Everything they do, large and small, makes the world a little worse than it was before.
tbh, from the pic, I thought it was a #GreatGatsby reference
Lisa Melton
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"Trump’s 'Gatsby' gala wasn’t homage but autopsy — a champagne-soaked dirge for a nation that once believed in class, grace, and conscience. ...
Trump, the man who once wrapped himself in the mantle of populism, threw a party mocking the very people who once believed him."
~ David Shuster
#Trump #MaraLago #GreatGatsby #ballroom #EpsteinBallroom #corruption #EconomicElites #shutdown #SNAP #food #hunger
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Em :official_verified:
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"The president of the United States held court at Mar-a-Lago, amid free-flowing liquor and tables laden with food, hours before federal food aid would end for 42 million Americans."
~ Jackie Calmes
#Trump #MaraLago #GreatGatsby #ballroom #EpsteinBallroom #corruption #EconomicElites #shutdown #SNAP #food #hunger
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https://www.latimes.com/opinion/story/2025-11-06/trump-gatsby-party-election
"The president of the United States held court at Mar-a-Lago, amid free-flowing liquor and tables laden with food, hours before federal food aid would end for 42 million Americans."
~ Jackie Calmes
#Trump #MaraLago #GreatGatsby #ballroom #EpsteinBallroom #corruption #EconomicElites #shutdown #SNAP #food #hunger
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https://www.latimes.com/opinion/story/2025-11-06/trump-gatsby-party-election
"Meanwhile, more than 1 million federal employees were furloughed or worked without pay amid a five-week-old government shutdown, some of them joining previously fired public servants at food banks. The online People magazine juxtaposed a photo of Trump surveying his Palm Beach party with a shot of nearby Miamians in a food line."
#Trump #MaraLago #GreatGatsby #ballroom #EpsteinBallroom #corruption #EconomicElites #shutdown #SNAP #food #hunger
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"The president of the United States held court at Mar-a-Lago, amid free-flowing liquor and tables laden with food, hours before federal food aid would end for 42 million Americans."
~ Jackie Calmes
#Trump #MaraLago #GreatGatsby #ballroom #EpsteinBallroom #corruption #EconomicElites #shutdown #SNAP #food #hunger
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https://www.latimes.com/opinion/story/2025-11-06/trump-gatsby-party-election
"It was a revel of moral blindness — an orgy of delusion and bad taste. Here was the 'champion of the forgotten man,' presiding over a pageant of excess, surrounded by lackeys dressed as the very elites he pretends to despise. ...
Trump has made himself the perfect emblem of our age: rich in spectacle, bankrupt in soul, and utterly incapable of shame."
#Trump #MaraLago #GreatGatsby #ballroom #EpsteinBallroom #corruption #EconomicElites #shutdown #SNAP #food #hunger
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"Trump’s 'Gatsby' gala wasn’t homage but autopsy — a champagne-soaked dirge for a nation that once believed in class, grace, and conscience. ...
Trump, the man who once wrapped himself in the mantle of populism, threw a party mocking the very people who once believed him."
~ David Shuster
#Trump #MaraLago #GreatGatsby #ballroom #EpsteinBallroom #corruption #EconomicElites #shutdown #SNAP #food #hunger
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