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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.

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[–] comeonitsnotlike@feddit.nu 0 points 2 days ago (3 children)

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.

[–] TheJesusaurus@piefed.ca 7 points 2 days ago

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

[–] altphoto@lemmy.today 4 points 2 days ago (1 children)

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vicarious_embarrassment

Finally! I had no idea we did have this term in the English language!

[–] altphoto@lemmy.today 1 points 2 days ago

We should upgrade it... I feel Entromped! Or she makes me Tromparrased!

[–] ayyy@sh.itjust.works 1 points 1 day ago (1 children)

People are successfully resisting armored gunmen with sheer numbers and their bare hands. Perhaps it is you who is uninformed.

[–] nanoswarm9k@lemmus.org 2 points 21 hours ago

Some folks don't even know they're just mirroring mainstream u.s. media lies. Folks think they're too smart to gaslight or can't think outside a stereotype or empathize with a different logistics set.

But also did anyone get sniped on Jan 6? But also is a non whitenationalist crowd going to get the same treatment?

A prayer for the bailfunds and the civil rights lawyers.