State Department planning new passport design with Trump's portrait

The State Department is readying a limited-edition redesign of the American passport to coincide with the nation's 250th day successful July, with caller artwork that features a representation of President Trump, according to a section official.

The redesign places the president's representation and signature implicit substance from the U.S. Declaration of Independence connected interior visa pages, marking a departure from passport artwork that had traditionally featured humanities scenes, taste symbols and iconic landmarks. 

The redesigned versions volition beryllium the default passport enactment astatine the Washington Passport Agency, erstwhile available, and volition not incur immoderate further fee, a State Department authoritative said. Online options oregon different passport-issuing locations volition support the existing U.S. passport design.

An representation obtained by CBS News shows a caller 250th day passport design, featuring a representation of President Trump. U.S. State Department

"As the United States celebrates America's 250th day successful July, the State Department is preparing to merchandise a constricted fig of specially designed U.S. passports to commemorate this historical occasion," State Department spokesperson Tommy Pigott said. "These passports volition diagnostic customized artwork and enhanced imagery portion maintaining the aforesaid information features that marque the U.S. passport among the astir unafraid documents successful the world."

Plans for the redesign were archetypal reported by Fox News Digital and The Bulwark, which said an archetypal 25,000 copies would beryllium issued. A section authoritative called that fig "fake news," without specifying however galore of the commemorative passports volition beryllium issued.

The existent "Next Generation" passport, introduced successful 2021, includes illustrations of American landscapes and humanities events crossed its pages. A anterior redesign successful 2007 added physics technologies to forestall counterfeiting and inspirational quotations from erstwhile U.S. presidents. 

Mr. Trump's sanction and likeness person been attached to a scope of nationalist institutions and programs during his 2nd administration, including a planned renaming of the John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts arsenic the "Trump-Kennedy Center" and the United States Institute of Peace arsenic the "Donald J. Trump Institute of Peace." The medication antecedently announced a "Trump golden card" visa programme that would let non-U.S. citizens to summation a valid visa to unrecorded and enactment successful the U.S. for $5 million. 

The Treasury Department besides antecedently announced that Mr. Trump's signature will look connected insubstantial currency, an unprecedented determination for a sitting president, to grant the 250th day of U.S. independence. The U.S. Mint is planning to issue a 24-karat golden commemorative coin that features Mr. Trump's image.