特朗普在阿尔·史密斯慈善晚宴上发表了尖锐、有时甚至带有尖刻的演讲
【中美创新时报2024 年 10 月 18 日编译讯】（记者温友平编译）前总统唐纳德·特朗普周四在纽约阿尔·史密斯年度慈善晚宴上发表尖锐、有时甚至带有尖刻的演讲，抨击副总统卡马拉·哈里斯和其他民主党人。美联社记者吉尔·科尔文（ JILL COLVIN）对此作了下述报道。
特朗普的言论往往更像是一场集会表演，而不是喜剧表演，他多次批评哈里斯在威斯康星州竞选期间决定不参加此次活动，打破了总统传统。
她录制了一段在屏幕上播放的视频，但特朗普称这一决定“非常不尊重”。
“如果你真的希望哈里斯副总统接受你的邀请，我想你应该告诉她这些资金将用于救助明尼阿波利斯的抢劫者和暴徒，她肯定会来参加的，”特朗普说，并敦促天主教徒投票支持他。
“你最好记住，我在这里，而她不在，”他说。
这场白领带晚宴为天主教慈善机构筹集了数百万美元，传统上为两党候选人提供了在选举最后阶段的一个晚上互相嘲讽、自嘲和表明他们可以相处融洽的机会——或者至少假装可以。
这通常是两位候选人在选举日前最后一次同台。
特朗普说了许多引人发笑的俏皮话。但他也质疑哈里斯和拜登总统的精神健康状况，评论了第二任先生道格·埃姆霍夫在前一段婚姻中的婚外情，并拿跨性别女性开玩笑，这与他在竞选过程中经常嘲笑跨性别运动员如出一辙。
他曾一度表示，在放弃努力之前，他会讲几个自嘲的笑话。“不。我什么都没有，”他笑着说。
“当其他人向我开枪时，我不明白为什么要向自己开枪，”他说，指的是他今年两次躲过暗杀企图。
谈到拜登，他说：“如果民主党真的希望今晚有人不和我们在一起，他们就会派乔·拜登来。”
后来，他说白宫现任主人“几乎不会说话，几乎说不出两句连贯的句子，似乎只有小孩的心智。这是一个一事无成、毫无智慧的人。但关于卡玛拉·哈里斯就说这么多。”
在她为这次活动录制的视频中，哈里斯与喜剧演员兼女演员莫莉·香农一起出现，后者重演了她在《周六夜现场》中长期扮演的角色玛丽·凯瑟琳·加拉格尔，一个笨拙的天主教女学生。她还取笑特朗普在密歇根州发表的言论，称在视频中嘲笑天主教徒“就像在底特律批评底特律”。
哈里斯的竞选团队此前曾表示，在距离选举日不到三周的情况下，他们希望她花尽可能多的时间在决定选举结果的战场州竞选，而不是绕道去民主党占多数的纽约。她的团队告诉组织者，如果她获胜，她愿意以总统的身份参加晚宴。
特朗普的妻子梅拉尼娅也参加了晚宴，她很少出现在竞选活动中。
讲台上既有特朗普的盟友，也有对手，他们之间有着各种各样的纠葛。他们包括纽约州总检察长莱蒂蒂亚·詹姆斯，她对特朗普及其企业提起了成功的民事欺诈诉讼。罗伯特·肯尼迪二世在放弃竞选民主党总统候选人提名后支持特朗普，他与妻子谢丽尔·海因斯一同出席了晚宴。
出席活动的还有纽约陷入困境的市长埃里克·亚当斯和其他市政府高级官员，以及商界领袖、体育和媒体名人。亚当斯上个月被指控接受土耳其官员和商人的非法竞选捐款和奢华的海外旅行——包括特朗普在内的许多人都多次提到这一案件。
特朗普声称，亚当斯之所以成为当局的目标，是因为他批评了拜登的移民政策，但没有证据。
“亚当斯市长：祝你一切顺利，”特朗普说，并补充说亚当斯面临的问题与他自己的法律困境相比“微不足道”，并预测他无论如何都会赢得连任。
他还抨击了前纽约市长比尔·德布拉西奥，后者多次遭到人群的嘘声。
“说实话，他是个糟糕的市长，”特朗普在一场宗教主题活动中说脏话之前说道。“我不在乎这是不是喜剧。”
在《周六夜现场》中饰演蒂姆·沃尔兹的吉姆·加菲根担任晚宴主持人
晚宴由喜剧演员吉姆·加菲根主持，他在《周六夜现场》中饰演民主党副总统候选人蒂姆·沃尔兹。
加菲根有批评特朗普的历史。2020 年，他在 X（当时名为 Twitter）上写道：“我们需要醒悟。我们需要称特朗普为骗子和小偷。”
周四，加菲根主要将注意力集中在其他人身上，但也提出了一些尖锐的俏皮话，包括他提到特朗普集团在 1970 年代歧视黑人租房者的指控。
“如果哈里斯副总统赢得这次选举，她不仅会成为第一位女总统，而且一位黑人女性将入主白宫，这是特朗普的前住所，”加菲根说。“显然你不会把房子租给她。我的意思是，无论如何，这都不会发生。也许如果道格签了字的话。”
