{"id":34067,"date":"2025-02-22T11:13:36","date_gmt":"2025-02-22T11:13:36","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/2025\/02\/22\/republicans-put-the-sick-in-sycophancy-as-they-compete-to-fawn-over-trump\/"},"modified":"2025-02-22T11:13:36","modified_gmt":"2025-02-22T11:13:36","slug":"republicans-put-the-sick-in-sycophancy-as-they-compete-to-fawn-over-trump","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/2025\/02\/22\/republicans-put-the-sick-in-sycophancy-as-they-compete-to-fawn-over-trump\/","title":{"rendered":"Republicans put the sick in sycophancy as they compete to fawn over Trump"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>From adding the president\u2019s face to Mount Rushmore to pushing for him to serve a third term, party members are getting inventive in their brown-nosing<\/p>\n<p>If proof were needed that Donald Trump\u2019s <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/us-news\/article\/2024\/aug\/03\/trump-maga-suporters-explain-republican\">cult of personality<\/a> has never been stronger, it comes in the inventive ways Republican members of Congress have spent his first month in office trying to lionise him. Welcome to the sycophancy stakes.<\/p>\n<p>On 23 January the congressman Addison McDowell of North Carolina <a href=\"https:\/\/mcdowell.house.gov\/media\/press-releases\/congressman-addison-mcdowell-introduces-legislation-rename-washington-dulles#:~:text=WASHINGTON%2C%20D.C.%20%E2%80%93%20Today%2C%20Congressman,Trump%20International%20Airport.\">introduced legislation<\/a> to rename Washington Dulles international airport as Donald J Trump international airport.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/us-news\/2025\/feb\/22\/trump-republicans-mount-rushmore-third-term\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>From adding the president\u2019s face to Mount Rushmore to pushing for him to serve a third term, party members are getting inventive in their brown-nosing If proof were needed that Donald Trump\u2019s cult of personality has never been stronger, it comes in the inventive ways Republican members of Congress have spent his first month in &#8230; <a title=\"Republicans put the sick in sycophancy as they compete to fawn over Trump\" class=\"read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/2025\/02\/22\/republicans-put-the-sick-in-sycophancy-as-they-compete-to-fawn-over-trump\/\" aria-label=\"Read more about Republicans put the sick in sycophancy as they compete to fawn over Trump\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-34067","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-blog"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/34067","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=34067"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/34067\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=34067"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=34067"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=34067"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}