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Stargleamer

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12. Re The Great Gatsby and Trump's party. . .

Reply to highplainsdem (Original post)

Sat Nov 1, 2025, 04:36 PM

Nov 2025

Here is what Fitzgerald had to say:

...They were careless people... they smashed up things & creatures & then retreated back into their money or their vast carelessness or whatever it was that kept them together, & let other people clean up the mess they had made...

From The Great Gatsby, by F. Scott Fitzgerald.

#trump #billionaires
— Gillian Martin (@gillmartin.bsky.social) 2025-11-01T17:59:00.371Z

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Trump's Gatsby party wasn't just about being a rich SOB. Trump thought he looked like Redford. The NYT had told him so. [View all] highplainsdem Nov 2025 OP

Let's remember what happened to Gatsby... Buckeyeblue Nov 2025 #1

Let's remember what happened to the entire country at the end of The Roaring Twenties. Midnight Writer Nov 2025 #8

Trump thinks he looks like a cadaver? BOSSHOG Nov 2025 #2

Trump thinks he's gorgeous. highplainsdem Nov 2025 #4

"Warm golden skin"???? PatSeg Nov 2025 #5

So the theme was a song from the Baz Luhrmann Gatsby movie, tanyev Nov 2025 #3

Whatever the references to that later adaptation, I'd still bet Trump's interest would have been the Redford highplainsdem Nov 2025 #6

Oh, I'm not disagreeing with you. tanyev Nov 2025 #15

Did he eat some mushrooms or something weird? badhair77 Nov 2025 #7

He didn't need mushrooms. The NY Times told everyone he looked very - "ever so" - much like Robert Redford. highplainsdem Nov 2025 #10

Whoever wrote that swill needs glasses. Badly. GoCubsGo Nov 2025 #9

Never in his life has Trump been good looking. Look like Redford? Such bullshit. Solly Mack Nov 2025 #11

Re The Great Gatsby and Trump's party. . . Stargleamer Nov 2025 #12

Tomorrow Robert Redford is the the featured actor on TCM BigmanPigman Nov 2025 #13

NOT.EVEN.CLOSE! Gross comparison. chowder66 Nov 2025 #14

"He dates slinky fashion models....." 2025 rewrite.... IcyPeas Nov 2025 #16

Redford no, orangutan yes. oasis Nov 2025 #17

I knew I had seen Donnie Dipshit before maxrandb Nov 2025 #18

Redford is dead, so I think I see the resemblance Johonny Nov 2025 #19