Thursday, October 17, 2024

Trump Remarks at Al Smith Diner 10-17-24

This provides the full candid remarks of Donald Trump at the 2024 Al Smith dinner attended by media and New York State and NYC dignitaries. Much was humorous and some even self deprecating. Think what you wish and decide for yourself. At least he showed up live and in person. Not sure if the modestly clever Kamala prerecorded video is included on this video.

Comments

At least he showed up live and in person.

Why did Epstein's cowardly wingman bail on his 60 minutes interview?

#1 | Posted by reinheitsgebot at 2024-10-18 02:05 AM

Getting hooked up with Trump is about on a par with the Church's track record when it comes to self-awareness.

#2 | Posted by Doc_Sarvis at 2024-10-18 05:31 AM

This is a direct youtube link to Trump comments. The original PBS links and sub links above may not be obvious. Actually they need more such direct and light political interaction.

m.youtube.com

#3 | Posted by Robson at 2024-10-18 07:07 AM

comment from commenter after the smith dinner last night.

"Kamala is the Madonna of politics. She coasted for decades using her body as currency and now that's all dried up and it's become obvious

that's all there was."

#4 | Posted by shrimptacodan at 2024-10-18 08:12 AM

I"m waiting on the DR moron to comment not knowing what this dinner was about.

at least the guest knew...

"This has been an interesting presidential campaign. The Democrats have been telling us Trump's reelection is a threat to democracy. In fact, they were so concerned of this threat, they staged a coup, ousted their democratically elected incumbent, and installed Kamala Harris," Gaffigan said. "In other words, all her dreams have come true."

#5 | Posted by shrimptacodan at 2024-10-18 08:14 AM

Later, he cracked a joke around what he said the media's called the "secret Trump voter."

"The media has begun discussing the phenomena of secret Trump voters' " people who publicly say they'd never vote for Trump, but then when they go in the voting booth, they do. It's a small group," Gaffigan said. "They're called the Biden family.'"

it was a funny evening.

I"m sure many of you leftist-dogma klan stooges will make more of comments from trump and about

trump than what was intended....because TDS has rotted your fvkn brain.

#6 | Posted by shrimptacodan at 2024-10-18 08:17 AM

'Who does that?' Trump condemned for 'swearing in front of priests' at Catholic dinner

www.rawstory.com

The orange diaper sniper is comfortable around other kid-diddlers.

#7 | Posted by reinheitsgebot at 2024-10-18 08:37 AM

The sin here is not that Kamala Harris had the good sense to reply, "No thank you, I'm previously engaged." The real scandal is that the good Catholic cardinal of the great city of New York would not have the courage to say, this year, that the current Republican candidate is a walking example of so much the Catholic Church finds repugnant in today's politics that he would suspend the normal invitations.

The real controversy is that an event that touts its history of raising funds for society's most needy is going to host someone who is one of the culture's greatest threats to that kind of caring. The real outrage is that Trump, given the public nature and extent of his repulsive record, should be invited to a fundraiser for an organization, Catholic Charities, that has long worked in the trenches to save and transform lives on society's farthest margins. It is tragic that the guest of honor this year will be someone whose personal example and policy wishes are in a collision course with the principles of Catholic social teaching.

We are triply disappointed, Cardinal Dolan, that in the name of the church and its witness to the wider culture, you did not suspend the norm this year and invite someone worthy of the event's cause. We are disappointed you didn't have the courage to stand up to Trump, a looming threat to the democratic ideals that allow the church to host such a high-profile public gathering.

National Catholic Reporter Editorial: Cardinal Dolan's 'Al Smith dinner' disappointment is misdirected

#8 | Posted by qcp at 2024-10-18 08:53 AM

"because TDS has rotted your fvkn brain."

#6 | Posted by Posted by shrimptacodan at 2024-10-18 08:17 AM | Reply | Flag: shrimptacodan's November 5th challenge (is she up to it?)

How to Tell if You Have Trump Devotion Syndrome (aka: "TDS")
  1. Wearing adult diapers (when you don't need them)

  2. Wearing a black ----- on your face

  3. Showing off your JD Vance ---- Cup

  4. Getting a Trump tattoo (here and here)

  5. Worshiping a golden idol

  6. Believing in Trump for Sexual Purity

  7. Believing Trump has excellent parenting skills

  8. Believing Trump is Good for the Working Man (and woman)

  9. Believing Trump is a Successful Businessman (here, here, here, and here)

  10. Believing Trump won in 2020
TDS: Pray for a cure

#9 | Posted by Hans at 2024-10-18 09:15 AM

Why did Epstein's cowardly wingman bail on his 60 minutes interview?

#1 | Posted by reinheitsgebot at 2024-10-18 02:05 AM | Reply | Flag:

Or CNBC?

Or the NRA?

