Trump To Become First Sitting President To Have Signature On Dollar Bills
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Donald Trump will become the first sitting President to have his signature on paper currency.
Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent said, “The President’s mark on history as the architect of America’s Golden Age economic revival is undeniable…Printing his signature on the American currency is not only appropriate, but also well deserved.”
President Donald Trump is adding his name to U.S. dollar bills, the first time a sitting president’s signature will go on paper currency, the Treasury Department announced Thursday.
Trump’s signature will go on the bills in honor of the country’s 250th anniversary, the Treasury said. Historically, paper currency carries the signatures of the treasury secretary and the treasurer.
“The President’s mark on history as the architect of America’s Golden Age economic revival is undeniable,” Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent said in a statement. “Printing his signature on the American currency is not only appropriate, but also well deserved.”
U.S. paper currency has featured the treasurer along with the treasury secretary’s or the register of the treasurer’s signatures since it was first printed in 1861.
The first bills will be produced in June.
More will come in the months after that.
The first $100 bills with the signatures of Trump and Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent will be produced in June, followed by other denominations in the coming months, Reuters reported.
