A Funny Thing May Happen on the Way to Thursday’s Trump-Clinton Roast
- The rivals will dine at New York’s Al Smith Dinner on Thursday
- Event organizers wonder whether they can set aside rancor
President Barack Obama, Cardinal Timothy Dolan, and Republican presidential candidate Mitt Romney attend the 67th annual Al Smith dinner at the Waldorf Astoria hotel Oct. 18, 2012, in New York, New York.
Donald Trump and Hillary Clinton will attempt the improbable, if not the impossible Thursday night: to act civilly and good-naturedly rib each other at New York’s annual Al Smith charity dinner.
The dinner, named after the state’s 42nd governor and the first Catholic U.S. presidential candidate, includes the Democratic and Republican White House nominees almost every four years. Smith became known as “The Happy Warrior” for his friendly style of political combat and for pushing some of the state’s early worker-protection and child-welfare laws.