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• King Charles III has met 10 US presidents, from Dwight Eisenhower to Donald Trump.
• Richard Nixon tried to set Charles up with his daughter Tricia, and he grew close to Nancy Reagan.
• On Monday, Charles visited Donald Trump during the first British state visit to the US since 2007.

For decades, royal family members and US presidential families have visited each other’s residences, hosted state dinners in each other’s honor, and corresponded during times of celebration and mourning, a testament to the “special relationship” between the two countries.

Queen Elizabeth II met 12 US presidents during her lifetime. Her son and successor, King Charles III, has met 10.

Photos show how Charles’ relationships with US presidents have developed and changed through the years.

Charles was 10 when he met President Dwight Eisenhower at Balmoral Castle in Scotland during a laid-back visit in 1959.

The New York Times described the visit as informal, with the Queen driving Eisenhower around the estate and treating him to a picnic lunch on the shores of a lake.

He greeted President Richard Nixon at Buckingham Palace in 1969 during the president’s first foreign trip in office.

Nixon met with Queen Elizabeth, Prince Philip, Charles, and Anne, who hosted a luncheon at the palace in his honor.

The following year, Charles visited the Nixons at the White House.

Nixon gave Charles and Anne a tour of the balcony of the South Portico.

Charles later revealed that Nixon tried to set him up with his daughter, Tricia.

Charles and Tricia Nixon toured the Washington Monument and attended a baseball game together.

“That was quite amusing, I must say,” Charles told CNN in 2021 of Nixon’s matchmaking efforts.

He met President Jimmy Carter at the 1977 G7 Summit.

The third G7 Summit was attended by the leaders of Canada, France, Italy, West Germany, Japan, the UK, and the US.

President Ronald Reagan called Charles “a most likable person” after meeting with him at the White House in 1981.

Reagan wrote in his diary that White House ushers committed the faux pas of serving the prince tea from a tea bag rather than loose-leaf tea, according to The Ronald Reagan Presidential Foundation and Institute.

“It finally dawned on me that he was just holding the cup and then finally put it down on a table. I didn’t know what to do,” Reagan wrote.

Charles welcomed the Reagans to the UK during an official visit in 1982.

The Reagans became the first US presidential couple to stay at Windsor Castle, according to the National Archives, and they attended a black-tie dinner at the castle as well.

The Reagans returned the favor in 1985 by hosting then-Prince Charles and Princess Diana at a White House state dinner.

Diana famously danced with John Travolta during the event.

Charles later wrote in a letter to Nancy Reagan: “Diana still hasn’t got over dancing with John Travolta, Neil Diamond and Clint Eastwood in one evening, not to mention the President of the United States as well!”

Charles became particularly close with Nancy Reagan, and they kept in touch through letters until her death in 2016.

In one letter to the first lady, Charles opened up about his doomed marriage to Diana.

“One day I will tell you the whole story,” he wrote in a letter dated June 21, 1992, People magazine reported. “It is a kind of Greek tragedy and would certainly make a very good play!”

Charles attended Ronald Reagan’s funeral in Washington, DC, in 2004.

Charles was accompanied by former British Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher and then-Prime Minister Tony Blair.

Charles first met George H.W. Bush while he was serving as Reagan’s vice president.

Charles and Diana dined with then-Vice President George H.W. Bush and Barbara Bush at the British Ambassador’s Residence in 1985.

They reunited in 1989 during Bush’s own presidency.

Charles joined the Bushes for dinner at Camp David.

Charles and Bush continued to see each other at official events even after Bush was no longer president.

In 2002, both Bush and Charles attended a rededication ceremony for the American Air Museum of Great Britain in Cambridgeshire.

Charles attended George H.W. Bush’s funeral in 2018 on Queen Elizabeth’s behalf.

Charles, who was greeted by then-Vice President Mike Pence at the National Cathedral, was seated next to former British Prime Minister John Major during the service.

President Bill Clinton and Charles were both in attendance at Israeli Prime Minister Yitzhak Rabin’s funeral after his assassination in 1995.

Charles and Clinton were seated in the front row alongside leaders from France, Germany, Egypt, and the Netherlands.

While serving as first lady, Hillary Clinton represented the US at Diana’s funeral in 1997.

Bill Clinton did not attend the service since it was not an official state funeral, CNN reported.

Charles also worked with Hillary Clinton in her role as secretary of state.

In 2009, Hillary Clinton attended a meeting with world leaders hosted by Charles at St James’s Palace to address environmental issues and the global climate crisis before the G20 summit.

