Schmoozing the super-rich to fund a $300m ballroom while cutting food aid for those on low incomes threw the president’s architectural folly into sharp relief
It was a feast fit for a king – and any billionaire willing to be his subject. From gold-rimmed plates on gold-patterned tablecloths decorated with gold candlestick holders, they gorged on heirloom tomato panzanella salad, beef wellington and a dessert of roasted Anjou pears, cinnamon crumble and butterscotch ice-cream.
On 15 October, Donald Trump welcomed nearly 130 deep-pocketed donors, allies and representatives of major companies for a dinner at the White House to reward them for their pledged contributions to a vast new ballroom now expected to cost $300m. That the federal government had shut down two weeks earlier scarcely seemed to matter.
But two weeks later, the shutdown is starting to bite – and throw Trump’s architectural folly into sharp relief. On Saturday, with Congress still locked in a legislative stalemate, a potential benefit freeze could leave tens of millions of low-income Americans without food aid. Democrats accuse Trump’s Republican party of “weaponising hunger” to pursue an extreme rightwing agenda.
I get second hand embarrassment from the lack of spine in the everyday American. I thought they’d care about democracy. I was very much wrong.
I didn’t think the people propping up this administration ever cared about democracy but I didn’t think they’d cheer for themselves being cuked multiple times a day by the wealthy elite who are spitting down at them from the literal palace trump is building on top of the corpose of the home of the American people
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vicarious_embarrassment
Finally! I had no idea we did have this term in the English language!
We should upgrade it… I feel Entromped! Or she makes me Tromparrased!
Democracy is when we’re allowed to own guns.
So to them it’s all in the green.
Til you tell them why they’re allowed to have guns. Then they put them back in the safe again, no one wants to actually use their guns for that reason, even if that reason is very much in play, at this very moment. I’m very disappointed in the American people.
People are successfully resisting armored gunmen with sheer numbers and their bare hands. Perhaps it is you who is uninformed.