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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."
niyad
(113,668 posts)Kath2
(3,089 posts)Very fitting!
birdographer
(1,367 posts)But "dumpster fire" cleared it up for me! Wonderful! 🤣🤣
Mr.Bill
(24,344 posts)Because they only put people on stamps after they are dead.
SoFlaBro
(1,986 posts)Rhiannon12866
(206,404 posts)KS Toronado
(17,388 posts)Attilatheblond
(2,235 posts)Thanks, I needed that.
SarahD
(1,259 posts)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)That's the one I'd vote for.
marble falls
(57,397 posts)liberalla
(9,273 posts)Thanks for the comedy relief!
usonian
(9,920 posts)1. The stamps are way overvalued.
2. Your letter is returned with a request for more money.
3. YOU HAVE TO LICK ITS BACKSIDE.
Cha
(297,877 posts)eppur_se_muova
(36,307 posts)malaise
(269,237 posts)Rec