"From Air Force One, Trump posted: “I renovated the Lincoln Bathroom in the White House. ...

Accompanying the post were a series of twenty-four photographs of the newly renovated bathroom in white marble veined with black, accented with gleaming gold fixtures."

#Trump #Republicans #shutdown #SNAP #food #hunger #children #golf #MaraLago #cruelty
/2

"At a time when federal employees are working without pay, furloughed workers are taking out bank loans to pay their bills, healthcare premiums are skyrocketing, and SNAP is at risk, Trump’s celebration of his marble bathroom was so tone deaf it seems likely to make the history books as a symbol of this administration."

#Trump #Republicans #shutdown #SNAP #food #hunger #children #golf #MaraLago #cruelty
/3

"Families may soon starve, but Trump gets a new marble bathroom. ...

The absolute lack of self-awareness it takes to post about fancy renovations to the White House that virtually no Americans will ever see or utilize, while millions of federal workers are not being paid and throngs of Americans are worried about losing the funding they rely upon to feed their families is hard to fathom."

~ Emily Singer

#Trump #Republicans #shutdown #SNAP #food #hunger #children
/4

https://www.dailykos.com/stories/2025/10/31/2351470/-Families-may-soon-starve-but-Trump-gets-a-new-marble-bathroom

"His go-to move, when he wants obedience or satisfaction, is to inflict suffering. That’s why he’s done nothing to end the shutdown and everything to exploit it.

[Mike] Johnson is wrong. Trump isn’t trying to ease the pain; he’s trying to focus it on Democrats and their voters. To Trump, their pain isn’t a problem. It’s a weapon."

~ Will Saletan

#Trump #Republicans #shutdown #SNAP #food #hunger #children
/5

https://www.thebulwark.com/p/trump-isnt-easing-shutdown-pain-he-is-inflicting-it