Erzgebirge people put Trump on a pedestal: as a smoking man

After Kohl, Merkel and Scholz, Trump now follows

The artisans in Seiffen are skilled at transforming politicians into smoking figures. Recently, Olaf Scholz, Christian Lindner and Annalena Baerbock have been turned, and Angela Merkel, Helmut Kohl and Erich Honecker are also in the range. An initial series of 100 pieces of Trump has now been produced, said Reichl. Depending on how demand develops, more will be produced.

However, Reichl and his employees are not the first to work with Donald Trump in the Erzgebirge: He already exists as a nutcracker. During Trump's first term in office, there was a specific request for such a figure from the USA, said Michael Lorenz, Managing Director of Erzgebirgische Volkskunst Richard Glässer GmbH. Since then, the Trump nutcracker has been on offer. They would continue to be produced depending on demand. In the Ore Mountains, it has always been a tradition that the mostly grim wooden nutcrackers are modeled on figures of the authorities.