Former President Donald Trump on Thursday criticized Vice President Kamala Harris for ignoring him at an Al Smith dinner in New York City, joking that she was “receiving communion” from Gov. Gretchen Whitmer (D-Mich.). said.
Mr. Trump electrified the chamber at the 79th Al Smith Dinner with a speech benefiting Catholic Charities, but Ms. Harris was the first to miss the banquet since Mr. Walter Mondale (Democrat) in 1984. He was the first major candidate to do so.
“All the polls show me with a big lead in the Catholic vote, but I think Kamala hasn't given up yet, as she should. She hasn't. Present tonight. Instead, she's receiving Holy Communion from Gretchen Whitmer in Michigan,” Trump said, drawing raucous laughter.
His joke was a reference to the bizarre and humiliating video Whitmer participated in last week, in which she placed a Dorito chip on the tongue of an influencer who was kneeling in front of her. Whitmer stared unblinking into the camera.
As Breitbart News noted, she apologized after there was considerable criticism of Whitmer for mocking the sacred act of receiving Holy Communion in Catholicism.
Trump also joked that Harris would have shown up if the event benefited rioters arrested in Minneapolis in the summer of 2020, rather than children and women in need.
“But I think if they really wanted Vice President Harris to accept the invitation, they should have told her the money was meant to help the looters and riders in Minneapolis,” he joked. Ta.
Harris gained attention in 2020 when she called for donations to the Minneapolis Freedom Fund to provide relief for rioters.
