Commemorative Trump coin should be ‘as large as possible,’ key commission says in granting design approval | CNN Pol

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 fitt

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