{"id":213504,"date":"2026-04-29T02:04:23","date_gmt":"2026-04-29T02:04:23","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/213504\/"},"modified":"2026-04-29T02:04:23","modified_gmt":"2026-04-29T02:04:23","slug":"trumps-face-will-appear-on-limited-edition-u-s-passports-state-dept-says","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/213504\/","title":{"rendered":"Trump\u2019s Face Will Appear on Limited-Edition U.S. Passports, State Dept. Says"},"content":{"rendered":"

President Trump\u2019s signature is set to be added<\/a> to U.S. dollars. His name has been affixed<\/a> to the John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts. A plan to mint a 24-karat gold coin with his image<\/a> is moving forward.<\/p>\n

Now there are plans to release a limited-edition U.S. passport bearing the president\u2019s likeness.<\/p>\n

The State Department revealed the plans on Tuesday, saying that the new passports would be made available in commemoration of the country\u2019s 250th anniversary this summer. A \u201climited number of specially designed\u201d passports will be released, according to Tommy Piggott, a spokesman for the State Department. They will be available for any American citizen who applies for one at the Washington Passport Agency when the rollout happens and will continue for as long as inventory lasts, the department said.<\/p>\n

Pictures of the proposed design<\/a>, which Mr. Piggott said will feature \u201ccustomized artwork and enhanced imagery,\u201d show a serious-looking Mr. Trump above his signature in gold ink.<\/p>\n

There will be no additional cost for the Trump-themed passports, the State Department said. It is unclear how many will be produced.<\/p>\n

News of the passports was earlier reported by The Bulwark<\/a> and Fox News<\/a>.<\/p>\n

The passport redesign is the latest example of the president or his allies pushing to put his name, image or signature on institutions in Washington and across the country<\/a>. This year\u2019s National Parks passes display his face alongside George Washington\u2019s, and some of his administration\u2019s initiatives, such as Trump savings accounts for children and TrumpRx, where Americans can buy prescription drugs directly, are named after him.<\/p>\n

Some proposals have been unsuccessful, like Mr. Trump\u2019s pressure campaign on Senator Chuck Schumer of New York, the Democratic minority leader, to rename New York\u2019s Penn Station for him<\/a>, in exchange for releasing billions of dollars in frozen federal infrastructure funds.<\/p>\n

Others \u2014 such as adding Mr. Trump\u2019s name to the Kennedy Center and the United States Institute of Peace \u2014 are caught up in litigation.<\/p>\n

Michael Crowley contributed reporting.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"President Trump\u2019s signature is set to be added to U.S. dollars. His name has been affixed to the…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":213505,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[1452,9,11,10,62010,18538,1069,1876],"class_list":["post-213504","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-new-york","tag-donald-j","tag-new-york","tag-new-york-headlines","tag-new-york-news","tag-passports","tag-state-department","tag-trump","tag-united-states-politics-and-government"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/213504","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=213504"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/213504\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/213505"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=213504"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=213504"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=213504"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}