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Throws "Great Gatsby" Themed Let Them Eat Cake Halloween Party

By Noah

They were careless people, Tom and Daisy. They smashed up things and creatures and then retreated back into their money or their vast carelessness or whatever it was that kept them together, and let other people clean up the mess they had made. —F.Scott Fitzgerald, The Great Gatsby

On the very weekend that Trump and his fraternity of fellow barbaric psychopaths cut off food for tens of millions of real Americans, Trump threw a Mar-a-Lago party that was even worse than his utterly tasteless AI clip that showed him dumping his shit on No Kings protestors. This time it was real as he invited a literal cabal of typical republican social deviants to his uber tacky Flor-i-duh getaway for a rub it in your face Halloween party.

Was it Great Gatsby, Hunger Games, or both? You decide. Here's how Meidas Touch described it:

“And what is Donald Trump doing in this moment of global and domestic crisis? Throwing a Great Gatsby–themed Halloween party at Mar-a-Lago. The theme, “A Little Party Never Killed Nobody,” could not be more grotesque in its irony. As families stand in the longest food bank lines in modern history, Trump and his inner circle dance beneath chandeliers, drinking champagne and laughing in gold-plated rooms. Eric Trump’s family dressed as literal money. Cabinet members and senators mingled among performers dressed as flappers, twirling and grinning while Americans starve. It may be the Roaring 20s for Trump and his rich cronies, but not for everyone else. And perhaps someone should let them know how the Roaring 20s ended? It’s not that leaders can’t have lives or enjoy moments of celebration. It’s that Trump’s entire worldview, his policies, his rhetoric, his cruelty, turns even a party into a symbol of contempt. 'They’re quite literally laughing at you as they starve you to death,' I said on my report, because that’s exactly what it feels like. While his administration shuts down the government and blocks SNAP payments, he hosts a lavish tribute to excess. The hypocrisy doesn’t stop there. As Trump’s “cabinet” parties, his Homeland Security officials manipulate social media posts, even doctoring videos of young Black men, to spread racist propaganda and claim “cartels put bounties on ICE agents.” Federal agents are firing tear gas and pepper balls at peaceful residents in Chicago who are simply trying to stop their neighbors from being kidnapped by Trump’s immigration squads. And Trump? He’s posting photos of himself with influencers and bragging about new marble faucets and gold rugs in the Lincoln Bedroom. He attacks Black judges and prosecutors. He lies about 'helping the working class' while openly sneering, 'When you talk about SNAP, it’s largely Democrats who use it.' Never mind that millions of his own supporters depend on the very programs he’s dismantling. It’s hard to overstate how disconnected, and dangerous, this level of delusion is."

Trump of course misunderstands the meaning of "The Great Gatsby." Of course he does. I doubt he ever the book it or even could. Ditto for all but a tiny few of the party attendees. F. Scott Fitzgerald's book is not the celebration of decadence and the feeling of superiority that he and his guests obviously think it is. It's a warning about the cost of recklessness and not giving a damn. It's a warning about building lives on lies, self-indulgent sociopathy and cruelty for cruelty's sake. Republicanism is like a tree that started rotting in its core. The rot spreads and spreads and then one day a strong enough gust of wind comes, the tree crashes down taking anything nearby with it, and the maggots scurry around confused, never having learned a single lesson.

Imagine all the food that was wasted and thrown out after the party.