By J.C. Bruce
This is your Trump Administration, celebrating with champagne, whooping it up, having a grand old time in the White House while Americans are struggling, wondering whether to put gas in the tank or food in the fridge.
It’s a real Let Them Eat Cake moment.
This picture and two more we’re sharing here today tell you everything you need to know about Donald Trump and the grifters and gnomes he’s surrounded himself with.
This image is a screen grab from a longer video posted online by Dan Scavino, Trump’s deputy chief of staff. It’s AI-generated, and it really is a challenge to understand why someone in such a high position in the Executive Branch of the United States of America would think this is OK.
In addition to Scavino—the guy grasping the champagne bottle—are his wife, Erin, holding a shoe, and Eric and Lara Trump.
"This is not an intended for the Dems heads to explode—Being some of the post State Dinner party has gotten out, I felt inclined to share mine as well, in complete transparency, with the American People. GOD BLESS THE USA!!!" Scavino wrote in an Instagram post containing the video.
The reaction to the post was scathing, including this from former federal and state prosecutor and MeidasTouch editor-in-chief Ron Filipkowski:
“These people make Marie Antoinette look connected to the people and empathetic by comparison. They laugh at what their own voters are going through as they continue to mock them as they enrich themselves and have a great time.”
This still image is from one of several videos Trump has been running on TV. and online. The White House claims they are public service ads, so they are entitled to spend hundreds of thousands of taxpayers' dollars to broadcast them.
They are, in fact, self-promotional commercials, unquestionably political in nature, advertisements designed to boost Trump and Republicans as the midterm elections approach.
One ad that ran during weekend college and NFL football games appears to be a largely repurposed campaign ad from Trump’s election in which he’s strolling down a White House corridor warning:
“This is the final battle. With you at my side, we will demolish the deep state. We will expel the warmongers from our government. We will drive out the globalists. We will cast out the communists, marxists, and fascists. We will throw off the sick political class that hates our country. We will rout the fake news media, and we will liberate America from these villains, once and for all.”
The major difference between the 2023 and 2024 political ads and this one is that now there’s a tagline that reads: Paid for by the U.S. Government. Meaning you and me.
And not to put too fine a point on it, but just when is Trump going to get around to expelling the warmongers from our government? Last time I checked, he’s the warmonger-in-chief. Does he plan to self-deport?
The screenshot shown above is from a similar ad, a chest-pounder where Trump brags he’s going to protect us from a communist takeover.
What’s so ludicrous about this is that the ad ran while Chinese President Xi Jinping was being feted at the White House (hence the champagne), where credible reports suggest that Trump offered to sell China American-made weapons.
No need to worry about communist Chinese paratroopers landing on our shores when our president is handing them the key to the castle.
Reaction from Democrats was harsh:
“This is the sort of government propaganda one might expect in North Korea, not the United States of America, and it is an egregious and utterly illegal misuse of Americans’ hard-earned tax dollars,” congressional Democratic appropriators wrote in a letter Friday addressed to White House chief of staff Susie Wiles.
The letter was signed by Sen. Patty Murray, D-Wash.; Sen. Jack Reed, D-R.I.; Rep. Rosa De Lauro, D-Conn.; and Rep. Steny Hoyer, D-Md.
Then there’s this image, captured during the weekend football game between the Texas Longhorns and the Tennessee Volunteers.
Yep, that’s Natalie Harp, Trump’s constant companion, capturing the commander in chief’s attention with something on her ever-present laptop—nobody knows what—keeping the easily distracted octogenarian entertained, as if the action on the field weren’t enough.
Can’t this guy go anywhere without her?
Apparently not.
Can he be so oblivious that he doesn’t realize how embarrassing this is?
Apparently he doesn’t care.
Break out the champagne.
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