As Trump prepared to become the only sitting US president to attend the NFL Super Bowl, he made it clear to the world that he was rooting for the Kansas City Chiefs — not so much from a sports fan perspective, but likely rather because the Chiefs happen to have a quarterback that has said a couple of nice things about him in public.
However, after he showed up to the game where he and his daughter Ivanka only got a few seconds of screentime and his predicted team lost in a bad kind of way, Donald took to his social media to release a rather bizarre new announcement that landed him a whole lot of mockery from Americans who think he’s just trying to distract from the fact that his big Super Bowl event didn’t go the way he wanted.
Taking to Truth Social after the big game, Trump made a weird proclamation about pennies — Yes, the one-cent coins.
“For far too long the United States has minted pennies which literally cost us more than 2 cents. This is so wasteful!” Trump wrote on his Truth Social echo chamber. “I have instructed my Secretary of the US Treasury to stop producing new pennies. Let’s rip the waste out of our great nation’s budget, even if it’s a penny at a time.”
More than a few Americans were left chuckling not just over the weird announcement but, particularly, the timing of it:
Lol. Trump left the Super Bowl after watching the team he picked, the Chiefs, get slaughtered by the Eagles…he must be really upset because he immediately announced he’s getting rid of the pennies.
Well, at least he’s not imposing tariffs on the Eagles!
🤣 pic.twitter.com/MUXAwvhnyc— Republicans against Trump (@RpsAgainstTrump) February 10, 2025
This Super Bowl is so boring that Trump is just sitting in his suite at the game and decided “You know what? Let’s ban the penny” pic.twitter.com/TbzL5YkGNI
— Tommy Smokes (@TomScibelli) February 10, 2025
While Musk runs the country, Trump had a productive weekend naming himself Chair of the Kennedy Center, picking the Chiefs to win the Super Bowl, canceling pennies, demanding Google Maps rename Gulf of Mexico, invited only White immigrants from Africa, and saved plastic straws.
— Ron Filipkowski (@RonFilipkowski) February 10, 2025
You truly can’t make this stuff up…
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