{"id":125245,"date":"2017-10-20T02:48:45","date_gmt":"2017-10-20T06:48:45","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/?p=125245"},"modified":"2017-10-20T02:52:02","modified_gmt":"2017-10-20T06:52:02","slug":"ryan-jabs-trump-in-comedy-routine-for-ny-elite","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/2017\/10\/20\/ryan-jabs-trump-in-comedy-routine-for-ny-elite\/","title":{"rendered":"Ryan jabs Trump in comedy routine for NY elite"},"content":{"rendered":"
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House Speaker Paul Ryan poked fun at himself, the Senate’s top Democrat and even the Catholic church on Thursday night. (Photo By U.S. Congress, Public Domain)<\/a><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

NEW YORK \u2014 House Speaker Paul Ryan poked fun at himself, the Senate’s top Democrat and even the Catholic church on Thursday night. But the top target of the speaker’s ribbing, as he faced hundreds of New York’s elite at a charity dinner that celebrates irreverence, was President Donald Trump himself.<\/span><\/p>\n

Ryan quickly reminded the audience that Trump offended some people when he addressed the same crowd the year before.<\/span><\/p>\n

\u201cSome said it was unbecoming of a public figure and they said that his comments were offensive. Well, thank God he’s learned his lesson,\u201d Ryan deadpanned as he delivered the keynote address for the 72nd annual Alfred E. Smith Memorial Foundation Dinner, an event, according to the program, that encourages speakers to \u201cpoke fun at a political issue, an opponent, or themselves.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n

Ryan later jabbed Trump’s lack of accomplishments, the White House’s ties to Wall Street and, of course, the president’s overactive Twitter account. The event, hosted by New York Archbishop Cardinal Timothy Dolan, drew leaders of finance and politics to a hotel ballroom in Manhattan, where an estimated 815 guests in tuxedos and dinner gowns dined on lobster and black radish salad, tournedo of beef with lacinto kale and \u201cberries of the forest\u201d cake.<\/span><\/p>\n

\u201cI don’t think I’ve seen this many New York liberals, this many Wall Street CEOs in one room since my last visit to the White House,\u201d Ryan chuckled as he turned his attention briefly to Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer. \u201cI know why Chuck has been so hard on President Trump. It’s not ideological; Chuck is just mad he lost his top donor.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n

Trump attended last year’s Al Smith dinner as a featured speaker, and others before than as a prominent New York business leader who donated money to Democrats and Republicans alike.<\/span><\/p>\n

Even with Ryan’s light-hearted jabs, this year’s affair was decidedly more cordial than last year’s, when Trump and Democratic rival Hillary Clinton traded caustic barbs at the charity event meant to raise money for impoverished children. At the time, Trump drew boos when he said of Clinton, \u201cHere she is tonight, in public, pretending not to hate Catholics.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n

This year, Trump was the star again, in absentia.<\/span><\/p>\n

Ryan said he checks Twitter every morning \u201cto see which tweets I will have to pretend that I didn’t see later\u201d \u2014 a not-so-subtle reference to the president’s overactive social media account. He also addressed Trump’s frequent complaint that he’s not getting enough credit.<\/span><\/p>\n

\u201cThe truth is, the press absolutely misunderstands and never records the big accomplishments of the White House,\u201d Ryan said. \u201cLook at all the new jobs the president has created \u2014 just among the White House staff.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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