Treasury Secretary Steve Mnuchin has come clean … I guess.

He told CNN’s Jake Tapper today that putting Donald Trump’s name on the stimulus checks that are coming to millions of American households was, um, his idea.

Yep. Mnuchin said he brought up the idea of putting Trump’s name on the checks, given that the Treasury boss’s signature already is on the checks. Trump’s name appears on the memo line.

Hmm. I’m trying to digest that one.

It looks to me as if Mnuchin is throwing himself in front of the proverbial bus on that one. My own belief since this matter came to light was that Trump wanted to put his name somewhere on the document as if to remind recipients — many of whom are, uh, voters — that the president is somehow responsible for the money that will land in people’s mail boxes soon. Trump is responsible for the relief coming in the wake of the coronavirus pandemic.

I’m still waiting for someone on the Trump team to spill more beans, revealing who, indeed, came up with this nutty notion. You see, I consider Mnuchin to be a serious Trump toadie.

None of this really amounts to anything more than just idle gossip, except for the potentially political consequence of Trump’s name showing up on these government checks in what has been called an “unprecedented” event.