#10 | Posted by Nixon at 2024-10-18 09:39 AM

You gotta admit Trump made some very good zingers, several of which was directed at Sen Schumer where he said "the Dem party has become so woke that in the event Kamala loses, Sen Schumer you can still be the first woman President". The expressions and interactions between Trump and Schumer were hilarious.

www.youtube.com

#11 | Posted by Robson at 2024-10-18 10:32 AM

expressions and interactions between Trump and Schumer were hilarious.

#11 | Posted by Robson

Trump has had Shumer followed by private investigators for years now, hoping to find dirt.

If Trump is elected, Shumer is on his List as being an Enemy of the State.

#12 | Posted by Zed at 2024-10-18 10:41 AM

"Pete Wehner, a former speechwriter for Ronald Reagan, George H. W. Bush and George W. Bush, wrote on X that Kamala Harris "dominated" Fox News host Bret Baier during an interview on Wednesday.

"My take:

Bret Baier has rarely looked as bad (or tendentious) as he did in his interview with Kamala Harris," Wehner wrote on X.

"On the flip side, this was one of her best interviews. She dominated Bret. All in all it was quite a bad day for MAGA world's most important media outlet," Wehner posted on X."

www.newsweek.com

#13 | Posted by Corky at 2024-10-18 10:55 AM

This wasn't about Bret B interview. But that's OK. My view and of many others is she (Kamala) spent the entire Bret interview as 15 minutes dodging, weaving, obfuscating, and evading, and but never concisely answering any question. She rambles on and says nothing. Most view that as a very obvious and derogatory characteristic. It is why they call her answers word salad. Many call them worthless.

If you can't recognize it God bless ya. Bret had to interject himself only because she was running the clock out and saying nothing.

#14 | Posted by Robson at 2024-10-18 01:07 PM

"... and of many others..." -

#14 | Posted by robson at 2024-10-18 01:07 PM | Reply | Flag: Ah, yes, the some people say retort

#15 | Posted by Hans at 2024-10-18 01:11 PM

Bret had to interject himself only because she was running the clock out

His first interruption was 11 seconds into her first response. She was "running the clock out" in the first 40 seconds of the interview?

#16 | Posted by REDIAL at 2024-10-18 01:28 PM

You and your damnable FACTS!

#17 | Posted by YAV at 2024-10-18 01:50 PM

I'd put money on it the AI program named Robson never watched Harris's interview on Fox News.

#18 | Posted by ClownShack at 2024-10-18 01:55 PM

I saw clips of Trump's remarks and thought they were funny.

I was surprised to see Schumer making nice with him given the rhetoric from his own party screaming about how evil he is.

#19 | Posted by BellRinger at 2024-10-18 02:21 PM

Robson is a ------- inbred incel dumbfuq.

Jeff is just a ----.

#20 | Posted by LegallyYourDead at 2024-10-18 03:06 PM

#18 Clown....The question isn't did I watch it? It is did you watch it and learn something about the unelected Dem candidate Kamala.

As the host of the Al Smith dinner last night said.....Democrats are accusing Trump of being a threat to democracy as they established their own coup to take out Biden. SAD it is for America and it is much more than hypocrisy.

#21 | Posted by Robson at 2024-10-18 07:00 PM

@#21 ... the unelected Dem candidate ...

The DNC rules state that the candidate(s) put on the ticket have to be elected? Where?


#22 | Posted by LampLighter at 2024-10-18 07:27 PM

"about the unelected Dem candidate Kamala."

All candidates are unelected until they're elected, dumbass.

Plus, there's that little thing about her being the incumbent vice president.

You ------- retarded incel kook.

#23 | Posted by LegallyYourDead at 2024-10-18 08:14 PM

Average Democrats never supported Kamala as a candidate for anything. She received support from Dem political elites such as Obama and big donors. who see her as puppet to their wants. They used legacy media to manipulate and cover for her.

#24 | Posted by Robson at 2024-10-18 09:03 PM

@#24 ... Average Democrats never supported Kamala as a candidate for anything. ...

Yes, they did support her.

Your AI bot really needs to try harder.

A lot harder.

#25 | Posted by LampLighter at 2024-10-18 09:21 PM

Let's see....

Attorney General...check

Senator....check

Vice President....check

Robson is a slobbering inbred MAGAT....check.

#26 | Posted by LegallyYourDead at 2024-10-18 09:52 PM

The question isn't did I watch it?

Clearly. Since it's obvious you didn't.

#27 | Posted by ClownShack at 2024-10-19 02:31 AM

I'm surprised Epstein's wingman didn't play better at an event sponsored by the Roman Catholic hierarchy of New York.

#28 | Posted by anton at 2024-10-19 06:04 AM

#24

Robson, spare us.

Elon Musk and Peter Thiel have their hands right up the butts of Trump and Vance. Musk, a public-teet sucking defense contractor, is now handing out $100 bills to entice people to vote for his sock puppet.

