America's Liberation Day - April 2

There is a period of transition, because what we’re doing is very big. We’re bringing wealth back to America. ~Commerce Secretary Howard Lutnick

What is Liberation Day?

President Trump announced that April 2nd will be Liberation Day for America. This has largely been attributed to trade and the addition of reciprocal tariffs set to begin on April 2nd. Maybe it is, or maybe it’s something else altogether. All the talk of Liberation Day has me trying to figure out what it could really mean, since President Trump’s words usually have more than one meaning.

Liberation Day is an odd way to refer to tariffs. The term usually refers to the liberation of a country from foreign occupation or some form of oppression. It also refers to the end of a period of hardship and the restoration of freedom to the people. As lifelong debt-slaves, we’re hoping for financial freedom, but I’m not convinced that tariffs are the primary path for entering the Golden Age. Instead, I think there may be many changes coming that will lead us to the wealth we’ve been promised.

President Trump has announced Liberation Day more than once. Prior to the 2024 Election, he posted to Truth Social that the United States is now an OCCUPIED COUNTRY, and November 5th would be Liberation Day in America.

In his inaugural address, President Trump announced that January 20th was Liberation Day, followed by his hope that the election “will be remembered as the greatest and most consequential election in the history of our country.” That is a powerful statement coming from a man who has spoken with great admiration of many of our past presidents. In his address to the nation on March 5th, he said that the first month of his presidency was more successful than that of President George Washington. If you believe that President Trump is returning us back to the original Constitution, his references to George Washington are meaningful.

We were liberated after the November 5th election, we were liberated on January 20th, and we’ll be liberated again on April 2nd. There seems to be more significance and publicity to the upcoming Liberation Day, as if we should be paying close attention. Curious if April 2nd holds any importance in our history, I started digging around. Not surprisingly, I found a Bill signed by President George Washington on April 2nd, 1792, that fits with where my thoughts are headed.

The Coinage Act of 1792

The Coinage Act of 1792 was signed and put into effect during President Washington’s second term. It established the first Mint in the United States and created a standard for American currency after we gained independence from Great Britain. You might also say after we were liberated from Great Britain. The Act was the foundation for the United States monetary system, creating our national currency and establishing the Mint's operations.

Although it’s been amended several times, the original 1792 Act still serves as the foundation for our currency laws. Important amendments include the Act of 1873 which demonetized silver and placed us on the gold standard, and the Act of 1965 which eliminated silver from dimes and quarters and reduced the silver content of the half dollar.

April 2nd has historical meaning in terms of Liberation Day. After our liberation from Great Britain, a currency system was created and signed into effect on April 2, 1792. Could April 2, 2025, bring us a new currency following our liberation from the Central Banks?

The Coin Shortage of 2020’s

So much has happened that events of the past, which didn’t make sense at the time, get pushed to the back of our minds. During Covid, signs began to appear at local businesses warning of a coin shortage. We were encouraged to use credit or debit cards since change couldn’t be provided. It didn’t make sense. Why would a global pandemic cause a coin shortage? When the Federal Reserve noticed a decline of coins in circulation, they said it was because people weren’t using currency since so many businesses were closed. "The typical places where coin enters our society have slowed or even stopped the normal circulation of coin," they said in 2020. Soon they were rationing coins to local banks.

The U.S. Coin Task Force was introduced in the summer of 2020. Americans were refusing to exchange coins which created a “dramatic deceleration of coin circulation through the supply chain.” In other words, there wasn’t a coin shortage, we just weren’t using our coins. Why? Were we afraid they were contaminated with Covid?

To help start circulating coins again, the Coin Task Force came up with a trendy hashtag titled, #GetCoinMoving. Social-media images were created with captions that included “Calling all coin!” and “Spend your coins – they’re bored!” It urged Americans to clean out their couches and car ashtrays of random coins. The signs at the convenience store weren’t a figment of our imagination. Coins had suddenly become scarce during the pandemic. Was it because people weren’t circulating their coins? Or was the Federal Reserve restricting coin production while also accumulating coins that were already in circulation? Was this the beginning steps to preparing us for digital money or a completely different type of currency? Our use of cash and coins has changed dramatically over the years, and probably even more so since Covid.

But 2020 wasn’t the first time Americans had to deal with a coin shortage.

