Dear Editor:

The guest lists at the ex-presidential palaces make for fascinating reading, though the 2017 - 2021 visitors’ log at the White House would be even more intriguing…if Trump had followed the Obama precedent by making it public.

But let’s take a peek at one from Bedminster Golf Resort, where Trump hosted a fundraiser for criminals charged with attacking the Capitol on January 6. One of the speakers at this event was Timothy Hale-Cusanelli, a white supremacist and Hitler sympathizer who had told his military colleagues that “Hitler should have finished the job.” A photo of him sporting a Hitler mustache at work helps explain Trump’s decision to give him an award and praise him as “an amazing patriot.” The admiration is mutual; he refers to Trump as his “God Emperor.”

At the Mar-a-Lago estate two years ago (dinnerwithtrump.com, only $2,997 per person), Trump dined with Nick Fuentes, the poster child of genocide, racism, antisemitism, Islamism, dictatorship, homophobia and misogyny. As a de-platformed Tweeter and permanently-banned YouTuber, he has praised Vladimir Putin for invading Ukraine and has celebrated the Taliban. 

After these two hearty courses, it’s time for dessert. Who could forget the video of Ye (aka Kanye West), sitting in the Oval Office as he conferred with Trump? A host of reporters recorded the rapper telling his favorite president, “So, there’s theories that – there’s infinite amounts of universe and there’s alternate universe so it’s very important
for me to get [Larry Hoover, street-gang kingpin serving six life sentences for murder, conspiracy and extortion] out because in an alternate universe, I am him and I have to go and get him free.”

Throughout the duration of this psychotic harangue on national TV, Trump listened intently, affirming Ye’s opinions on gun control, prison reform, the hydrogen-powered iPlane One, and his Yezee brand of merch.

Sadly, the gourmandizing hasn’t abated; Trump’s newest tablemate is Laura Loomer, a viciously racist bigot denounced even by conspiracy-theorist Marjorie Taylor Greene as being too extreme for “Republicans or MAGA.”
 

Bill Hammond
Boothbay