President George W. Bush attended banquets with Charles during his state visit to the UK in 2003.

The Bushes’ visit marked the first time a US president was hosted by the royal family since the Reagans’ trip in 1982.

They attended a state dinner at Buckingham Palace and hosted a banquet in return at Winfield House, the American ambassador’s residence, to thank the royal family for their hospitality.

Two years later, the Bushes hosted Charles and Camilla for a state dinner at the White House.

The state dinner menu included buffalo tenderloin, a salad with Vermont camembert cheese and spiced walnuts, and petit fours cake for dessert, according to the George W. Bush Presidential Library and Museum.

In his remarks, Charles said that returning to the White House brought back “many fond and happy memories” of his first visit with Anne in 1970, “when the media were busy trying to marry me off to Tricia Nixon.”

Charles first met President Barack Obama and Michelle Obama at a 2009 reception for G20 leaders at Buckingham Palace.

The G20 leaders discussed responses to the global financial and economic crisis.

Charles met with Obama at the White House in May 2011 ahead of the president’s state visit to the UK.

During the US visit, which occurred shortly after Prince William and Kate Middleton’s royal wedding, Obama congratulated Charles and joked that he wouldn’t have been able to handle the pressure of such a large ceremony since his 1992 wedding to Michelle Obama had just 300 guests.

Charles spent more time with the Obamas during their UK state visit a few weeks later.

Charles and the Obamas met at Winfield House and attended a state dinner at Buckingham Palace in May 2011.

At a commemorative D-Day ceremony in 2014, Obama appeared to salute Charles in his military uniform, eliciting a chuckle from the then-Prince of Wales.

The ceremony marked the 70th anniversary of D-Day.

During another White House visit in 2015, Obama was overheard telling Charles that Americans like the royal family “much better than their own politicians.”

“I don’t believe that,” Charles was heard replying in footage captured by CBS News in the Oval Office.

Charles encountered President Donald Trump and first lady Melania Trump at social events in New York City long before they entered politics.

Charles was photographed chatting with the Trumps in 2005 at a reception hosted by the Museum of Modern Art.

As president, Trump met with Charles at Clarence House during a state visit to the UK in June 2019.

In a June 2019 meeting at Clarence House during a state visit, the two leaders discussed the climate crisis.

Trump told ITV that his meeting with Charles was scheduled to last 15 minutes, but went on for an hour and a half.

Charles “did most of the talking,” though Trump did say that he told the then-Prince of Wales that the US “has among the cleanest climates there are.”

“He is really into climate change, and I think that’s great. I totally listened to him,” Trump told ITV.

Trump continued: “What he really wants, and what he really feels warmly about, is the future. He wants to make sure future generations have climate that is good climate, as opposed to a disaster. And I agree.”

In her memoir, “I’ll Take Your Questions Now,” former White House press secretary Stephanie Grisham wrote that, after the meeting, Trump had rolled his eyes and complained that their “terrible” conversation consisted of “nothing but climate change.”

A Clarence House spokesperson told CNN that Trump and Charles had developed a “good working relationship” following another meeting in December 2019.

The Trumps stopped by Clarence House for another short visit while in the UK for a NATO summit.

President Joe Biden got to know Charles while serving as Obama’s vice president.

Biden joined Charles and Camilla in the Oval Office during their 2015 visit to the US.

After Queen Elizabeth’s death in 2022, Biden assured the new king that his late mother would “be with him every step of the way.”

The Bidens paid their respects by visiting the Queen’s coffin at Westminster Hall, signing the official condolence book at Lancaster House, and attending her state funeral.

“Our hearts go out to the royal family — King Charles and all the family,” Biden told reporters. “It’s a loss that leaves a giant hole. And sometimes you think you’ll never overcome it. But as I’ve told the king, she’s going to be with him every step of the way — every minute, every moment. And that’s a reassuring notion.”

In May 2023, Jill Biden attended Charles’ coronation without her husband — no US president has ever attended one.

Trump blasted Biden as “very disrespectful” for skipping Charles’ coronation, but US presidents have historically sent delegations and never attended the event themselves.

During a state visit to the UK in July 2023, Biden met with Charles at Windsor Castle to discuss the climate crisis.

Biden and Charles met privately before holding a larger gathering with investors and philanthropists to discuss renewable energy and deforestation, among other issues, the White House said in a statement.

