IF YOU COVER TRUMP’S FACE ON THE NEW 2026 NATIONAL PARK PASS, IT WILL BE INVALID
Wow. I didn’t realize that the gilded White House (and gutted ballroom), the formerly exclusively known as Kennedy Center and far too many buildings across the world weren’t enough Trump brand to manage a certain someone’s insecurity as vanity. Because the National Park Pass, as you can see above, has Trump floating next to America’s first president, George Washington. Washington, you might already know, died in the year 1799 and is a part of America’s history. He should be on the pass. But Donald Trump’s face? The man who has had nothing to do with America’s National Parks? I don’t think he belongs there, and I’m not alone. But the National Park Service just announced that if you cover Trump’s face on your Pass, it’s invalid and you can’t use it anymore.
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That’s just…. nuts. But hey, it’s not any more nuts than attacking Venezuela, maybe taking Greenland and Cuba, making Canada the 51st state, or engaging in military action against the drug cartels in Mexico. But even though covering Trump’s face invalidates your new 2026 National Park Pass seems inconsequential in comparison, it shows that no detail is too small in enforcing Trump’s authority as ego brand expression. Come to think of it, Freud might have something to say about that. It says even more that the NPS made this announcement just as people were preparing to cover Trump’s face.
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The NPS, of course, has a rationale for the rule protecting this particular iteration of Trump’s ego. But it makes no sense at all. The NPS says that a sticker covering Trump’s face “obscures required information.” Well, again as you can see above, there’s no information anywhere near the Orange President’s face. No info, nothing of function. Just his face. For a little (again with some Freud) context, the NPS has long held the policy that your Pass will be invalid if you alter the signature section of the card. The front of the card was never an issue before, information regardless.
Oh, and there’s also the Federal Lands Recreation Act from 2004, which requires the national park pass image to be selected thru an annual, public photography competition anyone can enter. Trump broke that law inserting his face.
