EXCLUSIVE: State Dept. Finalizing Plan to Put Trump Picture on U.S. Passports

[demmiblue]

Source: The Bulwark

THE STATE DEPARTMENT IS CLOSE TO FINALIZING a radical redesign of the U.S. passport to include a picture of President Donald Trump, The Bulwark has learned from two sources with knowledge of the redesign, including one who shared images currently under consideration.

The redesign is ostensibly part of a larger celebration of the 250th anniversary of American independence. It comes as the Treasury Department prepares to produce coins featuring Trump’s image—both a controversial $1 coin in general circulation1 and an “as large as possible” commemorative gold coin—and as the National Park Service emblazons Trump’s face on its park passes. Both of those redesigns were justified as being part of the 250th anniversary celebration.

According to the images of the passport redesign provided to The Bulwark, the inside cover of the new State Department-issued document will feature a scowling Trump—taken from his second inaugural portrait—superimposed over the Declaration of Independence, as well as the president’s signature in gold.

Read more: https://www.thebulwark.com/p/exclusive-state-dept-finalizing-plan

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> @bloomberg.com

— Carl Quintanilla (@carlquintanilla.bsky.social) 2026-04-28T17:57:33.609Z

[underpants]

1. So he replaces the Founding Fathers

Jesus Christ.

[nwduke]

59. That will put the last straw on the camels back!

No country will allow us in with the face of a pedophile/rapist on the passport! Can anyone stop this vanity insanity?

[Mr.Bee]

71. The Criminal Precedent

To remind everyone who this nation of deplorables put in office!

[Ocelot II]

2. Jesus!

No, not Him. But I was about to apply for a new passport so I could fucking vote, but I don't want that ugly mug on anything I own. Maybe I'll get one and lose it as soon as he's gone and get a new one when that blot is removed.

[LudwigPastorius]

11. It's the Mark of the Beast!

Just kidding (or AM I?)

[Cha]

48. It is. So not kidding.

[Xipe Totec]

75. 66647 - A new seashell arrangement. nt

[CharleyDog]

36. This is a move to suppress Dems from getting passports

and to boost MAGAs to getting such a great personal photo of the felon PRIZE.

[Cha]

51. Also because the Ugly Asshole PEDO wants

his stupid picture everywhere.

[reACTIONary]

44. Lucky for me, my passport doesn't expire...

... until well after 2028.

In 2028 there are going to be a LOT of lost passports!

[aggiesal]

50. Just get the Passport card. Get the actual Passport later, after 2028 n/t

[nilram]

77. It's only available in DC. If you order online, you'll get the regular one.

https://democraticunderground.com/100221205657

https://apnews.com/article/passport-trump-us-250th-birthday-df2f0f96e4fbcee89ae904a65af398f0

[get the red out]

3. I am very lucky

I am very lucky that I got a new one last year!

[Texin]

37. I just received my renewed passport in March. Thank god. When can we expect him to spontaneously self-combust?

[kimbutgar]

4. Thank God my passport doesn't expire until 2032

I would not want to look at that ugly face whenever I need my passport.

[Botany]

5. Good God in Butter. Fascism is here.

[hadEnuf]

68. Yes it sure is.

Coins, paper money, now passports. Giant posters of his face on buildings.
Shutting down free speech. Political persecution, secret police murdering citizens, concentration camps for brown people (for now), grand castles at taxpayer expense while the people are being fleeced into poverty. I think he wants public sculptures now too.

Yup, he's a fascist dictator.

[Botany]

78. Yup!

America is under attack by evil forces.

[chouchou]

6. Maybe I'll try to get 2 of them.

One to throw it in my garbage disposable, the other one to shit on it.

[Redleg]

7. Fuck that

Mine expires in 2028.

[Aviation Pro]

8. Thus guaranteeing the no U.S. citizen will clear customs

Anywhere in the world.

[Aristus]

9. I just got my renewed passport.

Thank goodness his ugly fucking mug is not on it. When renewal comes up in 10 years, hopefully there will be intellectually functional human beings in office who will have reversed his idiocies.

