“A Little Party Never Killed Nobody”
Two federal judges on Friday afternoon ordered the Donald Trump administration to continue funding Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program (SNAP) benefits that expired at midnight. Both found that the administration acted unlawfully in refusing to tap emergency funds reserved for such a situation.
But this is Donald Trump. He’s made a practice of sniffing at court orders (New York Times):
Late on Friday, President Trump said that the administration would provide the funding for food stamps in November once a federal court could clarify “how we can legally” supply the money. But he indicated that a delay was inevitable.
“It is already delayed enough due to the Democrats keeping the Government closed through the monthly payment date,” he wrote on social media, “and, even if we get immediate guidance, it will unfortunately be delayed while states get the money out.”
Trump just discovered the word groceries early last year. Only a lunatic would appeal the court orders and further delay 40 million hungry Americans from buying them. But we’ll see.
Fresh off of demolishing the East Wing of the White House to erect a garish, 90,000 sq-ft ballroom funded by billionaires and megacorporations, Trump jetted off to Mar-a-Lago for an opulent, Great Gatsby-themed Halloween party for more rich friends. Associated Press White House Correspondent Danny Kemp posted a photo reporting “Official theme is Gatsby and ‘a little party never killed nobody’,” a song from the 2013 film The Great Gatsby.
“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
Do you think anyone will notice? Sen. Chris Murphy (D-Conn.) did: “The way he rubs his inhumanity in Americans’ face never ceases to stun me.”
Daily Beast noticed: Trump Gathers MAGA Pals for Tone-Deaf ‘Gatsby’ Theme Party
Hours before more than 40 million Americans were due to lose their SNAP benefits, the president and his court of cronies banqueted in style.
The Irish Star noticed: Trump seen at Mar-a-Lago Halloween party with dubious theme before SNAP aid ends
The president threw an opulent party at his Mar-a-Lago resort as more than 40 million low-income Americans faced losing SNAP aid.
Newsbreak: Donald Trump’s Mar-a-Lago Gatsby Bash Hits a Nerve as SNAP Benefits Hang by a Thread
Only Donald Trump could throw a party that looks like a scene from The Great Gatsby while millions of Americans’ food aid is vanishing.
The Daily Mirror: Donald Trump spotted at Mar-a-Lago Halloween party with questionable theme hours before SNAP aid ends
President Donald Trump attacked Democrats in a rant about being forced to pay SNAP benefits during the government shutdown — even as he threw a glitzy Great Gatsby-themed party at Mar-a-lago.
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I want to know who this guy is sitting to Trump’s right. Anyone know? Rubio is to his left.
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