{"id":48178,"date":"2026-10-24T19:37:42","date_gmt":"2026-10-24T17:37:42","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/kaizen-blog.org\/?p=48178"},"modified":"2026-10-24T20:11:10","modified_gmt":"2026-10-24T18:11:10","slug":"trump-bekommt-das-jahrhundert-geschenkt-und-reicht-es-an-einen-mitarbeiter-weiter","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kaizen-blog.org\/en\/trump-bekommt-das-jahrhundert-geschenkt-und-reicht-es-an-einen-mitarbeiter-weiter\/","title":{"rendered":"Trump Gets the Century as a Gift and Hands It Off to a Staffer"},"content":{"rendered":"

An honor is worth only as much as the freedom of the person giving it. On Thursday evening, October 22, a young man stood on the tarmac at Sioux Gateway Airport in Sioux City, and he hadn't brought that freedom with him in the first place. Joe Mitchell is 29 and wants a seat in Congress. He previously served in the Iowa state legislature, then worked in housing for the Trump administration. Now he's running in the state's 2nd Congressional District in northeastern Iowa. At the end of his speech, he held up a gold-framed certificate.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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\"Man of the Century.\" He had made up the award himself.<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Beyond parody: Republican congressional candidate Joe Mitchell of Iowa presented Trump with the \"Man of the Century\" award last night and declared that Trump had \"done more for humanity and for America than any other president ever.\"<\/em><\/strong>
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Zach Lahn is the Republican candidate for governor of Iowa and is running in the November 3, 2026 election alongside Derek Wulf, the candidate for lieutenant governor.<\/strong><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n

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He even threw in the explanation, free of charge. Trump had never been given the Nobel Peace Prize, which was a disgrace, so Mitchell had simply invented a new award. This man had done more for humanity and America than any president before him. Nobody had kept the country safer. And because one superlative alone might get blown away in the Iowa wind, Mitchell tossed in another: the greatest president they'd ever had.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Trump accepted the certificate and handed it to a staffer. Then he simply kept talking. Never has an entire century changed hands so quickly.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Before that, Mitchell had worked his way through thanking Trump for everything he'd done in the capital. Washington was finally a respectable city again, Trump had cleaned it up. It was safe now, and clean to boot. Thank God he was building the ballroom, thank God those awful bike lanes were disappearing. Then came the joke that will be following him around for a long time: Nobody rode bicycles in Iowa. In Iowa, people rode Harleys, right?<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Joe Mitchell: \"Thank God you're building the ballroom. Thank God you're getting rid of those awful bike lanes. We don't ride bicycles in Iowa.\"<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Every summer, Iowa hosts RAGBRAI, the oldest multiday bicycle ride in the world. No other ride is longer, and none is bigger. Tens of thousands of cyclists and spectators make their way from west to east across the state, passing through one small town after another. It's hard to pretend bicycles don't exist in a state you can ride across on two wheels. Incidentally, a Harley has only two wheels, too.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Lindsay James, his Democratic opponent, responded online. She serves in the state legislature, where Mitchell once sat, and works as a Presbyterian chaplain. She knew Joe had been spending a lot of time at Mar-a-Lago lately, she wrote, but back here in Iowa, people were pretty proud of their bikes. Maybe he should sign up to volunteer at RAGBRAI. On Friday, she followed up in a fundraising appeal. The award was a fake, nothing more than a photo op with Donald Trump. It showed where Mitchell's priorities lay: Big donors and national political heavyweights mattered more to him than families in northeastern Iowa.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Mitchell had word sent out Friday morning that some people had lost their sense of humor. Being lectured about humor by the guy with the gold frame has a certain charm of its own.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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The seat is currently held by Republican Ashley Hinson, who has served 3 terms in the House and is now making a run for the Senate. Trump campaigned for Mitchell on the tarmac, and his party is determined to hold the district. Election analysts rate the race a toss-up, with one now giving the Democrat a slight edge. Plenty of Republicans are keeping their distance from Trump this fall. Mitchell ran toward him with open arms in one of the most hotly contested districts in the country.<\/p>\n\n\n\n