Trump Rips Into Democrats At Al Smith Catholic Charity Dinner Emphasizing The Night’s Importance, Harris Provides Premade Video

Last night former president Donald Trump laid into Democrats and his opponent Vice President Kamala Harris at the 79th Annual Alfred E. Smith Memorial Foundation Dinner at the New York Hilton Midtown, while Harris did not attend but sent in a short prerecorded message to the dinner.

Harris’ campaign revealed that Kamala would not be attending the dinner event but would be out campaigning instead, in a move that some have said will hamper her chances of winning. SEE: Kamala Harris Will Not Attend Al Smith Catholic Charity Dinner, First Candidate To Not Attend Since 1984

The event is an honor of Al Smith, a former Democratic 4-year Governor of New York and the first Roman Catholic to run for President in 1928. Smith lost in a landslide to Republican Herbert Hoover. The event began when John F. Kennedy and Richard Nixon spoke at the dinner in 1960. However, the dinner did not feature presidential candidates during the 1996, 2000 and 2004 election years.

The event normally features candidates cracking jokes about themselves and each other, whereas in 2016 Donald Trump ripped into Hillary Clinton in a non-jovial manner.

In 2020 the event was held virtually because of the Covid pandemonium, but both Trump and Biden gave their pleas to catholic voters but did not roast each other like previous events.

The last event was hosted by Cardinal Timothy Dolan, Archbishop of New York, and Mary Callahan Erdoes, the CEO of the asset and wealth management division of J.P. Morgan-Chase. Traditionally, Dolan sits between the two candidates during the dinner. Erdoes was presently featured at this year’s dinner as well.

Comedian Jim Gaffigan gave the introduction and began by saying, “As you can see how we’re dressed, the theme again is “let them eat cake.””

He also remarked: “Catholics will be a key demographic in every battleground state. I’m sorry. Why is Vice President Harris not here? I mean, consider this. This is a room full of Catholics and Jews in New York City. This is a layup for the Democratic nomination.

“I mean, in her defense, I mean, she did find time to appear on The View, Howard Stern, Colbert, and the longtime staple of campaigning, the Call Her Daddy podcast. You know what I think it is? I think she doesn’t like me. Chuck [Schumer], do I have bad breath?,” Gaffigan joked.

SEE: Pope Francis Tells Catholics To Vote For The Lesser Of Two Evils Between Trump And Harris

Before Trump spoke, the audience watched a prerecorded video of Kamala Harris with Saturday Night Live actress Molly Shannon.

Thank you, your eminence and distinguished guests. The Al Smith Dinner provides a rare opportunity to set aside partisanship and come together to do some good by supporting the tremendous charitable work of the Catholic Church. The Church cares for the sick and feeds the hungry, supports families with housing and education, and in times of disaster, provides not only essential supplies, but also, and so importantly, a sense of hope.

The Gospel of Luke tells us that faith has the power to shine a light on those living in darkness and to guide our feet in the path of peace. In the spirit of tonight’s dinner, let us recommit to reaching across divides to seek understanding and common ground. And in honor of the great Al Smith, let us fight to build a better future with faith in God, our country, and in each other. Thank you, may God bless you, and may God bless the United States of America.”

Harris concluded in her video.

After this, Trump gave his remarks where emphasized the importance of the dinner and how there was no way he would miss the dinner, and pointed out that one Democratic candidate in history who did not attend got obliterated in the election, implying the same will happen to Kamala.

Trump stated:

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It’s been a long tradition for both Democrat and Republican candidates for President of the United States to attend this dinner. Always it’s a rule. You’ve got to go to the dinner. You’ve got to do it. Otherwise, bad things are going to happen to you from up there. You can’t do what I just saw on that screen. But my opponent feels like she does not have to be here, which is deeply disrespectful to the event and, in particular, to our great Catholic community. Very disrespectful.

The last Democrat not to attend this important event was Walter Mondale, and it did not go very well for him. He lost 49 states and he won one, Minnesota. So I said, there’s no way I’m missing it. Actually, it was not easy for me to get here tonight. I wasn’t going to miss this thing. No matter, I didn’t care. I wasn’t going to miss it. But that’s true. Walter Mondale, 49 and 1. He was expected to do well, and it didn’t work out.

It shows you there is a God. I mean, for those people that are questioning it.

[…] I would not have missed the Al Smith dinner for anything in the world. I still remember coming here as a very young guy with my father, Fred. He was a great guy, my father. He was a tough cookie, but he had a very big heart. Anytime we’d walk down the street, and you don’t see it too much anymore, there’d be people standing with tin cans. Tin cans. And he would always take out $100 and put it in that can. And I always thought it was beautiful.

[…] I’m going to win, and I’m going to make a comeback. We’re going to turn this thing around. And I want to pay tribute to a really incredible man, a man who was a tremendous politician. And actually, the fact that he was Catholic, it probably did him in, right? Nobody knows for sure, but he was a great guy, Al Smith. Great guy. Everyone says it.

[…] We’re going to make sure together we can create a future defined by great ambitions and grand achievements that once again inspires the dreams of our children, brings back the American Dream. You don’t hear about the American Dream anymore. We’re going to make it possible for them to have the American Dream.

This is a very religious evening to me. It really is. It represents so much. My sister was somebody that loved the church and gave to the church. A cardinal knew that. Had a certain priest that she thought was incredible, right? A certain very fine man that she thought was incredible. Having recently myself survived two assassination attempts, I have a chart that went down to the right. Fortunately, I looked at it.