[LudwigPastorius]

10. I hope they get his good side.

[Fiendish Thingy]

12. Thank goodness I don't have to renew mine until 2029

I wouldn’t be able to resist drawing a little Hitler moustache if I had one.

[Vinca]

13. Oh, c'mon. This has got to be the Onion.

[sinkingfeeling]

14. Replacing the National Anthem with the National nightmare.

This is the inside cover of my latest passport, December 2024.

[dalton99a]

21. +1

[bamagal62]

15. OMG

Please say this isn’t so…

[electric_blue68]

16. JFC!!!!!

Someone please hand me a barf bag!

Mine expires in June. But I can't afford a new one anyway. If i'm going anywhere out of the The 48...it's to PR No passport needed.

[cloudbase]

17. My wife and I renewed ours last year.

He'll be long gone by the time another renewal comes around.

[mwmisses4289]

18. I'm not sure why he thinks that pic makes him look...what...stern? macho?

It makes him look like he's getting ready to throw a tantrum or he's constipated.

[rurallib]

34. I was thinking that was his mug shot from years back

in Atlanta.

[mwmisses4289]

52. I think it is, but he uses it a lot.

He apparently told someone it made him look stern; as I said previously, it makes him look more like he's getting ready to throw a temper tantrum.

[AZ8theist]

72. More like he's making a diaper deposit.

[sheshe2]

76. To me he looks like he is about to have...

a monumental bowel movement. The likes you have never seen before.

I am talking Mt Everest here!

[Bayard]

19. His monstrous ego truly knows no bounds......

The only place I want to see his ugly mug is on a, "WANTED," poster.

He's making such a big deal out of the 250th anniversary, but doesn't want the signers of the Declaration of Independence on anything. Its an insult to the country, although he does LOOK 250 years old.

[Kid Berwyn]

20. Trump is lower than a snake's asshole.

Same goes for his co-conspirators in treason, evil, and all manner of crime.

[dalton99a]

22. Something even China, Russia, North Korea don't do

[rog]

23. No definite info, but it seems they *may* not be mandatory.

I read that they intend a 'limited run' of 25,000 of these abominable documents.

From what I've gleaned (Source: internet searches) ...

Will they be issued to 25,000 random applicants?

No. The Trump-emblazoned design is not intended for random distribution. According to the State Department, the new design is part of a "limited run" of special commemorative passports celebrating the 250th anniversary of American independence .

A State Department spokesperson confirmed the passports "will be available for any American citizen who applies for a passport when the rollout happens" . This strongly suggests they are voluntary. Based on how limited-edition documents typically work, we would likely need to submit an application or request specifically to receive one.

Can we request the so-called 'traditional design'? (By that I mean the design in use since 2021.)

Yes, almost certainly. While official confirmation of an "opt-out" option hasn't been explicitly stated in available reports, here is why we should be able to avoid this design:

Voluntary Availability: Since these are a "limited" commemorative set (only 25,000 are planned, pending approval), the standard passport design will almost definitely remain the default option for the vast majority of applicants .

Department Statement: Officials are marketing these as a special choice for citizens who want a keepsake for the 250th anniversary, not as a mandatory replacement for the current passport .

Standard Protocol: Your application paperwork will likely offer a clear distinction between the "standard" passport book and the "America250 commemorative" book when you apply.

Let's hope this is true.

Re: "... citizens who want a 250th anniversary keepsake," WTF??????

[Miami Blue]

24. Clearly, the Pedo In Chief suffers from grandiosity

Also, his neurosyphilis dementia makes him believe that he is in charge of ruling the entire world. In addition to this, he is displaying a chronic case of schizophrenia at its highest levels. Undoubtedly, he has lost touch with reality. Grab him by the tiny 🥕 and take him
to Walter Reed’s psychiatric ward pronto.

[ShazzieB]

58. Frontotemporal dementia is the likeliest diagnosis, according to many experts.

This article explains how well his symptoms match up with that diagnosis: What Is Frontotemporal Dementia That Psychologists Claim Donald Trump Is Exhibiting Signs of?

