Yes, many Americans are struggling, but it’s good to know the first family can still afford Earth’s most expensive provisions. Morale is everything, isn’t it?
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n the absence of any clearly and consistently stated aims from the US administration, maybe each day of the Iran war just needs a moodboard description. In which case, Sunday was a tale of two nepo babies. In Iran, the high-level executive search for the new ayatollah concluded that the old ayatollah’s son was the best man for the position. It’s not for me to assess his job prospects, but you’d hope his supermarket order doesn’t contain any “ripen at home” pears.
Meanwhile, across the world, in LA, Donald Trump’s eldest granddaughter posted a YouTube video titled “I Brought My Secret Service to Erewhon”. By way of background, Erewhon is Earth’s most pretentiously extravagant hipster food shop, and, as Kai was at pains to brag, “the most expensive grocery store pretty much out there. Everything’s crazy expensive! So we’re going to get my favourite stuff.”
Thank you for your use of till service! It’s important that ordinary Americans understand this as Mademoiselle’s part in the war effort. And there’s a full 18 minutes of it, as Kai loads up on woo-woo supplements and something described as “the Hailey Bieber smoothie”, wonders “what kind of sushi are we feeling?” before finally dropping $233, leaving the store and getting into … a five-car, police-bike-escorted motorcade. “They really laid out the red carpet for you!” trills her unseen cameraman (let’s just call him Gary Antoinette).
