You might not remember December 22nd, 2017 as a particularly notable day, but I will always remember it as the day the world first saw Donald Trump's redesigned presidential challenge coin.

Now if you are unfamiliar with challenge coins,

that's okay.

I'm here to help.

I have a whole story about them coming up,

but a lot of people on Twitter

know I know about challenge coins and that I care about them deeply.

In fact, if you didn't serve in the military, there's a good chance you've learned about challenge

coins for the first time from my other podcast, 99% invisible.

99% invisible actually has its own challenge coin, so it is radiotopia.

My association with challenge coins is strong and because of that, I was forwarded the

December 22nd Washington Post article about Trump's garishly over the top challenge coin by

about like 9,000 people. So Elizabeth Joe is out of town I'm still recovering

from Christmas and tons of end of year business. So on today's Trump-Con law,

I want to play you the original 99% invisible story

about challenge coins.

It'll be fun.

Let's do it.

Oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh. Oh, oh, oh. This is what Trump can teach us about Khan Law, an ongoing series of indefinite length where we usually

take Trump tweets and use them to learn about the Constitution, but today we're taking

Trump's norm-breaking challenge coin and examining a cool military tradition that is generally hidden from the general public.

Our friendly neighborhood law professor Elizabeth Joe is off this week, but I am still your fellow

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