Biden appeared to break royal etiquette rules by touching the king’s arm and putting his hand on his back during a ceremonial welcome at Windsor Castle, but Charles didn’t appear to mind and returned the gesture.

Upon returning to the White House for a second term, Trump spent time with Charles during a rare second state visit to the UK in September 2025.

US presidents serving a second term aren’t usually invited for a second state visit to the UK, but Prime Minister Keir Starmer delivered a surprise invitation to Trump while visiting the White House in February 2025.

The royal family pulled out all of the stops for Trump’s visit. Trump rode with Charles in the royal family’s gilded Irish State Coach, where he and Melania Trump were welcomed with a Guard of Honor. The two leaders also sat next to each other at the state dinner held at St. George’s Hall.

In April 2026, the Trumps returned the favor by hosting Charles and Camilla at the White House ahead of America’s 250th anniversary.

Charles and Camilla’s trip marked the first British state visit to the US since 2007, and Charles’ first as monarch.

The president and first lady hosted Charles and Camilla at the White House for afternoon tea, a ceremonial military review, and a state dinner. Charles also met with Trump in the Oval Office and addressed a joint session of Congress.

• Briell Decker grew up in the Fundamentalist Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-Day Saints.
• When she was 18, she married the FLDS leader Warren Jeffs. She was his 65th wife.
• Decker escaped after multiple attempts in 2012. She now helps other survivors rebuild their lives.

This as-told-to essay is based on a conversation with Briell Decker, 40, a former member of the Fundamentalist Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-Day Saints, and the 65th wife of its former leader, Warren Jeffs. She married Jeffs in 2004 at 18 in an arranged marriage. It has been edited for length and clarity.

I was born and raised in the FLDS faith. From the time I was a child, my days were structured around religious instruction.

I spent at least four hours a day in sermons — in the morning with my family, at school, after lunch, and again before bed.

I believed everything I was told by my parents and Warren Jeffs, who became the prophet for the FLDS in 2002 and was presented as the closest person to God on Earth.

Growing up, no one asked me what I wanted to be, it was expected that I would become “a mother in Zion.” The Yearning for Zion Ranch was the main FLDS compound in Texas.

At 18, my father wrote a letter and recommended me for marriage to Warren Jeffs. I said yes, even though I was afraid and did not love him.

Women could technically refuse marriage, but the consequences could be severe. Losing your family, your community, and your place in the church was always a possibility.

Looking back at that moment when I agreed to marry Jeffs, it felt like standing on the edge of a cliff without a way to turn around.

Jeffs had a way of making everything he did seem right, even when it was wrong. He used The Book of Mormon to justify his actions. That’s what makes me believe the FLDS was a cult. (Multiple organizations, documentaries, and other former FLDS members have also described the FLDS as a cult.)

Once, I was brought into one of Jeffs’ group sessions (aka orgies). He was bringing underage brides into the room with adult wives, and it was a very bad situation. I did not want to be part of it, and afterward, I asked for more time to adjust so I wouldn’t have to go back. I never had to.

I was married to Jeffs for two years before he went to prison, and I remained in the FLDS as part of his group for many years until I escaped in 2012. I never consummated the marriage.

Control shaped everything — where I lived, what I ate, and how I thought

Jeffs controlled nearly every part of my life and the lives of everyone in the church.

For example, he had the titles of everyone’s houses in a legal trust and used that to control housing. He decided where people lived, and could move families at any time.

The women in his family, including me, weren’t allowed to leave our homes freely. We couldn’t go outside. Food, which Jeffs selected for us, was brought to the house. And in some places, there were cameras and caretakers watching us. There was really no exit route.

Over time, restrictions tightened, especially in the mid-2000s when Jeffs was under police investigation. We got rid of televisions and internet access. I think that was to help hide the truth from the people.

I tried to escape again and again, but each attempt made it harder

I tried to escape about 10 times before I succeeded. The more I tried, the tighter the control around me became.

In one early attempt, I made contact with the police and thought I might be able to leave for good. But they told me they wanted to place me in a shelter that was near the FLDS compound, and that didn’t feel safe to me.

It was my first time trying to explain what was happening, and I didn’t know how to communicate why being that close to the compound still felt dangerous. I ended up going back to my family in the FLDS in Short Creek, an area along the Arizona-Utah border, because I couldn’t see how the police’s plan was going to work.

After that, I started trying to plan more quietly. I would look through phone books or try to figure out where I could go, but I was often seen before I could get far. People were expected to report anything suspicious, so it didn’t take much for someone to notice.

