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BumRushDaShow

(169,764 posts)
Thu Dec 11, 2025, 07:10 AM Dec 2025

About face: Lawsuit targets plan to put Trump's image on popular national parks pass

Source: ABC News

December 10, 2025, 7:01 PM


Donald Trump is famous for putting his name or likeness on buildings, steaks, and sneakers -- but his administration is facing headwinds to as it seeks to put his face on a popular national parks pass.

An environmental organization on Wednesday sued the Trump administration over plans to use a rendering of Trump on an all-access annual national parks pass for next year, characterizing the move as the "crassest, most ego-driven action yet" from the administration.


The U.S. Interior Department's design for the new national parks pass.
U.S. Department of the Interior


The Center for Biological Diversity accused the secretaries of the Department of Interior and Department of Agriculture of "unlawfully turning the Annual America the Beautiful Pass into a partisan political platform for President Trump," in violation of a federal statute requiring public participation in such decisions.

Federal law requires the pass to feature the winning photo of the National Parks Foundation's annual public lands photo contest, which for the 2026 pass is an image of Montana's Glacier National Park, the organization said. "It's disgusting of Trump to politicize America's most sacred refuge by pasting his face over the national parks in the same way he slaps his corporate name on buildings, restaurants, and golf courses," Kieran Suckling, executive director of the Center for Biological Diversity, said in a statement.

Read more: https://abcnews.go.com/US/face-lawsuit-targets-plan-put-trumps-image-popular/story?id=128292660



Link to Center for Biological Diversity PRESS RELEASE - Lawsuit Filed to Strike Trump’s Face From National Parks Pass

Link to SUIT (PDF) - https://biologicaldiversity.org/programs/public_lands/pdfs/251210-25-4285-01-Cmplnt-CTR.pdf
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About face: Lawsuit targets plan to put Trump's image on popular national parks pass (Original Post) BumRushDaShow Dec 2025 OP
America the Beautiful with a really ugly picture below it. mdbl Dec 2025 #1
I would never buy one of these if the ahole's picture is on it. mwb970 Dec 2025 #2
They could compromise and put his face on official park toilet paper Orrex Dec 2025 #3
So glad I got my Lifetime Senior Pass this year... CapnSteve Dec 2025 #4
Next he will acquire Epstein Island Seinan Sensei Dec 2025 #5
I'd buy a case of toilet paper with his face on it. 3Hotdogs Dec 2025 #6
Sacrilege Bayard Dec 2025 #7
Fortunately, not possible Mz Pip Dec 2025 #9
It wouldn't really have to be a head. nt eppur_se_muova Dec 2025 #10
I have a lifetime pass Mz Pip Dec 2025 #8

mdbl

(8,658 posts)
1. America the Beautiful with a really ugly picture below it.
Thu Dec 11, 2025, 08:01 AM
Dec 2025

If you thought the raise in prices and foreigner gouging would lower park attendance, this will all but ensure it.

mwb970

(12,150 posts)
2. I would never buy one of these if the ahole's picture is on it.
Thu Dec 11, 2025, 08:32 AM
Dec 2025

I wouldn't even want to touch it. This is a insult to America.

Mz Pip

(28,456 posts)
8. I have a lifetime pass
Thu Dec 11, 2025, 06:51 PM
Dec 2025

It’s pretty. It’s covered in festive wild flowers.

Trump’s mug is more appropriate for a hall pass to the bathroom.

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