Teeny brother

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Ophelia Benson

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The US will soon begin issuing passports featuring an image of President Donald Trump inside, a State Department official said Tuesday.

The official said that the passport “will be the default passport out of the Washington Passport Agency when available” for those who renew their passports in person at that location.

Well that’s a relief. At least it’s not every passport agency.

Yet.

The presence of Trump’s likeness in the US passports is the latest – and most significant – instance of his image being used for an item said to be commemorating the 250th anniversary of US independence. Unlike a commemorative coin or national park pass, a US passport is an internationally recognized form of identification that is typically valid for 10 years.

It’s also something you have to have for international travel.

The blatant vanity and greed for attention, including forced attention, is grotesque.

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5 responses to “Teeny brother”

  1. iknklast Avatar
    iknklast

    I suppose it’s not acceptable to take a Sharpie and black it out. I would put a post it note to hide it if there were no other alternatives.

  2. twiliter Avatar
    twiliter

    Seriously. I will unhesitatingly take a Sharpie to anything Trump branded that comes into my possession, illegal or no. My passport expires in a couple years, but if my new one comes with Trump’s likeness it will gleefully be defaced of such.

  3. Mike Avatar
    Mike

    Glad my passport expires in 2030.

  4. Athel Cornish-Bowden Avatar
    Athel Cornish-Bowden

    Many years ago (in 1965, I think) my passport was stolen by a young man living in the room next to mine when I was living in a cheap guest house in Oxford. It was recovered immediately by the landlady (and the thief turned out to be wanted for a more serious crime), but the photograph (of me, not of Donald Trump, whom no one had heard of in 1965) had been torn out, folded in half and left in the passport. I could of course have just stuck it in again, but it would have been obvious that the passport had been tampered with, so I thought it best to take it to the passport office in London to have it done officially, and I thought they’d attach some indication that it was done officially. So I did that, but all they did was to stick it back in without any such indication. During the lifetime of the passport I was always worried that I’d be questioned about the obvious alteration, but apparently no one ever noticed. All this to say that probably no one will mind if you take a Sharpie to the President’s manly features.

  5. What a Maroon Avatar
    What a Maroon

    Whenever there’s a No Kings rally, the MAGAites come out in full force on social media saying we don’t have kings. Apparently someone forgot to tell the White House (via Heather Cox Richardson).

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