2026-03-19T22:12:49.384Z / 美国有线电视新闻网
唐纳德·特朗普总统亲自挑选的艺术委员会周四投票批准了一枚纪念美国250周年诞辰的硬币设计，币面上将印有总统肖像。而且这枚硬币会非常大。
“我提议批准该设计，并强烈建议你们将其做得尽可能大，直径达到三英寸。”委员会副主席詹姆斯·麦克克里里在设计获批前片刻说道。
特朗普去年大幅改组了该委员会——该委员会负责监督公共建筑、纪念碑以及奖章和硬币设计——并任命了一批忠诚支持者。
他们批准的硬币图案显示特朗普双手握拳站在办公桌前，似乎改编自最近一张被放置在史密森尼国家肖像馆的白宫照片。硬币顶部用大写字母拼写着”自由”（LIBERTY），上方是1776年和2026年的年份。背面是一只展翅的鹰。
“我知道他会审视很多不同的形象，并且对出现在公众面前的自己非常挑剔，”特朗普助手、同时担任委员会成员的张伯伦·哈里斯在周四会议上表示。
“这是一张非常有力且强硬的形象，我认为让一位现任总统在250周年纪念币上呈现是合适的，因为他正主持这个国家度过该年份。”
美国财政部提供的美国250周年纪念金币设计图
在整个审核过程中，委员们明确表示硬币最终尺寸至关重要。
“我认为总统喜欢大东西，”麦克克里里表示，他曾是特朗普那个占地89,000平方英尺的豪华宴会厅项目的原始建筑师，后来被替换。”两英寸作为起点并逐步扩大如何？”
哈里斯表示赞同。
“我认为越大越好，而最大流通尺寸应该是他的偏好，”她谈到总统时说道。
委员会目前还在审核一枚拟议中的1美元纪念硬币，这引发了法律争议，因为根据美国货币设计相关法律，在流通货币上展示现任或在世前总统形象是违法的。
现任总统虽然未被禁止出现在周四批准的这种纪念币上，但自1926年卡尔文·柯立芝以来就未曾出现过。民主党议员已提出立法，禁止任何在世或现任总统出现在美国货币上。
Commemorative Trump coin should be ‘as large as possible,’ key commission says in granting design approval
2026-03-19T22:12:49.384Z / CNN
President Donald Trump’s handpicked Commission of Fine Arts voted Thursday to approve a commemorative coin for the United States’ 250th birthday featuring the president’s likeness. And it’s going to be big.
“I motion to approve this as presented, and with the strong encouragement that you make it as large as possible, all the way to three inches in diameter,” the commission’s vice chair, James McCrery, said moments before the design was approved.
Trump last year gutted the commission, which has oversight over public buildings, memorials and medals and coins, and installed a group of loyalists.
The coin they approved features an image of Trump standing with fists on his desk. It appears to be adapted from a recent White House photo installed at the Smithsonian National Portrait Gallery. “LIBERTY” is spelled out on the top of the coin, above the dates 1776 and 2026. An eagle graces the back.
“I know he reviews a lot of different images and is very particular about what is put out there about him,” Trump aide Chamberlain Harris, who serves as a commissioner, said at Thursday’s meeting.
“It’s a very strong and very tough image of him, and I think it’s fitting to have a current sitting president who’s presiding over the country over the 250th year on a commemorative coin for said year.”
The design of the America 250 commemorative gold coin.
US Treasury
Throughout the review process, commissioners made clear that its eventual size matters.
“I think the president likes big things,” said McCrery, who was the original architect of Trump’s sprawling, 89,000-square-foot ballroom project before he was replaced. “Is two inches a good starting point and to work up from there?”
Harris concurred.
“I think the larger the better, and the largest of that circulation, I think, would be his preference,” she said of the president.
The commission is also in the process of reviewing a proposed $1 Trump coin, which is raising legal questions because it’s against the law to display the image of a sitting president or living former president on currency, according to the US code governing coin design.
A sitting president is not prohibited from appearing on a commemorative coin like the one approved Thursday but hasn’t done so since Calvin Coolidge in 1926. Democratic lawmakers have introduced legislation to prohibit any living or sitting president from being featured on any US currency.
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