Which national park pass features Donald Trump's image, if any?

1. The government says the resident “America the Beautiful” pass will bear Trump’s portrait

The Department of the Interior’s modernization rollout describes updated annual-pass artwork and explicitly shows a resident annual pass design that places President Trump next to a painted rendering of George Washington, a design the agency frames as part of “bold, patriotic designs” and a resident-focused fee structure launching Jan. 1, 2026 ^{[1] [7]}. Interior officials and Secretary Doug Burgum publicly promoted the new artwork and new pricing that distinguishes resident and nonresident passes, including the $80 resident annual pass that, per the DOI briefings, will carry the Trump-Washington artwork ^{[1] [8]}.

2. Multiple media outlets confirm at least two pass designs include Trump

Reporting from SFGATE, People, Westword, PetaPixel and others independently corroborate that the 2026 America the Beautiful lineup includes at least two designs with Trump’s image — the resident annual pass and a military pass that reportedly uses a photo of Trump saluting troops — while other specialty passes (volunteer, senior) use different imagery ^{[2] [3] [9] [6] [10]}. Those outlets also describe a separate nonresident annual pass that will instead feature the Glacier National Park photograph that won the public lands photo contest, and which will cost nonresidents a higher fee under the new scheme ^{[9] [11]}.

3. Conservation groups and legal analysts say the Trump design likely violates the law

The Center for Biological Diversity and other plaintiffs filed suit arguing that federal law (the Federal Lands Recreation Enhancement Act of 2004) requires the main America the Beautiful annual pass to feature the contest-winning public-lands photograph — in this case the Glacier National Park image — and that replacing it with an image of the president (not taken on federal land and not submitted in the contest) is unlawful; legal analysts cited in reporting call the redesign “likely illegal” under that statute ^{[4] [5] [6] [10]}.

4. The Interior defends the change as modernization and patriotic branding

DOI messaging frames the changes as the “most significant modernization of national park access in decades,” promising digital passes, new artwork prioritizing U.S. residents, and a shift in fee structure to make resident access cheaper while charging nonresidents more — all presented as aligning with an “America-first” ethos and celebrating the nation’s 250th anniversary, language the department used to justify the new designs, including the Trump portrait ^{[7] [1] [8]}.

5. Backlash, workarounds and political context

The announcement provoked immediate pushback from conservation groups, park advocates and parts of the public; artist-created stickers to cover Trump’s face and widespread media coverage underline the political and cultural flashpoint the pass redesign has become ^{[12] [13] [2]}. Critics point to broader policy patterns at Interior — staffing cuts, fee changes, and shifts in free-entry days — as context for why the artwork decision is read as part of an ideological agenda, while the DOI and administration present it as a public-facing modernization and cost-shifting measure ^{[8] [14] [1]}.

Conclusion: which pass features Trump’s image?

Available official DOI materials and corroborating news reports state that the primary 2026 resident America the Beautiful annual pass design will feature Donald Trump’s portrait alongside George Washington, and at least one other commemorative pass (a military-design pass) also includes Trump; meanwhile the nonresident annual pass is slated to bear the contest-winning Glacier National Park photograph, a distinction that is central to the lawsuit challenging the change ^{[1] [2] [9] [4] [11]}.