There’s been a lot of talk in the press about the glamorous the new MAGA generation. I guess it’s supposed to be something like JFK’s Camelot but it appears to be more like the early bird special at a San Fernando Valley Medieval Times restaurant.
Will Sommer of the Bulwark has the latest pathetic MAGA grift story and it’s hilarious:
LAST WEEK, THE CAREER OF CONSERVATIVE journalist Myles Morell hit a new peak.
As a reporter for the Daily Caller News Foundation, he had just scored what counts as a scoop in that world: He caught an irritated Rep. Ilhan Omar on video telling him to “fuck off.”
Then, this Wednesday, Morell walked into work and was swiftly fired.
The abrupt change in fortunes came thanks to an “official” celebration of the first 100 days of Donald Trump’s second term, one that was supposed to feature Republican members of Congress and even the president himself. The bash was a massive bust.
Instead of hosting GOP royalty, the event generated two police reports from ticket buyers. One man who was asked to help set up the event compared it to the disastrous Fyre Festival, and at least one embarrassing video of a man breakdancing with a puppet ricocheted across the Internet.
“I do not think the party was that bad,” Morell, one of the party’s organizers, told me.
It was that bad. It was in fact, in the words of a GOP operative, “100 grift” in which the organizers told ticket buyers they might get to meet Trump officials and possibly Dear Leader himself.
This is just part of the “new Washington” under Trump — safe spaces — where all the MAGAs can hang out together and celebrate their Big Beautiful Dear Leader (and themselves.) For a price. This one was billed as “the official celebration of President Trump’s first 100 days” and it was to be held at the Kennedy center. Tickets cost up to $2500.
Sadly, Trump decided to hold one of his interminable rallies that night in Michigan and the Kennedy Center cancelled. Sad. So they had to move to Arlington in what appears to be some kind of airport hotel conference room which just isn’t quite as nice.
It went downhill from there. People with comped tickets were told to bring booze to fill out the “premium bar” that had been advertised. That takes some real chutzpah. Soon people were quitting and the organizers were taking to their social media accounts to say things to them like “fuck you whore.” No big MAGA names were in attendance.
Sommer reports:
An attendee who spent “hundreds of dollars” on her ticket filed a police report, and complained to the Washington Examiner that the event was a “grift” and “illegal.” Another ticket-buyer has also filed a report, according to Hurtt.
The organizers say they’ve been targeted by GOP operatives and insist they didn’t make any money but haven’t shown anyone a report of their finances.
Unfortunately, for Mr Morell, his event planning prowess wasn’t enough to save his job. Two days after his massively successful Arlington bash, the Daily Caller fired him. They gave no official reason but it stands to reason that they were called on the carpet by MAGA poohbahs (Steve Bannon?) who complained that their boy was much too amateurish with his grift in Trump’s new Washington. When the president is getting foreign nations to gift him a brand new 747-8 jumbo jet, this penny ante stuff is just embarrassing. These young MAGA operators are going to have to up their game.