The possibility that syphilis has anything to do with his current health problems is wildly unlikely, imo. Neurosyphilis only develops if syphilis (which has been 100% curable for Trump's entire life) goes untreated for many years, if not decades.

Yes, I know that's what killed Al Capone, but Capone was born more than 45 years before Trump and was showing signs of neurosyphilis when he went to jail in 1931. By the time penicillin was discovered to be a quick and easy cure in the mid 1940s, Capone was too far gone for the drug to do him any good.

Trump, otoh, was born the year before Capone died, and by the time he was old enough to start sowing any wild oats, syphilis had become easy to cure. The idea that he could have contracted the disease and gone undiagnosed and untreated long enough for it to progress to an advanced stage doesn't make any sense to me.

His grandiose delusions of ruling the world are easily explained by his malignant narcissism, which is now reigning unfettered due to dementia eroding whatever judgment and self-control he ever had to begin with. At this point, he has virtually no filter left, which is why he keeps saying absurdly outrageous things more and more frequently. The only thing worse than a malignant narcissist is a malignant narcissist with no self awareness or self control, and that's what we've got now.

I know a lot of people find the syphilis rumor irresistibly titillating, so it's probably not going away, but I really wish it would, Curses on Jsmes Carville for resurrecting it last year!

[pat_k]

25. If having that nauseating visage on passports is not optional, we must make it so.

Another reason I need to get a UK passport. (I'm eligible by descent).

You could not pay me enough to travel carrying his face anywhere in my baggage or on my person.

[UpInArms]

26. omg

more disgusting actions

I despise this piece of bile

[EarthFirst]

27. Someone. Anyone. Save us from this nightmare.

What in the actual fuck…

[C_U_L8R]

28. Butt Fugly.

Who wants that clown anywhere near their person?

[truthisfreedom]

29. What a lovely pr move!

The world just loves trump! He’s so adorable!

[AverageOldGuy]

30. We renewed earlier this year

[GiqueCee]

31. Doe this grotesque ego trip...

... suggest to anyone that the Orange Anus isn't planning on leaving the Oval Office after 2028, regardless of the results? Given the equally grotesque corruption of the Sinister Six currently defiling the Supreme Court, they'll probably agree that he deserves a third term after being deprived his rightful second term in 2020. Lessee, was it 63 times he lost challenges to the results of that election in court? Whatever; it was a bunch. But he still won't let it go, and he never will. He'll keep hammering away at it, even though the evil fuck knows he lost fair and square. Never backing off a bald-faced lie has always been one of his "strategies". I think he learned that sick stunt from his mentor, Roy Cohn. Remember when the Central Park Five were fully exonerated? Even then, he continued to demand their execution! That's just the way he's hard-wired.
Gawdammit, I hate that sonofabitch.

[okaawhatever]

32. This isn't just vanity, it's a paycheck. He's registering trademarks and copyrights for Trump airport etc.

He’ll probably monetize at end of his term. He’s such a disgusting human.

[muriel_volestrangler]

33. So he wants immigration officers from other countries to spit on American passports?

Other bodily fluids not being readily available in an airport arrivals area.

[orangecrush]

35. Enough.

[MLAA]

38. This just freaked me out! I have 2 years left on my current passport.

I went to the renewal online and you can only renew on line if you are within one year of expiration as well as a few other conditions which I met. There are private companies that will renew quickly without the one year limitation but they cost nearly $500. Then I found this article with more details and says it will start in DC and only on request. So I wonder how long before it is no longer optional.

I can do a mail in renewal but that could take 6 weeks plus. I think I’ll do one of these 2 options to avoid having TSF on my passport.


https://apnews.com/article/passport-trump-us-250th-birthday-df2f0f96e4fbcee89ae904a65af398f0

[Deuxcents]

39. I'm waiting on my passport and it better not be defaced 😤

[bluestarone]

40. I only want to see his picture in

The OBITUARY. and the sooner the better.

