The State Department said that it is preparing a limited release of commemorative US passports celebrating America\u2019s 250th birthday that feature a picture of President Donald Trump, who would be the first living president to be featured in the travel document.<\/p>\n
The concept for the special passport, including a rendering of Trump\u2019s stern-looking visage, had been under consideration for months before finally being approved late Monday. The passports will be available at first only to applicants at the Washington, DC, passport office and only on request. Applicants who do not want the commemorative passport will be able to choose a standard one, officials said.<\/p>\n
\u201cAs the United States celebrates America\u2019s 250th anniversary in July, the State Department is preparing to release a limited number of specially designed US passports to commemorate this historic occasion,\u201d State Department spokesman Tommy Pigott said. \u201cThese passports will feature customised artwork and enhanced imagery while maintaining the same security features that make the US passport the most secure document in the world.\u201d<\/p>\n
With the exception of the addition of Trump\u2019s picture to an interior page of the passport book, there will be few other changes other than the cover, which will feature the \u201cUnited States of America\u201d in bold gold print at the top and \u201cPassport\u201d at the bottom \u2014 a reversal of the standard cover. In addition, a small gold-laminate American flag with the number 250 encircled by stars will be at the bottom of the back cover.<\/p>\n
The Bulwark reported earlier on the commemorative passports.<\/p>\n
The only presidents featured in current US passports are in a double-page depiction of Mount Rushmore in South Dakota \u2014 George Washington, Thomas Jefferson, Theodore Roosevelt and Abraham Lincoln.<\/p>\n
Other depictions include the Statue of Liberty, the Liberty Bell and Independence Hall in Philadelphia, and scenes of the Great Plains, mountains and islands. Current passports also contain quotations from Martin Luther King Jr. as well as Presidents Washington, Jefferson, Roosevelt, John F. Kennedy and Dwight Eisenhower.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The State Department said that it is preparing a limited release of commemorative US passports celebrating America\u2019s 250th…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":402458,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[15656,65,42,917,43,64,40,38,41,39,66],"class_list":["post-402457","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-headlines","tag-air-travel","tag-donald-trump","tag-headlines","tag-immigration","tag-news","tag-north-america","tag-top-news","tag-top-stories","tag-topnews","tag-topstories","tag-us-politics"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/402457","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=402457"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/402457\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/402458"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=402457"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=402457"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=402457"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}