Nah, we threw it out
Remember the planned redesign of the $20 bill that was going to include the first African American woman to appear on U.S. currency?
Well, don’t expect to see Harriett Tubman on your $20 any time soon.
Treasury Secretary Steven Mnuchin confirmed Wednesday what had been apparent for some time: The currency redesign pursued by his Obama administration predecessor Jacob Lew not is going to happen during the Trump administration.
Well of course it’s not. Trump has a plan to put war criminals on your $20 so Harriett Tubman will just have to go back to Mexico where she belongs.
Mnuchin said a new design for the $20 bill will not come out until 2028. The $10 and the $50 will come out with new features before that.
In 2016, Lew announced with great fanfare that Tubman, a freed slave who became a 19th century abolitionist, would replace Andrew Jackson, the seventh president, as the face of the $20, and that portraits of suffragists including Lucretia Mott, Sojourner Truth, Elizabeth Cady Stanton, Alice Paul and Susan B. Anthony would be on the back of the $10 note.
But Trump and his enforcers obviously weren’t going to stand for that.
The new designs were to be revealed next year, which is the 100th anniversary of the 19th Amendment to the Constitution, which granted women the right to vote.
But President Trump derided the new currency as “pure political correctness” before being elected and suggested Tubman be put on the rarely used $2 bill instead.
Trump is also known to be a fan of Jackson.
The Trail of Tears guy. Of course Trump is a fan.
Currency is for white guys.
Yeah. It’s “pure political correctness” to shine a light on suppressed history. Suppressed by men like Trump in the past, and now again suppressed by Trump himself.
James, for a lot of people, historical accuracy = political correctness run amok.
More a case of “Wot did a black woman ever do for ME?”
After all, everyone knows what white men did and that’s all that counts.