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Gary Horton | Trump Kills the Penny as Musk Kills Tesla

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12.02.2025

Every day is headline news day with this Trump administration. It’s a feature, not a bug. TV performers want the spotlight, and every day there’s a new Donald Trump headline.

Maybe that’s a good thing and maybe it’s bad, depending on one’s own perspective of the political scene enveloping us.

If you’re into peace and quiet, this is a discouraging time. If it’s “action” you want – kicking over tables and generally running bull over America’s China shop — these are the best of times for you.

It’s a matter of personal preference and how you like to run your life.

While he was by no means a perfect president, I enjoyed the Barack Obama years. We could go a week without hearing his name. Each day was about the same as the day before. “No drama Obama” was the moniker for those days.

Today?

We’ll hear from Mr. Trump every few hours. I read a viewpoint today, “Trump announces everything because he works for us, and he tells us what he’s doing.”

Fair enough. Hear from him, we do. And hear, we will, for four more years.

One piece of good Trump news was that Trump decreed the Treasury discontinue minting pennies. Turns out it costs over 2 cents to mint ever one penny.

Smart move to kill the penny. Hurray for common cents!

Who among us liked getting those two or three pennies as change with every........

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