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Posted: 2019-11-27T08:42:22Z | Updated: 2019-11-27T12:50:45Z Donald Trump's Boast About Celebrating Women's Rights Gets The Treatment Online | HuffPost

Donald Trump's Boast About Celebrating Women's Rights Gets The Treatment Online

The president was schooled over his bizarre brag about a centennial coin celebrating women's suffrage.
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Social media users schooled Donald Trump on what a centennial is after the president on Tuesday asked why a new coin to mark the 100 years since women’s suffrage had not been created before his time in office.

“I’m curious why wasn’t it done a long time ago?” Trump asked during the signing of the Women’s Suffrage Centennial Commemorative Coin Act.  The act instructs the Treasury Department to issue $1 coins commemorating the 1920 ratification of the 19th Amendment , which granted women the right to vote. The money will be circulated starting in January.

“And also, I guess the answer to that is because now I’m president, we get things done,” Trump added.

Check out the clip here:

Former White House photographer Pete Souza, who frequently uses pictures he took during the Obama era to taunt Trump, chimed in with this Instagram post:

And people on Twitter attempted to unscramble Trump’s latest bizarre claim:

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