#29 | Posted by anton at 2024-10-19 06:06 AM

@#24 ... Average Democrats never supported Kamala as a candidate for anything. ...

Yes, they did support her.

#25 | Posted by LampLighter at 2024-10-18 09:21 PM | Reply | Flag

Which primary are you talking about???

#30 | Posted by lfthndthrds at 2024-10-19 03:17 PM

Because she failed miserably in 2020.

#31 | Posted by lfthndthrds at 2024-10-19 03:18 PM

@#24 ... Average Democrats never supported Kamala as a candidate for anything. ...
Yes, they did support her.
#25 | Posted by LampLighter

Harris won multiple elections in CA where average Democrats supported her. She was also supported by average Democrats as part of the winning Biden/Harris ticket.

#32 | Posted by Gal_Tuesday at 2024-10-19 03:28 PM

Because she failed miserably in 2020.

So tired of this insipidly stupid talking point repeated by the ignorant.

All the Democratic candidates who ran for president in 2020

Michael Bennet
Bill de Blasio
Joe Biden
Cory Booker
Steve Bullock
Pete Buttigieg
Julin Castro
John Delaney
Mike Gravel
Kirsten Gillibrand
Amy Klobuchar
John Hickenlooper
Tulsi Gabbard
Kamala Harris*
Jay Inslee
Wayne Messam
Beto O'Rourke
Tim Ryan
Bernie Sanders
Joe Sestak
Eric Swalwell
Elizabeth Warren
Marianne Williamson
Andrew Yang
Deval Patrick
Tom Steyer
Michael Bloomberg

* The only candidate out of 26 who right wing nutcases claim "failed" in 2020 for not defeating Joe Biden in the Democratic primaries.

More stupidity from morons getting high on their right wing media's endless supply of gaslighting fuel.

#33 | Posted by tonyroma at 2024-10-19 03:34 PM

#33 | Posted by tonyroma at 2024-10-19 03:34 PM | Reply | Flag

If she was doing so well why did she drop out? Back to my original point, she's never won a primary and she sure as hell didn't win one to land her into this presidential election.

You're the moron running around putting lipstick on a pig.

#34 | Posted by lfthndthrds at 2024-10-19 04:00 PM

You're the moron running around putting lipstick on a pig.

At least I'm not sucking the mushroom of one like you are.

Harris is the elected Vice President. When the President can or does not want to continue his service, she's the FIRST ONE in line constitutionally to take over. Why is this so hard for pinheads to understand?

Biden stepped down, Harris stepped up. That is all that matters. If America felt her unfit to be President, they never would have elected her Vice President, something JD Vance is getting ready to learn firsthand.

#35 | Posted by tonyroma at 2024-10-19 04:07 PM

If she was doing so well why did she drop out?

Because she had no constituency from which to win the nomination and she had no money to continue her attempt. Does logic not visit whatever hovel you pollute with your toxic presence?

#36 | Posted by tonyroma at 2024-10-19 04:10 PM

She has a constituency now and the support of average Dems:

Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez
@AOC
Hellooo! We're launching a 1000+ person bilingual canvass this AM in Allentown, Pennsylvania.

@TeamAOC helped fill busses with hundreds of canvassers to support the local Harris operation, including 100s of Spanish speakers.

We don't play about our army.
Let's GO! Pa'lante.

This coalition canvass was powered by local @LehighCoDems, @32BJSEIU, @swingleft, @TeamAOC, and Q@ueens_Dems.

Let's go knock some doors

https://x.com/AOC/status/1847677706625851839

#37 | Posted by Gal_Tuesday at 2024-10-19 04:16 PM

Clickable AOC link:

x.com

#38 | Posted by Gal_Tuesday at 2024-10-19 04:16 PM

#35 | Posted by TonyRoma at 2024-10-19 04:07 PM | Reply | Flag: An important, must read post

#StrongerTogether

#39 | Posted by Hans at 2024-10-19 05:13 PM

@Tony

BS

He didn't step down from the Presidency. He decided not to run/got told he wouldn't be running again. At that point the DNC needed a primary. Nothing she's done qualified her to run for president.

#40 | Posted by lfthndthrds at 2024-10-19 06:38 PM

"At that point the DNC needed a primary."

And at that point the Dems threw it open, if anyone wanted to throw their hat in the ring.

No one else came forward by the deadline. Nor does it seem a lot of Dems have a problem with that.

#41 | Posted by Danforth at 2024-10-19 06:42 PM

"Nothing she's done qualified her to run for president."

Being able to win is a fairly rare quality.

She's also served honorably in lesser jobs, usually the benchmark for promotions.

Meanwhile, Trump has done plenty to disqualify himself. Telling, you avoiding that fact.

