Let them eat Brioche not good enough? That’s okay: Ivanka gives us the high-class version of Hold My Beer. For Ivanka, it’s hold my champagne.
Ivanka Trump, whose family sells Trump-branded champagne, actually tweeted out that this memorial day – the day we set aside to think about those who actually fucking died in the wars fought by US soldiers at the orders of US politicians – that this Memorial Day should feature champagne frozen into popsicles. Y’know. For the dead.
I can’t even.
The text below:
Make champagne popsicles this #MemorialDay:
At least she didn’t tweet it at Khizr Khan. Or did she?
To abuse another trope: the apple does not fall far from the tree.
on my goodnight shutdown the tabs run
I read this as:
Let Them Eat Chipmunks
going to bed now
Or in this case, as John Oliver said: the apple does not fall far from the orange.
I keep thinking of the veterans and families for whom Memorial Day is a day of genuine mourning and how champagne is associated with celebration.
It’s a ridiculously ghoulish juxtaposition. If I saw this in fiction I was editing, I’d tell the author to revise it because it’s too on the nose.