Good morning.
Sunday in Whitewater will be partly cloudy with a high of 68. Sunrise is 6:29 and sunset is 4:47 for 10 hours 18 minutes of daylight. The moon is a waning gibbous with 53.3 percent of its visible disk illuminated.
On this day in 1993, the Maastricht Treaty takes effect, formally establishing the European Union.
Halloween is a fine holiday, creative and festive, both. We at the House of Dissenting Opinion and many other houses in Whitewater had a delightful time meeting so many trick-or-treaters. Ordinary people, all of us, celebrating in every part of this beautiful small town. It’s one of the happy times of the year and, along with Thanksgiving, one of the many reasons Fall is the Best Season™.
And yet, and yet, these are troubled times for America. At Mar-a-Lago, however, the host and his guests are carrying on as though the wars of trade and of violence that that very host has inflicted on this planet mean nothing. On the contrary, he and his guests celebrated the night away.
Tyler Page reports from the spectacle at Mar-a-Lago:
There were cheetah and zebra stripes on the walls and tables. Women wore sequined leotards and elaborate headdresses, and one couple flocked around in bright-feathered costumes of jungle birds. Then President Trump arrived.
“I came as Donald Trump,” he said, outfitted in his standard red tie and navy suit. “I didn’t have time to get — people spent a lot of time and money. Rich people. They spent nine hours getting ready. I had 10 minutes, so I came as Donald Trump.”
Such was the scene Saturday night, when hundreds gathered in the ballroom at Mar-a-Lago to celebrate Halloween with the president. The theme was the jungle, if an opulent one.
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“Look at all my rich members,” he told reporters. “They spent all day getting ready. Look at these guys.”
He added: “These are the biggest guys on Wall Street.”
See Tyler Page, ‘I Came as Donald Trump’: The President Hosts a Luxury Halloween at Mar-a-Lago, New York Times, October 31, 2026.
Better a moment in Whitewater than a lifetime at Mar-a-Lago.
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