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Trump Dragged For Not Understanding How Passports Work After Claiming New Ones Featuring His Image Will Include Bizarre Warning Phrase
Roughly 25,000 to 30,000 of the special passports will be available through the Washington passport office ahead of July 4, while standard passports will still be offered elsewhere. The move is the latest in a broader effort to attach Trump’s likeness and signature to official commemorative items tied to the nation’s semiquincentennial celebration.
The rendering Trump posted shows a large image of himself standing above the Resolute Desk opposite a page showing the Founders signing the Declaration of Independence 250 years ago.
And in his post's caption, he claims the passports will read,
"Welcome, but be good!"
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The announcement quickly drew ridicule, with critics pointing out that a passport is a document issued to American citizens for international travel, not something used to welcome people into the United States.
Many suggested Trump appeared to be confusing a U.S. passport with a visa and mocked him profusely.
Trump's face won't just be seen on passports.
It recently emerged that Trump approved a proposed design featuring his portrait on a new $250 bill bearing his signature, despite longstanding federal law barring living people from appearing on U.S. currency.
According to four current and former Treasury Department employees who spoke to the Washington Post anonymously out of fear of retaliation, two political appointees at the department repeatedly pressed Bureau of Engraving and Printing staff beginning last year to develop prototype designs for the bill.
Bureau staff ultimately produced several mockups, including one depicting Trump’s face at the center of the $250 note between the signatures of the president and Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent, according to one employee. The Post, which broke the story, said it also reviewed documents supporting the account.
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Pastor Gets Blunt Science Lesson After Claiming He Can Debunk The Big Bang Theory In Viral Video
He walked in a counter-clockwise circle around his sermon stand, demonstrating as he spoke to his community at 2819 church.
"I'm about to destroy the Big Bang Theory right now."
"The Big Bang Theory says that, from a little, swirling dot, something exploded, and then created the entire solar system."
"But space has no gravity!"
"So if the dot is swirling, and something exploded, that means everything else in the solar system should be spinning in the same direction."
"But there are planets that spin in opposite directions..."
"How do you explain that from a spinning dot with no gravity?"
"Oh! I can explain that: 'In the beginning, God created...'"
Though his church community sounded convinced, many of whom applauded or hooted their approval as he spoke, TikToker @natemccallister was not so impressed.
In a response video, McCallister went through the video point by point, debunking the pastor's "destruction" of the widely accepted and taught theory.
First, McCallister suggested that the pastor's initial description of the Big Bang Theory was oversimplified, but was willing to give him the benefit of the doubt and listen to the rest of his message.
However, when Pastor Mitchell said that space has no gravity, McCallister pointed out that gravity simply gets weaker the farther away something is from a substantial mass, like Earth or the Sun. That's not to say that there is, in fact, zero gravity.
Also, when Pastor Mitchell said that some planets are spinning in the opposite direction, McCallister explained that only two planets are spinning in the opposite direction from the rest of the large objects in the Milky Way galaxy, likely because of a collision that happened at some point that caused them to change direction.
But what concerned McCallister the most was how quickly the audience believed their pastor without fact-checking him.
"This [video] has 200,000-plus likes, and the crowd is kind of going wild."
"We have an education problem here. It's a crisis."
"I'm baffled that you can be this ignorant, and that this many people can listen to this and not just, like, pull out their phone and say, 'Wait, actually, there's some explanation...' No."
"It is baffling."
You can watch the video here:
Viewers agreed with McCallister that this is concerning.
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People are allowed to believe what they want to believe, but where much of the concern in this conversation comes from is what appears to be an absence of education and a willingness to simply blindly follow.
Sean Duffy Slammed After Offering Bonkers Defense For Saying 'Libtards' In Front Of His Daughter With Down Syndrome
People were further disgusted by the fact Duffy is the parent of a child with Down syndrome and his daughter was with him on stage when her father used the slur.
Duffy told the tens of people present:
"To start this off, I think we have to give a big round of applause for our military band and singers—way better than those libtards that canceled on us."
You can watch Duffy make the offensive comment here:
But the self-described reality TV party boy turned politician has told the world he has no regrets about being ableist.
Speaking to The Huffington Post, Duffy declared:
"I will not be lectured by the same people who want to abort babies with special needs."
"Rather than policing language, maybe liberals should spend time with these beautiful children, acknowledge their humanity, and while they're at it, try loving their country more than they hate President Trump."
Disabled rights groups, disability advocates, and disabled people themselves have condemned the use of these slurs.
People online weren't giving Duffy a pass on being ableist.
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Not content to degrade just one of his nine children, Duffy also took the opportunity to mock influencers.
Duffy's eldest daughter, Evita Duffy-Alfonso, is trying to create a career as a conservative commentator and social media influencer. She frequently posts about her life for her "hundreds of thousands of online followers."
Instead of Duffy handing out advice about what liberals should do, perhaps he could use that time to watch one of the numerous PSAs, like the ones below, about not using the ableist slur he, the POTUS, the Trump administration, the Trump family, and MAGA minions have used repeatedly.
Maybe then Duffy could recognize disabled people as people, instead of political props to exploit or mock in turn.