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A Look Inside at The Horrors of Trump’s Carnival Inauguration Party

MK Duffy
4 min readJan 20, 2025

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This is partly satire, and partly true and I leave it to your wisdom to differentiate.

A 1937 poster of a carnival midway.
Carnival game at the Zapata County Fair in Zapata, Texas https://www.loc.gov/

Mosey down the midway of this surreal carnival, set amidst the presidential portraits and pillars of a building that represents our democracy. But there is a new atmosphere. (I understand a reporter saw real tears running down the portrait of Abraham Lincoln in the State Dining Room.)

Portrait of Abraham Lincoln.
White House Collection https://www.whitehousehistory.org/photos/abraham-lincoln

You must be familiar with the midway. It’s where all the games, rides, and amusements are located from the entrance of the carnival to its epicenter.

This particular midway is full of things for sale and believe me, entry wasn’t cheap. Billionaires punched their way to the head of the line to offer millions of dollars to the main attraction, Donald the Clown. The Tech Billionaire Bros, Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg, Amazon’s Jeff Bezos, Apple CEO Tim Cook, Google CEO Sundar, and of course, co-president Elonia Musk, the South African who wears the golden mantle of Wealthiest Person on Earth, all dutifully lined up to honor the Clown King.

Elonia, soon to move into his office at the White House, was wide-eyed and ketamined into…

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MK Duffy
MK Duffy

Written by MK Duffy

Scorpio living out my karmic life. The internal life is most interesting to me. Illumination, expansion, humor. Politics along the way.

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