At one point, after I tried to leave, the room I was in was physically altered. They put screws into the window so it wouldn’t open fully, and they turned the doorknob around so I couldn’t unlock it from the inside.

Even calling for help was risky. In some areas, calling 911 could connect you to people affiliated with the FLDS, so it didn’t feel like a safe option. There wasn’t a clear path to outside support, and I didn’t have access to information that could help me navigate it.

The day I escaped

On May 23, 2012, I escaped.

That morning, I tried to leave and was caught on the main roads and brought back. Later that day, I was in a room and I noticed that one of the screws on the window was loose.

I found some scissors and worked at it until it came completely loose. Eventually, the screw broke.

Someone in the house noticed and tried to stop me, but I kept going. I climbed out the window and ran.

This time, I avoided the main roads. I went through back paths and a creek until I reached a house of former FLDS members who had turned against the church.

By the end of the day, they had driven me out of town to safety.

Leaving was only the beginning

After I left the FLDS, I stayed in shelters and worked to rebuild basic parts of my life. I changed my name and my Social Security number. I opened my first bank account. I eventually got married again — this time by choice — and began building a life that was mine.

I saw the ocean for the first time on my honeymoon in Santa Monica, something I never thought I would experience. Later, I saw the Statue of Liberty, which felt especially meaningful because it represents freedom, and I was finally free.

I eventually learned that I had rights to Jeffs’ 45-room property in Short Creek. I applied for ownership in February 2016 and was awarded the house later that year.

I started giving free tours in it to raise awareness and connect with people who might help turn it into something bigger. Through those connections, I partnered with a nonprofit called the Dream Center, which agreed to take over operations and turn the property into a recovery center.

Today, it serves as a place where people — especially those from the FLDS and other polygamous groups — can find housing, support, and resources as they rebuild their lives.

Warren Jeffs was sentenced in 2011 to life in prison plus 20 years for sexually assaulting two underage girls, unrelated to Briell Decker. His defense — led by several attorneys — argued that his religious freedom had been violated.

• The second round of Trump administration attacks on Disney, ABC, and Jimmy Kimmel has played out differently than the one we saw last fall.
• This time, Kimmel has stayed on the air. And Disney says it doesn’t think Trump’s FCC will take away its broadcast licenses.
• But Trump’s threats will still weigh on new Disney CEO Josh D’Amaro, which is the point.

The federal government says it’s going to review ABC’s broadcast licenses — a move that came a day after Donald and Melania Trump both called on ABC to punish Jimmy Kimmel.

What does that mean for Kimmel and everything else that airs on ABC?

For now, nothing. But that doesn’t mean it doesn’t matter.

Unlike last fall, when Donald Trump and his administration also went after Kimmel, his show remains on the air. (Kimmel responded directly to the Trumps during his Monday night show, but didn’t reference the license review during his Tuesday night monologue.) Everything else on ABC remains unchanged.

And if you zoom out, there are decent odds that things stay that way. Media and legal observers think Disney, which owns ABC, has a strong legal case against Trump’s Federal Communications Commission, which is telling Disney it needs to renew its licenses for the eight broadcast stations it owns now, instead of waiting until 2028 when they’re officially due for review. It would be difficult, they say, for the FCC to permanently revoke those licenses in a way that would withstand court challenges.

And Brendan Carr, the Trump-appointed head of the FCC, knows all of that. But he also knows that using his power to drag Disney and ABC into a regulatory and legal fight is the whole point. The end result doesn’t matter as much as the signal it sends.

As Tom Wheeler, who held Carr’s job during the Obama administration, told the Guardian, that signal is pretty clear: “There’s a message to every licensee of the FCC that says, ‘I can do this to you too.'”

It’s a message that Carr has been broadcasting for some time, with his repeated assertions that broadcast licenses aren’t a right and can be revoked. Ditto his existing investigations into Disney and Comcast, which are, in theory, about their previous embrace of DEI policies.

Yes, there’s a theoretical chance that Carr’s orders and investigations will eventually lead Disney or Comcast to lose broadcast licenses. That would be bad for both, though not catastrophic, because owning broadcast stations isn’t core to either company’s business. (Contrary to what Donald Trump often suggests, big media companies don’t own a single overriding license that lets them distribute programming — it’s individual broadcast stations that have licenses. Some of those stations are owned by big broadcasters like ABC, but the majority are owned by outside companies.)

But that still means Disney will have to spend time and money pushing back against the federal government.

