Chuck Schumer: Remove Kim Jong Un from commemorative coin marking summit with Trump

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Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer, D-N.Y., called on the White House Tuesday to remove North Korean leader Kim Jong Un’s image from a commemorative coin released Tuesday that is meant to mark Trump’s upcoming summit with Kim in Singapore.

“I urge the White House to take Kim off the coin,” Schumer said. “Challenge coins are a time honored tradition and certainly appropriate in this situation, but Kim Jong Un’s face has no place on this coin.”


“He is a brutal dictator and something like the Peace House would be much more appropriate,” Schumer said. The Peace House is a building located in the Demilitarized Zone between North and South Korea.

Schumer didn’t specify exactly how to take Kim “off the coin,” but his comment indicates support for minting new ones that don’t include Kim.

Challenge coins are created by the White House Military Office and White House communications staff for every foreign trip taken by the president. Some have noted on Twitter that the coin calls Kim North Korea’s “supreme leader.”

One side of the coin features images of Trump and Kim facing each other and featuring their national flags in the background. The opposite side of the coin shows the White House with Air Force One flying above.

The White House said Monday that it had no say in what appeared on the coin, of which only 250 were made.

“These souvenir coins are only ordered after a trip has been publicly announced. The White House did not have any input into the design and manufacture of the coin,” said Raj Shah, the White House principle deputy press secretary.

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