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Roland99

(53,342 posts)
Thu Oct 20, 2016, 09:45 PM Oct 2016

Donald 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.html

Donald Trump crashed and burned at the Al Smith dinner – a political tradition where presidential candidates often make lighthearted jokes about each other – for telling terrible, tasteless jokes about Hillary Clinton.

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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.



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OMG...watching that. his delivery. Stop-and-go. Robotic. Trouble reading his script. Painful to watch!
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Donald Trump’s Terrible Jokes About Hillary Clinton Draw Boos At Al Smith Dinner (Original Post) Roland99 Oct 2016 OP
Some were ok metroins Oct 2016 #1
I liked the Pardon Me joke, too. Staph Oct 2016 #4
The Melania speech joke was a winner, too. nt tblue37 Oct 2016 #5
I agree, it was funny. Nt metroins Oct 2016 #8
Sounds like all his debate performances..."his comedy act quickly deteriorated and people in the.... Tarheel_Dem Oct 2016 #2
She hates Catholics, is hiding a health problem, using drugs, etc... dubyadiprecession Oct 2016 #3
What a craphead. Blue Idaho Oct 2016 #6
God! He's a walking disaster of a candidate brush Oct 2016 #7

Staph

(6,251 posts)
4. I liked the Pardon Me joke, too.
Thu Oct 20, 2016, 09:57 PM
Oct 2016

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!


Tarheel_Dem

(31,234 posts)
2. Sounds like all his debate performances..."his comedy act quickly deteriorated and people in the....
Thu Oct 20, 2016, 09:51 PM
Oct 2016

room became visibly uncomfortable". Such a petulant childish asshole. I know two year olds who set a better example.

dubyadiprecession

(5,711 posts)
3. She hates Catholics, is hiding a health problem, using drugs, etc...
Thu Oct 20, 2016, 09:53 PM
Oct 2016

What won't he say? Trump is full of S#%t!

brush

(53,784 posts)
7. God! He's a walking disaster of a candidate
Thu Oct 20, 2016, 10:54 PM
Oct 2016

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.

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