Donald Trump predicted a big win for the Kansas City Chiefs, which has a quarterback who has voiced positive sentiments about him, but after the team lost a game which the President attended but wasn't a main feature, he immediately made a totally unrelated surprise announcement.
Trump after the Superbowl made a proclamation about pennies.
"For far too long the United States has minted pennies which literally cost us more than 2 cents. This is so wasteful!" Trump wrote on his own social media site, Truth Social. "I have instructed my Secretary of the US Treasury to stop producing new pennies. Let's rip the waste out of our great nations budget, even if it's a penny at a time."
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The announcement caused Republicans against Trump to laugh out loud.
"Lol. Trump left the Super Bowl after watching the team he picked, the Chiefs, get slaughtered by the Eagles…he must be really upset because he immediately announced he’s getting rid of the pennies," the group wrote on X. "Well, at least he’s not imposing tariffs on the Eagles!"
Tommy Smokes of Barstool Sports chimed in, "This Super Bowl is so boring that Trump is just sitting in his suite at the game and decided 'You know what? Let’s ban the penny.'"
Freelance writer and editor Joshua J. Friedman also responded to the weekend announcement, saying, "Another power that properly belongs to Congress, of course."
Former prosecutor Ron Filipkowski said, "While Musk runs the country, Trump had a productive weekend naming himself Chair of the Kennedy Center, picking the Chiefs to win the Super Bowl, canceling pennies, demanding Google Maps rename Gulf of Mexico, invited only White immigrants from Africa, and saved plastic straws."