--- title: Al Smith V: Donald Trump 'Took It a Little Too Far' at Roast description: Tensions were high the Alfred E. Smith Memorial Foundation dinner after Donald Trump took the mic, a foundation family member said canonical: https://time.com/4540681/donald-trump-alfred-smith-roast/ author: Daniel White article:opinion: false article:content_tier: free article:published_time: 2016-10-21T17:03:28.000Z article:modified_time: 2026-10-07T06:51:35.851Z article:section: Politics og:title: Al Smith V: Donald Trump 'Took It a Little Too Far' at Charity Roast og:description: "The room did get a little uncomfortable" og:url: https://time.com/4540681/donald-trump-alfred-smith-roast/ og:site_name: TIME og:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blt108e4d7fa71ca501/6988ab0b428a9e3df8cd4b93/alfred-smith.jpg?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=16:9 og:image:width: 4500 og:image:height: 2531 og:image:alt: US-VOTE-POLITICS og:type: article twitter:card: summary_large_image twitter:title: Al Smith V: Donald Trump 'Took It a Little Too Far' at Charity Roast twitter:description: "The room did get a little uncomfortable" twitter:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blt108e4d7fa71ca501/6988ab0b428a9e3df8cd4b93/alfred-smith.jpg?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=16:9 ---  # Al Smith V Says Donald Trump 'Took It a Little Too Far' at Catholic Charity Roast > Sponsored content. 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Smith Memorial Foundation Dinner, a gala in New York that is often the last time the two presidential nominees share a stage before Election Day, is traditionally a time when campaign hostilities are set aside. Not this year._ by [Daniel White](https://time.com/author/daniel-white/) ## Daniel White Oct 21, 2016 5:03 PM UTC The annual Alfred E. Smith Memorial Foundation Dinner, a gala in New York that is often the last time the two presidential nominees share a stage before Election Day, is traditionally a time when campaign hostilities are set aside. Not this year. by [Daniel White](https://time.com/author/daniel-white/) ## Daniel White Oct 21, 2016 5:03 PM UTC Tensions were high the Alfred E. Smith Memorial Foundation dinner on Thursday evening after Donald Trump took the microphone and went “a little too far,” a foundation family member said. The Republican presidential nominee was repeatedly booed at the Catholic fundraiser, including when he fired shots at Hillary Clinton over information [released by WikiLeaks](http://time.com/4528532/hillary-clinton-campaign-pushes-back-on-anti-catholic-charge/). Trump said Clinton “is tonight in public pretending not to hate Catholics,” referring to a batch of hacked emails from Clinton campaign chairman John Podesta’s account that [offered some critique of Catholic conservatives](http://time.com/4528532/hillary-clinton-campaign-pushes-back-on-anti-catholic-charge/). “The room did get a little uncomfortable, yeah,” Smith [said on CNN’s _New Day_](http://www.cnn.com/2016/10/21/politics/al-smith-v-rates-trump-clinton-performances-at-dinner/index.html) Friday. “Like I said, you know, that line in a room full of predominantly Catholics, that didn’t go over very well.” Before the dinner, Cardinal Timothy Dolan requested that Clinton apologize for what he said was “extraordinarily patronizing and insulting to Catholics,” according to [Politico](http://www.politico.com/story/2016/10/clinton-trump-alfred-e-smith-dinner-230140). The dinner came just a day after the [final presidential debate](http://time.com/4539855/third-final-presidential-debate-ratings/) between the two, where Trump referred to Clinton as a [“nasty woman,”](http://time.com/4538271/donald-trump-nasty-woman-interruption-presidential-debate/) and the two reportedly [did not shake hands](http://time.com/4539888/donald-trump-hillary-clinton-al-smith-dinner/) before the dinner. “I think what we saw in the last debate a couple nights ago, we saw last night,” Smith said. “You know, Donald had some very solid minutes early on and eventually he crossed the line and took it a little too far.” ```json [{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"NewsArticle","@id":"https://time.com/4540681/donald-trump-alfred-smith-roast/","mainEntityOfPage":{"@type":"WebPage","@id":"https://time.com/4540681/donald-trump-alfred-smith-roast/"},"headline":"Al Smith V Says Donald Trump 'Took It a Little Too Far' at Catholic Charity Roast","datePublished":"2016-10-21T17:03:28.000Z","dateModified":"2026-10-07T06:51:35.851Z","description":"\"The room did get a little uncomfortable\"","url":"https://time.com/4540681/donald-trump-alfred-smith-roast/","keywords":["2016 Election","2016 Election","Religion","Catholics","Donald Trump"],"thumbnailUrl":"https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blt108e4d7fa71ca501/6988ab0b428a9e3df8cd4b93/alfred-smith.jpg?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=1200:675&height=675","author":[{"@type":"Person","name":"Daniel White","jobTitle":null,"url":"https://time.com/author/daniel-white/"}],"articleSection":"Politics","image":[{"@type":"ImageObject","url":"https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blt108e4d7fa71ca501/6988ab0b428a9e3df8cd4b93/alfred-smith.jpg?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=1200:675&height=675","width":1200,"height":675,"headline":"US-VOTE-POLITICS","caption":"US-VOTE-POLITICS","creditText":"Brendan Smialowski—AFP/Getty Images","representativeOfPage":true}],"publisher":{"@type":"Organization","name":"Time","url":"https://time.com/","logo":{"@type":"ImageObject","url":"https://time.com/images/logo.png","width":528,"height":156},"foundingDate":"March 3, 1923","sameAs":["https://www.facebook.com/time","https://www.instagram.com/time/?hl=en","https://twitter.com/time","https://www.pinterest.com/timemagazine"]}},{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"BreadcrumbList","itemListElement":[{"@type":"ListItem","position":1,"item":{"@id":"https://time.com/section/politics/","name":"Politics"}},{"@type":"ListItem","position":2,"item":{"@id":"https://time.com/tag/2016-election/","name":"2016 Election"}},{"@type":"ListItem","position":3,"item":{"@id":"https://time.com/4540681/donald-trump-alfred-smith-roast/","name":"Al Smith V Says Donald Trump 'Took It a Little Too Far' at Catholic Charity Roast"}}]},{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"VideoObject","name":"Trump and Clinton Trade Insults at Alfred E. 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