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Trump is Completely Out of Touch with Reality - Let Them Eat Cake!

And his approval is finally plummeting

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Amy Siskind
Nov 03, 2025
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I have to admit, as someone who fact checks everything she posts, I had to wait for a reliable source to believe what I was seeing. Was Trump really throwing a Great Gatsby-themed party at Mar-a-Lago for Halloween? Surely, I thought to myself, these images cropping up of the party must be AI generated!

But nope. The images, and now videos that have surfaced of Trump’s celebration paint a picture of a man who is so utterly out of touch with reality, that he thought this was appropriate, or even a good idea. Trump has completely lost touch! This video captures how ornate and utterly grotesque his soiree was, in case you missed it:

It’s literally insanity, to say nothing of how incredibly tone death this display was, especially given the backdrop of what is happening.

But it’s not just this soiree, there are other examples.

The Lincoln Bathroom Makeover

Earlier that day, on October 31, Trump also posted two dozen photos of his latest White House makeover, the Lincoln Bedroom (Which as a side note, for anyone with actual taste looks like gaudy crap!).

When I first saw this post, I found this alone to be shocking. Was he really that out of touch? Did he realize the deadline that was coming the next day for food stamps funding, or the court cases playing out in real time?

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Trump 90,000 Square Foot Ballroom

As we all also know, Trump has demolished the East Wing of our White House to make room for a 90,000 sf ballroom, which will quite literally overwhelm the 55,000 sf White House.

I call this ballroom, ‘Ode to Pay to Play,’ because quite literally, its $300 million cost is being funded by people who want something from Trump and his regime. As you will see in the upcoming Weekly List, some of the big donors, whose names were not made public, have BIG business before the regime.

Meanwhile….

42 Million Americans Lose Food Stamps

On Friday, Halloween, October 31, the same day that Trump was posting about the Lincoln Bedroom and hosting his Great Gatsby soiree, his regime was arguing in two federal courts, because of lawsuits brought over the funding of the November 1 payment for the SNAP program’s food stamps.

Both judges struggled to understand why the Trump regime was refusing to use emergency funds, which are set up for just this kind of purpose, to prevent tens of millions of American from starving! The regime could give no valid answers. Not only was Trump playing politics with food stamps, he was partying and bragging while doing it!

Can it get even worse? Yes, according to a journalist at the Washington Post.

As we have often cited, cruelty is the point! This is simply craven.

Hundreds of Thousands of Federal Workers Miss Another Paycheck

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