The Coin Shortage of 1960’s

The coin shortage of the 1960s was largely attributed to Americans hoarding silver coins because the value of silver was increasing. Prior to the mid-1960’s, a silver coin was actually made of silver and was therefore, worth something. When the cost of silver began to rise, silver coins became worth more than the currency it represented. The government blamed coin collectors for hoarding silver coins. The government introduced a solution to the American people. After a nearly 175-year tradition of creating silver coins out of silver, new coins would be created using copper-nickel. “The death warrant for silver coinage was signed when silver hit $1.29.” At that time, a silver dollar actually contained a dollar worth of silver. Looking back with eyes wide open, it makes sense that the globalist central bankers were not going to allow the American people to hold currency that was worth something, let alone something that could potentially increase in value.

When the price of silver began to rise, the Mint was faced with the monumental task of replacing the silver coinage currently in circulation. What may have been a monumental task was accomplished when President Lyndon Johnson approved the Coinage Act of 1965, which removed silver from our coins.

If a coin shortage in the 1960s led to changes in our currency, could the coin shortage in the 2020s be preparing us for a change to our currency now? Is it possible that our currency is being returned to the early days of American independence when our coins were created from valuable minerals like silver, gold, and copper?

Auditing Fort Knox

ABC News reported, “Trump, Musk raise questions, without evidence, about whether nation’s gold at Fort Knox has been stolen.” Did you catch the “without evidence,” quote? Why does the media hate America? Investigative journalism should include investigation. Why wouldn’t the media want to know if and how much gold is stored at Fort Knox?

President Trump and Elon Musk have said that the American people should know how much gold we have. Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent said an audit of the gold takes place every year and it has all been accounted for. When he was Treasury Secretary, Steve Mnuchin also confirmed the gold was there. Regardless, President Trump announced that he wants to see the gold for himself. In an interview with Joe Rogan in late February, Elon Musk said that a live tour would be awesome. The gold is the property of the American people, so why shouldn’t we know if and how much is there.

The conspiracy surrounding missing gold at Fort Knox is not new. A 1979 Washington Post article begins with, “The world outlook is grim, very grim, says Peter Beter. What with the government's looting of the gold in Fort Knox…” Mr. Beter was an original Conspiracy Theorist and the article contains interesting information on many relevant topics as we look back on it with hindsight.

Peter Beter was an attorney and adviser to President Kennedy who says that British spies claimed that the gold in Fort Knox was secretly removed. Mr. Beter wrote a book in the 1970’s titled, The Conspiracy Against the Dollar. In that book he claimed that Fort Knox had been looted through a series of complex international sales that benefited powerful interests. Beter said that when the government auctioned gold, it was likely to have been obtained by the CIA in exchange for guns and drugs. That doesn’t sound too far-fetched these days, does it?

Former Representative Ron Paul has been calling for an audit of Fort Knox and the Fed for many years. He introduced the "Gold Reserve Transparency Act of 2011" which called for a full audit of U.S. gold reserves. When asked in a recent interview if he thinks the government has all the gold it claims to have, Ron Paul said "No, I don't. But I don't have evidence to prove it."

His son, Senator Rand Paul, agrees with his father and has continued the fight. When Elon Musk tweeted a question asking whether the Fort Knox gold supply is reviewed every year, Rand Paul responded, "Nope. Let's do it."

On February 21st, Rand Paul wrote a letter to Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent requesting to audit the gold reserves at Fort Knox. Although Bessent attested that the gold was there, he emphasized the need for an audit, saying "the more transparency, the better."

If our country were to return to the Gold Standard, it’s important to put the missing gold conspiracy behind us. We need to know if we’re still in possession of the gold, and how much we have. The American people deserve transparency.

End The Fed

On March 5, 2025, the Federal Reserve Board Abolition Act to "End the Fed" was introduced by Representative Thomas Massie. It is the companion bill to Senator Mike Lee’s June 2024 ‘Federal Reserve Board Abolition Act.’ The Bill calls for the abolition of the Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve System and each Federal Reserve Bank at the end of a one-year period following the signing of the Act. Although this isn’t the first time a Bill has been introduced to abolish the Fed, Ron Paul did so in 1999, this is probably the first time the Bill has been introduced under a President who seems willing to support it.

Putting an end to the Federal Reserve is something many of us would support. If the United States were to develop a new form of currency, would the need to abolish the Fed be necessary, or would it just be rendered obsolete?