加菲根还嘲笑哈里斯没有参加晚宴，并开玩笑说民主党将用副总统取代拜登。
“媒体已经开始讨论特朗普秘密选民的现象。我不知道你们是否听说过这个——有人公开表示他们永远不会投票给特朗普，但当他们走进投票站时，他们却投票了。这是一个小团体。他们被称为拜登家族，”他告诉人群。
特朗普的语气与他在 2016 年的表现如出一辙，当时他与民主党对手希拉里·克林顿一起发表了一场特别恶毒的演讲，称她“腐败”。
“希拉里认为，通过制定一项公共政策和一项完全不同的私下政策来欺骗人民是至关重要的，”他面对嘲笑说道。“例如，今晚她就在这里，在公开场合假装不讨厌天主教徒。”
基金会副主席玛丽·卡拉汉·埃尔多斯在介绍特朗普时提到了这一点，暗示她希望特朗普的讲话不要那么尖刻。
“你从不让人失望。你的机智真是太棒了。我们所有人都会一起期待最好的结果，”她笑着说道。
特朗普周四也提到了特朗普的表现，他说，2016 年，他“有点过火了。那太糟糕了。我知道自己在中途遇到了麻烦。”
然而，这并没有阻止他进行类似的攻击，并一再偏离剧本。
哈里斯竞选团队对特朗普的讲话作出回应，称这将提醒“美国人他变得多么不稳定”。
“他可能拒绝公布自己的医疗记录，但他每天都在向美国人民表明，他无法胜任这份工作，”发言人阿马尔·穆萨说。
特朗普的支持者经常将特朗普的幽默感视为他吸引力的关键。虽然他在 2011 年白宫记者晚宴上对前总统巴拉克·奥巴马拿他开玩笑的场景怒目而视，但他有时也会自嘲。
在今年的几次集会上，他在屏幕上看到自己的照片后，对自己的头发发表了评论。
“你到底能做什么？我无能为力。我们只能这样了，”上个月，他在宾夕法尼亚州印第安纳州的一次集会上开玩笑说。
特朗普和天主教徒拜登都在 2020 年的虚拟筹款活动中发表了讲话，由于担心在疫情高峰期举行大型集会，该活动被转移到了线上。
阿尔弗雷德·E·史密斯纪念基金会晚宴以纽约州前州长的名字命名，他是一名民主党人，1928 年竞选总统失败后成为第一位获得主要政党总统提名的天主教徒。
自 1960 年理查德·尼克松和约翰·F·肯尼迪一起出席以来，这项活动已成为总统候选人的传统。1996 年，纽约大主教区决定不邀请当时的总统比尔·克林顿和他的共和党挑战者鲍勃·多尔，据报道是因为克林顿否决了一项晚期堕胎禁令。
题图：10 月 17 日，共和党总统候选人、前总统唐纳德·特朗普和前第一夫人梅拉尼娅·特朗普抵达纽约，参加第 79 届阿尔弗雷德·E·史密斯纪念基金会晚宴。Julia Demaree Nikhinson/美联社
附原英文报道：
Trump delivers a pointed and at times bitter speech at Al Smith charity dinner
By JILL COLVIN The Associated Press,Updated October 17, 2024
Republican presidential nominee former president Donald Trump and former first lady Melania Trump arrive for the 79th annual Alfred E. Smith Memorial Foundation Dinner, on Oct. 17, in New York.Julia Demaree Nikhinson/Associated Press
NEW YORK (AP) — Former President Donald Trump laced into Vice President Kamala Harris and other Democrats on Thursday in a pointed and at times bitter speech as he headlined the annual Al Smith charity dinner in New York.
