Trump even displays an attitude of self-deprecation at a Catholic benefit dinner

It’s often one of the highlights of an American election year, but this time the Al Smith Dinner was less glamorous than usual. Although it is common for the rivals to have a good sense of humor for themselves and each other to take the baitsaid Vice President Harris absent and her opponent Trump gave a speech that was sometimes tired and bitter.

The Republican showed in funny moments that he could get the audience involved, such as by thanking him for the invitation. “Always nice to be able to pop somewhere in New York unannounced,” he joked with a wink to the lawsuits who is against him in the city.

He also showed that he understood perfectly what the purpose of the four-year event was: to give some relief to the vicious war of words before the polls. “It’s a tradition that there’s a bit of a joke, too,” Trump began, trying not to take himself too seriously. “No“Nothing comes to mind.”

It took him around scythe ending with a reference to the attacks he tried to survive. “Why should I focus on myself when others are already doing that? ” His witty delivery resulted in enthusiastic laughter from the audience.

There were also times when Trump was not so strong, such as when he loosened the thread of his argument and started talking away. For example, he gave a self-satisfied look a minute and a half ago about the support he provided to special education in New York during the corona pandemic, without any punch lines.

A joke about Harris’ family life (“time for an intimate dinner with her husband and her teleprompter”) was dead on, because Trump had complained before this speech that he wanted to use such a text display himself. Had that been allowed, his humorous notes might have come out better, but when read from paper they felt a little rushed and run down.

After such a joke, Trump admitted that sometimes he crosses a line. For example, he immediately distanced himself from a joke about her husband Kamala Harris, who divorced his first wife after an affair. When the audience responded wildly to the punchline (“If Harris wins, she should keep him away from the nuns”), Trump blamed his copywriters. “That was clever. I told those idiots who wrote this for me that it was too high.”

This looked back on 2016, when Trump with a straight leg A question was raised by Hillary Clinton. “I understood that it was roasting had to be, so I chose the shortest copywriter. The whole room became angry, even the cardinal remembers it. I went too far. terrible.”

“But anyway, it’s not easy to stand in front of a room where half are throwing up at you and the other is crazy about you.”

Kamala Harris had chosen to spend the night campaigning in swing states, the states that must be won to win the elections in 2.5 weeks. However, she had recorded a four minute video with a comedian from the sketch show Saturday Night Live.

The audience wasn’t too keen on it. According to The New York Times, the video offering missed the mark time and time again in the audience.

Trump thankfully used Harris’ absence for some one-liners. “If the Democrats didn’t want anyone with us tonight, they could have sent Joe Biden in,” he said, for example, mocking the retired presidential candidate to quit

Meanwhile, he openly courted Catholic votes by dismissing her “agenda conflict” as “particularly disrespectful”. “Don’t forget I’m here and she’s not.”

Trump also reminded his audience that the last no-show candidate lost the election. Democrat Walter Mondale saw 49 of the 50 states go to Republican Ronald Reagan. “So you see: God exists.”