Trump also visited Capitol Hill on Tuesday to push for the bill, meeting with Republicans and urging both the budget hawks and tax-cut proponents to accept the bill on the table.
Mr Johnson said Historic England was in charge of the official plaques, which are almost exclusively in London, and they had only recently allowed them to be installed elsewhere in the country.A plaque for ceramic artist and designer Clarice Cliff is one of the first of the few official ones outside the capital. It is located at
, Stoke-on-Trent, where she lived at the height of her success."I was thinking, wouldn't it be fun to find a company that makes them, sort of 'mock' blue plaques," Mr Johnson said.He added they had cost him about £35 each.
He initially came up with the idea for The Antelope pub in Hanley, he said."Various groups and genres of music fans used to get in there," Mr Johnson told BBC Radio Stoke.
Mr Leigh, who himself used to be a DJ at The Void, said the city seemed to be "at the cutting edge of whatever music scene was evolving or going on at the time".
Some only lasted a few years, which made their rise to prominence all the more remarkable, he said.In 2021, he called Bitcoin a "scam."
Now, he's not just in charge of regulating cryptocurrencies in the US - he and his family are active industry participants.In addition to the meme coin, the Trump family also holds a majority stake in the crypto exchange World Liberty Financial, which was launched just prior to the election.
Trump expressed his desire to be the nation's first "Crypto President" while campaigning for president and was a major beneficiary of campaign contributions from the crypto industry in the 2024 election.According to a