EXCLUSIVE: State Dept. Finalizing Plan to Put Trump Picture on U.S. Passports
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 Trumps imageboth a controversial $1 coin in general circulation1 and an as large as possible commemorative gold coinand as the National Park Service emblazons Trumps 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 Trumptaken from his second inaugural portraitsuperimposed over the Declaration of Independence, as well as the presidents signature in gold.
Read more: https://www.thebulwark.com/p/exclusive-state-dept-finalizing-plan
> @bloomberg.com
— Carl Quintanilla (@carlquintanilla.bsky.social) 2026-04-28T17:57:33.609Z
underpants
(196,950 posts)Jesus Christ.
nwduke
(518 posts)No country will allow us in with the face of a pedophile/rapist on the passport! Can anyone stop this vanity insanity?
Mr.Bee
(1,883 posts)To remind everyone who this nation of deplorables put in office!
Ocelot II
(131,020 posts)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
(14,908 posts)Just kidding (or AM I?)
Cha
(320,052 posts)Xipe Totec
(44,574 posts)CharleyDog
(823 posts)and to boost MAGAs to getting such a great personal photo of the felon PRIZE.
Cha
(320,052 posts)his stupid picture everywhere.
reACTIONary
(7,261 posts)... until well after 2028.
In 2028 there are going to be a LOT of lost passports!
aggiesal
(10,877 posts)nilram
(3,556 posts)get the red out
(14,064 posts)I am very lucky that I got a new one last year!
Texin
(2,856 posts)kimbutgar
(27,447 posts)I would not want to look at that ugly face whenever I need my passport.
Botany
(77,682 posts)
hadEnuf
(3,644 posts)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.
America is under attack by evil forces.
chouchou
(3,237 posts)One to throw it in my garbage disposable, the other one to shit on it.
Redleg
(6,997 posts)Mine expires in 2028.
Aviation Pro
(15,702 posts)Anywhere in the world.
Aristus
(72,393 posts)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
(14,908 posts)
Fiendish Thingy
(23,716 posts)I wouldnt be able to resist drawing a little Hitler moustache if I had one.
Vinca
(54,214 posts)sinkingfeeling
(57,925 posts)This is the inside cover of my latest passport, December 2024.

dalton99a
(94,950 posts)bamagal62
(4,526 posts)Please say this isnt so
electric_blue68
(27,104 posts)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
(6,305 posts)He'll be long gone by the time another renewal comes around.
mwmisses4289
(4,543 posts)It makes him look like he's getting ready to throw a tantrum or he's constipated.
rurallib
(64,762 posts)in Atlanta.
mwmisses4289
(4,543 posts)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
(7,527 posts)sheshe2
(98,121 posts)a monumental bowel movement. The likes you have never seen before.
I am talking Mt Everest here!
Bayard
(30,066 posts)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
(24,849 posts)Same goes for his co-conspirators in treason, evil, and all manner of crime.
dalton99a
(94,950 posts)
rog
(960 posts)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?
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.)
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
(378 posts)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 Reeds psychiatric ward pronto.
ShazzieB
(22,781 posts)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
(13,637 posts)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
(55,192 posts)more disgusting actions
I despise this piece of bile
EarthFirst
(4,205 posts)What in the actual fuck
C_U_L8R
(49,480 posts)Who wants that clown anywhere near their person?
truthisfreedom
(23,539 posts)The world just loves trump! Hes so adorable!
AverageOldGuy
(4,061 posts)GiqueCee
(4,545 posts)... 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
(9,567 posts)Hell probably monetize at end of his term. Hes such a disgusting human.
muriel_volestrangler
(106,461 posts)Other bodily fluids not being readily available in an airport arrivals area.
orangecrush
(30,763 posts)MLAA
(19,782 posts)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 Ill do one of these 2 options to avoid having TSF on my passport.
https://apnews.com/article/passport-trump-us-250th-birthday-df2f0f96e4fbcee89ae904a65af398f0
Deuxcents
(27,450 posts)bluestarone
(22,376 posts)The OBITUARY. and the sooner the better.
bromeando
(179 posts)I'm going to barf
Justice matters.
(9,976 posts)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
(90,472 posts)If I looked that bad, I would NOT want my face reproduced all over everywhere.
Dave Id
(309 posts)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
(7,842 posts)iluvtennis
(21,516 posts)Figarosmom
(12,816 posts)And get a new one as soon as he's gone.
aggiesal
(10,877 posts)I hope this is just an option, because I have to renew my Passport in 2028.
Grim Chieftain
(1,932 posts)Croney
(5,020 posts)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
(8,329 posts)My passport earlier this year. Thats a disgusting display of narcissism.
taxi
(2,748 posts)Bluestocking
(732 posts)He really is sick and demented.
BumRushDaShow
(171,342 posts)meaning I'm right at the recommended renewal time.
And that scowling mess was originally from his GA mugshot (eventually repurposed everywhere).
thought crime
(1,738 posts)To be fair that page should be perforated.
RazorbackExpat
(952 posts)flashman13
(2,516 posts)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
(23,132 posts)hope democrats can undo this bs.
Grins
(9,499 posts)Orrex
(67,306 posts)I mean seriously--what the fuck is the hold-up?
AllyCat
(18,947 posts)At a Dem meeting tonight and they are all saying its optional.
Where, anywhere, does it say this is optional?
RazorbackExpat
(952 posts)"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
(15,699 posts)BOT need a US passport before 2035!
What a travesty!
róisín_dubh
(12,376 posts)Mine expires in 2034 but I need to change my surname. I guess I should get on it quickly.
Blumancru
(292 posts)Two places I will not be going to.
ribrepin
(1,903 posts)Doodley
(12,025 posts)HarryM
(466 posts)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
(25,090 posts)I dont want that ugly face on anything I have.
Javaman
(65,941 posts)twodogsbarking
(19,152 posts)travelingthrulife
(5,457 posts)to stop him.