SNAP benefits, which help people on low incomes in the U.S. buy groceries, expired last Friday on the same night that President Donald Trump hosted a lavish Halloween party at Mar-a-Lago themed around The Great Gatsby — and Jon Stewart was as disgusted as you’d expect.
“That’s what he was doing this weekend. He wasn’t working for the American people. That was just some Hollywood Babylon shit that once and for all shows that Donald Trump doesn’t give a f*** about even looking like he gives a f***,” says Stewart in The Daily Show clip above. “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.
“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 was, I shit you not, ‘A little party never killed nobody.’ Did you even read The Great Gatsby?!”
