Another reason the Chinese are laughing at tRump--the $250 bill (Snopes verified) [View all]

In Mandarin, the number 250 is commonly used slang for an idiot, a dolt, a total fool. So his picture on a $250 bill is even more foolish than it looks!
https://www.snopes.com/fact-check/trump-bill-china-idiot/?utm_source=mail.snopes.com&utm_medium=newsletter&utm_campaign=was-meet-the-press-host-suspended-after-trump-interview&_bhlid=d4cc885086c7c0af787ebe972e2c1b2375914279

According to Mandarin language schools and a report about the Trump administration's planned $250 bill by the Hong Kong-based South China Morning Post, the Mandarin word for 250 could also be used to call someone silly, innocent, careless, foolish, stubborn, reckless, stupid or to suggest they were not, as an English idiom goes, the sharpest tool in the shed.