Images of the new passport were shared with The Bulwark on condition that it not publish them. According to the source, a government official who provided The Bulwark with color photographs of the redesign, the State Department is planning a “limited run” of 25,000 Trump-emblazoned passports. As of now, according to the source, the new design is still awaiting approval.

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    My bet is this is either a soft launch before they just use this one for all passports (discouraging left of center people from getting it) or a way to encourage old MAGA people who have never considered traveling to get proof of citizenship. Either way, it’s about voting and citizenship checks, not just ego.

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    They want to immortalize this guy so badly.

    Too bad he’s pretty much a corpse who hasn’t realized he expired some time ago.

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      It’s part of the firehose of bullshit. Every small thing he can do to irritate his critics is a victory, because you have to commit bandwidth to shutting down this bullshit.

      He doesn’t actually care if he is successful in 90% of his schemes, as long it distracts people from all the thieving and the raping.

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      He is self-aware enough to know that he will never be posthumously awarded any honorable recognition. He is a ln abject failure, and he knows it.

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    Shit, looks like I will be renewing my passport a few months early. Can I put on the application that I am renewing it early because I don’t want to carry around Trump’s picture for the next 10 years?

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      Unless you’re in DC and applying in person at a certain passport office, you have nothing to worry about. Headlines for this story make it seem like this is a nationwide thing for everyone because that idea drives engagement a lot more than the actual situation.

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    What a perfectly normal thing for a regular president to do.

    Surely people see why this shit is fucking nuts right? Imagine if Obama went out of his way to “troll” his detractors like this…m

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    Inb4 we find out the state department fucked up making them so they become easily counterfeit and utterly useless as official documents

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    Well, thank fuck I renewed mine last year so hopefully in 8 years they’ll have his ugly ass off there