{"id":1381365,"date":"2026-04-13T11:15:43","date_gmt":"2026-04-13T08:15:43","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/prm.ua\/personality-cult-or-imperial-fantasies-why-does-trump-need-a-triumphal-arch\/"},"modified":"2026-04-13T11:15:43","modified_gmt":"2026-04-13T08:15:43","slug":"personality-cult-or-imperial-fantasies-why-does-trump-need-a-triumphal-arch","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/prm.ua\/en\/personality-cult-or-imperial-fantasies-why-does-trump-need-a-triumphal-arch\/","title":{"rendered":"Personality cult or imperial fantasies: why does Trump need a triumphal arch?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em>Source: Author&#8217;s <a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/denys.popovych.3\/posts\/pfbid0VFaFXWBCFoRgLH84FuzTQmizFxANspJT4LzLvdvq4bHciQh1HfBe2LnCoYsXV8Dwl\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">Facebook<\/a> page<\/em><\/p>\n<p> <strong>US President Donald Trump is planning to build a triumphal arch in Washington, D.C., in his honor, Trump announced, explaining that his administration has already submitted a request to the Commission on Fine Arts.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p> According to the plan, the height of the arch will be 76 meters &#8211; 26 meters more than the height of the Arc de Triomphe in Paris (about 50 meters), which Napoleon Bonaparte ordered to be built in 1806 in honor of the victories of his army.<\/p>\n<p> The intention to build a monument to himself during his lifetime characterizes the current US president as a person prone to narcissism and a cult of personality.<\/p>\n<p> There have been many such rulers in history. First of all, Alexander the Great, who actively encouraged the cult of his personality and demanded almost divine respect; the first emperor of China, Qin Shi Huang, who unified the country, introduced a single currency, writing, and a system of weights and measures. At the same time, he built a huge underground mausoleum for himself.<\/p>\n\t<div class=\"shortcode-wide-image\">\n\t\t<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/prm.ua\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/2f5a69d0-35a0-11f1-879d-1b2f5c3919b8.jpg.webp\" alt=\"photo: Truth Social\">\n\t\t\t\t\t<figcaption>photo: Truth Social<\/figcaption>\n\t\t\t<\/div>\n\n\t\t<aside class=\"shortcode-also\" data-title=\"Read also\" >\n\t\t<a href=\"https:\/\/prm.ua\/en\/the-us-plans-to-build-a-76-meter-tall-trump-arch\/\">The US plans to build a 76-meter-tall &#8220;Trump Arch&#8221;<\/a>\n\t<\/aside>\n\n<p> In this context, Trump is following the practices of Nero, J.V. Stalin, Kim Il Sung, and the Turkmen dictator Saparmurat Niyazov, who actively created a cult of personality. The latter erected the Arch of Neutrality in the center of Ashgabat, crowned with a golden statue of himself.<\/p>\n<p> However, Alexander the Great is a great conqueror who will be remembered for millennia. Qin Shi Huang actually created the Chinese state in its classical form. Napoleon Bonaparte, having conceived the Arc de Triomphe, had already won at Austerlitz. Even Joseph Stalin left a controversial, but large-scale mark on history.<\/p>\n<p> But what has Donald Trump done? Theoretically, if he manages to change the system of international relations formed after World War II, his role could be assessed differently. But for now, his actions rather explain why he is seeking contacts with Putin, a politician who also tried to &#8220;rewrite&#8221; history, but is remembered primarily for the bloody war against Ukraine and the mass casualties in this war.<\/p>\n<p> Also follow <strong>\u201cPryamim\u201d<\/strong> on <a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/pryamiy\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Facebook<\/a> , <a href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/prm_ua\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">X<\/a> , <a href=\"https:\/\/t.me\/+rtV4dxYu2_cyNjVi\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">Telegram<\/a> , and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.instagram.com\/pryamiy\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Instagram.<\/a><\/p>\n<p> <span style=\"font-size: 10pt;\"><em>\u2022 Materials published in the \u201cOPINIONS\u201d section reflect the opinion of the author of the publication, who bears full responsibility for the accuracy of the information.<\/em><\/span><br \/> <span style=\"font-size: 10pt;\"><em>\u2022 The editorial staff of prm.ua may not share the opinions expressed in the author&#8217;s material.<\/em><\/span><br \/> <span style=\"font-size: 10pt;\"><em>\u2022 The owner of the webpage in the \u201cOPINIONS\u201d section is the author of the publication.<\/em><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Source: Author&#8217;s Facebook page US President Donald Trump is planning to build a triumphal arch in Washington, D.C., in his honor, Trump announced, explaining that his administration has already submitted a request to the Commission on Fine Arts. According to the plan, the height of the arch will be 76 meters &#8211; 26 meters more [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":57,"featured_media":1381355,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ep_exclude_from_search":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[76893,76871,76872],"class_list":["post-1381365","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-thoughts","category-news-2","category-news-feed"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/prm.ua\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1381365","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/prm.ua\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/prm.ua\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/prm.ua\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/57"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/prm.ua\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1381365"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/prm.ua\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1381365\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/prm.ua\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1381355"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/prm.ua\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1381365"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/prm.ua\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1381365"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}