On Friday night, Donald Trump threw a Great Gatsby-themed Halloween party at Mar-a-Lago only hours before SNAP benefits expired for millions of Americans. Last night, late-night hosts focused their monologues on Trump’s over-the-top fête, saying it “felt like the last big bash before the Epstein files come out.”
Jon Stewart, speaking on The Daily Show, called the party “some Hollywood Babylon shit that once and for all shows that Donald Trump doesn’t give a fuck about even looking like he gives a fuck.”
“On the very night SNAP benefits ended, Trump threw a Great Gatsby-themed ode to decadence and hedonism that even Jeffrey Epstein would have thought was a little over the top,” Stewart said. “There were dancers, costumes, champagne—a wonderful celebration where the theme was apparently gross income inequality. The slogan of the party, as people were losing their food benefits—I shit you not—was ‘a little party never killed nobody.’ Did you even read The Great Gatsby? Spoiler alert, the party killed somebody.”
He added, “Usually in a time of national suffering there’s a generally-accepted principle in leadership that you at least pretend to feel the pain of the people that you represent. But this president seems to go out of his way to let struggling Americans know that he is doing very well.”
On The Late Show, Stephen Colbert quipped that “no one should understand the importance of daily meals more than Donald Trump.” He added, “Hungry is his favorite emotion. It’s his whole thing. Trump and food is like JFK and sex.”
Colbert explained that Trump’s Gatsby party was “just as dumb as you’d expect.” After playing footage of the event, which included a dancer writhing in giant martini glass, Colbert said, “Mr. President, come on. There’s a shut down. Read the room. There are people in this country sending their children to bed without a bite to eat or a woman to drink.”
On Jimmy Kimmel Live, Jimmy Kimmel quipped that the party’s theme is “a theme you would select only if you’d never read The Great Gatsby.”
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“You know, throwing a party at your private golf club where the theme is rich, white people hours before millions of Americans are said to lose their food assistance might be the Trumpiest Trump move of all time,” Kimmel said. “It felt like the last big bash before the Epstein files come out.”
Speaking on The Tonight Show, Jimmy Fallon noted that the party’s real theme was “tone deaf.” “The government is shut down,” the host said. “What are you doing?”
From Rolling Stone US
