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White House Deputy Chief of Staff Dan Scavino is being excoriated for being out of touch after posting a video of himself in a tuxedo partying and spraying a bottle of champagne — amid an affordability crisis that the Trump administration has worsened in its moves to transfer wealth from the working class to the rich.

The AI-generated video, posted on Scavino’s X and Instagram accounts on Saturday, shows Scavino riding on a gilded luggage cart pushed by Eric Trump, seemingly in the aftermath of a party in the White House. His wife and Eric Trump’s wife are sitting next to Scavino in black tie attire.

In the short clip, Scavino is yelling and cheering as he shakes up a bottle of champagne that he jubilantly sprays around. At the end, President Donald Trump briefly appears to greet them. Pitbull’s “Don’t Stop the Party” plays over the video, and Scavino appears to mouth, “best party ever.”

The video appears to be based off of the Scavinos’s attendance at the White House’s glitzy dinner hosted on Thursday to honor Chinese President Xi Jinping. Billionaires and other rich and powerful figures like Elon Musk and Jeff Bezos showed up in droves to the party, wearing tuxedos and feasting on a three-course meal served on fine china from the Ronald Reagan era.

“This is not an intended[sic] for the Dems heads to explode — Being some of the post State Dinner party has gotten out, I felt inclined to share mine as well, in complete transparency, with the American People. GOD BLESS THE USA!!!” Scavino wrote in a caption on Instagram.

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