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The Lincoln Project

While Americans Starve, Trump Throws a Gala 🥂

The Lincoln Project

The Lincoln Project

Society & Culture, News Commentary, Government, Daily News, News, Politics

4.7 • 8.4K Ratings

🗓️ 7 November 2025

⏱️ 36 minutes

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Summary

For Trump, empathy is like one of his contractors — it never gets paid. Rick explores how Trump’s austerity policies, SNAP cuts, and Medicare rollbacks crushed millions while he partied with billionaires. The 2025 Democratic election surge wasn’t luck — it was justice.
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Rick Wilson is on X at @TheRickWilson, on Bluesky at @TheRickWilson.bsky.social, and you can check out Rick's Substack at therickwilson.substack.com. You can check out more of LP's work at www.lincolnproject.us and on X at @ProjectLincoln. 

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Your task will not be an easy one. Your enemy is well trained, well equipped, and battlehardt.

0:56.6

There is not a liberal America and a conservative America.

1:00.2

There is the United States of America.

1:04.8

Good night and good luck.

1:06.9

This week you saw a photograph.

1:09.6

It's a photograph of an event in the Oval Office where during a Health and Human Services press conference, a man collapsed and fell to the floor.

1:22.0

The photograph, though, is of Donald Trump.

1:24.4

The man's been on the ground for a minute or two.

1:27.4

He's surrounded by people.

1:28.9

There's yelling. There's movement in the room. And the photograph of his Donald Trump

1:33.5

staring straight ahead. Emotionless, affectless, no concern in his eyes, no, no movement,

1:47.6

no recognition of what's happening around him.

1:54.0

And that speaks to something that really struck me because sometimes a photograph is so emblematic, so, so symbolic, so encapsulating a moment and the character of the person in the frame that

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