John Oliver explains why Trump bombed at the Al Smith dinner, when he should have been in his element.
It was three thousand dollar a plate fundraising gala at a moth-eaten Manhattan hotel organized by the Catholic Church, a real-estate-owning, male-dominated, sex-scandal-plagued organization with whom Trump clearly shares a uniquely unqualified interior decorator.
I’m wondering if Cardinal Dolan, after listening to Drumpf’s monologue, leaned into Hillary and said: “First thing tomorrow, I’ll recommend to the pope that he needs to reconsider the church’s position on abortion. At least in regards to the Trump family and his supporters.”
Trump got booed by a priest! How low do you have to be to get booed by a priest.
The offer to make a bet at the end was priceless. Well done John Oliver.
Telling detail from earlier in Trump’s presentation: he really doesn’t know when he is bombing.
On a side note, his claim that Clinton hates Catholics really came out of nowhere, as far as I can tell. I mean, what the fuck was that even about?
Maybe it was another bit of projection. It seems like he often takes the worst shit about himself and turns it into an accusation about someone else, I guess because he’s not imaginative enough (or doesn’t think about anything but himself) to come up with anything else. But he also has this apparent tendency to unleash whatever insanity that happens to be in his head at the time, whether it applies anybody/anything or makes any sense at all, so maybe it was just that.
@cr:
Per the WaPo:
his whole bit sounded (looked like he was reading it) it was written by some else and designed to make him look like a buffoon
and he delivered it like the guy without a sense of humor he is.
uncle frogy
That WaPo link also mentions “the bad” and “the even worse” Hillary jokes, but they’re really not that bad. She did have her best jokes nixed though, regrettably, as per the Wikileaks-leaked document: https://pbs.twimg.com/media/CvOhu9qWYAEUvsC.jpg:large