In more advanced countries, such behavior would get you arrested, as people who have hosted their own house parties found out, facing jail time and/or massive fines. But Trump people are a breed apart. For them, there are no rules, no social standards of decency that they themselves have to follow.
Source: Washington Post
Following a sharp spike in coronavirus cases across the country, State Department leadership sent out a notice to employees one week ago recommending that “any non-mission critical events” be changed to “virtual events as opposed to in-person gatherings.”
That same week, U.S. event planners were told that the guidance did not apply to the upcoming functions they were working on: large indoor holiday parties hosted by Secretary of State Mike Pompeo and his wife, Susan, on the eighth floor of the State Department involving hundreds of guests, food and drinks.
Pompeo’s lineup of parties in the next three weeks comes as the Trump administration’s own health experts are imploring Americans to limit travel and avoid large gatherings amid a pandemic that has killed more than 270,000 Americans and infected nearly 14 million across the United States.
A copy of one invitation, obtained by The Washington Post, welcomes guests to a Dec. 15 event titled “Diplomacy at Home for the Holidays” in the Benjamin Franklin Room, the department’s flagship reception space, which features cut-glass chandeliers and towering Corinthian columns. Invitations have already gone out to 900 people, said two U.S. officials familiar with the planning, raising concerns about a potential superspreader event.
NEW—Trump’s Sec of State Mike Pompeo just invited over 900 people to the State Dept holiday party. All while State Dept sent out alert to make all non-mission-critical events virtual. But what about Pompeo’s party? He exempted himself, naturally. #COVID19 https://t.co/yva1GB3kYg pic.twitter.com/3IJ3Y5SPYE
— Eric Feigl-Ding (@DrEricDing) December 3, 2020
