As People start crowding into Senator Bernie Sanders’ “Fighting Oligarchy” rallies, prime “oligarch” Jeff Bezos and his flashy fiancée Lauren Sanchez are getting ready for his or her glitzy Italian marriage ceremony this summer time, which may show to be the couple’s final assertion concerning the wealth, energy and affect they hope to wield in American society underneath the presidency of Donald Trump.
Now, the couple appear set on enlisting a few of America’s hottest celebrities in making such a press release, with TMZ reporting on the wealthy and glamorous A-listers who’ve made the visitor listing for what’s shaping as much as be the “ultra-luxe, ultra-exclusive” occasion of the 12 months.
Sanchez’s “BFF” Eva Longoria made the visitor listing for the marriage of the billionaire Amazon founder and his soon-to-be-wife. So, too are Oprah Winfrey, Katy Perry and Orlando Bloom, Gayle King, Kris Jenner, Kim Kardashian and Jewel.
TMZ additionally reported that Trump’s daughter and son-in-law, Ivanka Trump and Jared Kushner, made the reduce, as did Ivanka Trump’s in-laws: Jared Kushner’s brother Joshua Kushner, and his supermodel spouse Karlie Klaus.
TMZ sources moreover revealed that dressmaker Diane von Furstenberg and her husband Barry Diller have been invited, which appears truthful, provided that the couple hosted a lavish, star-studded engagement occasion for Bezos and Sanchez at their Beverly Hills mansion within the fall. Others on the visitor listing embrace movie producer Brian Grazer and fashions Brooks Nader and Camila Morrone.
However to some observers of the nationwide temper, Winfrey, Longoria, Kardashian, Perry and the others could possibly be accused of failing to “read the room,” oblivious to rising nationwide anger towards a rising oligarchy and America’s “move toward authoritarianism,” as Sanders mentioned in a speech on the Senate flooring in February.
The Vermont senator talked concerning the rising divide between two Americas, amid rising revenue and wealth inequality. On the very prime are the comparatively few “oligarchs,” who embrace Bezos and different tech titans equivalent to Elon Musk and Mark Zuckerberg, who view themselves as “modern-day kings” — which might make Sanchez a would-be “queen.”
Sanders mentioned that collectively, Bezos, Musk and Zuckerberg are value a mixed $903 billion and personal greater than the underside half of American society — $170 million.
“What we NOW have is an ideology being pushed by the oligarchs which says that as very, very wealthy people — often self-made, often the masters of revolutionary new technology and as ‘high-IQ individuals,’ it is THEIR absolute right to rule,” Sanders mentioned.
On the subject of Bezos and Sanchez, they successfully embraced Trump’s management by taking part in a reasonably beautiful little bit of stagecraft on the polarizing new president’s inauguration, which arguably served each Trump’s pursuits and their very own. They stood in an honored place within the U.S. Capitol with Musk, Zuckerberg, Apple CEO Tim Cook dinner and different enterprise leaders in what The Guardian referred to as a show of the “oligarchy” and the highly effective affect they anticipate “to wield” in Trump’s America.
Bezos and Sanchez has been particularly demonstrative in being pleasant with Trump — which ought to appear surprising and disturbing to their well-known liberal pals. That’s, except they, too, wish to be a part of Bezos and Sanchez’s new in-crowd.
After Trump’s election, the couple joined Musk for dinner with Donald and Melania Trump at Mar-a-Lago, with Trump boasting, “In this term, everybody wants to be my friend.” The night time earlier than Trump’s inauguration, Bezos and Sanchez additionally attended what Sanchez hailed as “a magical evening” — a candlelight dinner honoring Trump, the place they received to schmooze with such MAGA figures as Musk and Ivanka Trump and Jared Kushner.
Winfrey, Longoria and Perry have been amongst Bezos and Sanchez’s pals who have been very outspoken of their opposition to Trump getting a second time period — and the hazard they mentioned he posed to American democracy. Whereas talking at a marketing campaign rally on behalf of Vice President Kamala Harris, Winfrey warned that the nation stood on “precipice of danger,” with Trump poised to usher in an authoritarian regime if elected. In the meantime, Longoria has mentioned that America would change into such a “scary place” underneath Trump that she was blissful to be residing exterior america.
However Winfrey might expertise of great case of “FOMO” if she turns down an invite to Bezos’ and Sanchez’s marriage ceremony of the 12 months. So, too, would Longoria, Perry, Gayle King and the morally versatile Kris Jenner and Kim Kardashian.
Notably, Longoria has proven a willingness to show a blind eye to considerations expressed by Sanders and others that Bezos and his oligarchic brethren “will sacrifice, without hesitation, the well-being of working people to protect their privilege.”
Final 12 months, the longtime activist praised Bezos and Sanchez for his or her “courage and civility” after she acquired a $50 million prize from them, supposedly to be shared with nonprofits of her alternative. Earlier this month, she included Sanchez within the “badass” ladies she celebrated in an Instagram submit for Worldwide Ladies’s Day.
In the meantime, King and Perry are set to affix Sanchez in one other splashy P.R. alternative, probably earlier than the splashy marriage ceremony: an all-female journey to house on certainly one of Bezos’s Blue Origin rockets.
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