Have you ever seen luxury like this?: Trump moonlights as dinner host
It turns out that President Donald Trump loves to throw a good dinner party.
The president is known for his after-hours cellphone calls and his late-night cable news habit, but several times a month, he invites New York real estate pals and businessmen, conservative leaders, prominent TV journalists, former campaign aides, and lawmakers to private dinners inside the White House residence — gatherings never made public on the official White House schedule.
Even as the president has withdrawn from the types of public events that were standard for his predecessors, he’s sustained the dinner party as a staple of presidential power — though he’s traded the high-wattage salons hosted by the Obamas for clubby interactions with people he considers peers, according to eight current and former administration officials and sources who have been to the meals.
The parties, which have recently ramped up, afford Trump the chance to do something he loves — play host — a role that runs contrary to the narrative of him isolated at night in the White House.
Patriots owner Bob Kraft, news magnate Rupert Murdoch and conservative media figures Chris Ruddy and Matt Drudge have been. So has Trump’s longtime New York real-estate developer friend Richard LeFrak. He’s also welcomed musician Kid Rock and former Alaska Gov. Sarah Palin — who posted photographs on social media of herself posing in the White House — and JPMorgan Chase CEO Jamie Dimon, who was one of President Barack Obama’s closest Wall Street allies.
Sometimes, TV personalities such as Sean Hannity or former Fox News executive Bill Shine dine alongside Trump son-in-law Jared Kushner, favored Cabinet secretaries like Steven Mnuchin and Wilbur Ross, or senior staff like Kellyanne Conway. Last month, Trump had steaks with former campaign staffers Corey Lewandowski, Brad Parscale and David Bossie.
https://www.politico.com/story/2018/04/05/trumps-dinner-diplomacy-503601
All at taxpayer expense no doubt.
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republicans have so much to hide, so much they don't want Americans to know about them. Shame on them slopping up all our tax money for their own gourmet indulgent luxuries while pissing on America's people who are poor.
