications, as well as its size and their metallic content, are dictated by Congress. But it probably has the ability to decide to stop coining them. Congress suspended the manufacture of the currency of half a penny in 1857.
Sore loser
Of a bad loser nature, Trump did not congratulate the Philadelphia Eagles at the end of the game. The president supported the Kansas City Chiefs of Patrick Mahomes. , and this Sunday, in an interview at Fox, openly. His two messages on his social network referring to the party published this Sunday did not congratulate the winners, but were aimed at criticizing the rules of the game and singer Taylor Swift.
“The only one that had a harder night than the Kansas City Chiefs was Taylor Swift. They booed her in the stadium. Maga is very implacable! ”, Taylor Swift, a couple of the Kansas City Chiefs Travis Kelce, was a bit dumbfounded when he was booed when he appeared on the screen by a good part of the audience attending Caesars Superdome, mostly composed of followers of The Eagles. It is the first time you see your team lose.
What Trump does not say is that while applauding another part of the public, in what was not clear if it was sports or political rivalry.
Trump also criticized to avoid the most violent clashes at the beginning of each play, in order to prevent durable injuries and damage to athletes. The president is a violent sports lover, such as the fight. “The worst part of the Super Bowl, by far, was to see the initial serve in which, while the ball flies through the air, the entire field is paralyzed, rigid. University football does not, and it won’t! Who was the idea of ruining the game? ”
In 2018, the previous time the Eagles won the Super Bowl, for the protests that some of their players, knee on land, against racism. “Philadelphia Eagles cannot come to the White House with all their team to be honored tomorrow. They do not agree with their president because they insist that they stand with pride to sing the national anthem, with their hand in the heart, in honor of the great men and women of our armed forces and the people of our country, ” Trump then pointed out in a statement that
