The luxury gap: Trump builds his palace as Americans face going hungry
The luxury gap: Trump builds his palace as Americans face going hungry
The luxury gap: Trump builds his palace as Americans face going hungry
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.
The American people are allowing themselves to be embarrassed daily by this man. This can all end as soon as the American people decide to end it.
Hi, American here. I decided to end it. It doesn't seem to be ending. Now what?
Please enlighten me to this silver bullet action item that I can take to end this. I'm showing up to protests, I'm calling my representatives. It's not working.
The bullets don't have to be silver. The GOP aren't werewolves.
You are a single person within the US. They are saying “the American people” which is to say that the collection of people made up of the general population of the US must decide to stop this nonsense.
That means that all of you need to finally stop chasing centrists, stop voting for fascists, etc. We aren’t stupid, we know that there are people trying, but “the American people” is a group still that includes tens of millions of nazis and tens of millions of people who don’t even vote because they’re ignorant of what’s going on.
What have you done?
Its called revolt. By the point Americans have reached, many countries would be in full revolt. By the time Americans realize that revolt is their only option the army will be setup in their cities and bought and paid for by the oligarchy. The good soldiers will be removed from the army and they will have no protectors to stand with them.
ThEy JuSt LeT hIm GeT aWaY wItH iT.
I'm so tired of this short-sighted take.
You are actively letting them get away with it.
Meaning, what? The GOP controls Congress, the courts and the WH.
They're not even get grifted by the Monorail guy from the Simpsons, they get grifted by a fat, stupid pedophile that shits his pants. Crayy
Au contraire
It doesn't take "people"
Just one person who loves beautiful WWII Italian music
Bella ciao, baby.
I want to have so much hope and optimism going into the mid-terms next year. But, even those hopes and dreams have been dashed simply because of how unwilling and defeatist a lot of Americans are to doing anything that's happening infront of them.
We just sit there and take the rape.
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!
Democracy is when we're allowed to own guns.
So to them it's all in the green.
People are successfully resisting armored gunmen with sheer numbers and their bare hands. Perhaps it is you who is uninformed.