Donald Trump pushes 250th‑anniversary historic revision and proposes $250 note with his portrait

President Donald Trump signed Executive Order 14253, titled “Restoration of Truth and Reason in American History,” to reshape US historical education for the nation’s 250th birthday. The order calls for a curriculum that emphasizes national achievements, trims funding for the National Endowment for the Humanities, removes references to slavery, segregation and Indigenous displacement from schools and museums, and plans a series of 250 life‑size statues of white male heroes.

In parallel, Trump has advocated for a commemorative $250 banknote bearing his own portrait to mark the anniversary, despite a law prohibiting living persons on US currency. Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent said the design work poses no problem, while Democratic senators warned the effort violates legal statutes and urged an investigation of Treasury spending.