#42 | Posted by Danforth at 2024-10-19 06:46 PM

At that point the DNC needed a primary. Nothing she's done qualified her to run for president.

I'm surprised the internet is available wherever you live because it must be so misinformed there that evidently history books are only used to place your dunce caps upon. The states run primaries, not the parties. The primaries were all finished. There is no mechanism nor regulation that if a party's presumptive nominee drops out, every single primary must be held again.

Think of how stupid it is to even raise this as a probability! Tell us Einstein, just how would that happen at the end of July? How long would it take to organize each state and territory for a single race ballot? Who's going to pay for this expense, the Republican Party? Dems sure as hell aren't.

Again - as you obviously don't know nor understand - the parties themselves determine how their nominees are chosen, not state governments. As Danforth informed you, the Democratic National Committee DOES have party rules for such a contingency and they were followed to a T! There was an open call for candidates to enter a convention nomination race with the delegates deciding. Only one candidate did, Kamala Harris. None of the 25 other 2020 candidates - nor anyone else - threw their hat in the ring. So Kamala received the votes from delegates to win and become the 2024 Democratic Presidential nominee.

And being the Vice President for 4 years is the ultimate qualification for becoming President. And again, replacing the President is the chief role of the Vice President to begin with. This is why they're elected in the first place and not fireable by the President. The Vice President is the only member of the entire Executive Branch that doesn't serve at the President's leisure, she serves as the first person selected to move into the Presidency should the need occur.

And that, my troglodytic misanthrope, is the most important qualification for becoming the President and its dictate comes from inside the US Constitution itself.

#43 | Posted by tonyroma at 2024-10-19 07:25 PM

WOWSERS It's getting mighty deep in here. I am not surprised however.

#44 | Posted by LauraMohr at 2024-10-19 07:43 PM

Yeah we know, vote for the Russian stooge again ------.

#45 | Posted by LegallyYourDead at 2024-10-20 12:24 AM

At that point the DNC needed a primary. Nothing she's done qualified her to run for president.

I'm surprised the internet is available wherever you live because it must be so misinformed there that evidently history books are only used to place your dunce caps upon. The states run primaries, not the parties. The primaries were all finished. There is no mechanism nor regulation that if a party's presumptive nominee drops out, every single primary must be held again.

Think of how stupid it is to even raise this as a probability! Tell us Einstein, just how would that happen at the end of July? How long would it take to organize each state and territory for a single race ballot? Who's going to pay for this expense, the Republican Party? Dems sure as hell aren't.

Again - as you obviously don't know nor understand - the parties themselves determine how their nominees are chosen, not state governments. As Danforth informed you, the Democratic National Committee DOES have party rules for such a contingency and they were followed to a T! There was an open call for candidates to enter a convention nomination race with the delegates deciding. Only one candidate did, Kamala Harris. None of the 25 other 2020 candidates - nor anyone else - threw their hat in the ring. So Kamala received the votes from delegates to win and become the 2024 Democratic Presidential nominee.

And being the Vice President for 4 years is the ultimate qualification for becoming President. And again, replacing the President is the chief role of the Vice President to begin with. This is why they're elected in the first place and not fireable by the President. The Vice President is the only member of the entire Executive Branch that doesn't serve at the President's leisure, she serves as the first person selected to move into the Presidency should the need occur.

And that, my troglodytic misanthrope, is the most important qualification for becoming the President and its dictate comes from inside the US Constitution itself.

#43 | Posted by tonyroma at 2024-10-19 07:25 PM

Needed repeating so as to not be broken up by an ad featuring fortfisher's breath mints

#46 | Posted by Hans at 2024-10-20 09:47 AM

Whenever my head starts to hurt
Before it goes from bad to feeling worse
I turn off my phone, I get down low
And put my hands in the dirt
I try to stop the world from moving so fast
Try and get a grip on where I'm at
And simplify this dizzy life
And get my feet in the grass

I'm going back to the earth
I'm going back to the earth
I'm going back to work
I'm going back to the earth

The only explanation for a high rise
Must be that everybody wants to get high
And move on up
To a deluxe
Apartment in the sky
Well, the higher we go, the taller we grow
We lose sight of the land below
Well, you can have your place
Up in outer space
'Cause my home is where my food is grown

I'm going back to the earth
I'm going back to the earth
I'm going back to work
I'm going back to the earth
I'm going back to the earth
(Back to the earth)
(Back to work)
(Back to the earth)
We are animals (we are animals)
We are wild (we are wild)
We started with the motion
At the bottom of the ocean
Now we're swinging from the tops of the trees
We are animals (we are animals)
We are wild (we are wild)
And to truly be forgiven
We must all get back to living
With the land in harmony
I'm going back to the earth
I'm going back to the earth
I'm going back to work
I'm going back to the earth

#47 | Posted by Hans at 2024-10-20 08:16 PM

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