🛂 “Enjoy your freedom to travel — it may be your last.”

📌 EPISODE SUMMARY:

📈 82M Americans expected to travel for Thanksgiving (record high)

🚘 73M driving, flights & roads packed

💸 Gas prices inching up

📆 Busiest return day: Sunday, Dec 1st

🆔 Digital ID is rolling out — Apple Wallet + TSA partnership

📱 Scan passport ➝ selfie ➝ facial recognition ➝ TSA acceptance

💥 No REAL ID or passport? ➝ $18 fee + biometric scan

🇪🇺 Europe already requires full biometrics to cross borders

🎯 U.S. goal: 100% adoption by 2027

❓Trump implementing system originally set up by Biden

⚠️ Concerns over privacy, surveillance & comparison to China’s social credit system

This Thanksgiving will shatter travel records — 82 million Americans on the move, most by car 🚘 and a record number flying ✈️. But here’s the shocker: This may be the FINAL holiday you travel without a digital ID. A system combining TSA + Apple is rolling out requiring passport scans, biometrics, or REAL ID… and if you don’t comply? An $18 fee & mandatory face scan at a biometric kiosk.

Europe’s system is already active. Fingerprint, iris scan, face scan — to enter or LEAVE your own country. It’s now coming here. Launched under Biden, implemented under Trump. Is this convenience… or control? 🤔

We break it down — travel stats, gas, digital ID, biometric systems, and why the goal is 100% digital ID adoption by 2027. Buckle up.

Thanksgiving Travel, Digital ID, Biometrics, TSA Policy, Apple Partnership, National Security, Privacy Concerns, Technology Rollout, Government Regulation, Freedom to Travel