Recall his remarks at the Alfred E. Smith Memorial Foundation Dinner in New York on Oct. 20, 2016. These events are supposed to be a time for political leaders to be light-hearted and to poke fun at themselves. Trump barely managed to get off a couple of ghostwritten one-liners before veering into a cringe-inducing denunciation of his opponent, Hillary Clinton, who was sitting right behind him. He went on to accuse Clinton (inaccurately) of being "so corrupt, she got kicked off the Watergate Commission," of being hypocritical ("Hillary believes that it's vital to deceive the people by having one public policy and a totally different policy in private") and, finally, of "pretending not to hate Catholics." The audience reacted with boos rather than the more typical laughs.