Donald Trump’s Al Smith Diner Speech. The Al Smith Dinner is the election-year tradition in which both parties’ nominees don white-tie attire and deliver comedy monologues to New York City’s elite.

This is really quite good. He gradually gets sharper and sharper, and the Democrat-leaning crowd starts to realize they are being knifed — some jokes at your expense aren’t so funny. From about 11 minutes they stop laughing. By 12 minutes some are booing. The mood changed.