11/8/2025
Trump is threw a big Mar a Lago party last night. Newt Gingrich notes the timing is poor, with SNAP benefits ending now. But the analogy to Gatsby as the stock market tops is a great socionomic moment.
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Democratic lawmakers and pundits have certainly been more vocal in condemning the Halloween bash at Trump’s resort in Florida. Gingrich has long supported Trump, and rarely offered him anything but purely constructive criticism — at least in public.
He appeared to maintain that diplomatic stance by noting “somebody,” without naming Trump, “wasn’t thinking” when they organized a roaring ’20s-themed party with ill-timed allusions to F. Scott Fitzgerald’s 1925 novel “The Great Gatsby.”
The book quite famously explores the empty materialism and destructive carelessness of America’s wealthy, among other themes. Some believe Trump, whose bash was reportedly themed “A Little Party Never Killed Nobody,” was fully aware of its insensitive timing.
Paul Krugman, the 2008 winner of the Nobel Memorial Prize in Economic Sciences, argued in his latest newsletter that most attendees “just don’t care about other people’s suffering,” and Friday’s event “was in large part a party held to celebrate others’ suffering.”
Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program benefits for more than 42 million people were paused Saturday, and while the Trump administration said there’s no way to circumvent this amid the shutdown, it certainly managed to do just that during the shutdown in 2019.
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