Barack Obama’s supporters are speaking out against him after he hosted his 60th birthday bash at his $14 million mansion during a pandemic.
New York Times columnist Maureen Dowd wrote a stinging opinion editorial slamming her former friend’s birthday bash as an “orgy of the 1%.”
Fashion critic André Leon Talley is also among Obama’s allies who criticized the former president in the NY Times op-ed.
Talley compared Obama to infamous French queen Marie-Antoinette who once told starving citizens to eat cake.
“I think the nouveaux riches Obamas are seriously tone-deaf,” said Talley.
“We all love Beyonce. But people have so many things to worry about with Covid, voting rights, climate warming. People are afraid of being evicted from their homes. And the Obamas are in Marie-Antoinette, tacky, let-them-eat-cake mode. They need to remember their humble roots.”
Maureen Dowd stopped short of calling Obama a narcissist for hosting a party amid the surging coronavirus Delta variant:
“Barack Obama gave a big, lavish, new-money party at his sprawling mansion on the water because he wanted to seem cool. Being cool is important to him…
It’s hard to stop thinking about the over-the-top fete the former president held at his Martha’s Vineyard manse for his 60th birthday. It is such a perfect taxonomy of the Obama arc.”
