other side either having listened to his locker room talk. what is your feeling about how they play this. i think particularly from trump s side, like does he have i guess you can hire a good joke writer to make you self-deprecating even if it s not in your natural nature. yes. self-deprecating humor and graciousness are obviously not in donald trump s skill set. i m watching the picture of this. archbishop dolan, cardinal dolan used to be archbishop of milwaukee. i m trying to figure out what s going through his mind to the left of him, to the right of him, he s a savvy guy. he knows what is in the wikileaks e-mails about the catholic church. he has no illusions about donald trump s character. it will be fascinating to see how they play this out. but there s something just tone wrong of a dinner like this where they all try to pretend that what is happening right now, what happened last night
easy-going, lighthearted affair. the two people front and center tonight, they didn t even shake hands at last night s debate. for trump who was seen gritting his teeth following the debate, down in most polls according to the new york times will be seated on the dais with eric schneiderman, new york attorney general, whose office currently has an investigation into mr. trump s foundation, it doesn t sound likely trump will be in the mood for dinner that s taken on the air of a roast. i was actually hoping the president would bring joe biden along this evening because he ll laugh at anything. of course, the economy s on everybody s minds. unemployment rate is at its lowest level since i took office. i don t have a joke here. i just thought it d be useful to remind everybody that the unemployment rate is the lowest it s been since i took office. tonight s dinner, presided over by cardinal timothy dolan, archbishop of new york, seated between hillary and trump.
for instance. what s your feeling? but unfortunately, we do he does. set against the backdrop of that. so surreal in so many ways. these two candidates are so inappropriate for this setting. here you have this thrice-married libertine who brags about his affairs and talks about grabbing women by their private parts, then she s there after having made a really strong statement on abortion last night. you remember that her husband was not invited to this dinner. he didn t come. mondale had debate prep, because he was afraid of the abortion politics. and kerry didn t go. jimmy carter got booed in 1980. that s a great point. i hadn t even thought of that. she gave probably the most comprehensive full-throated defense of abortion rights you ever heard. on a presidential stage. sitting next to timothy dolan, but he can t feel much better about the guy on the other side either having listened to his locker room talk. what is your feeling about how they play this.
i think particularly from trump s side, like does he have i guess you can hire a good joke writer to make you self-deprecating even if it s not in your natural nature. yes. self-deprecating humor and graciousness are obviously not in donald trump s skill set. i m watching the picture of this. archbishop dolan, cardinal dolan used to be archbishop of milwaukee. i m trying to figure out what s going through his mind to the left of him, to the right of him, he s a savvy guy. he knows what is in the wikileaks e-mails about the catholic church. he has no illusions about donald trump s character. it will be fascinating to see how they play this out. but there s something just tone wrong of a dinner like this where they all try to pretend that what is happening right now, what happened last night didn t happen, and the only thing i can say is i hope they re funny, i hope they have good joke writers, i hope they
was sorry that there wasn t somebody praying from the native american tradition because he and ialk about lacrosse and how it s unifying among native americans but really, i said it would have been lovely to have something from the native american tradition. to see the people and energy of the place and the, you know, archbishop dolan welcoming and just the cheer that went out was extraordinary. a great moment. he said welcome to new york in this completely spontaneous five-minute ovation and new yorkers saying we re here, too and want to break off script. in someways his body is weaker but his spirit is higher and the position as he s now gone into the cart and you can see him hobbling but gaining energy. the grip this man has really