Hey, everybody. It's me, Sam Stein, managing editor at the bulwark. I am coming to you on Sunday,

morning after the World Series, but also two days after Halloween. And I'm doing a full video because

there is this split screen thing that happened on Friday that just kind of blew my mind for a variety

of reasons. One, in Mar-a-Lago, Trump's secondary home

down in Florida, where they threw a great Gatsby-themed Halloween party filled with burlesque dancers

and women dressed up and men in tuxedoes and tails and ice luges and stuff like that.

And it just looked so over the top and so. and tails and ice looges and stuff like that.

And it just looked so over the top and so outlandish that it kind of blew my mind.

I mean, maybe a fun party actually, like, I guess if you're into that stuff.

Everyone's dressing up, so why not the president, right?

But just look at this video.

Let's play video one from there and just take a look at the scene down in Mar-a-Lago.

I don't know.

I'm not like trying to be a puritan about this stuff. Again, it looks fun for people, I guess. But like just close your eyes for a second. And imagine what would have happened if Joe Biden threw a party like that. People's minds would have been blown. Their jaws would have on the floor. It would have been considered so utterly inappropriate hell i'm old enough remember when barraq obama got in trouble with the press

because he invited common to the white house to like do rap poetry like that that was considered

unbecoming of the president and then you have that scene and that wasn't the only scene there was a ton of other stuff again again this is a gathering ofcoming of the president. And then you have that scene. And that wasn't the only scene. There was a ton of other stuff. Again, this is a gathering of some of the wealthies people. They're all decked out in tuxes. It's not like they're like going trick-or-treating or doing something wholesome for Halloween. They are living it up like they're in the Gatsby's, like this is Moulin Rouge. They're all having nice drinks and

stuff. And this is all during a government shutdown. Okay. This is during a government shutdown

when president is demolishing the East Wing to build his ostentatious ballroom where he's

posting about this new marble bathroom he's constructed in the White House,

mocking the old bathroom because they had old plumbing.

I mean, the level of out-of-touchness that is exhibited here is surprising, honestly.

It suggests a president and administration that just doesn't give a fuck because I don't really understand why they would do this.

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