{"id":13806,"date":"2016-10-21T04:58:35","date_gmt":"2016-10-21T04:58:35","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.biphoo.com\/bipnews\/?p=13806"},"modified":"2016-10-21T04:58:35","modified_gmt":"2016-10-21T04:58:35","slug":"donald-trump-heckled-by-new-york-elite-at-charity-dinner","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.biphoo.com\/bipnews\/news\/donald-trump-heckled-by-new-york-elite-at-charity-dinner.html","title":{"rendered":"Donald Trump Heckled by New York Elite at Charity Dinner"},"content":{"rendered":"

Donald Trump Heckled by New York Elite at Charity Dinner<\/span><\/strong><\/span><\/h2>\n

Donald Trump Heckled by New York Elite at Charity Dinner:-<\/strong> Donald J. Trump began this quadrennial exercise in campaign humility and self-deprecation on Thursday by comparing himself to the son of God \u2014 just another \u201ccarpenter working for his father\u201d in his youth.<\/span><\/p>\n

By the end, facing cascading and uncomfortable jeers from a crowd full of white ties and gowns, he had called Hillary Clinton Catholic-hating, \u201cso corrupt\u201d and potentially jail-bound in a prospective Trump administration.<\/span><\/p>\n

\u201cI don\u2019t know who they\u2019re angry at, Hillary, you or I,\u201d Mr. Trump said sheepishly from the dais, turning to his opponent amid the heckling.<\/span><\/p>\n

It seemed clear to everyone else. Mr. Trump was being booed at a charity dinner.<\/span><\/p>\n

So it went at the Alfred E. Smith Memorial Foundation Dinner in Manhattan, a presidential campaign ritual of levity and feigned warmth \u2014 upended, like so much else in this election season, by the gale-force bid of Mr. Trump.<\/span><\/p>\n

Breaking with decades of tradition at the gathering once he took the microphone, Mr. Trump set off on a blistering, grievance-filled performance that translated poorly to the staid setting, stunning many of the well-heeled guests who had filed into the Waldorf Astoria hotel for an uncommon spectacle: an attempted d\u00e9tente in a campaign so caustic that the candidates, less than 24 hours earlier, declined to shake hands on a debate stage.<\/span><\/p>\n

Relations did not much improve.<\/span><\/p>\n

Mr. Trump\u2019s set began typically enough. He joked about the size of his hands and Mrs. Clinton\u2019s comparatively small crowds. He even very nearly poked fun at himself \u2014 insofar as a zinger about his wife, and her partly plagiarized Republican convention speech, qualifies \u2014 when discussing the \u201cbiased\u201d news media.<\/span><\/p>\n

\u201cYou want the proof? Michelle Obama gives a speech, and everyone loves it,\u201d Mr. Trump said. \u201cMy wife, Melania, gives the exact same speech and people get on her case.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n

Some sharper jokes about Mrs. Clinton seemed to edge just to the line.<\/span><\/p>\n

\u201cJust before taking the dais, Hillary accidentally bumped into me. And she very civilly said, \u2018Pardon me,\u2019\u201d Mr. Trump said, as murmurs filled the room. \u201cI very politely replied, \u2018Let me talk to you about that after I get into office.\u2019\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n

Mrs. Clinton, seeming to get the joke before some others, bellowed before the punch line.<\/span><\/p>\n

But quickly, his remarks took a more menacing turn.<\/span><\/p>\n

Mr. Trump said Mrs. Clinton was merely \u201cpretending not to hate Catholics,\u201d an allusion to hacked correspondences from Clinton aides that appeared to include messages criticizing Roman Catholic conservatism.<\/span><\/p>\n

He wondered aloud how someone like Mrs. Clinton \u2014 \u201cso corrupt,\u201d he said \u2014 could sell herself to the American people. \u201cWhat\u2019s her pitch?\u201d he asked. \u201cThe economy is busted, the government\u2019s corrupt, Washington is failing. Vote for me.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n

He fake-griped that \u201call the jokes were given to her in advance.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n

He appeared to disparage the Clinton Foundation\u2019s oft-criticized efforts in Haiti.<\/span><\/p>\n

\u201cAs some of you have noticed, Hillary isn\u2019t laughing as much as the rest of us,\u201d he said.<\/span><\/p>\n

