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Former President Donald Trump is not a person who minces words and he was not about to start at the annual Al Smith charity dinner held in New York on Thursday evening.
The former president was roasting his Democrat rivals at the event when he came to former New York City Mayor Bill de Blasio.
“We have another former New York City mayor with us,” he said after roasting Mayor Eric Adams. “Frankly, easily the worst in our history. And it’s not Michael (Bloomberg), that I can tell you. I’m surprised that Bill de Blasio was actually able to make it tonight, to be honest. He was a terrible mayor. I don’t give a s**t 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,” he said.
“But unlike the rest of New York, at least Bill doesn’t have to worry about the criminals. They owe him big. He let them get away with a lot of stuff,” he said.
But the former mayor was far from the only Democrat shredded by the Republican presidential nominee at the event.
“It’s a true pleasure to be with you this evening. Amazing pleasure. And these days, it’s really a pleasure anywhere in New York without a subpoena for my appearance,” he said at the start of his remarks, poking fun at himself and his court cases brought by state Attorney General Letitia James and Manhattan District Attorney Alvin Bragg.
He went on to say that the vice president sending a video message was “very disrespectful” to the Catholic community before warning her about history.
“The last Democrat not to attend this important event was Walter Mondale, and it did not go very well for him. He lost 49 states and he won one, Minnesota,” he cautioned before roasting her again.
“But 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, she would have been here. Guaranteed. She would have been okay,” the former president said.
“Right now we have someone in the White House who can barely talk, barely put together two coherent sentences, who seems to have mental faculties of a child. It’s sad. There’s a person that has nothing going, no intelligence whatsoever, but enough about Kamala Harris,” he said.
After some ribbing of Senate Majority Leader, New York Democrat Sen. Charles Schumer, he gave some attention to the “White Dudes for Harris” group.
“There’s a group called White Dudes for Harris. Have you seen this? Anybody know it? Are some of you here? White Dudes for Harris? Doesn’t sound like it. But I’m not worried about them at all because their wives and their wives’ lovers are all voting for me,” he said.
Later in the speech, he poked some fun at himself again, this time mocking his own ego.
“Tradition holds that I’m supposed to tell a few self-deprecating jokes this evening. So here it goes. Nope. I’ve got nothing. I’ve got nothing,” he said. “There’s nothing to say. I guess I just don’t see the point of taking shots at myself when other people have been shooting at me for a hell of a long time.”
Before ending his speech, the former president took a swipe at the Democrat nominee for vice president, Minnesota Gov. Tim Walz.
“Governor Walz isn’t here himself. But don’t worry. He’ll say that he was. He’s going to say he was. I used to think the Democrats were crazy for saying that men have periods. But then I met Tim Walz,” he said.
