{"id":794901,"date":"2026-07-31T06:38:07","date_gmt":"2026-07-31T06:38:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/794901\/"},"modified":"2026-07-31T06:38:07","modified_gmt":"2026-07-31T06:38:07","slug":"passports-bearing-trumps-picture-will-be-more-widely-available","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/794901\/","title":{"rendered":"Passports bearing Trump\u2019s picture will be more widely available"},"content":{"rendered":"<p data-apitype=\"text\" data-contentid=\"CFTJBQTMBVFFFKGXE2HVX4CMJU\" data-el=\"text\" class=\"wpds-c-heFNVF wpds-c-heFNVF-iPJLV-css overrideStyles font-copy\" dir=\"null\">Citing \u201coverwhelming demand,\u201d the State Department said Thursday that it would offer a passport bearing President Donald Trump\u2019s image to more Americans than previously planned.<\/p>\n<p data-apitype=\"text\" data-contentid=\"4D6CBCRMPJAAHENQDHUMVT6HIQ\" data-el=\"text\" class=\"wpds-c-heFNVF wpds-c-heFNVF-iPJLV-css overrideStyles font-copy\" dir=\"null\"><a href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/StateDept\/status\/2082897486696333784?s=20\" rel=\"noreferrer nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" title=\"https:\/\/x.com\/StateDept\/status\/2082897486696333784?s=20\">The commemorative document<\/a>, released to mark the 250th anniversary of American independence, was initially announced in the spring. In addition to an imposing likeness of Trump, standing with his fists on the Resolute Desk, the passports include the text of the Declaration of Independence and an image of its signing. State Department spokesman Tommy Pigott <a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/politics\/2026\/04\/28\/us-passports-trump-image\/\" rel=\"noreferrer nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" title=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/politics\/2026\/04\/28\/us-passports-trump-image\/\">said at the time<\/a> that a \u201climited number\u201d would be available in July. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Citing \u201coverwhelming demand,\u201d the State Department said Thursday that it would offer a passport bearing President Donald Trump\u2019s&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":794902,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[18],"tags":[23,3,21,19,22,20,25,24],"class_list":["post-794901","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-united-states","tag-america","tag-news","tag-united-states","tag-united-states-of-america","tag-unitedstates","tag-unitedstatesofamerica","tag-us","tag-usa"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/794901","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=794901"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/794901\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/794902"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=794901"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=794901"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=794901"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}