[bromeando]

41. trump picture on passport

I'm going to barf

[Justice matters.]

64. Not only that, but his war-criminal-insurrectionist MUG SHOT

Add ra(p,c)ist-pedophile to it and imagine having to travel abroad with that atrocity.

There is no LOW he won't GO.

[calimary]

81. Ugly fucker, isn't he.

If I looked that bad, I would NOT want my face reproduced all over everywhere.

[Dave Id]

42. So this is where the USA has gone?

Celebrate a convicted rapist by putting his picture of its' passports. Any country seeing this, should deny entry to the holder having a photo of a sexual predator in it.

[usaf-vet]

43. Glad I have a new current passport, so I don't have to carry his face on my passport, making me a target when travelling

[iluvtennis]

45. DISGUSTING. So glad I renewed my passport last year. Don't want the pic of orange fk on my passport. n/t

[Figarosmom]

46. I'd tape a piece of paper over it.

And get a new one as soon as he's gone.

[aggiesal]

47. Of course Mierda47 is more important than the signing of the Declaration of Independence document. ...

I hope this is just an option, because I have to renew my Passport in 2028.

[Grim Chieftain]

49. Why don't they put it on toilet paper where it belongs

[Croney]

53. Don't think you're safe because your passport doesn't expire for years.

Mine is good till 2035, but next time I go to use it they could have stickers of his face to slap on it! You know they'd think of that!

[COL Mustard]

54. I'm glad I renewed

My passport earlier this year. That’s a disgusting display of narcissism.

[taxi]

55. How far we have fallen. This is our requiem.

[Bluestocking]

56. Guess I will have to wait to get a new passport

He really is sick and demented.

[BumRushDaShow]

57. Mine is due for renewal by next February

meaning I'm right at the recommended renewal time.

And that scowling mess was originally from his GA mugshot (eventually repurposed everywhere).

[thought crime]

60. Is it okay to tear out that one page?

To be fair that page should be perforated.

[RazorbackExpat]

67. Unfortunately, that would render the passport invalid

[flashman13]

61. I don't want that fucking pig's face and gaudy signature on my passport.

The only saving grace is that mine is new enough that when I renew it his face will have been erased like the rest of his trashy legacy.

[pansypoo53219]

62. more pissing on america's norms to make himself feel big.

hope democrats can undo this bs.

[Grins]

63. Tell me again how he is not malignant, colossal narcissist...NM

[Orrex]

65. Maybe he'll just fucking die already.

I mean seriously--what the fuck is the hold-up?

[AllyCat]

66. I have to renew mine this fall. I'm not thrilled.

At a Dem meeting tonight and they are all saying it’s optional.

Where, anywhere, does it say this is optional?

[RazorbackExpat]

69. According to NBC News,

"The special edition passport will be the default out of the Washington Passport Agency while it is available, according to a State Department official, while online options or other locations will maintain the existing passport design."

https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/donald-trump/president-image-us-passports-summer-state-department-250th-anniversary-rcna342567

[BlueMTexpat]

70. Thank heavens that I will

BOT need a US passport before 2035!

What a travesty!

[róisín_dubh]

73. Gross

Mine expires in 2034 but I need to change my surname. I guess I should get on it quickly.

[Blumancru]

74. No worries. It is only valid for travel to Russia and Epstein Island.

Two places I will not be going to.

[ribrepin]

79. Thank god I got my passport last year

[Doodley]

80. Good! It's another thing that will drive people out to vote against Republicans.

[HarryM]

82. His photo belongs in the Post Office,

as a wanted poster, not our passports.
This shall be repealed if implemented. If I had to have a passport with his photo on it, it would most assuredly get defaced,

[PJMcK]

83. Glad I renewed my passport last year

I don’t want that ugly face on anything I have.

[Javaman]

84. glad I renewed my last year. nt

[twodogsbarking]

85. Got mine last year. Take that Dildon.

[travelingthrulife]

86. It will be that scowling booking photo to prove to the world that there is no law

to stop him.