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Trump Among New York’s Elites at a Charity Dinner: It Got Awkward
The New York Times ^ | Oct. 18, 2024 Updated 11:21 a.m. ET | Shawn McCreesh

Posted on 10/18/2024 12:11:10 PM PDT by E. Pluribus Unum

Donald J. Trump and the assorted fat cats to whom he was speaking seemed to be processing many complicated emotions all at once.

“You think this is easy?” the former and perhaps future president asked. “Standing up here in front of half a room that hates my guts, and the other half loves me?”

There he stood, the godhead of a populist revenge movement, tucked into his satiny cummerbund, a black bow tie around his neck. It was the Alfred E. Smith Memorial Foundation Dinner in Midtown Manhattan.

This charity event, held Thursday evening in the ballroom of the Hilton Hotel, has been a stop for presidential candidates ever since 1960. That’s when John F. Kennedy and Richard Nixon showed up, at the dawn of the television age, to make self-deprecating jokes while courting the Roman Catholic vote. In 1970s New York, the era in which Mr. Trump came up, the dinner was one of the glitziest events on the social calendar, attended by governors and mayors and media machers and real estate titans.

In 2016, he came as a presidential candidate himself. But when Mr. Trump’s remarks about his then-opponent, Hillary Clinton, veered into nasty territory, he was booed. He and his wife, Melania Trump, slunk out of the room the second it was over.

Eight years later, the dinner he returned to was not the same. Like so much else in the Trump era, the Catholic charity event had become savage, warped by blunt force politics. There were all sorts of open wounds and grudges on display among the tuxedoed and the begowned. There were sycophants and there were outcasts. You could see the ones who had submitted to Mr. Trump, sitting beside members of a gorgonized establishment still unsure how to treat him, much less stop him.

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TOPICS: Humor
KEYWORDS: alfredsmith; alsmith; alsmithdinner; newyorkslimes; newyorktimes; shawnmccreesh; smearcampaign; tds; tdsbs; trump
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To: E. Pluribus Unum

“The opposite of populism is elitism, ...”

Many, (most?), on the left not so secretly desire a monarchy. They want to worship their leader, idolize that person, and be free from having to make decisions because the monarch will do that for them.


21 posted on 10/18/2024 12:37:35 PM PDT by brownsfan (It's going to take real, serious, hard times to wake the American public.)
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To: E. Pluribus Unum

populist revenge movement?

really?

how exactly do you take revenge for 60m+ dead American kids?


22 posted on 10/18/2024 12:38:13 PM PDT by sten (fighting tyranny never goes out of style)
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To: Trump Girl Kit Cat

SCREW THEM if it was awkward for them........

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Reposted from another Al Smith thread -

Trump curb stomped deblasio -

Summarizing PDJT’s comment - Bill deblasio was a terrible mayor. I don’t give a shit if this is comedy or not. He was a terrible mayor. He did a horrible job. That’s not comedy by the way, that’s fact.


23 posted on 10/18/2024 12:40:16 PM PDT by mund1011 (We can ignore reality, but we cannot ignore the consequences of ignoring reality)
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To: E. Pluribus Unum

Trump was brilliant at the dinner and was delivering jokes so effectively that they kept sneaking up on you, I’ve never seen him this humorous before, it was professional level.

Here is his entire portion.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XI0MUoW28VE


24 posted on 10/18/2024 12:40:20 PM PDT by ansel12 ((NATO warrior under Reagan, and RA under Nixon, bemoaning the pro-Russians from Vietnam to Ukraine.))
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To: Who is John Galt?

Can the NYT just be sent into oblivion already!


25 posted on 10/18/2024 12:40:35 PM PDT by No name given ( Anonymous is who you’ll know me as )
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To: Fledermaus

Esp when Trump said he could be dims first female president. I swear if a trans did do that the “feminists” would chear unless of course it was Jodi Vance 😂😎

Men are taking all the women’s records so why not this one


26 posted on 10/18/2024 12:40:46 PM PDT by blitz128
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To: Trump Girl Kit Cat

Like I said-The NYT should really get a grip on that fact

Trump is coming back.


27 posted on 10/18/2024 12:41:25 PM PDT by stanne
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To: E. Pluribus Unum

Funny.
Her New York Times DID NOT seem to feel it was awkward when their Chosen One “chose” not to even show up for a “unrehearsed” personal speech to a live audience.

Instead, “she” ran a scripted comedy video.


28 posted on 10/18/2024 12:48:53 PM PDT by Robert A Cook PE (Method, motive, and opportunity: No morals, shear madness and hatred by those who cheat.)
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To: E. Pluribus Unum
The really ironic thing about Trump versus NY elite is -- He used to be one of them!

He was even golfing buddies with Bill Clinton.

That is why their hate is so infused with hysteria.

29 posted on 10/18/2024 12:51:10 PM PDT by Salman (It's not a slippery slope if it was part of the program all along. )
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To: E. Pluribus Unum

Does the NYT ever read the crap they publish??


30 posted on 10/18/2024 12:59:29 PM PDT by mfish13 (Elections have Consequences.)
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To: sopo

I about died laughing when he said someone told him it was a Roast when he was there and tore HRC a new one.


31 posted on 10/18/2024 1:02:26 PM PDT by Cowgirl of Justice
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To: E. Pluribus Unum

Blumberg sure looked happy! /sarc


32 posted on 10/18/2024 1:02:51 PM PDT by Highest Authority (DemonRats are pure EVIL)
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To: E. Pluribus Unum

Contentiousness at the Al Smith Dinner is nothing new. Here’s a blurb from wikipedia:

Since 1980, this custom has been affected by friction between the Democratic Party and the Catholic Church over abortion. During the 1980 dinner, Democratic incumbent Jimmy Carter was booed. In 1984, Ronald Reagan spoke, but his opponent, Walter Mondale, opted out, saying he needed time to prepare for an upcoming presidential debate. Amy Sullivan suggests that Mondale’s decision was motivated by “tensions between the Catholic Church and the Democratic Party.”

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alfred_E._Smith_Memorial_Foundation_Dinner


33 posted on 10/18/2024 1:04:05 PM PDT by mbrfl
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To: E. Pluribus Unum

The New York Times globalist utopia failing blames Trump.


34 posted on 10/18/2024 1:11:21 PM PDT by Vaduz
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To: E. Pluribus Unum

Trump nailed it all night. It was a great move.


35 posted on 10/18/2024 1:25:15 PM PDT by lurk (u)
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To: E. Pluribus Unum

My favorite part of the speech was when he said he was expected to do some self deprecating jokes. Then he thought, shrugged his shoulders and said Nope I got nothing.


36 posted on 10/18/2024 1:25:20 PM PDT by McGavin999 ( A sense of humor is a sign of intelligence, leftists have no sense of humor, therefore……)
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To: E. Pluribus Unum

I’ll tell you what was awkward (and downright stupid) was the Kamala Harris skit. WTH was that?


37 posted on 10/18/2024 1:27:17 PM PDT by Tommy Revolts (,,)
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To: E. Pluribus Unum

I’ll tell you what was awkward (and downright stupid) was the Kamala Harris skit. WTH was that?


38 posted on 10/18/2024 1:27:17 PM PDT by Tommy Revolts (,,)
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To: TornadoAlley3

Not my snooty lawyer SIL.


39 posted on 10/18/2024 1:33:44 PM PDT by FroggyTheGremlim (Plunk your magic twanger, Froggy!)
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To: E. Pluribus Unum

Isn’t that event white tie?

Trump’s bowtie was black!


40 posted on 10/18/2024 1:39:21 PM PDT by one guy in new jersey
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