They don’t see a problem with this:
Donald Trump rolled out the red carpet for a lavish party at Mar-a-Lago on Friday—swapping a government shutdown for opera and truffled gratin dauphinois.
He partied over filet, scallops and a dessert trio with a Fox News star, a foreign politician and a country singer at the same time as his administration was asking the Supreme Court to stop it from being forced to pay food stamps to millions.
The event was the second big Friday in a row for Trump at his Florida club. Last Friday, which was Halloween, he threw a Great Gatsby-themed Halloween party featuring skimpily dressed dancers in giant martini glasses. That earned him mockery for his apparent failure to know the plot of Gatsby, while California governor Gavin Newsom compared Trump to Marie Antoinette.
It’s not like Trump doesn’t know what people are saying:
Video that was posted Friday night also shows him seated at a banquet table next to one of his occasional golf buddies, Fox News anchor Bret Baier.
Baier is described as being from the “straight news” side of Fox and had an exclusive interview with the president on Wednesday. During the interview, he challenged Trump about the cost of living crisis, reading out loud a message from a lifelong Republican who voted for Trump three times but is “not happy” about costs: “I don’t see the best economy right now—Wall Street numbers do not reflect my Main Street money. Please do something, President Trump.“
Baier asked Trump his response, prompting Trump to say, “Beef we have to get down. I think of groceries—you know, it’s an old fashioned word but it’s a beautiful word. Beef we have to get down, but we’ve got prices way down and think of this: energy. She drives a car, probably, and her energy prices are way down. And energy is so all-encompassing. It’s so big that when energy goes down everything comes down. Everything follows it. And I have energy down to five or six-year lows now.”
Baier then sat down right beside Trump on Friday over a meal centered on the beef which the president had said was unaffordable.
I’m sure it was delicious. But it was the CPAC seafood spread that was super impressive:
They’re all so empathetic.
Speaking of delusional narcissism:
President Donald Trump wants the Washington Commanders to name their planned $3.7 billion stadium after him, multiple sources with knowledge of the situation told ESPN.
A senior White House source said there have been back-channel communications with a member of the Commanders’ ownership group, led by Josh Harris, to express Trump’s desire to have the domed stadium in the nation’s capital bear his name. The new stadium is being built on the old RFK Stadium site that served as the team’s home from 1961 to 1996.
“That would be a beautiful name, as it was President Trump who made the rebuilding of the new stadium possible,” White House press secretary Karoline Leavitt told ESPN on Friday night via email.
They’ll do it I’m sure. It’s exactly the tribute he loves the most and it costs them nothing. Well, except the ongoing degradation of our democracy but who cares about that? We love a crazy, dementia riddled King. It’s part of our heritage.
I see the Donald J. Trump Viagra Stadium in D.C.’s future.