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.

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