Is the sum $\sum_p \frac{1}{p^p}$ , $p$ running over the primes, transcendental?

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Is the sum $$\sum_p \frac{1}{p^p}=0.2873582513062241797364\cdots $$ where $p$ runs over the primes, a transcendental number ?

I don't think that it is a Liouville-number , but I am not sure. However, the sequence $\frac{1}{p^p}$ might decrease fast enough to prove the transcendentality. However I am not sure whether it is even easy to show that the sum is irrational.

Any ideas or perhaps a reference ?