Donald Trump is set to appear on a limited run of commemorative US passports, with the State Department announcing a special America250 design that places the president's image inside the document. According to later reporting, the passport has now received final approval and will feature a portrait of Trump alongside his signature.
US passports have historically functioned as impersonal documents of the state rather than tributes to individual politicians. Past designs have focused on national symbols, historic artwork and quotations, while the passport itself is issued in the name of the Secretary of State, not the president. No modern US passport has carried the image of a sitting president in this way, and officials say Trump would become the first living US president to be featured in the travel document.
