Trump Honored With North Korean Stamps-- Will He Direct The Post Office To Issue One With Little Kim On It?

I used to collect stamps; in fact, I still have my 60 year old collection. I don't think I have any North Korean stamps, something I'd probably remember if I did. Back when I was a kid, it was totally unpatriotic to buy them. I wonder how rare the new North Korean stamps that show Trump and North Korean hereditary tyrant Kim Jong Un palling around will be from an historical perspective. 

Even if eventually there are stamps of Trump palling around with Vladimir Putin (Russia), Xi Jinping (China), Recep Tayyip Erdoğan (Turkey), Abdel Fattah el-Sisi (Egypt), Salman bin Abdulaziz al-Saud (Saudi Arabia), Viktor Mihály Orbán (Hungary), Jair Bolsonaro (Brazil) and Rodrigo Duterte (Philippines), how long will it take for there to be a stamp of Trump palling around with Jeffrey Epstein? That's the one the whole word is waiting for, don't you think?

North Korea issued a set of three stamps commemorating the Trump-Kim summit last June to mark the anniversary of Kim fucking Trump in Singapore. This week another stamp is due to be issued with Trumpanzee on it, this particular one mocking Trump for walking into Panmunjeom in the DMZ, just as North Korea was preparing to test more missiles that could deliver nuclear weapons to South Korea and Japan and demonstrate their new submarines.

Trump in the White House is a genuine dream come true for Kim Jong Un-- and for every other authoritarian on the planet. I wonder how many of Trump's ambassadors will be asking other dictators to match Kim in showing their appreciation for Señor Trumpanzee's unique way of dealing with foreign affairs. Would you rather have a roll of Trump stamps from Little St. James Island or from North Korea? That Little St. James stamp is very attractive but what if the one from North Korea due out tomorrow uses the design below by the DWT art director? If not, I suppose the Israeli's could use the design by removing Kim and inserting Netanyahu. 

And, yes, Trump isn't the first U.S. president to have his likeness on another country's stamps. Obama was pictured on stamps put out by Liberia, Dominica and Grenada. Posthumously, George Washington's imagine was used on Ecuadorian, Guatemalan, Monacan and Mexican stamps. Many countries used JFK, including Germany, Ireland, Argentina, the Philippines and Guatemala. And San Marino routinely uses America presidents on their stamps-- although not Trump-- including Abraham Lincoln and FDR. Argentina and Monoco also used pictures of Lincoln. France, Monaco, Uruguay, the Philippines, Laos, El Salvador, Liberia, Cuba and Rwanda used FDR. In 1975, Equitorial Guinea issued a stamp that had pictures of both James Monroe and John Quincy Adams on it. And Israel used a picture of Harry Truman, who was instrumental in their independence, on a stamp. Truman is the only U.S. president to be so honored, although Israel did issue a stamp with an image of Eleanor Roosevelt in 1964.

A year ago Antigua and Barbuda announced it would release a collection of stamps honoring all 45 U.S. presidents. As far as I can tell they've already released 11, commemorating the first 11 presidents.