WASHINGTON (AP) 鈥� Americans outside the nation’s capital will soon be able to get limited-edition U.S. passports that feature a picture of and celebrate , the State Department said Thursday.
The department鈥檚 27 passport agencies nationwide will start offering the special travel documents next month. They previously had only been available at the Washington, D.C., passport office for in-person applicants.
Trump, whose stern portrait is emblazoned on an inside page, is the first living president featured in the travel document.
The passports are the latest instance of added to buildings, documents and other highly visible tributes. His image is on a celebrating the country鈥檚 founding that the U.S. Mint has begun producing, and there are efforts to put , also a first for a sitting president.
鈥淚n response to overwhelming demand, the Department of State is making an additional 250,000 of the special commemorative passports available to the public,鈥� it said in a statement. 鈥淎mericans all across the country will now have the opportunity to apply for one of these additional special passports, known as the 鈥楶atriot Passport.鈥欌��
Passport offices in Centennial, Colorado; Chicago; Dallas; Detroit; New Orleans; New York; and Stamford, Connecticut, will offer the Trump passports at one-day special events starting Aug. 8. The list will grow to include other passport offices throughout August.
Those who want the special passport must apply in-person on the day specified on the department鈥檚 passport website. Those wanting a traditional passport must apply on different days.
The commemorative passport features Trump鈥檚 picture over a gold imprimatur of his signature to an interior page, while the cover carries the words 鈥淯nited States of America鈥� in bold gold print at the top and 鈥淧assport鈥� at the bottom 鈥� a reversal of the current standard cover.
In addition, a small gold laminate American flag, with the number 250 encircled by stars, is at the bottom of the back cover.
The only presidents featured in current U.S. passports are in a double-page depiction of Mount Rushmore in South Dakota 鈥� 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 addition of Trump鈥檚 picture and signature to the passport book is the newest step his aides have taken to increase the president鈥檚 visibility, including adding his name to building and the , although that signage was later removed on a court order.
Trump also has made waves with his and a at one of the entrances to Washington from Virginia.
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