Trump, in remarks that often felt more like a rally performance than a comedy routine, repeatedly criticized Harris over her decision to skip the event in a break from presidential tradition as she campaigned in Wisconsin.
She recorded a video that was played onscreen, but Trump called the decision “deeply disrespectful.”
“”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, guaranteed,” said Trump, urging Catholics to vote for him in response.
“You better remember that I’m here and she’s not,” he said.
The white-tie dinner raises millions of dollars for Catholic charities and has traditionally offered candidates from both parties the chance to trade lighthearted barbs, poke fun at themselves, and show that they can get along — or at least pretend to — for one night in the election’s final stretch.
It’s often the last time the two nominees share a stage before Election Day.
Trump delivered a number of one-liners that drew laughs. But he also questioned the mental fitness of Harris and President Biden, commented on second gentleman Doug Emhoff’s extramarital affair during his previous marriage, and made a joke about transgender women that echoed his frequent mocking of trans athletes on the campaign trail.
He said at one point that he would offer a couple of self-deprecating jokes before abandoning the effort. “Nope. I’ve got nothing,” he said to laughs.
“I just don’t see the point of taking shots at myself when other people have been shooting at me,” he said, referencing his survival of two assassination attempts this year.
Of Biden, he said, “If the Democrats really wanted to have someone not be with us this evening, they would have sent Joe Biden.”
Later, he said the current occupant of the White House “can barely talk, barely put together two coherent sentences, who seems to have the mental faculties of a child. This is a person that has nothing going, no intelligence whatsoever. But enough about Kamala Harris.”
In the video she recorded for the occasion, Harris appeared alongside comedian and actress Molly Shannon, who reprised her long-running “Saturday Night Live” character Mary Katherine Gallagher, an awkward Catholic schoolgirl. She also poked fun at Trump for comments he made in Michigan, saying that mocking Catholics in the video would be “like criticizing Detroit in Detroit.”
Harris’ campaign had previously said that, with less than three weeks before Election Day, they wanted her to spend as much time as possible campaigning in battleground states that will decide the election, rather than detouring to heavily Democratic New York. Her team has told organizers that she would be willing to attend the dinner as president if she wins.
Trump was joined at the dinner by his wife, Melania, who has been an infrequent presence on the campaign trail.
The dais included a mix of Trump allies and foes, with various entanglements. They included New York Attorney General Letitia James, who brought a successful civil fraud case against Trump and his business. Robert F. Kennedy Jr., who endorsed Trump after dropping his bid for the Democratic presidential nomination, attended with his wife, Cheryl Hines.
Also in attendance were New York’s embattled Mayor Eric Adams and other top city officials, as well as business leaders and sports and media personalities. Adams was charged last month with accepting illegal campaign contributions and lavish overseas trips from Turkish officials and businesspeople — a case that was mentioned repeatedly, including by Trump.
