Trump attends another extravagant party at Mar-a-Lago during shutdown
www.independent.co.uk
Images of the president were shared by guests on social media Friday at the lavish event which featured a three-course menu of beef filet, truffle dauphinoise, pan-seared scallops and a trio of desserts including “Trump chocolate cake.”
    • givesomefucks@lemmy.worldEnglish
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      2 days ago

      If you build it, they will come…

      /S

      But seriously, everyone wants FDR 2.0 to show up, but they ig ore before we could get FDR, we had a US president sic tanks on protestors, including women and children.

      On July 28, 1932, U.S. Attorney General William D. Mitchell ordered the veterans removed from all government property. Washington police met with resistance, shot at the protestors, and two veterans were wounded and later died. President Herbert Hoover then ordered the U.S. Army to clear the marchers’ campsite. Army Chief of Staff General Douglas MacArthur commanded a contingent of infantry and cavalry, supported by six tanks. The Bonus Army marchers with their wives and children were driven out, and their shelters and belongings burned.

      https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bonus_Army

      4 months later FDR beat the ever living daylights out of Hoover.

      But, and this is important, when FDR won, the protesters didn’t just do a 180 and pretend everything was better. They weren’t blindly supporting one of two options:

      A second, smaller Bonus March in 1933 at the start of the Roosevelt administration was defused in May with an offer of jobs with the Civilian Conservation Corps (CCC) at Fort Hunt, Virginia, which most of the group accepted. Those who chose not to work for the CCC by the May 22 deadline were given transportation home.[2] In 1936, Congress overrode President Roosevelt’s veto and paid the veterans their bonus nine years early.