By then, he had decisively lost the room.<\/span><\/p>\n

As for Mrs. Clinton, she began with some easy self-deprecation.<\/span><\/p>\n

\u201cI took a break from my rigorous nap schedule to be here,\u201d she said, adding, \u201cUsually, I charge a lot for speeches like this.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n

But she quickly turned to more cutting satire, joking that Mr. Trump was \u201ctranslating from the original Russian\u201d on his teleprompters and wondering just how President Obama might be able to visit the White House for a reunion of former presidents under a Trump administration.<\/span><\/p>\n

\u201cHow is Barack going to get past the Muslim ban?\u201d she asked.<\/span><\/p>\n

She also spoke of the Statue of Liberty, recounting how for most Americans, the green lady of freedom represents a shining beacon of hope and a welcome symbol for immigrants arriving on the nation shores. But Mr. Trump, she added with a glint of steel, \u201clooks at the Statue of Liberty and sees a 4\u201d \u2014 a not-so-veiled reference to his comments rating the physical appearance of women.<\/span><\/p>\n

\u201cMaybe a 5 if she loses the torch and tablet and changes her hair,\u201d she continued, before making an explicit, if subtle, pitch for becoming the nation\u2019s first female president.<\/span><\/p>\n

\u201cYou know, come to think, know what would be a good number for a woman? 45,\u201d she concluded triumphantly.<\/span><\/p>\n

At the dinner before the remarks, the pair could be seen chatting, at least briefly, seated two seats apart, with only Cardinal Timothy M. Dolan, the archbishop of New York, between them. (Perhaps only a man of God could, for a night, soothe a campaign that has included an F.B.I. inquiry, overnight Twitter binges, multiple accusations of sexual misconduct and an international feud between the Republican nominee and Pope Francis).<\/span><\/p>\n

Before the candidates spoke, Alfred E. Smith IV, the chairman of the dinner, which benefits Catholic charities, seemed to offer a preview of what may await Mr. Trump as he tries to return to New York society life should he not win the White House in November.<\/span><\/p>\n

\u201cBefore the dinner started, Trump went to Hillary and asked, \u2018How are you?\u2019\u201d Mr. Smith said, waiting a beat. \u201cShe said, \u2018I\u2019m fine \u2014 now get out of the ladies\u2019 dressing room.\u2019\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n

Even under the best of circumstances, Mr. Trump is not known for an eagerness to laugh at himself. A veritable roasting at Washington\u2019s annual \u201cnerd prom,\u201d the White House Correspondents\u2019 Association\u2019s annual dinner, in 2011 may have hastened \u2014 or even catalyzed \u2014 his bid for the Oval Office. And now a flagging presidential campaign \u2014 most polls place him several percentage points behind Mrs. Clinton nationally \u2014 has done little to help.<\/span><\/p>\n

Then there was the guest list. In addition to Mrs. Clinton, Mr. Trump was surrounded on the dais by assorted adversaries from his political and professional life. Michael R. Bloomberg, the billionaire former New York City mayor who has vocally opposed Mr. Trump\u2019s bid, was perched in the first row, just in front of the candidates. And Eric T. Schneiderman, the New York attorney general, whose office has opened an investigation into Mr. Trump\u2019s foundation, was positioned a safe distance away in the back.<\/span><\/p>\n

At least one Trump ally, former Mayor Rudolph W. Giuliani, did attend what is, during even typical election seasons, a quintessentially New York event, packed with local political leaders and power brokers.<\/span><\/p>\n

This year, it so happens that two New Yorkers can also be found at the top of the ballot.<\/span><\/p>\n

One seemed to have more fun on Thursday than the other. Mr. Trump sat with his arms tightly folded as Mrs. Clinton spoke, a similarly taut smile across his face. But when Mrs. Clinton returned to one his favorite themes \u2014 her health \u2014 he seemed momentarily buoyed.<\/span><\/p>\n

Mr. Trump, Mrs. Clinton said, had chivalrously sent a car to ferry her to the dinner. \u201cActually, it was a hearse,\u201d she said.<\/span><\/p>\n

Source:-\u00a0http:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2016\/10\/21\/us\/politics\/al-smith-dinner-clinton-trump.html?_r=0<\/span><\/p>\n

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