Hey there, it's the NPR Politics podcast. I'm Miles Parks. I cover voting.

I'm Tamara Keith. I cover the White House. And I'm Mara Liason, senior national political correspondent.

And today on the show, President Trump is everywhere. Not just in the news, but literally he and his allies are working to get his face and his name on more and more U.S. government stuff.

We're going to talk today about whether that matters.

So, Tam, I want to start with coins.

I know that Trump could potentially appear on two different new ones.

Can you tell us more about this?

Yeah, late last week, the U.S.

Commission of Fine Arts approved a commemorative coin that will feature President Trump standing

with his fists on a desk looking very serious. It will be a gold coin. The commission members

urged that it be made as large as possible. Like three inches, like the size of a chocolate chip cookie? I believe three inches is as large as possible. I was going to say, you could technically make a coin even larger, much, you know, the size of the room, the size of, I don't know, Washington, D.C. I don't know if the mint could handle that. Okay, got it.

And this coin is commemorative.

It wouldn't be in circulation.

And it is part of a celebration of America's 250th birthday.

And then there is another coin, which is a $1 coin that would be in circulation.

Okay.

And that coin will also feature the president's face on one side.

And according to the U.S. treasurer who put out a statement, he says that there is no profile more

emblematic for the front of coins that commemorate the 250th birthday than that of our serving

president, Donald J. Trump. Is that legal? Well, not really. But who's going to challenge it, I think, is where we are on that.

All coins that are produced by the United States are supposed to go through the Citizens

Coinage Advisory Committee.

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