politics

what's sort of ass-backwards about this is that it's 100% voluntary. unless you're a little kid, passports don't expire for 10 years. so renewing them is infrequent to say the least. on top of that, you have to specifically request one of these instead of the normal ass passport.

i can't even think of an edge case where someone would be in possession of one of these as their official travel documents, unless they are a hardcore chud freakshow. which means they could, in theory, become a document indicting the one who possesses them. and there would be a record of them on file, with a photo and unique identifier including travel records.

so like, let's say some provision revolutionary government comes into existence, these could be used for a pretty cut and dry political purge. if one were so inclined. lmao.

There will be no extra fee for the limited edition passports, according to a department official.

Going down to the passport office and demanding they use this image of Trump

Oh god, from the title I thought it was mandatory but it seems to be an opt-in limited edition (...at least for now).

Also, from the caption in that article:

A oassport processing employee

I know that copyediting is dead, but come on now—a spell checker from the 80s would catch that!

Weird that The Onion started doing journalism for Time.

So you can take him with you whenever you go!