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jmowreader

(50,569 posts)
Sun Feb 25, 2024, 10:54 PM Feb 25

Upcoming Trump Postage Stamps revealed

CENTRALIA, PENNSYLVANIA (Spurious News Network) -- Presidents receive many honors in their lives and even after they pass on. One honor is to be depicted on a postage stamp after their deaths.

Even Donald Trump will be so honored.

"Centralia is in Pennsylvania coal country," said Julia Whitfield, the Bureau of Engraving and Printing artist who created a sheet of 25 stamps to honor the former president. "The coal seam it sits on has been on fire since 1962. I couldn't think of a more appropriate place to unveil stamps honoring a president whose administration was the biggest dumpster fire in history."

Interestingly, none of the stamps actually depict Mr. Trump. "I thought about making a stamp with him on it," said Ms. Whitfield. "The orange ink we'd have to print it with is the problem. Orange intaglio ink is hard to control, so we'd wind up with more of a blob than a picture of him. I decided to instead depict things that represent him."

Most of the stamps display pictures of prisons. "I've got the Colorado Supermax, the Georgia State Prison, Sing Sing in New York, the Fulton County Lockup, Leavenworth...just every prison he could have gone to. People who love prison dramas will love these."

There's also a picture of a Big Mac, one that's a pattern of dollar signs, and a still from a movie about them blowing up one of his Atlantic City casinos. "I even put a steak on one of them. I had to stay until two in the morning one night to complete that one and it's the fifteenth steak I tried to paint, because the other people in the office ate the first fourteen. I'm still pretty happy with it."

The stamps have a face value of one cent. When we told her that one-cent stamps are useless, she let out a loud laugh. "That's okay. So was he."

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Upcoming Trump Postage Stamps revealed (Original Post) jmowreader Feb 25 OP
Absolutely perfect!!! niyad Feb 25 #1
I love it! Kath2 Feb 25 #2
Had me fuming at first... birdographer Feb 25 #3
I would love to see Trump on a postage stamp. Mr.Bill Feb 25 #4
I will dance a fucking jog on that day. Be done for good with that orange lump of shit. SoFlaBro Feb 25 #5
My first thought, too. Rhiannon12866 Feb 26 #10
Do a google on CENTRALIA, PENNSYLVANIA, thought I'd heard that name before. KS Toronado Feb 25 #6
LOL Attilatheblond Feb 26 #9
Yes. A fitting tribute. SarahD Feb 26 #14
How About Him On The Gold Toilet, Chandelier Overhead, In Front Of All Those File Boxes ChoppinBroccoli Feb 25 #7
There was an orange blob. So? He IS an orange blob. marble falls Feb 25 #8
Spurious News Network at work again! liberalla Feb 26 #11
Three things. usonian Feb 26 #12
Love It.. TSF Stamp OUT! Cha Feb 26 #13
Glad you don't have to lick stamps anymore. nt eppur_se_muova Feb 26 #15
Too good😀 malaise Feb 26 #16

Mr.Bill

(24,344 posts)
4. I would love to see Trump on a postage stamp.
Sun Feb 25, 2024, 11:39 PM
Feb 25

Because they only put people on stamps after they are dead.

SarahD

(1,259 posts)
14. Yes. A fitting tribute.
Mon Feb 26, 2024, 01:58 AM
Feb 26

I think they succeeded in clearing out all the Centralia residents after years of trying to talk sense to a few stubborn holdouts. It's a Trump kind of place, continuously covered by noxious fumes and useless to anyone. I don't think we should tell Trump because he'll work up a scam to sell vacation homes there.

ChoppinBroccoli

(3,784 posts)
7. How About Him On The Gold Toilet, Chandelier Overhead, In Front Of All Those File Boxes
Sun Feb 25, 2024, 11:51 PM
Feb 25

That's the one I'd vote for.

usonian

(9,920 posts)
12. Three things.
Mon Feb 26, 2024, 01:28 AM
Feb 26

1. The stamps are way overvalued.

2. Your letter is returned with a request for more money.

3. YOU HAVE TO LICK ITS BACKSIDE.

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