Former President Donald Trump is trading the rally stage for comedy Thursday night as he headlines the annual Al Smith charity dinner, where he was jeered eight years ago while delivering an especially pointed speech.
Republican presidential nominee former President Donald Trump talks with Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer of N.Y., at the 79th annual Alfred E. Smith Memorial Foundation Dinner, Thursday, Oct. 17, 2024, in New York.
The dais includes a mix of Trump allies and foes. Joining him onstage is New York Attorney General Letitia James, who brought a successful civil fraud case against Trump and his business. New York’s embattled mayor, Eric Adams and other top city officials, as well as business leaders and sports and media personalities, are also in attendance. Adams was charged last month with accepting illegal campaign contributions and lavish overseas trips from Turkish officials and businesspeople.
In her video, Harris appeared alongside comedian and actress Molly Shannon, who reprised her long-running “Saturday Night Live” character Mary Katherine Gallagher, an awkward Catholic schoolgirl. She also poked fun at Trump for comments he made in Michigan, saying that mocking Catholics in the video would be “like criticizing Detroit in Detroit.”
That was the kind of tone that drew boos in 2016 when Trump appeared at the dinner with his Democratic rival, Hillary Clinton, and unleashed a particularly nasty speech, calling her “corrupt” and accusing her of “pretending not to hate Catholics.”After noting that these kinds of dinner remarks typically begin with a self-deprecating joke, he quipped that he was “actually a modest person."
“You never disappoint. Your wit is absolutely fabulous. And all of us together are going to hope for the best,” she quipped to laughs.
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