The bigger problem for Disney, or any other media company in the Trump administration’s sights, is that losing a license is just one bad outcome the administration could engineer. For instance, the FCC could try to pressure other broadcast station owners not to carry Disney’s programming, which is effectively what Carr was pushing last fall, when he applauded Sinclair and Nexstar, two very big station groups, for their decision to temporarily drop Kimmel.

And the administration can also weigh in, or threaten to, when it comes to other things media companies want to do. It blessed Larry and David Ellison’s purchase of Paramount, for instance, only after the Ellisons had agreed to steps like appointing an ombudsman with conservative credentials to monitor complaints about CBS News.

Which is why any real changes the investigation spurs may never result in some kind of documented, formal change about the way Disney or ABC does business. You may simply have to wonder why ABC canceled a particular show or promoted another one. Is that something they would have done if Donald Trump weren’t in office?

We’re two days into this one, and so far, there’s no sign that new Disney CEO Josh D’Amaro has made any moves to appease Trump and Carr. Kimmel is still on the air, and Disney has put out a statement saying it deserves to keep its licenses and assumes it will. (I’ve asked Carr and Disney if they have anything else to add.)

The problem is we don’t really know what the real effect this pressure has — just that it’s something D’Amaro and his employees have to think about, at the very least. And that’s something that should worry anyone who cares about the government’s influence on what we watch.

• Jasmine Bhatti’s alternative to traditional home health has grown an average of 80% year over year.
• She says the keys to her growth has been using fractional staff and delaying full-time hires.
• Navi Nurses hit $7 million in revenue last year.

This as-told-to essay is based on a conversation with Jasmine Bhatti, CEO of Navi Nurses. It has been edited for length and clarity.

Since I was in college, I always knew I wanted to make an impact in healthcare at a big level.

At the time, my grandmother was diagnosed with cancer and needed 24/7 care. I learned through her experience that there were major gaps in the current home health system.

I became a nurse and was reminded of this problem again. So many of my patients would pull at my scrubs and ask if they could pay for me to come home and support them.

That was the seed of Navi Nurses, a premium, nurse-led alternative to the limited home health services offered by insurance companies. People I looked to for business advice told me the next step would be to validate my vision and prove that people would be willing to pay for this, so that’s what I’ve been doing for the past five years: We hit $7 million in revenue last year while building a model that benefits nurses and patients.

I sold my services before I had everything figured out

Early on, I heard the founders of the mattress company Tuft & Needle share how they sold their concept online before they had one mattress made. That really stuck with me. Even though I didn’t have a team yet and was still working full-time at the hospital, I had a clear vision for what I could create. I started pitching myself in local Facebook groups in late 2020. Within a month, I landed my first few clients.

I looked for other spaces where I could meet my target customer, and started volunteering at a community organization that allowed people with home healthcare needs to borrow medical equipment. That was where I met our third client — a woman who needed 24/7 care for three months, which changed everything for me.

That client helped me accelerate my team, going from three nurses who could pick up shifts to a team of 20+ nurses who could work around the clock to support her. The money allowed me to walk away from the hospital and turn this into a full-time endeavor in April of 2021. From there, we’ve grown almost entirely by word of mouth, only starting to run our first Google Ads in January of this year.

Fractional staff has been instrumental, but I needed an in-house team to really push forward

Outside of our contract nurses, my internal staff remained lean for most of our growth — we had only two employees at the end of 2024, and finished 2025 with 17.

Before I could afford to hire people full-time, I relied heavily on fractional support to fill voids in my expertise, and still do for some roles. Even 10 hours a week of their guidance helped me keep pushing things forward. Our part-time chief of staff was especially instrumental because she had built a company before and could anticipate things I couldn’t. Her guidance allowed me to structure the team and manage the hiring process even when she wasn’t the one executing every single task.

That said, when it came to building our custom patient management software, bringing that work in-house turned out to be one of the most important decisions I’ve made. Having a team that stays closely connected to our nurses and patients has been transformative, allowing us to move faster and more quickly adapt to changes that arose.

Outside funding would help us grow faster, but my values are more important

Besides a few grants, my business has been entirely bootstrapped, which I’ve wrestled with at times. If someone gave me $50 million tomorrow, we could reach more people faster — but at what cost?

A study published late last year found that hospitals bought by private equity have higher emergency department mortality rates. Yes, profitability is important, but I’m not willing to do that at the expense of the quality of the nurse or the patient. I never want to partner with someone who doesn’t put the human being first.

