{"id":282666,"date":"2016-12-05T01:05:56","date_gmt":"2016-12-05T00:05:56","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/newswire\/trump-dressed-as-himself-for-villains-and-heroes-fancy-dress-bash-photos\/"},"modified":"2016-12-05T01:05:56","modified_gmt":"2016-12-05T00:05:56","slug":"trump-dressed-as-himself-for-villains-and-heroes-fancy-dress-bash-photos","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/newswire\/trump-dressed-as-himself-for-villains-and-heroes-fancy-dress-bash-photos\/","title":{"rendered":"Trump dressed as himself for \u2018Villains and Heroes\u2019 fancy dress bash (PHOTOS)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/cdn.rt.com\/files\/2016.12\/thumbnail\/58443899c36188ad138b45c9.jpg\" \/><\/p>\n<p>        US President-elect Donald Trump kept it simple at a private \u2018Villains and Heroes\u2019 costume party on Long Island, New York by going as a billionaire Republican set to take up residence in the White House. <\/p>\n<div>\n<p>Attending the lavish bash thrown by Republican billionaire Robert Mercer, a fund manager and generous donor, Trump reportedly pointed to himself and said <em>\u201cme\u201d<\/em> when asked who he had come as, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.politico.com\/story\/2016\/12\/trump-party-donors-villains-heroes-mercers-232156\">Politico<\/a>\u00a0reports.<\/p>\n<p>Federal Election Commission records show <a href=\"http:\/\/docquery.fec.gov\/cgi-bin\/qind\/\">Mercer<\/a>\u00a0poured millions into a Super PAC that supported Ted Cruz and Donald Trump in their White House races.<\/p>\n<p>The <a href=\"https:\/\/www.defeatcrookedhillary.com\/strategy\/\">website <\/a>associated with Super PAC Make America Number 1, which is chaired by Mercer\u2019s daughter, says that its main goal was to \u201cdefeat crooked Hillary\u201d Clinton.<\/p>\n<p>In one of the few pictures of Mercer\u2019s party posted on social media, Trump can be seen posing alongside Republican campaign manager and top strategist Kellyanne Conway, who appeared to be dressed as Superwoman.<\/p>\n<p>According to <a href=\"http:\/\/www.bloomberg.com\/politics\/articles\/2016-12-04\/trump-takes-his-thank-you-tour-to-wealthy-donor-s-costume-ball?cmpid=socialflow-twitter-business&amp;utm_content=business&amp;utm_campaign=socialflow-organic&amp;utm_source=twitter&amp;utm_medium=social\">Bloomberg<\/a>, the event was attended by a mixture of political figures and activists, with costumes ranging from 1930s gangsters and Cruella de Vil, to Supreme Court Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Ginsburg became the subject of an infamous Trump Twitter rage back in July, after she criticized him, calling him a <a href=\"http:\/\/edition.cnn.com\/2016\/07\/12\/politics\/justice-ruth-bader-ginsburg-donald-trump-faker\/\"><em>\u201cfaker\u201d<\/em><\/a>\u2013 for which she later apologized. \u00a0<\/p>\n<div class=\"rtcode\"><center><\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-lang=\"en\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">Justice Ginsburg of the U.S. Supreme Court has embarrassed all by making very dumb political statements about me. Her mind is shot &#8211; resign!<\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/realDonaldTrump\/status\/753090242203283457\">July 13, 2016<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><center\/><\/center><\/div>\n<div class=\"rtcode\"><center><\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-lang=\"en\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">Is Supreme Court Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg going to apologize to me for her misconduct? Big mistake by an incompetent judge!<\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/realDonaldTrump\/status\/753354905897668608\">July 13, 2016<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><center\/><\/center><\/div>\n<div class=\"rtcode\"><center><\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-lang=\"en\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">If I win the Presidency, we will swamp Justice Ginsburg with real judges and real legal opinions!<\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/realDonaldTrump\/status\/753355507721646080\">July 13, 2016<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><center\/><\/center><\/div>\n<p>While the president-elect showed no obvious signs of a costume, his detractors on Twitter say he really went as a <em>\u201cvillain.\u201d\u00a0<\/em><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p>Via <a href=\"https:\/\/www.rt.com\/usa\/369159-trump-villain-hero-party\/?utm_source=rss&#038;utm_medium=rss&#038;utm_campaign=RSS\">RT<\/a>. This piece was reprinted by <a href=\"http:\/\/rinf.com\">RINF Alternative News<\/a> with permission or license.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>US President-elect Donald Trump kept it simple at a private \u2018Villains and Heroes\u2019 costume party on Long Island, New York by going as a billionaire Republican set to take up residence in the White House. Attending the lavish bash thrown by Republican billionaire Robert Mercer, a fund manager and generous donor, Trump reportedly pointed to [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":282667,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[519],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-282666","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-newswire"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/282666","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=282666"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/282666\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/282667"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=282666"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=282666"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=282666"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}