Brandon Gill, a U.S. representative from Flower Mound, filed House Resolution 1790. An endorsement from Trump was crucial for Gill’s first-time political victory in a highly stacked 2024 primary election, and the 31-year-old investment banker turned politician has been a devout Trump cheerleader.
"President Trump could be enjoying his golden years golfing and spending time with his family," Gill said in a press release. "Instead, he took a bullet for this country and is now working overtime to secure our border, fix our uneven trade relationship with the rest of the world, make America energy independent again and put America first by ending useless foreign aid."
Rest assured, Trump isn’t wasting all of his “golden years.” To his credit, Trump has made history as the first president to be impeached twice and attend the Super Bowl, so there's that.
Trump and Gill Are Buddies
Gill has attracted a relatively bright spotlight as a relatively inexperienced, young politician. Having never held local office, he was endorsed by Trump ahead of his 2024 primary and won by a landslide over 10 other candidates. Gill is married to the daughter of Dinesh D’Souza, a right-wing political commentator who Trump pardoned after he was convicted of making fraudulent and illegal campaign contributions in 2018. Gill was in charge of marketing for D’Souza’s debunked political film, 2000 Mules. The low-budget movie uses exaggerated and edited clips to falsely claim mules were used to rig the 2020 presidential election.
In addition, Gill serves on the House Department of Government Efficiency subcommittee.
“We are gutting government waste under President Trump’s strong America-first leadership and Elon Musk’s Department of Government Efficiency,” said Gill in a release. “As a member of the House D.O.G.E. Subcommittee, I am doing my part through this legislation to slash unnecessary taxpayer-funded programs and centers.”
Gill has espoused Trumpism and spread many of the president’s attention-getting claims without hesitation, including allegations that Haitian immigrants in Ohio were eating neighborhood pets. The congressman recently garnered attention by calling for the deportation of Somalian-born Minnesota Rep. Ilhan Omar. The string of tweets echoes Gill's dedication to mass deportation, one of his campaign calling cards.
Before settling in North Texas and running for office, Gill was the editor of the D.C. Enquirer, a conservative newspaper he started. Trump frequently reposted the Enquirer's work on his social media network, Truth Social. The news outlet has not published new work since Gill was sworn in.
Changing The Bills
If the resolution passes, a Trump $100 bill would be designed in 2026 and begin circulation in 2029. A similar effort from Rep. Joe Wilson, a Republican from South Carolina, proposes placing the president on a new $250 bill. Existing legislation, however, bans living figures from appearing on currency. The last time a face changed on a bill was in 1928 when Andrew Jackson replaced Grover Cleveland on the $20. Attempts to place new historical figures on bills have made headway in recent years, most notably a movement to replace Jackson with Harriet Tubman during the Obama administration. Still, the attempts have stalled during the transitions of power. A bill, the Harriet Tubman Tribute Act of 2025, filed by Rep. Jeanne Shaheen of New Hampshire, has reintroduced the movement and placed a two-year deadline on printing the new bills.
Should Gill's bill fail, not all hope of seeing Trump's face in a new place is lost. Florida Rep. Anna Paulina Luna has filed a resolution to add the president to Mount Rushmore.
