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56% of US adults have a valid passport. That “60 or 70%” range was pulled straight out of the poster’s butt. American passport holders I’m not a defender of US policies, and certainly not a defender of Trump, but this issue of the US not having a high number of passport holders is much more complicated than the raw number would indicate. The US is a large country with much to see and do. Its land area is about the same as Europe and twice that of the EU. Americans can also travel to places like Hawaii and Puerto Rico without a passport, and could also do so to Mexico and Canada prior to 2001. As I said, it’s a more complicated issue, but complicated explanations don’t usually make their way into political talking points. I would be curious to see the percentage of Europeans who have traveled outside of Europe for the sake of comparison.