The State Department has announced it will issue a limited run of specially designed passports featuring President Donald Trump to commemorate America’s upcoming 250th anniversary.
Trump will be the first living president to appear on an official U.S. passport.
“As the United States celebrates America’s 250th anniversary in July, the State Department is preparing to release a limited number of specially designed U.S. passports to commemorate this historic occasion,” State Department spokesman Tommy Pigott told the Associated Press.
“These passports will feature customized artwork and enhanced imagery while maintaining the same security features that make the U.S. passport the most secure documents in the world,” Pigott added.
The passports will feature President Trump’s portrait on an interior page, a gold imprimatur of Trump’s signature, a redesigned passport cover with “United States of America” printed in bold gold lettering at the top and “Passport” at the bottom, and a small gold-laminated American flag on the back cover featuring the number “250” encircled by stars.
The Associated Press reports:
The only presidents featured in current U.S. passports are in a double-page depiction of Mount Rushmore in South Dakota — George Washington, Thomas Jefferson, Theodore Roosevelt and Abraham Lincoln.
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.
The special passports have the same security features as normal passports and will be fully valid for international travel.
Between 25,000 and 30,000 of these limited-edition passports will be produced.
The passports will become available shortly before Independence Day 2026 and will initially be issued as the default passport for in-person applicants at the Washington, D.C., passport agency.
A State Department official told Fox News that the special passports will be available for “any American citizen” who applies for a passport during the rollout, until they run out.
Standard passports will remain available through normal channels or online.
The White House has also launched a website for all its Freedom 250 initiatives, complete with a countdown clock and a video series titled “The Story of America.”
The National Mall in DC will feature the “Great America State Fair” from June 25 through July 10. There will be a Ferris wheel and pavilions representing each state and territory.
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