Brilliant

But, of course, Trump had a nasty response at the Dinner. He called her disrespectful for not being there. And a lot of the audience cheered him.  

“If you really wanted Vice President Harris to accept your invitation, I guess you should have told her the funds were going to bail out the looters and rioters in Minneapolis, and she would have been here.”

  The Hill

What a dick.

“The fact is, we need new leadership in this country,” Trump said. “Right now we have someone in the White House who can barely talk, barely put together two coherent sentences, who seems to have the mental faculties of a child. There’s a person that has nothing going. No intelligence whatsoever. But enough about Kamala Harris.”

That was supposed to be a joke. He didn't deliver any of his little speech as a joke. Just his normal drone. And what's especially rich about this particular passage is, he absolutely underlined that his description was of himself. Particularly when he had to pause while reading at the word "faculties".

And, Jesus Christ, who wrote this speech for him? Don Junior? Stephen Miller?

“There’s a group called White Dudes for Harris. But I’m not worried about them,” Trump said. “Their wives and their wives’ lovers are all voting for me.”

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“But look on the bright side,” Trump told Schumer at one point. “Considering how woke your party has become, If Kamala loses you still have the chance to become the first woman president.”

WTF?

“We have another former NYC mayor with us. Frankly, easily the worst in our history. And it’s not Michael, that I can tell you,” Trump said. “I’m surprised that Bill de Blasio is 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.”

WTF???

The former president suggested he couldn’t wait to wash his hands of the vice president after Election Day. “When we hopefully win, dispose of her, I’ll like her a lot, but right now I can’t stand her,” he said.

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The former president cracked another transphobic joke later in targeting Harris’ running mate. “I used to think the Democrats were crazy for saying men have periods, but then I met Tim Walz,” Trump said.

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But the most important person who figured into Trump’s speech was, of course, himself. “I’m supposed to tell a few self-deprecating jokes,” he told the audience. “So here it goes,” he said, pausing for effect. “Nope. I’ve got nothing. I’ve got nothing!”

  Daily Beast

Somebody had to tell him what "self-deprecating" means, I'm sure.

Trump added, “I guess I just do not see the point in taking shots at myself when other people have been shooting at me for a long time.”

Okay, that was a fairly decent joke as written. But not a joke as delivered, because...

The reference to two recent assassination attempts provided a means for Trump to segue into self-pity. He said he’d suffered more than Abraham Lincoln and Andrew Jackson. “There’s never been a president that has been treated so badly as me,” he complained.

It's obvious none of his speech was a joke in his mind. Just more nasty Trump rhetoric.

Help, Mr. Wizard!  Get us out of this!  (You have to be old to know that reference.)

UPDATE 08:23 am:

The former president appeared on Fox & Friends the day after he insulted his political opponents and made light of his unprecedented legal troubles in a speech at the Alfred E. Smith Memorial Foundation Dinner.

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After complaining about not being allowed to use a teleprompter for the event, Trump praised comedian Jim Gaffigan’s performance on the night, saying: “I thought he was good.”

  Daily Beast

What happened to, "isn't it nice to have a president who doesn't need a teleprompter"?

“We have seen historically a lot of Democrats, they turn to the guys at Saturday Night Live or The Tonight Show, they write all their material,” Fox & Friends co-host Steve Doocy said to Trump. “Your material was real funny—who wrote it?” Doocy asked, before quickly adding: “Who helped you with it?”

“Well, I’ve had a lot of people helping,” Trump answered. “A lot of people. A couple of people from Fox, actually. I shouldn’t say that. But they wrote some jokes and, for the most part, I didn’t like any of them.”

Jesus. Okay, who forced you to read them?