William Lindsey 

"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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https://www.blueamp.co/p/the-great-gatsby-of-garbage-trumps

When Gatsby Met Garbage: Trump’s Decadent Death Rattle of the American Dream

Trump’s “Great Gatsby” party was a grotesque display of excess and delusion — proof that America’s self-proclaimed populist has become its most vulgar elite.

Blue Amp Media
Nov 7 at 3:06pmWeb
Show threadWilliam Lindsey Nov 7

"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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Show threadWilliam Lindsey Nov 7

"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

Column: Trump's tone-deaf displays are turning off voters

The president faced poetic comeuppance after his ostentatious party: a blue wave in Tuesday’s elections.

Los Angeles Times
Show threadWilliam Lindsey Nov 7

"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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Show threadDr. Christopher KunzNov 7
@wdlindsy I don't know if this got widely circulated in the USA, but US soldiers stationed in Germany were advised by the administration to visit the "Tafeln", volunteer run and donation based food banks for the poor, or use services like "too good to go" to put food on their tables.
Show threadytscorpNov 7
@christopherkunz @wdlindsy
Heard it here first. Media in America right now is VERY selective about what they put out, out of fear of retalitation from the administration. Media seems to be highly censored and a lot of Americans are being lied to and gas-lighted. It's tragic.
Show threadDr. Christopher KunzNov 7
@ytscorp @wdlindsy Throw this in your translator of choice for some background info: https://www.zdfheute.de/politik/usa-shutdown-tafeln-armee-soldaten-bayern-100.html
US-Shutdown: Warum plötzlich deutsche Tafeln ins Spiel kommen

Die USA erleben den längsten Shutdown ihrer Geschichte. Das hat auch hierzulande Auswirkungen. Nun sorgt ein Hinweis der US-Armee auf die Tafel für Aufsehen. Was steckt dahinter?

ZDFheute
Show threadEstarriol, Terrorist DragonNov 7
@wdlindsy it was also a warning to melania, he intends to Fitzgerald her.
Show threadMastodon MigrationNov 7

@wdlindsy

This is such a gross example of Economic Injustice that it boggles the mind...

https://mastodon.online/@mastodonmigration/115504644361900722

Show threadWilliam Lindsey Nov 7
@mastodonmigration I agree!