AI-animated satire from DOOOD What The?!. Reacts to a real news story; see transcript below.
Dooood! What the? Okay, check this out. Treasury wants Trump on a two hundred fifty dollar bill for the July fourth anniversary. One problem. You gotta be dead to be on money. So they tell me I gotta be dead. Fine. I will be the most dead. Believe me. Nobody has ever died this big. Tremendous sacrifice. The best dying anyone has seen. And two hundred fifty dollars? Folks, I invented a brand new bill. They will be begging. That denomination does not exist. Neither does that plan. Congress, you have one job. Keep him off the dead guy list. Duuude... What the. (sigh)
Treasury proposed featuring former President Donald Trump on a new denomination as part of a July Fourth celebration, which is unusual because currency typically honors deceased figures.
No, the $250 bill does not exist and was proposed in jest by Treasury to honor Trump without him needing to be dead yet.
U.S. currency traditionally features deceased individuals as a sign of respect, ensuring that only those who have passed away are commemorated in this way.
DOOOD uses humor and exaggeration to critique and highlight the absurdity of political proposals like putting Trump on a $250 bill, emphasizing the impractical nature of such ideas.
Given the current rules and traditions surrounding U.S. currency design, it is highly unlikely that anyone would be featured without being deceased, making this proposal purely satirical.
DOOOD, What The?! is a faceless AI-animated daily news-comedy cartoon. The host, The Reactor, reacts in disbelief to one real news story per episode, with whip-pan cutaways to animated characters. New episodes post daily.