{"id":66931,"date":"2026-02-21T06:58:17","date_gmt":"2026-02-21T11:58:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/2026\/02\/21\/dictator-vibes-as-dear-leader-trump-puts-name-and-face-front-and-center\/"},"modified":"2026-02-21T06:58:17","modified_gmt":"2026-02-21T11:58:17","slug":"dictator-vibes-as-dear-leader-trump-puts-name-and-face-front-and-center","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/2026\/02\/21\/dictator-vibes-as-dear-leader-trump-puts-name-and-face-front-and-center\/","title":{"rendered":"\u2018Dictator vibes\u2019 as dear leader Trump puts name and face front and center"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Banner at justice department just the latest example of how president has imposed himself on daily US life<\/p>\n<p>You wouldn\u2019t be alone if you feel that the US more closely resembles <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2015\/sep\/04\/north-korea-portraits-great-leaders\">North Korea<\/a> these days \u2013 with giant images of the dear leader scowling down on the citizenry, and his name inscribed everywhere from public buildings to street signs, transportation hubs and self-aggrandizing monuments.<\/p>\n<p>Thursday\u2019s unfurling of a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/us-news\/2026\/feb\/19\/trump-banner-justice-department\">massive banner<\/a> bearing the visage of Donald J Trump, the 47th US president, on the exterior of the Washington headquarters of the federal justice department was only the latest example of how he has imposed himself on every facet of American life. Some critics have called it \u201cdictator vibes\u201d.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/us-news\/2026\/feb\/21\/trump-name-face-justice-department\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Banner at justice department just the latest example of how president has imposed himself on daily US life You wouldn\u2019t be alone if you feel that the US more closely resembles North Korea these days \u2013 with giant images of the dear leader scowling down on the citizenry, and his name inscribed everywhere from public &#8230; <a title=\"\u2018Dictator vibes\u2019 as dear leader Trump puts name and face front and center\" class=\"read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/2026\/02\/21\/dictator-vibes-as-dear-leader-trump-puts-name-and-face-front-and-center\/\" aria-label=\"Read more about \u2018Dictator vibes\u2019 as dear leader Trump puts name and face front and center\">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-66931","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\/66931","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=66931"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/66931\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=66931"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=66931"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=66931"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}