The annual “Al Smith Dinner” benefiting the Catholic Charities of New York was held Thursday night. It’s an event that traditionally features Democratic and Republican leaders delivering humorous speeches and roasting their friends in politics and the press.

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This year Kamala Harris, who just starting running for president a couple of months ago, was too busy campaigning to attend. So she sent a hysterical video with the help of Saturday Night Live alum, Molly Shannon in her character as the Catholic school girl, Mary Katherine Gallagher (video below). That left the stage to well-known funny man, Donald Trump, whose presence at an event sponsored by a Catholic church organization was somewhat awkward, considering his disparagement of Catholics who fail to worship him. He recently decreed that Jews, oil companies, seniors, African Americans, Hispanics, and yes, Catholics, who support Kamala Harris “should have their heads examined.”

SEE THIS: ATTN: Trump Says Pretty Much Everyone Who Supports Kamala Harris Must Have Their Heads Examined

Nevertheless, Trump, who is also a convicted felon and adjudicated rapist, was treated as an honored guest by this churchly congregation. And for an interminably long time he rambled in his hallmark incoherent style, reading badly from a script that he later revealed was partially written by his pals at Fox News. You have to wonder who at Fox News he leaned on for comedy. Greg Gutfeld? Jesse Watters? No matter, Trump insulted the writers and their jokes, saying that “For the most part, I didn’t like any of them.”

[Update: Fox News released a statement insisting that no one from the network helped Trump write his jokes. So Fox News is saying that Trump lied on a Fox News program about Fox News helping him]

Trump’s remarks were blatantly political, making this ordinarily non-partisan affair just another campaign stop for him. He began his humorless harangue by complaining that he wasn’t allowed to use a TelePrompTer. Then he launched into a tediously lengthy condemnation of Harris for not being there in person, saying that “It’s a rule. You’ve got to go to the dinner. You’ve got to do it…But my opponent feels like she does not have to be here, which is deeply disrespectful.”

Trump elaborated saying that Harris was instead hunting with her running mate, Tim Walz; that she would have showed up if they had “told her the funds were going to bail out the looters and rioters in Minneapolis;” that he regretted her absence “because we can’t get enough of hearing her beautiful laugh,” that he also called “crazy;” that she was “in Michigan receiving communion from Gretchen Whitmer,” which for some reason “was not a pretty sight;” and he admonished the audience saying “Catholics, you got to vote for me [because] I’m here. And she’s not.” Trump also threw a slam at the current President saying that “If Democrats really wanted to have someone not be with us this evening, they would have just sent Joe Biden.”

Wow! Trump must have them rolling in the aisles with that hysterical material. But he was just getting started. He went on to deliver these laugh riot lines…

“Right now we have someone in the White House who can barely talk, barely put together two coherent sentences, who seems to have mental faculties of a child. […] It’s sad. There’s a person that has nothing going, no intelligence whatsoever, but enough about Kamala Harris.”

“Look on the bright side, Chuck [Schumer], considering how woke your party has become. If Kamala loses, you still have a chance to become the first woman president.”

“The only piece of advice I would have for [Harris] in the event that she wins would be not to let her husband Doug anywhere near the nannies.”

“I used to think the Democrats were crazy for saying that men have periods. But then I met Tim Walz.”

“I’m surprised that Bill de Blasio was actually able to make it tonight, to be honest. He was a terrible mayor. I don’t give a shit if this is comedy or not.”

That last line was notable for Trump’s use of a profanity from the podium at a devoutly Catholic event. But it’s no worse than what Trump has said a thousand times that disparages religion and people of faith, including his proclamation that he is “The Chosen One” [and] “the Second Coming of Christ”

Kamala Harris’ video for the Al Smith Dinner:

The video that Kamala Harris provided for the Al Smith Dinner stands in stark contrast Trump's speech that was full of insults, profanity (it's a Catholic event), & nasty swings at Harris.

He turned a traditionally humorous affair into an extension of his mean-spirited campaign. https://t.co/nqglnqXcUs

— News Corpse (@NewsCorpse) October 18, 2024

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