George Conway and Mehdi Hasan deliver searing indictment of 'dumb' Trump’s presidency

Systemic Error Podcast · Jul 6, 2026 · 4m

Trump Turns a Passport Into a Personal PosterA State Document, Recast as Self-AdvertisementTrump has taken a document issued by the federal government and tried to turn it into a tribute object. The new passport design for the country’s 250th birthday reportedly features his likeness standing over the Resolute Desk, layered onto the language of the Declaration of Independence. That is not patriotic design. It is institutional capture by branding.The source material frames this as mockable vanity, which it is, but the more important fact is who has the power to make a vanity project official…