Mar-a-Lago Guests Spill Tacky Details of Trump’s Gatsby Bash
Details are starting to emerge about Donald Trump’s lavish and unconventional Halloween party at Mar-a-Lago on Friday night, and it looks as flashy as you’d expect.
images The Great Gatsbythemed party It shows the President smiling and talking to senior members of his administration, political allies, celebrities and staunch supporters of the MAGA movement, all decked out in elaborate Jazz Age costumes and surrounded by Prohibition-era décor.
The lavish event took place the night before food stamp funding was set to expire for nearly 42 million Americans. / Samuel Çorum / Getty Images
The MAGA leader appeared in court alongside top aides like Marco Rubio and Jeanine Pirro, as well as political allies and loyal supporters. / Samuel Çorum / Getty Images
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Another photo posted by the same account features a mouthwatering selection of desserts, including macarons and cheesecakes, in front of antique wood paneling and under the watchful eye of a painted portrait of a remarkably trim-looking Trump in his younger years.
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Meanwhile, photos taken by professional photographers at the event show female dancers wearing lace-up dresses and feathered headbands, as well as two giant silver and gold beach balls floating in the resort’s pool.
In the photos shared by the guests, Trump can be seen taking photos. photos with guestsincluding his appointee Jeanine Pirro. Photos screenshotted from Instagram stories and reposted PatriotX gets its accountA woman dressed in showgirl attire is seen sitting inside a giant champagne glass.
Critics are quick to attack the president for hosting a party themed around an iconic work of 1920s fiction about the excess and moral emptiness of social privilege built on economic inequality. It’s a particularly glaring disparity, as the party kicked out the night before funding for the federal Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program expired due to an ongoing government funding impasse.
Dancers march through a function hall at Mar-a-Lago during Trump’s Gatsby-themed Halloween party. / ROBERTO SCHMIDT / AFP via Getty Images
Giant gilded water balloons were also seen in the facility’s pool. / ROBERTO SCHMIDT / AFP via Getty Images
“Donald Trump hosted a meeting The Great Gatsby “Party as SNAP benefits are about to disappear for 42 million Americans,” California Governor Gavin Newsom said. Published early Saturday morning. “You don’t care about that.”
Newsom criticized Trump for the highly ironic appearance of the president’s Halloween party. /x/Gavin Newsom
About one-eighth of the US population actually relies on the foot stamp program, which has already been scaled back to $186 million under the spending measures Trump introduced in July.
A Republican member of Congress sparked controversy on Saturday before cutting funding for the program by suggesting his constituents should “quit smoking crack” if they want to minimize the program’s impact.
