President Donald Trump’s lavish and glittering “Great Gatsby”-esque Halloween party at Mar-a-Lago has been criticized as “tone-deaf,” given that it was hosted mere hours before millions of Americans lost federal food benefits due to what’s now the longest government shutdown in history.
Famed economist Paul Krugman thinks the choice of theme was deliberate.
Read Krugman’s full analysis on Substack.
In Krugman’s latest email newsletter published on Tuesday, the 2008 winner of the Nobel Memorial Prize in Economic Sciences argued it “wasn’t a case of tone deafness, living it up despite others’ suffering.”
Instead, he wrote, “it was in large part a party held to celebrate others’ suffering.”
