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BumRushDaShow

(170,282 posts)
Sat Apr 11, 2026, 07:24 PM 6 hrs ago

Trump Has TV Wheeled In At $1 Million-Per-Person 'Candlelight' Fundraiser To Watch Artemis II Splashdown

Source: MEDIAite

Apr 11th, 2026, 8:58 am


President Donald Trump had a television wheeled in at his $1 million-per-person fundraiser to watch the Artemis II splashdown with his wealthy donors.

Just hours before the president’s deadline to destroy the “whole civilization” of Iran at 8PM on Tuesday, conflicting announcements of a two-week ceasefire emerged. While Trump and his allies declared the deal a victory, the Strait of Hormuz remains largely closed and details of the plan are hotly contested.

As the week drew to a close, Trump jetted off on Friday to a $1 million-per-person fundraiser at the Trump Winery in Charlottesville, Virginia. The invitations for the event billed it as a “Candlelight Dinner” with a hefty pricetag:

MAGA INC.
YOU ARE INVITED TO A CANDLELIGHT DINNER
FEATURING SPECIAL GUEST SPEAKER
President Donald J. Trump
45th and 47th PRESIDENT OF THE UNITED STATES
Saturday, April 11, 2026 Trump Winery Charlottesville, VA
Additional details provided upon RSVP. RSVPs will be accommodated on a first come. first served basis. Space is very limited.
$1,000,000 Per Person



The fundraiser was closed to the press, but a White House official made a point of telling the press pool that Trump and his guests watched the landing:

Read more: https://www.mediaite.com/media/news/trump-has-tv-wheeled-in-at-1-million-per-person-candlelight-fundraiser-to-watch-artemis-ii-splashdown/
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Trump Has TV Wheeled In At $1 Million-Per-Person 'Candlelight' Fundraiser To Watch Artemis II Splashdown (Original Post) BumRushDaShow 6 hrs ago OP
So far beyond disgusting that even the astronauts couldn't see it but no money for child care. efhmc 6 hrs ago #1
Yeah, and after wallowing in the credit, he promptly cuts funding for the space program. jls4561 6 hrs ago #2
Was the name "Joe Biden" ever mentioned at this Million-Dollar-Dinner? FakeNoose 6 hrs ago #3
What a psychopath charging 1 million to hear him say what ...........while at the same time 26 million turbinetree 5 hrs ago #4
$1 million a head - that is obscene. 3catwoman3 5 hrs ago #5
Candlelight supper? House of Roberts 4 hrs ago #6
I'm surprised he's still getting people Figarosmom 4 hrs ago #7
Haven't seen the menu.. Permanut 3 hrs ago #8

efhmc

(16,754 posts)
1. So far beyond disgusting that even the astronauts couldn't see it but no money for child care.
Sat Apr 11, 2026, 07:29 PM
6 hrs ago

jls4561

(3,171 posts)
2. Yeah, and after wallowing in the credit, he promptly cuts funding for the space program.
Sat Apr 11, 2026, 07:33 PM
6 hrs ago

Because bombs and whorehouses are what’s important to his “legacy”.

https://www.democraticunderground.com/10143648404,

FakeNoose

(41,822 posts)
3. Was the name "Joe Biden" ever mentioned at this Million-Dollar-Dinner?
Sat Apr 11, 2026, 07:53 PM
6 hrs ago

I doubt it ... and Chump absolutely sucks for taking credit - again - for Biden's accomplishments.

What is he raising funds for anyway? Chump can't run for President, and I doubt that he'd take any other office ... so he's termed out.

turbinetree

(27,594 posts)
4. What a psychopath charging 1 million to hear him say what ...........while at the same time 26 million
Sat Apr 11, 2026, 08:29 PM
5 hrs ago

other people are getting there food programs cut and gutted, like the elderly on SS and children living in poverty, the disabled and the middle class watching this psychopath gut wind turbines to lower our dependance on fucking oil, watching this psychopathic administration and oligarchs ripping off people and not paying anything into SS , Medicare and right now planning on forcing those of us on Medicare to take some medicare advantage BS that I hate and millions of others hate................and to top top it all off the Nasa administrator is a fucking Musk lackey......who has ties to fucking Space X...................because after all since he is a billionaire he paid for some BS stuff on Space X so that he could take a ride ............and then he is donating his NASA pay, how quaint................and his air force for rent (1 June 2018, the Department of Defense announced that the U.S. Air Force (USAF) had awarded Draken a $280 million contract to continue providing training services for the 57th Adversary Tactics Group at Nellis AFB, as well as Luke AFB in Arizona and Hill AFB in Utah) and he also has a payment processing company in PA................



November cannot and I repeat cannot get here fast enough............

Figarosmom

(12,250 posts)
7. I'm surprised he's still getting people
Sat Apr 11, 2026, 10:21 PM
4 hrs ago

to pay any amount to be in the same room with him. I guess the rich has a rough time figuring out when someone is done.

Permanut

(8,428 posts)
8. Haven't seen the menu..
Sat Apr 11, 2026, 10:36 PM
3 hrs ago

But I'm thinking maybe some high end items, like the $8.99 triple Whopper.

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