2016 Postmortem
Related: About this forumDonald Trump’s Terrible Jokes About Hillary Clinton Draw Boos At Al Smith Dinner
http://www.politicususa.com/2016/10/20/donald-trumps-terrible-jokes-hillary-clinton-draw-boos-al-smith-dinner.htmlJoy Reid ✔ @JoyAnnReid
The awkward silence in the room, now punctuated by booing. This is really uncomfortable. #AlSmithDinner
9:15 PM - 20 Oct 2016
Trump began his remarks making a few jokes that drew positive laughter from the audience, but his comedy act quickly deteriorated and people in the room became visibly uncomfortable, and even breaking out into boos.
One joke, in particular, drew a lot of backlash when Trump said that Hillary Clinton is pretending not to hate Catholics by attending the dinner, which is an event meant to raise money for Catholic charities.
https://t.co/8iBun1bnDH
OMG...watching that. his delivery. Stop-and-go. Robotic. Trouble reading his script. Painful to watch!
metroins
(2,550 posts)A lot of them were rough but I liked the Pardon me one.
Staph
(6,251 posts)But he explained the joke. All he had to do was say Pardon Me (and he got the inflection exactly right) and then shut up. The laughter was building and building (and Hillary was giggling!), but he stepped on the joke.
He just can't get anything right!
tblue37
(65,391 posts)metroins
(2,550 posts)Tarheel_Dem
(31,234 posts)room became visibly uncomfortable". Such a petulant childish asshole. I know two year olds who set a better example.
dubyadiprecession
(5,711 posts)What won't he say? Trump is full of S#%t!
Blue Idaho
(5,049 posts)The first rule of public speaking is - know your audience. He didn't.
brush
(53,784 posts)He just getting worse. After the Hillary joke bombed he keeps reading his script robotically and saying "you'll notice Hillary is not laughing as much as everyone else".
No one was laughing, in fact some were booing, at his totally inappropriate attempt at humor but he kept going as if he wasn't being booed. I think he's still in shock from the last three weeks when it all came crashing down first the poor performance in the first debate followed by the week-long series of ill-advised beauty queen tweets, then the release of the vulgar audio tape, followed by another horrible debate performance then all the women Trump groped coming forward then the third lost debate with his vow to not stand with the results of the election then the stupid joke and the boos at the Al Smith dinner I mean misstep after misstep after fuck up after fuck up after misstep, he's obviously in a daze at how it all came crashing down so suddenly.
It's like karma punhed bully Trump in the nose and he doesn't know what to do but stagger to the finish line of the campaign with poor script writers in tow.
Who the hell wrote that "pretending to not hate Catholics" joke at a Catholic charity dinner? His whole campaign has been done on the cheap and it shows even with his writers.