Absurd New Heights in Vanity

 

by Pa Rock

Citizen Journalist

It now looks as though Donald John Trump and his merry band of co-conspirators have found something else to taint with his name and image.  It was announced yesterday that the US Department of State, currently under the small-fisted control of Trump appointee and toadie Marco Rubio, is in the final stages of redesigning US passports, and they will henceforth feature a scowling likeness of Trump and his signature, in gold, superimposed over the US Declaration of Independence.

I object, of course, to the whole notion of a sitting and living US President being featured on my personal passport or on any coins which I might happen to have in my pocket, and I emphatically object to having to carry items such as a passport or coinage which depict a person convicted unanimously by a jury of his peers of 34 counts of fraudulent business practices - all felonies.

I don't want my good name connected to a criminal lowlife anywhere, let alone on an official State Department document (passport) that I would need for international travel.  I object, I object, I object!

But it is far more than just passports which are being besmirched by a convicted felon's ego.   In December of 2025 a board of trustees appointed by Trump changed the name of the "Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts" to the "Donald J. Trump and John F. Kennedy Memorial Center for the Performing Arts," placing Trump's name before and above that of a highly respected US President who was never charged with or convicted of any felonies.

Plans have also been announced to place Trump's image on two separate US dollar coins, a silver one which will be in general circulation and a special golden commemorative one which the US Treasury has reportedly been instructed to make "as large as possible."

But the glory doesn't end there.  The US National Park Service is also preparing to issue new passes for our nation's national parks which will feature the scowly, jowly face of . . . you guessed it . . . Donald John Trump!

Trump's signature will soon be on US currency, and many federal buildings in Washington, DC, now have large banners on display outside bearing his image.   Trump has splashed his name around government programs including the "Trump" gold and platinum cards which assist rich immigrants with buying their way into US residency.   He has had his name placed on the US Institute for Peace, and his Big, Beautiful Bill Act started an IRA scheme to help children save called "Trump Accounts."

Then there is also the new government website to help with prescription drugs called "TrumpRx," and a new type of battleship which the planners are referring to as "Trump class."

Take all of that, and what is surely yet to come during the remainder of his presidency, and add to it all of his private properties which bear his name in unbearably large letters, and a new level of narcissism emerges, one that only Gods dare to imagine!

Leave my passport, national park pass, and pocket change the hell alone.  While others may enjoy the excitement and intrigue of associating with criminals, Pa Rock definitely does not!