{"id":352025,"date":"2025-11-03T06:33:12","date_gmt":"2025-11-03T06:33:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/352025\/"},"modified":"2025-11-03T06:33:12","modified_gmt":"2025-11-03T06:33:12","slug":"john-oliver-slams-trumps-great-gatsby-party-amid-snap-freeze","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/352025\/","title":{"rendered":"John Oliver Slams Trump’s ‘Great Gatsby’ Party Amid SNAP Freeze"},"content":{"rendered":"

\n\tAs many celebrated Halloween, the end of the month also marked the suspension of SNAP benefits for many Americans amid the government shutdown.<\/a><\/p>\n

\n\tOn Sunday\u2019s episode of Last Week Tonight<\/a>, John Oliver<\/a> called out Donald Trump<\/a> for continuing to blame the shutdown on Democrats as he went to a Great Gatsby<\/a>-themed Halloween party at Mar-a-Lago before his administration froze the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program (SNAP) on Nov. 1.<\/p>\n

\n\t\u201cYeah, not only is that pretty insulting,\u201d he said. \u201cI\u2019m guessing it\u2019s also pretty infuriating to whatever exhausted high school freshman just wrote a 4,000-word essay about Great Gatsby as a grim meditation on the disillusionment of the American Dream, only for CNN to tell them, \u2018You know what? It\u2019s really just a book about rich people partying.’\u201d<\/p>\n

\n\tOliver continued, \u201cAnd for what it\u2019s worth, the actual theme of that event was, and I quote, \u2018A Little Party Never Killed Nobody.\u2019 And I guess that is true. Although, it is also true, that as we are all finding out right now, a \u2018grand old party\u2019 is capable of killing a whole lot of people, and unfortunately, they don\u2019t seem to give a single marble and gold-encased shit about that.\u201d<\/p>\n

\n\tThe suspension of SNAP benefits to over 42 million Americans by the Trump administration on Nov. 1 has proved to be a political lightning rod during a pretty low-key shutdown. In some of the ugliest examples of the MAGA mindset, the Department of Agriculture has determined in October it can\u2019t use the billions in contingency funds long set aside for SNAP, due to legal considerations.<\/p>\n

\n\tThat decision has led to a series of court challenges by states, cities and others amidst an expected surge at food banks.<\/p>\n

\n\tTwo federal judges this week ruled the administration has to tap into the $6 billion available. However, despite Trump posting late Friday it would be his \u201chonor to provide the funding, just like I did with military and law enforcement pay,\u201d the administration is demanding the courts provide guidance on how to pay out \u2014 a process that will still delay SNAP recipients from receiving benefits for weeks in the very best case scenario.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"As many celebrated Halloween, the end of the month also marked the suspension of SNAP benefits for many…\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":352026,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[30],"tags":[69,171,49089,487,53747,54939,92802,173,67,132,68],"class_list":{"0":"post-352025","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-tv","8":"tag-donald-trump","9":"tag-entertainment","10":"tag-government-shutdown","11":"tag-hbo-max","12":"tag-john-oliver","13":"tag-last-week-tonight","14":"tag-the-great-gatsby","15":"tag-tv","16":"tag-united-states","17":"tag-unitedstates","18":"tag-us"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@us\/115484374069148380","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/352025","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=352025"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/352025\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/352026"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=352025"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=352025"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=352025"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}