Maggie Haberman highlights 'irony' Trump faces at Al Smith comedy dinner

Donald Trump’s appearance at the Al Smith dinner Thursday night will come with an ironic twist, according to a prominent New York Times reporter who has covered the former president extensively for years.

Maggie Haberman, a CNN political analyst and reporter at the Times, said Trump would seize the opportunity “to make all kinds of jokes at the expense of some of the people sitting in the room with him” while in New York for the dinner that raises money for charity.

“It’s a mixed room politically, but it’s a pretty hospitable environment for Trump. The irony is it is filled with the kind of elites who he trashes all the time,” Haberman told CNN anchor Wolf Blitzer on his show “The Situation Room.”

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Haberman added that Trump is also likely to “say things about Kamala Harris that are similar to what he says on the campaign trail.”

She noted earlier in her interview with Blitzer that the former president’s language has grown increasingly “darker,” and that Trump has become “disoriented” and “angry.”

“It’s gotten much more apocalyptic, and he has gotten far less concerned about what threatening people might mean,” Haberman said.

She added that she believes there is “zero cost” to Harris for deciding to skip the dinner.

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