The US Mint is now selling Trump commemorative $1 coins at a 144% markup over face value. People are apparently excited enough about this that they're imagining paying with them at Starbucks. Somewhere between the ghost creators pumping out AI misinformation, the Treasury Secretary blaming Ukraine for gas prices, and the administration stationing ICE at polling places, the country decided the move was to mint an ex-defendant into literal currency and hawk it to his supporters at triple the price. The absurdity is the point. That's the operation now.