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.
(Excerpt) Read more at nytimes.com ...
The NYT sure does hate "populists," who believe in government of, by and for the people.
The opposite of populism is elitism, the belief that the governed are not qualified to choose political leaders from among their ranks and that the only legitimate political leaders come from an entitled, hereditary, criminal political class.
NYT sounds very butthurt.
We must save “Our Democracy” by rejecting populism! We must adhere to the beliefs of the Elites and cast aside the wishes of the governed! Only by doing exactly as we are told can we escape the horrors of a totalitarian regime.
The whole thing is available at the Conservative Tree House. He didn’t pull any punches. Schumers face, right next to the podium looked like the knocker on Scrooge’s door. Melania sat next to Trump , about three seats to his left as he spoke.
It got awkward because his opponent, Harris, was not there so Trump stood there by himself.
😂😂😂😂. Boy howdee! Again, the nyt is all TDS all the time these days. Like I said, 11/6/2024 nyt announcement of Trump’s win will be page 3, #10 font, single column. Hey time nyt-———🖕
There he stood, standing there, not sitting down, but on his feet, in a verticle position. Did we mention standing? The horror of it all.
Awkward for whom? He was killing it.
Chuck was not happy.
I think a lot of those folks were waiting for Trump to drop some Epstein or Diddy quotes from some leaked transcripts after he got done with the jokes.
As usual.
The elites have to give way to we the people. Trump is the face of it but he’s not the only one
It was very awkward in there. They were staring holes into Trump. RFK Jr was squirming
Schumer and Bloomberg were posing for gargoyle sculptors
Jim gaffigan was like Johnny Carson on a random Tuesday night ‘he well that one don’t work either’
Trump was awkward. Not so much that he’ll dream of giving up this fight, but enough that most men of inferior character and courage sure would have
The NYT should really get a grip on that fact
Trump is coming back. With backing and in full realization of whom he is up against in the renaissance of this country and the west
Onward
The 'gray lady' died years ago, turned zombie green, and is trying to kill anyone with brains...
The money quotes of the article...
‘At least half the dais looked profoundly depressed when he said, “I’m going to win.”
But there is nothing they — in all their money and their power and their media mastery — can do about it.’
The NYT seems to be already inching toward the “acceptance” stage of grief.
The stinking ELITES no longer have ANY sense of humor, SCREW THEM if it was awkward for them it thought it was GREAT!!
More gobbilty gook “journalism”.
I watched the whole thing. Trump was hilarious, very much at ease, and got a standing ovation.
The only thing “awkward” was Harris’ cringe video she mailed in and which totally flopped.
Spin spin spin NYT. No one believes your lies any more. It’s too easy to check you and see you are full of BS.
Screw them indeed
Trump is forging on. That’s why we love him. The sure aren’t going to help us out of this mess they caused
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