Cryptocurrency

On March 6, 2025, President Trump issued a Fact Sheet establishing the Strategic Bitcoin Reserve and U.S. Digital Asset Stockpile. I’m not going to pretend to understand anything about cryptocurrency, but the Fact Sheet includes President Trump’s promise to make the United States the “crypto capital of the world.” Is it possible the United States will develop its own form of cryptocurrency?

In 2016, the USPS Office of Inspector General released a report titled, Blockchain Technology: Possibilities for the U.S. Postal Service. Among other things, the report recommended the Postal Service create a digital, financial platform called Postcoin. The report offers two possible paths for its creation. The first would be the option to buy in to an existing, public blockchain. The other option would be to create a new blockchain. The Postal Service could use the Bitcoin protocol, another open-source software, or create its own. Three years after the report was published, the Postal Service applied for and received a blockchain patent. I wrote about the blockchain report in Make the Post Office Great Again. That paper also touches on the history of the financial services provided by the Post Office from 1911 to 1967. Will the Post Office be restructured to provide financial services in the future?

In 2018, President Trump tasked Treasury Secretary Steve Mnuchin with evaluating the operation and finances of the Postal Service and the Board of Governors appointed Louis DeJoy as Postmaster General. DeJoy had been a donor to President Trump’s campaign, and The Washington Post reported that Steve Mnuchin recruited DeJoy, although Mnuchin denied that claim. After five years as Postmaster General, Louis DeJoy resigned on March 24, 2025.

As is often the case in the Trump Administration, Louis DeJoy served his purpose and is moving aside for the next phase of the operation. On February 21, 2025, at Howard Lutnick’s swearing in ceremony as Commerce Secretary, President Trump announced the possibility of merging the US Postal Service with the Commerce Department. “We want to have a post office that works well and doesn’t lose massive amounts of money, and we’re thinking about doing that, and it will be a form of a merger…It’ll remain the Postal Service, and I think it’ll operate a lot better than it has been over the years.”

The convergence of so many finance related matters in the lead up to Liberation Day is very interesting to me.

Gold Visa / The Trump Card

In a recent appearance on the All In podcast, Commerce Secretary Howard Lutnick spoke of a revision to the EB-5 Visa program. The program would allow foreigners a pathway to United States citizenship with the purchase of a $5 million Visa. The applicants would be properly vetted and their Visa could be revoked if needed. Billionaire hedge fund manager John Paulson was the brains behind the program, and Lutnick was tasked with implementing the plan. During the March 20th podcast Lutnick said, “Two weeks from today it goes out.” Two weeks from March 20th is April 3rd. Right around the time of America’s Liberation Day.

According to Lutnick, Elon Musk is developing the software for the program, and “yesterday” he sold 1,000 of the Visa cards, implying that the United States made $5 billion dollars from the Gold Visa program. This is such a refreshing change from past presidents who allowed foreigners into our country, while we paid their expenses. With the revised program, foreigners will pay us for the opportunity to become American citizens.

Is Liberation Day a Series of Events?

The timing of the April 2nd Coinage Act signed by President Washington after our liberation from Great Britain, the coin shortage of 2020, combined with the addition of tariffs, talk of auditing Fort Knox, Bills to End the Fed, Cryptocurrency, Louis DeJoy’s resignation, the announcement of a possible merger of the Postal Service with the Commerce Department, and the Gold “Trump” Visa so close to Liberation Day is all so interesting.

Is it possible that Liberation Day will liberate us from the Central Banks, the Federal Reserve, and the Globalist control that we’ve been under for the last century? Will the Golden Age begin on April 2nd with The Coinage Act of 2025, when the United States begins a new monetary system as it had prior to the Federal Reserve Act of 1913? Is there a multi-faceted approach to return financial strength and stability to America? Will we return to the Gold Standard, or cryptocurrency, or a combination of both? Wouldn’t new tariffs to generate revenue, a $5 million Gold Visa sold for American citizenship, new digital currency, a return to the Gold Standard, and more be liberating for our economy? It’s exciting to think about.

Commerce Secretary Confidence

Commerce Secretary Howard Lutnick says, “There's going to be no recession in America.”

“There is a period of transition, because what we’re doing is very big. We’re bringing wealth back to America. That’s a big thing. And there are always periods of - it takes a little time," he added.

Exciting days ahead…Hopefully, they’ll be liberating.