US president-elect Donald Trump attended a “Villains and Heroes” costume party at a major donor’s Long Island home on Saturday night, but declined to don any garb that was in keeping with the theme.
Trump entered the party hosted by the Mercer family, one of his biggest donors, at their home in the village of Head of the Harbor in St James, NY, wearing a suit and a blue and white checked tie. Security guards at the event however were dressed as biker gang members Hell’s Angels.
Trump walked into the home and gave reporters, who were not allowed inside, the thumbs up and posed briefly for photos, but did not respond to questions except to mouth “me”, pointing to himself when asked who he was dressed as.
None of Trump’s immediate family members attended, but his campaign manager, Kellyanne Conway, was on hand, dressed as Super Woman.
Trump’s designated White House strategist Steve Bannon was on hand, but appeared not to be in costume.
A Wi-Fi network set up for the party used the password “HeroesWin!”
Robert Mercer is co-chief executive of Renaissance Technologies, a hedge fund. Daughter Rebekah Mercer sits on Trump’s transition team.
lPresident-elect Donald Trump sent a dismissive tweet in response to a comedy sketch that mocked his penchant for sending tweets.
Trump again lambasted the show Saturday Night Live, on which he is played by actor Alec Baldwin.
But whereas on other occasions Trump has tweeted his criticism the next morning, this time he fired away before the show ended.
“Just tried watching Saturday Night Live — unwatchable! Totally biased, not funny and the Baldwin impersonation just can’t get any worse. Sad,” Trump wrote.
In the latest sketch, Trump is gently chided by aides for sending retweets, one from a high school student, during a national security briefing.
Actress Kate McKinnon’s Kellyanne Conway, a Trump strategist, said the president-elect tweets a lot to “to distract the media from his business conflicts and all the very scary people in his cabinet”.
But Trump as played by Baldwin said, “actually that’s not why I do it.
I do it because my brain is bad”.
The sketch ended with Trump calling for his chief strategist Steve Bannon who then enters in the guise of the Grim Reaper.
After Trump’s tweet, Baldwin himself tweeted: “Release your tax returns and I’ll stop. Ha.”