TOI correspondent from Washington: America, a republic founded in rebellion against monarchy and once faintly embarrassed about personality cults, is now contemplating commemorating its 250th birthday by placing Donald Trump’s face on a brand-new $250 bill -- a denomination so oddly specific it sounds less like legal tender and more like the minimum spend requirement at a casino.
The proposal, once dismissed as internet satire, lurched into reality this week when Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent confirmed that the administration has already prepared designs for the bill "in case Congress approves it." Critics who had assumed the story was a parody had to check if the Treasury Department had opened a spoof division.