It’s my all-time favorite piece of paper. But it went down and I looked to the right and I said, you know, was that luck? What was that? Luck or was that God that did that? And I think it was God that did that. I do. I do. But I have a very fresh… Cardinal, I have a very fresh appreciation for how blessed we are by God’s providence and His divine mercy. I mean, that was something. I was not supposed to be here tonight. That I can tell you.

With God’s help, I know there is nothing that cannot be achieved. We can achieve so much good with this country and get together and unify. I want to thank the Al Smith Foundation for its noble work and I want to express my tremendous gratitude to the Catholic community. It’s a great community.

It’s a community I’ve gotten along with all my life. I’ll tell you, when I was president, I was in the Oval Office and I got a call from the cardinal. And he said, we need help. It was during the China virus. I want to be accurate when I describe it. And he said, we need help. Our schools are in devastating shape. They needed much more than a billion.

I won’t even tell you the number, but much more than a billion dollars. But I’ve known the community and I’ve known the schools. I know so many people that were educated in the Catholic school system and they are great and they just speak with it like with love, much more so than almost any system that I’ve seen. And he said, sir, we have a big problem. We need a number of billions of dollars or we’re going to have to close down the New York school system, the whole system in New York.

And I said, give me 15 minutes. I think I can find it. And we gave him billions of dollars. And you know what? He stayed open and they thrived. And to this day, I hear you did just about the best job there is in education. So and that was always an honor.

That was always. And every time he sees me, he says, thank you very much. I said, I know what you’re talking about. But we work together. We were a good partnership, right? We got that money in about 15 minutes, billions. And it was put to very good use. But I just want to thank everybody.

This is a special evening. It’s a very serious evening. I think we have some serious problems in the world, but they’re going to get solved and we’re going to make America great again. And thank you very much.

And God bless you all. Thank you. Thank you very much. Thank you.

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Trump roasted a number of Democratic politicians in attendance, but dropped the jokes and went all-in on former New York Mayor Bill de Blasio.

“We have another former New York City mayor with us. Frankly, easily the worst in our history. And it’s not Michael, that I can tell you. 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 s*** 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.

“But unlike the rest of New York, at least Bill doesn’t have to worry about the criminals. They owe him big. He let them get away with a lot of stuff,” Trump said.

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AUTHOR COMMENTARY

“The theme again is “let them eat cake”” – leave it to professional fool to spell out how they view us plebs.

Ecclesiastes 7:4 The heart of the wise is in the house of mourning; but the heart of fools is in the house of mirth.

With just a few weeks left until splashdown, things feel ‘off.’ The media has really started to grease the wheels for Trump and noticeably make Kamala look stupid (and she is), presenting it as if Trump will cruise to victory – or at least that’s the vibe I’m getting at the moment.

Will Trump easily win, or will Harris make a surprise upset? Time will tell I suppose. Kamala’s blatant disrespect and dismissal of the event would almost make it seem like it’s done-deal for Trump; or is a Kamala [s]election in place to absolutely enrage the religious right? As I have pointed out before, Harris would beat the abortion drum like there is no tomorrow, that’s precisely what she is doing; and a LOT of Americans are in favor of that, and that alone will tip the scales in many districts.

Proverbs 27:1 Boast not thyself of to morrow; for thou knowest not what a day may bring forth.

We’ll see what happens in November. No one knows who will win; and quite frankly I could care less at this point. I’m so sick of all the drama and sensationalism, and either one is just a puppet that is told what to do, and neither are really all that different when it comes to the military industrial complex and all that eclipses. Kamala has been copying a number of Trump’s pledges and promises anyway. This election, as far as I am concerned, is all about what face ‘they’ (the Jesuits) want to give the collapse, because this gravy train is coming to an end…

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It’s also worth noting that Speaker of the House Mike Johnson was in attendance. Johnson is supposed to be some kind of Evangelical. But we already knew he was just a kiss-up to his mother whore: that’s how he got the gig in the first place.

Revelation 17:1 And there came one of the seven angels which had the seven vials, and talked with me, saying unto me, Come hither; I will shew unto thee the judgment of the great whore that sitteth upon many waters: [2] With whom the kings of the earth have committed fornication, and the inhabitants of the earth have been made drunk with the wine of her fornication. [4] And the woman was arrayed in purple and scarlet colour, and decked with gold and precious stones and pearls, having a golden cup in her hand full of abominations and filthiness of her fornication: [5] And upon her forehead was a name written, MYSTERY, BABYLON THE GREAT, THE MOTHER OF HARLOTS AND ABOMINATIONS OF THE EARTH. [15] And he saith unto me, The waters which thou sawest, where the whore sitteth, are peoples, and multitudes, and nations, and tongues. [18] And the woman which thou sawest is that great city, which reigneth over the kings of the earth.

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[7] Who goeth a warfare any time at his own charges? who planteth a vineyard, and eateth not of the fruit thereof? or who feedeth a flock, and eateth not of the milk of the flock? [8] Say I these things as a man? or saith not the law the same also? [9] For it is written in the law of Moses, Thou shalt not muzzle the mouth of the ox that treadeth out the corn. Doth God take care for oxen? [10] Or saith he it altogether for our sakes? For our sakes, no doubt, this is written: that he that ploweth should plow in hope; and that he that thresheth in hope should be partaker of his hope. (1 Corinthians 9:7-10).

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