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 hope that garbage PoS is still alive to see all of it torn down. Preferably from a view behind bars with the rest of the Nazi Party, I mean, the GOP.
he’s going to pay a lot of money to be one of the first digital-immortal AIs and there will be debates about the ethics of torturing his AI model
There’s an episode of Black Mirror where a murderer who was executed has his consciousness replicated so people can keep making him feel the pain of execution again and again
What a way to make money! “Download a copy of Trump’s consciousness today and do whatever you want with it!”
(I will be opposed but it’ll be a hard sell)