{"id":13225,"date":"2025-08-26T15:49:17","date_gmt":"2025-08-26T13:49:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/kaizen-blog.org\/?p=13225"},"modified":"2025-08-26T15:49:20","modified_gmt":"2025-08-26T13:49:20","slug":"willkommen-in-trumprea-washingtons-naechster-schritt-nach-nordkorea","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kaizen-blog.org\/en\/willkommen-in-trumprea-washingtons-naechster-schritt-nach-nordkorea\/","title":{"rendered":"Welcome to Trumprea \u2013 Washington\u2019s Next Step Toward North Korea"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">One might think Washington had overnight been transformed into another capital. Not Moscow, not Beijing \u2013 no, the model lies further east: Pyongyang. In front of the Department of Labor the US flag flutters, and directly beneath it now hangs a giant banner of Donald Trump, staring like the \u201cEternal Leader\u201d in the textbook for autocrats. Beneath it the mantra \u201cAmerican Workers First\u201d \u2013 a slogan that sounds as if it had been rubber-stamped in the party secretariat of a dictatorship. It is a staging of bizarre simplicity: one face, one slogan, one building. Nothing more is needed to turn a ministry into a monument. One almost waits for groups of children in identical uniforms to march in front of it and sing hymns to the \u201cSupreme Leader.\u201d That Trump had only hours earlier praised his closeness to Kim Jong Un feels almost like a dress rehearsal for this new aesthetic.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image alignwide size-full\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"640\" height=\"361\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/kaizen-blog.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/08\/batch_Kopie-von-Kopie-von-Kopie-von-The-Kaizen-Blog-Online-Magazin160.webp?resize=640%2C361&#038;ssl=1\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-13226\" srcset=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/kaizen-blog.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/08\/batch_Kopie-von-Kopie-von-Kopie-von-The-Kaizen-Blog-Online-Magazin160.webp?w=900&amp;ssl=1 900w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/kaizen-blog.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/08\/batch_Kopie-von-Kopie-von-Kopie-von-The-Kaizen-Blog-Online-Magazin160.webp?resize=18%2C10&amp;ssl=1 18w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/kaizen-blog.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/08\/batch_Kopie-von-Kopie-von-Kopie-von-The-Kaizen-Blog-Online-Magazin160.webp?resize=300%2C169&amp;ssl=1 300w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/kaizen-blog.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/08\/batch_Kopie-von-Kopie-von-Kopie-von-The-Kaizen-Blog-Online-Magazin160.webp?resize=768%2C433&amp;ssl=1 768w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 640px) 100vw, 640px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<div style=\"height:19px\" aria-hidden=\"true\" class=\"wp-block-spacer\"><\/div>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Next to Trump\u2019s face hangs Theodore Roosevelt. The old progressive is thus degraded into an involuntary sidekick \u2013 like a museum piece placed next to the icon so that the cult of personality gains a bit of patriotic patina. Roosevelt, the fighter against monopolies, in a double act with Trump, the monopolist of his own brand. A bad joke in oversize. The reactions are fitting: the internet mocks the banner as \u201cTrumpchella for autocrats,\u201d others call it \u201cthe largest campaign poster of North Korea \u2013 accidentally in Washington.\u201d On Reddit collages are already circulating showing Trump\u2019s likeness marching alongside Kim Jong Un\u2019s portraits, captioned \u201cBrothers in spirit.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image alignwide size-full\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"640\" height=\"361\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/kaizen-blog.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/08\/batch_Kopie-von-Kopie-von-Kopie-von-The-Kaizen-Blog-Online-Magazin159.webp?resize=640%2C361&#038;ssl=1\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-13227\" srcset=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/kaizen-blog.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/08\/batch_Kopie-von-Kopie-von-Kopie-von-The-Kaizen-Blog-Online-Magazin159.webp?w=900&amp;ssl=1 900w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/kaizen-blog.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/08\/batch_Kopie-von-Kopie-von-Kopie-von-The-Kaizen-Blog-Online-Magazin159.webp?resize=18%2C10&amp;ssl=1 18w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/kaizen-blog.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/08\/batch_Kopie-von-Kopie-von-Kopie-von-The-Kaizen-Blog-Online-Magazin159.webp?resize=300%2C169&amp;ssl=1 300w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/kaizen-blog.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/08\/batch_Kopie-von-Kopie-von-Kopie-von-The-Kaizen-Blog-Online-Magazin159.webp?resize=768%2C433&amp;ssl=1 768w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 640px) 100vw, 640px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<div style=\"height:26px\" aria-hidden=\"true\" class=\"wp-block-spacer\"><\/div>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">But for all the comedy the whole thing has a bitter point. That a president fastens his own likeness like a state icon on a government building is more than just tastelessness \u2013 it is the visual renunciation of democratic restraint. An attempt to define power no longer through institutions, but through faces. Not through laws, but through symbols. Not through debates, but through threatening looks. America has long laughed about the cult of personality in foreign countries. Now it experiences its own version \u2013 made in USA, inspired by North Korea. And suddenly Washington no longer looks like the heart of a republic, but like the stage of an autocrat who seeks only one more title: Supreme Leader Trump.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<div style=\"height:45px\" aria-hidden=\"true\" class=\"wp-block-spacer\"><\/div>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\" style=\"font-style:normal;font-weight:800\"><strong>Investigative journalism requires courage, conviction \u2013 and your support.<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-buttons is-layout-flex wp-block-buttons-is-layout-flex\">\n<div class=\"wp-block-button\"><a class=\"wp-block-button__link has-background has-small-font-size has-custom-font-size wp-element-button\" href=\"https:\/\/kaizen-blog.org\/en\/unterstuetzen-sie-unser-arbeit\/\" style=\"background-color:#e20de7;font-style:normal;font-weight:800\">Support Kaizen<\/a><\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n<div style=\"height:69px\" aria-hidden=\"true\" class=\"wp-block-spacer\"><\/div>\n<div class=\"gsp_post_data\" \r\n\t            data-post_type=\"post\" \r\n\t            data-cat=\"topstory,trump-s-world,trump-usa\" \r\n\t            data-modified=\"120\"\r\n\t            data-created=\"1756223357\"\r\n\t            data-title=\"Willkommen in Trumprea \u2013 Washingtons n\u00e4chster Schritt nach Nordkorea\" \r\n\t            data-home=\"https:\/\/kaizen-blog.org\/en\/\"><\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Man k\u00f6nnte meinen, Washington sei \u00fcber Nacht in eine andere Hauptstadt verwandelt worden. Nicht Moskau, nicht Peking \u2013 nein, das Vorbild liegt weiter \u00f6stlich: Pj\u00f6ngjang. Vor dem Arbeitsministerium flattert die US-Flagge, und direkt darunter h\u00e4ngt nun ein riesiges Banner von Donald Trump, starrend wie der \u201eEwige F\u00fchrer\u201c im Lehrbuch f\u00fcr Autokraten. 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