President-elect Donald Trump's chief of staff, Reince Priebus, cracked a joke at a Manhattan fundraiser Wednesday night that might not go over too well with advocates for civil rights and women's rights, Politico reports. Trump will be such a good president that his face will one day go on the $20 bill, Priebus suggested to the audience.
The joke comes at a particularly sensitive time, as anti-slavery icon Harriet Tubman has been proposed to replace Andrew Jackson on the $20 bill — a plan that is threatened by Trump's presidency. Trump has previously called the idea of replacing Jackson with Tubman "pure political correctness," and countered that another denomination might be better for Tubman, such as the $2 bill.
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