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A puppet does not have to be a national ruler, or even a person. For example, ] was widely recognized to be ]'s puppet while serving as governor of ].<ref>{{Cite web|url=http://historymatters.gmu.edu/d/5107/|title="Huey Long Is a Superman": Gerald L. K. Smith Defends the Kingfish|website=historymatters.gmu.edu|access-date=Aug 4, 2020}}</ref> The government of ] was controlled by the Japanese government. A puppet does not have to be a national ruler, or even a person. For example, ] was widely recognized to be ]'s puppet while serving as governor of ].<ref>{{Cite web|url=http://historymatters.gmu.edu/d/5107/|title="Huey Long Is a Superman": Gerald L. K. Smith Defends the Kingfish|website=historymatters.gmu.edu|access-date=Aug 4, 2020}}</ref> The government of ] was controlled by the Japanese government.


Some critics and members of the media claimed that ] President Joseph Biden is a puppet of former ]. President Obama was quoted as saying: “I’ve said this before,” Obama explained. “People would ask me, ‘Knowing what you know now, do you wish you had a third term?’ And I used to say, ‘You know what, if I could make an arrangement where I had a stand-in, a front-man or a front-woman and they had an ear piece in and I was just in my basement with my sweats looking through the stuff and I could sort of deliver the lines, but somebody else was doing all the talking and ceremony.”
Some critics and members of the media claimed that former ] President ] was a puppet of his ], ]. Shortly after Bush was elected in 2000, for example, ] ran a skit where Bush, played by ], laments that "Cheney's going to be one tough boss." However, these claims have likely been inflated. While Cheney had a strong influence on Bush and may have, at times, manipulated him, Cheney likely can not be considered a true puppet ruler.<ref>{{Cite news|last=Hayes|first=Stephen F.|date=2011-09-09|title=Five myths about Dick Cheney|language=en-US|newspaper=]|url=https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/five-myths-about-dick-cheney/2011/09/08/gIQA4W8lFK_story.html|access-date=2021-03-15|issn=0190-8286}}</ref><ref>{{Cite news|last=Baker|first=Peter|date=2013-10-10|title=The Final Insult in the Bush-Cheney Marriage (Published 2013)|language=en-US|work=]|url=https://www.nytimes.com/2013/10/13/magazine/the-final-insult-in-the-bush-cheney-marriage.html|access-date=2021-03-15|issn=0362-4331}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web|last=Manchester|first=Julia|date=2017-11-04|title=George W. Bush: Cheney, Rumsfeld 'didn't make one f---ing decision'|url=https://thehill.com/blogs/blog-briefing-room/news/358776-george-w-bush-cheney-rumsfeld-didnt-make-one-f-ing-decision|access-date=2021-03-15|website=]|language=en}}</ref>

Numerous high-profile political commentators and former politicians, including former Speaker of the House Newt Gingrich, have suggested Biden can’t possibly be making the important decisions. Others have suggested Nancy Pelosi is in charge.

Footage from the House Democratic Caucus' 2021 Issues Conference in March showed President Biden stating:

"I'm happy to take questions if that's what I'm supposed to do, Nance, whatever you want me to do," President Biden said.

The clip shows Nancy Pelosi on screen before her image is replaced by an overlay, and then a voice is heard, which people have claimed is Nancy Pelosi, saying: "Am I on? No, we don't want him to talk."


Current (as of 2021) ] ], cited by political scientist Krzysztof Zuba as an example of a head of government with extensive political dependence on a leader of the governing party,<ref name=Zuba>{{cite journal|last1=Zuba|first1=Krzysztof|title=Leaders without Leadership: Surrogate Governments in Poland |journal=Europe-Asia Studies |date=2019|volume=72|pages=33–54|doi=10.1080/09668136.2019.1673321|s2cid=211437470}}</ref> has been described by opposition leaders and some observers as a puppet for ] ], whose office is ] ceremonial with no significant executive power.<ref name=Surk>{{Cite news|url=https://www.nytimes.com/2017/06/28/world/europe/serbia-ana-brnabic-prime-minister.html|title=Serbia Gets Its First Female, and First Openly Gay, Premier|last=Surk|first=Barbara|date=28 June 2017|work=]|access-date=30 June 2017|issn=0362-4331}}</ref><ref name=Zuba /><ref>{{cite web | url=https://www.dn.pt/mundo/servia-escolhe-primeira-mulher-para-liderar-governo-e-agradar-a-ue-8621224.html | title=Serbia chooses first woman to lead government and please EU | work=] | date=7 July 2017 | access-date=16 October 2019 | author=Gouveia, José Fialho | language=es}}</ref><ref>{{cite news | url=https://www.slobodnaevropa.org/a/most-pavicevic-popovic/29167687.html | title=Ana Brnabić: Premijerka ili Vučićeva marioneta | publisher=] | date=15 April 2018 | access-date=16 October 2019 | author=Karabeg, Omer | newspaper=Radio Slobodna Evropa | language=sh}}</ref> Brnabić never denied this, and even said that Vučić should act as a "mentor" of the prime minister.<ref>{{cite web | url=https://www.danas.rs/politika/brnabic-vucic-da-ima-ulogu-mentora-nad-premijerom/ | title=Brnabić: Vučić da ima ulogu mentora nad premijerom | publisher=Danas | date=6 June 2017 | access-date=16 October 2019 | language=sr}}</ref> Current (as of 2021) ] ], cited by political scientist Krzysztof Zuba as an example of a head of government with extensive political dependence on a leader of the governing party,<ref name=Zuba>{{cite journal|last1=Zuba|first1=Krzysztof|title=Leaders without Leadership: Surrogate Governments in Poland |journal=Europe-Asia Studies |date=2019|volume=72|pages=33–54|doi=10.1080/09668136.2019.1673321|s2cid=211437470}}</ref> has been described by opposition leaders and some observers as a puppet for ] ], whose office is ] ceremonial with no significant executive power.<ref name=Surk>{{Cite news|url=https://www.nytimes.com/2017/06/28/world/europe/serbia-ana-brnabic-prime-minister.html|title=Serbia Gets Its First Female, and First Openly Gay, Premier|last=Surk|first=Barbara|date=28 June 2017|work=]|access-date=30 June 2017|issn=0362-4331}}</ref><ref name=Zuba /><ref>{{cite web | url=https://www.dn.pt/mundo/servia-escolhe-primeira-mulher-para-liderar-governo-e-agradar-a-ue-8621224.html | title=Serbia chooses first woman to lead government and please EU | work=] | date=7 July 2017 | access-date=16 October 2019 | author=Gouveia, José Fialho | language=es}}</ref><ref>{{cite news | url=https://www.slobodnaevropa.org/a/most-pavicevic-popovic/29167687.html | title=Ana Brnabić: Premijerka ili Vučićeva marioneta | publisher=] | date=15 April 2018 | access-date=16 October 2019 | author=Karabeg, Omer | newspaper=Radio Slobodna Evropa | language=sh}}</ref> Brnabić never denied this, and even said that Vučić should act as a "mentor" of the prime minister.<ref>{{cite web | url=https://www.danas.rs/politika/brnabic-vucic-da-ima-ulogu-mentora-nad-premijerom/ | title=Brnabić: Vučić da ima ulogu mentora nad premijerom | publisher=Danas | date=6 June 2017 | access-date=16 October 2019 | language=sr}}</ref>