Ultimately, I don’t think I would change anything about how we’ve grown. We’ve grown an average of 80% year over year, and it already feels like things are constantly breaking. If we’d grown faster, I don’t think it would have been done as thoughtfully as it was. Right now, we’re working towards expanding beyond Arizona — eventually, I’d love for us to be an international company.

Looking back, I’d tell my younger self to just keep getting back up: Things will not always go the way you had hoped, but they’ll go the way you need them to be.

• Courtroom exhibits show Elon Musk once pitched “Freemind” for OpenAI’s name.
• In emails with Sam Altman, Musk framed the name as a “philosophical counter” to Google’s AI lab.
• Altman wasn’t totally sold and offered up the name “Axon” or “something related to Turing.”

Newly-revealed courtroom exhibits in the blockbuster case between Elon Musk and Sam Altman show how OpenAI nearly ended up with a different name — one intended as a jab at an AI rival.

Musk and Altman, along with others, founded OpenAI in December 2015 as a nonprofit AI research lab.

A November 2015 email exchange between the two shows how Musk pitched calling the firm “Freemind,” framing the name as “partly an intentional philosophical counter” to Google’s DeepMind AI lab.

“Least bad name I have thought of so far is Freemind. Conveys the sense that we are trying to create digital intelligence that will be freely available to all — the opposite of Deepmind’s one-ring-to-rule-them-all approach,” Musk wrote to Altman, trial exhibits submitted by Musk’s legal team show.

Altman wasn’t completely sold, saying the name was “a little too close to Deepmind.”

“I really like the word free here thought—freethink? Freemerge?” Altman’s email read. The OpenAI CEO said his “best idea” for a name so far was “Axon.”

In response, Musk said he liked Axon as an option, “although it does slightly sound like Google Brain or, more generally, that we think digital intelligence consists of brain emulation.”

“Pretty much all names suck in the beginning though,” Musk wrote. “Given several choices, I tend to favor names that convey the mission of the company and hopefully have a positive impact on recruitment.”

Altman told the Tesla and SpaceX CEO in another email that he was “warming up fast” to the idea of Freemind.

“It definitely coveys [sic] the right spirit. Also thinking about names related to Turing somehow,” Altman wrote, referring to famed computer scientist Alan Turing, who devised a test in the 1950s to assess whether a machine could pass as human.

Musk responded, “Something Turing-related that doesn’t sound too ominous might be good. Want to avoid the Turing Test association though, as that sounds too much like we are replacing humans.”

The high-stakes federal civil trial in Musk’s lawsuit against OpenAI and Altman over the company’s transition to a for-profit entity kicked off Monday with opening arguments in an Oakland, California, courtroom.

Musk, the world’s richest person, was called as the first witness on Monday by his attorneys, and he continued his testimony on Tuesday.

While under questioning by his lead trial attorney, Steven Molo, Musk told the nine-person jury about his AI concerns and what led him to cofound OpenAI.

“I thought it was extremely important to have a counterbalance to Google,” Musk testified. “Google did not seem to care about AI safety at that time.”

Google did not immediately respond to a request for comment by Business Insider on Wednesday.

• The US government is releasing new commemorative passports for the country’s 250th anniversary.
• The design includes an image of Trump’s face on the inside cover.
• A State Department spokesperson said there will be a “limited number” of passports available.

If you’re renewing your passport this summer, you might be able to get one with President Donald Trump’s face on it.

The State Department is releasing a commemorative passport for the 250th anniversary of the United States’ Declaration of Independence.

The design includes Trump’s face on the inside cover, surrounded by the text of the declaration and the president’s signature in gold.

“As the United States celebrates America’s 250th anniversary in July, the State Department is preparing to release a limited number of specially designed US Passports to commemorate this historic occasion,” State Department spokesperson Tommy Pigott said in a statement. “These passports will feature customized artwork and enhanced imagery while maintaining the same security features that make the US Passport the most secure documents in the world.”

Fox News, which was first to report the news, obtained a mockup of the new passport. The State Department confirmed the image’s authenticity in a statement to Business Insider.

The passports are scheduled to launch around the Fourth of July and will be available to US citizens who apply, if availability remains.

This is just the latest example of Trump adding his likeness to an official government institution or service.

The administration has launched a Trump Gold Card visa, set up Trump Accounts via the One Big Beautiful Bill Act, launched a website called TrumpRx for discounted prescription drugs, and announced “Trump-class” battleships.