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Uncle Joe

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Mon Nov 3, 2025, 12:24 PM Nov 3

Trump Throws "Great Gatsby" Party at Mar-a-Lago as Food Stamps End for Millions [View all]



President Trump held a lavish Great Gatsby-themed Halloween party at Mar-a-Lago Friday, just hours before an estimated 42 million people lost SNAP benefits across the country. Kirk Curnutt, the executive director of the international F. Scott Fitzgerald Society, says that while "Gatsby is famous for its lavish party scenes, [what] people often miss is that the entire thrust of the book is to critique that conspicuous consumption and the wastage that goes on in these sorts of events."
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