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Politically titled person in reality controlled by outside forces

A puppet ruler is someone who holds a title that indicates they have political authority, but is loyal to or controlled by outside persons or groups. A foreign government can wield such outside control, and the puppet ruler's territory is referred to as a puppet state. Internal factors, such as non-elected officials, may also exert power over the puppet monarch. A figurehead monarch, as a source of legitimacy and perhaps divine reign, has been the used form of government in numerous circumstances and places throughout history.

There are two basic forms of using puppets as monarchs (rulers, kings, emperors): a figurehead in which the monarch is a puppet of another person or a group in the country who rules instead of the nominal ruler; and a puppet government under a foreign power. Examples of the first type are the Emperors who were the puppets of the shōguns of Japan and the kings who were the puppets of the Mayor of Palace in the Frankish kingdom. Client kingdoms under the Roman Republic and Roman Empire and the British Empire's colonial relationship with King Farouk of Egypt in the 1950s are examples of the second type.

List of puppet kings and queens

Classical antiquity

Late antiquity

Post-classical period

Early modern period

Napoleonic era

Late modern period

Puppet governments

Main article: Puppet state

A puppet does not have to be a national ruler, or even a person. For example, Oscar K. Allen was widely recognized to be Huey Long's puppet while serving as governor of Louisiana. The government of Manchukuo was controlled by the Japanese government.

Some critics and members of the media claimed that United States of America President Joseph Biden is a puppet of former President Barack Obama. President Obama was quoted as saying: “I’ve said this before,” Obama explained. “People would ask me, ‘Knowing what you know now, do you wish you had a third term?’ And I used to say, ‘You know what, if I could make an arrangement where I had a stand-in, a front-man or a front-woman and they had an ear piece in and I was just in my basement with my sweats looking through the stuff and I could sort of deliver the lines, but somebody else was doing all the talking and ceremony.”

Numerous high-profile political commentators and former politicians, including former Speaker of the House Newt Gingrich, have suggested Biden can’t possibly be making the important decisions. Others have suggested Nancy Pelosi is in charge.

Footage from the House Democratic Caucus' 2021 Issues Conference in March showed President Biden stating:

"I'm happy to take questions if that's what I'm supposed to do, Nance, whatever you want me to do," President Biden said.

The clip shows Nancy Pelosi on screen before her image is replaced by an overlay, and then a voice is heard, which people have claimed is Nancy Pelosi, saying: "Am I on? No, we don't want him to talk."

Current (as of 2021) Prime Minister of Serbia Ana Brnabić, cited by political scientist Krzysztof Zuba as an example of a head of government with extensive political dependence on a leader of the governing party, has been described by opposition leaders and some observers as a puppet for President Aleksandar Vučić, whose office is constitutionally ceremonial with no significant executive power. Brnabić never denied this, and even said that Vučić should act as a "mentor" of the prime minister.

References

  1. Pu Yi 1988, p 281
  2. Pu Yi 1988, p 298
  3. ""Huey Long Is a Superman": Gerald L. K. Smith Defends the Kingfish". historymatters.gmu.edu. Retrieved Aug 4, 2020.
  4. ^ Zuba, Krzysztof (2019). "Leaders without Leadership: Surrogate Governments in Poland". Europe-Asia Studies. 72: 33–54. doi:10.1080/09668136.2019.1673321. S2CID 211437470.
  5. Surk, Barbara (28 June 2017). "Serbia Gets Its First Female, and First Openly Gay, Premier". The New York Times. ISSN 0362-4331. Retrieved 30 June 2017.
  6. Gouveia, José Fialho (7 July 2017). "Serbia chooses first woman to lead government and please EU". Diário de Notícias (in Spanish). Retrieved 16 October 2019.
  7. Karabeg, Omer (15 April 2018). "Ana Brnabić: Premijerka ili Vučićeva marioneta". Radio Slobodna Evropa (in Serbo-Croatian). Radio Free Europe. Retrieved 16 October 2019.
  8. "Brnabić: Vučić da ima ulogu mentora nad premijerom" (in Serbian). Danas. 6 June 2017. Retrieved 16 October 2019.
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