Trump has claimed, without evidence, that Adams was targeted by authorities because he criticized Biden’s migrant policies.
“Mayor Adams: Good luck with everything,” Trump said, adding that what Adams faces is “peanuts” compared to his own legal woes and predicting that he will win reelection nonetheless.
He also went after former New York Mayor Bill de Blasio, who was repeatedly booed by the crowd.
“To be honest, he was a terrible mayor,” Trump said before offering a profanity at a religion-themed event. “I don’t give a s—- if this is comedy or not.”
Jim Gaffigan, who plays Tim Walz on ‘SNL,’ emceed
The dinner was emceed by comedian Jim Gaffigan, who plays Democratic vice presidential nominee Tim Walz on “Saturday Night Live.”
Gaffigan has a history of criticizing Trump. In 2020, he wrote on X, then named Twitter, that, “We need to wake up. We need to call trump the con man and thief that he is.”
Gaffigan largely kept his focus on others Thursday, but offered several pointed quips, including when he referenced allegations that the Trump Organization in the 1970s discriminated against Black renters.
“If Vice President Harris wins this election, not only would she be the first female president, a Black woman would occupy the White House, a former Trump residence,” Gaffigan said. “Obviously you wouldn’t be renting to her. I mean, that would never happen anyway. Maybe if Doug did the signing.”
Gaffigan also mocked Harris for not coming to the dinner and joked about the Democrats replacing Biden with the vice president.
“The media has begun discussing the phenomena of secret Trump voters. I don’t know if you’ve heard about this — people who publicly say they would never vote for Trump, but then when they go in the voting booth, they do. It’s a small group. They’re called the Biden family,” he told the crowd.
Trump’s tone echoed his appearance in 2016, when he was joined by his Democratic rival, Hillary Clinton, and delivered a particularly nasty speech in which he called her “corrupt.”
“Hillary believes that it’s vital to deceive the people by having one public policy and a totally different policy in private,” he said to jeers. “For example, here she is tonight, in public, pretending not to hate Catholics.”
Mary Callahan Erdoes, vice chair of the foundation, alluded to that when she introduced Trump, suggesting she hoped for something less caustic.
“You never disappoint. Your wit is absolutely fabulous. And all of us together are going to hope for the best,” she said to laughs.
Trump, too, referenced the performance Thursday, saying that, in 2016, he “went overboard. That was like terrible. And I knew I was in trouble midway through.”
That didn’t stop him, however, from similar attacks, and repeatedly straying off-script.
The Harris campaign responded to Trump’s speech with a statement saying it would remind “Americans how unstable he’s become.”
“He may refuse to release his medical records, but every day he makes it clear to the American people that he is not up to the job,” said spokesperson Ammar Moussa.
Trump’s sense of humor is often cited by his supporters as key to his appeal. While he infamously glowered through former President Barack Obama’s jokes at his expense during the 2011 White House Correspondents Dinner, he also sometimes pokes fun at himself.
At several rallies this year, he has remarked on his hair after catching a glimpse of himself onscreen.
“What the hell can you do? There’s nothing I can do about it. We’re stuck with it,” he joked at a rally in Indiana, Pennsylvania, last month.
Both Trump and Biden, who is Catholic, spoke at a virtual version of the fundraiser in 2020, which was moved online due to concerns over large gatherings at the height of the pandemic.
The Alfred E. Smith Memorial Foundation Dinner is named for the former New York governor, a Democrat who was the first Catholic to receive a major-party nomination for president when he unsuccessfully ran for the White House in 1928.
The event has become a tradition for presidential candidates since Richard Nixon and John F. Kennedy appeared together in 1960. In 1996, the Archdiocese of New York decided not to invite then-President Bill Clinton and his Republican challenger, Bob Dole, reportedly because Clinton vetoed a late-term abortion ban.
