Trump's Latest Grift? Or Was It?

Trump is running the country like a carnival hustle. The Trump family has gone big into the Bitcoin market, and now Trump wants to make it our “legal currency.” And you know he loves gold—that opulence vibe that signals wealth and success very visibly, so of course he’d want to go back to gold coins.

So when I saw this article I bit it "hook, line, and sinker" on GoBankRates: 

US Treasury Approves President Trump’s Plan To Phase Out All Paper Money in Favor of Crypto, Gold Coins

by Laura Beck & Kristen Mae

April 1, 2026

The days of pulling a crumpled $20 bill out of your wallet may be numbered. The U.S. Treasury has officially greenlit a sweeping monetary overhaul that will replace all paper currency with a combination of government-issued cryptocurrency and physical gold coins by 2027.

The plan calls for a full phase-out of paper money in favor of two new official forms of payment: TrumpCoin, a blockchain-based digital currency, and a line of gold coins embossed with the president’s likeness in denominations of $5, $20, $100 and what the Treasury memo describes simply as “the big one.”

Then I saw the date!

You know a good April Fools’ prank is based on something believable, and this was. Trump’s love of gold and his family’s involvement in Bitcoin all made it feel just plausible enough.

I am actually against this! Why? Because it’s too close to the truth, and in today’s political environment, too many people would believe it’s real—just like I almost did.