https://www.axios.com/2026/09/02/trump-coins-real-money-legal-tender-spend-value
“The coins can be purchased in 25-coin rolls for $61 and 100-coin bags for $154.50”
With a $1 face value. So, yeah, you can spend them, but you lose $0.55 to $1.44 every time you do!
Weird how they say it’s all over social media, but failed to link to a video…
Found it on YouTube:
Minimum wage where I live is $16.80 an hour, so at 40 hours a week that’s $672 a week, so that’s $34,944 a year or $2,912 a month.
So potentially, yeah, if they make $3,000 a month and send you $2,000, that could be significant.
OTOH, at my peak I was pulling down $12,000 a month, so your mileage may vary!
How do you open a bookstore for under $10,000?
Well, first you find a location with $600 a month rent. LOL.
Floor was $350 and $500 to install it. Bookshelves were $1,100. UV window tint to protect the product was $500.
From there it’s a matter of setting up accounts with major wholesalers and ordering product.
Most folks don’t realize this, but in general, the markup on books is around 35% to 55% depending on the publisher and the service.
I bought a bunch of nice Halloween stock for $6.50 a book, retail is $28.95, which is ridiculous. I’m selling them for $12.95 and still making money on them.
The little free library I did for under $500. 😉
Nope, I opened a full bookstore for less than $10,000. The other $40+ is operating funds. I can keep this going for some time!
I had that happen in January, I built my own bookstore.
Not much civilians can do about it…
There are only 3 groups of people who can do anything:
Congress could impeach, again. But they won’t with Mike Johnson in charge. Even if they did, there wouldn’t be the 67 votes in the Senate to convict.
J.D. Vance could start the 25th Amendment process, but he’s out of the country sucking up to Victor Orbán:
https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/cyv16lq2rp1o
Average citizens can vote out all the Republicans… in 7 months…
Yes. Trump’s failure during Covid was killing a 9/11’s worth of Americans weekly.
Hard to beat the Wolfenstein games and the Indiana Jones movies.
Headed to the coast there was a massive rain storm right on the county line, one side, perfectly dry, on the line? Shower curtain of rain.