I was just watching Total Recall and they had a quick shot of a stack of bills and Obama’s likeness was on some of them. I bet he’ll make it one day. Anyway, it made me wonder what the process is. Could it be over-ridden? More interestingly could for example Trump demand that he be put on the $100 dollar bill?
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You have to be dead to have your portrait on any government securities.
Congress has the power to create exceptions (and has numerous times in the case of coinage) so I’m assuming they can also create an exception for bills.
Total Recall came out in 1990 when Obama was in law school. Why would his picture be on bills in the movie?
Well, they were showing the future.
How soon we forget.
I didn’t even know there was a remake.
Actually, you did. You just forgot.
If Arnie’s not in it, it’s not Total Recall. It’s jsut some movie. 
Brilliant. Well played.
They certainly can, because the rule against living people on money derives from a law passed by Congress in the first place, and so they could just repeal that law if they wanted.
Since no one seems to be bothering to answer your question, I’ll point out that it’s the Secretary of the Treasury although, as noted above, it cannot under current law be a living person. See under “Portraits” on this page: Home | Engraving & Printing
Just want to remind everyone that I called Obama on currency 9 years ago
http://boards.straightdope.com//sdmb/showthread.php?t=499190&highlight=obama
Like The Terminator with Sylvester Stallone. 
There never was a second movie. [A single bead of sweat slides slowly down my forehead]
Getting back to the OP, now that we’ve had our little movie critique session, I believe that there is a law requiring that George be on the 1 dollar bill?
I think there is some law that allows the faces to be changed. I have some one dollar bills that do indeed have Obama’s face and name on them. I have another that has Yoda on it. I was told by the shopkeeper at the novelty store where I purchased them that they are legal tender.
Probably, those are actual $1 bills, with a printed picture of Obama or Yoda pasted over the actual one of George Washington.
That’s probably at least semi-legal.
There are laws against defacing currency, but courts have held that stamping ‘political’ slogans on bills is permissible. Also, the Treasury Department (Secret Service) is not concerned about ‘novelty’ creations like that. They worry about counterfeiters pasting a $20 over the $1 in the corners of the bill, or other things to counterfeit the value of the bill.
They “discouraged” the Where’s George people from selling the stamps to put the Where’sGeorge message on bills. I’ve heard of other instances where they frowned on similar modifications. None were political, though. So if those are indeed just a paste over George’s picture, I would expect the Secret Service to put the hammer down on them too. They probably hadn’t caught up to whoever was doing it at the time the person above saw it.
I think congress have the rights to change the face on the currency.