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BumRushDaShow

(163,346 posts)
Sun Nov 9, 2025, 10:54 AM Sunday

Trump attends another extravagant party at Mar-a-Lago as thousands hit food banks amid shutdown

Source: The Independent

Sunday 09 November 2025 09:43 EST


President Donald Trump has attended his second extravagant party at Mar-a-Lago in a week as tens of thousands of federal employees go without pay, leaving some of them, and many more Americans, to turn to food banks amid the longest government shutdown in history.

Images of the president were shared by guests on social media Friday at the lavish event which featured a three-course menu of beef filet, truffle dauphinoise, pan-seared scallops and a trio of desserts including “Trump chocolate cake.”

Trump was seen dining at a table surrounded by MAGA supporters, and posing with his thumbs up next to women in ballgowns. The event also featured ice sculptures and an opera performance.

Around the same time Friday, the Trump administration was allowed to continue only partially funding the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program after an order from the Supreme Court blocked the decision of a lower court which had required the government to fully fund SNAP, otherwise known as food stamps.

Read more: https://www.the-independent.com/news/world/americas/us-politics/trump-banquet-mar-a-lago-snap-funding-b2861556.html

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Trump attends another extravagant party at Mar-a-Lago as thousands hit food banks amid shutdown (Original Post) BumRushDaShow Sunday OP
Was the ice sculpture a naked woman? William Seger Sunday #1
The people have no SNAP? Let them eat truffle dauphinoise. Ocelot II Sunday #2
We who read history know what happens to the dauphin(oise) The Blue Flower Sunday #3
Please don't tickle my toes... MiHale Sunday #4
I might take up knitting again. Ocelot II Sunday #5
Believe Karma can be a bitch. republianmushroom Sunday #6
Well, she better hurry up. mwmisses4289 Sunday #7
I cant wait to see what he comes back as in his next life. Irish_Dem Sunday #9
I vote for "black woman" (nt) William Seger Sunday #11
Half Latina/half black female. LGBTQ. Every initial in the rainbow. Irish_Dem Sunday #12
Oh, yeah, much better! William Seger Sunday #15
I like to think that the longer it takes for karma to catch up Javaman Sunday #13
I'm gonna start thinking that, too. Hope that helps my blood pressure Deuxcents Sunday #26
People should send back the SNAP food after they have eaten it. Irish_Dem Sunday #8
K&R BlueWavePsych Sunday #10
Unbelievable. murielm99 Sunday #14
Somehow, both unbelievable and totally expected. (nt) William Seger Sunday #16
Oh, I bet that felt really good to pedo Trump and his Nazi pals Farmer-Rick Sunday #17
Sadists to the core! BigmanPigman Sunday #25
'tRump chocolate cake' Mc Mike Sunday #18
White chocolate with orange food coloring, smells like adult diapers (nt) William Seger Sunday #19
Was there by any chance a Golden Showers fountain? BattleRow Sunday #20
What do you vultures want from him? quakerboy Sunday #21
I tried to look up truffle dauphinoise. I think it is a French cuisine potato dish with truffle mushrooms. flashman13 Sunday #22
The Orange Gargoyle... GiqueCee Sunday #23
How much money does he bring in per party? twodogsbarking Sunday #24
Reminds me of the movie about Hitler's last days. raccoon Sunday #27

The Blue Flower

(6,256 posts)
3. We who read history know what happens to the dauphin(oise)
Sun Nov 9, 2025, 11:06 AM
Sunday

Someone, somewhere, is preparing a metaphorical guillotine.

MiHale

(12,360 posts)
4. Please don't tickle my toes...
Sun Nov 9, 2025, 11:16 AM
Sunday

The thought of a trump roll at dinner… metaphorically speaking, of course.



Has he lost his mind??…no just his head..

William Seger

(12,049 posts)
15. Oh, yeah, much better!
Sun Nov 9, 2025, 12:01 PM
Sunday

Of course, every racist, misogynist, and homophobe's greatest fear is that the tables will be turned on how they've treated others.

Javaman

(64,914 posts)
13. I like to think that the longer it takes for karma to catch up
Sun Nov 9, 2025, 11:49 AM
Sunday

The worse it will be

It helps me sleep at night

Irish_Dem

(77,969 posts)
8. People should send back the SNAP food after they have eaten it.
Sun Nov 9, 2025, 11:37 AM
Sunday

Can be served as the Trump Chocolate Cake.

Farmer-Rick

(12,294 posts)
17. Oh, I bet that felt really good to pedo Trump and his Nazi pals
Sun Nov 9, 2025, 12:08 PM
Sunday

Psychopaths really get their rocks off when others suffer abuse at their hands. Imagine having it all, then taking away some small help from hungry people. And then enjoying it to the extreme.

They are gleeful about the suffering they are causing. That's why they are partying.

quakerboy

(14,657 posts)
21. What do you vultures want from him?
Sun Nov 9, 2025, 01:16 PM
Sunday

He has been hard at work diverting government money and pardoning the worst criminals of the entertainment and financial fraud worlds takes a lot of time and energy. He has to relax sometime.

flashman13

(1,764 posts)
22. I tried to look up truffle dauphinoise. I think it is a French cuisine potato dish with truffle mushrooms.
Sun Nov 9, 2025, 01:20 PM
Sunday

What ever it is, if it contains truffles it is very expensive. Nothing is too good for our new overlords.

GiqueCee

(3,029 posts)
23. The Orange Gargoyle...
Sun Nov 9, 2025, 02:02 PM
Sunday

... just loves to rub everyone's noses in the the fact that he couldn't care less about the malicious cruelty that defines his regime.

I'm only a year younger than him, but I'm determined to live long enough to piss on his grave. I'm certain that line will be much longer than even the ones that stretch a thousand yards from the food banks struggling to feed those whose SNAP benefits he stole.

$40 billion for the fellow dictator destroying Argentina, but not a penny for those less fortunate IN HIS OWN FUCKING COUNTRY!

God, I hate this subhuman monster, and every one of his supporters.

raccoon

(32,137 posts)
27. Reminds me of the movie about Hitler's last days.
Sun Nov 9, 2025, 06:16 PM
Sunday

Him hiding in his bunker enjoying fantastic meals and those at ground level starving.

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