KENNEDY: For Easter, Biden's 'Three Kings' grab $25M in donor cash, while Trump ... trends now
The three kings have risen and just in time for Good Friday.
From the bowels of Manhattan's iconic Radio City Music Hall, President Joe Biden – flanked by his Democratic, ambulatory predecessors – was winched up on a platform from below the stage to roaring applause from New York's finest (not the NYPD, we'll get to that) on Thursday night.
Like an animatronic Disney character, stiff Old Joe waved and grinned and turned to acknowledge ex-presidents Bill Clinton and Barack Obama beside him.
The wealthy donors – paying up to $500,000 a ticket – gobbled it up.
However, to me, showing an 81-year-old candidate seemingly rising from the grave is a bad look.
But what do I know? I would have called the entire thing off.
For as these three Mount Rushmore-wannabes were milking rich Gothamites, Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump was comforting the young widow and infant son of a murdered New York City police officer.
Officer Jonathan Diller was killed Monday when a suspect with 21 prior arrests shot him in the stomach during a routine traffic stop in Queens.
Former President Trump attended Diller's wake in Massapequa, Long Island to pay his respects.
The sitting-president - less than 40 miles away – was yucking it up with Stephen Colbert and Queen Latifah.
Like an animatronic Disney character, stiff Old Joe waved and grinned and turned to acknowledge ex-presidents Bill Clinton and Barack Obama beside him. (Above) Biden campaign fundraising event at Radio City Music Hall in New York City on March 28, 2024
Officer Jonathan Diller (above) was killed Monday when a suspect with 21 prior arrests shot him in the stomach during a routine traffic stop in Queens.
As the three Mount Rushmore-wannabes were milking rich Gothamites, Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump was comforting the young widow and infant son of a murdered New York City police officer. (Above) Former President Trump at Officer Jonathan Diller's wake in Massapequa, New York on March 28, 2024.
No matter, Democrats and their media stenographers declared Biden's evening an absolute triumph for hauling in $25 million, making it 'the most successful political fundraiser in American history.'
'Success' is broadly defined here.
If the Biden team's goal was to portray their candidate as a decrepit elitist desperate to sponge off the sincere warmth felt for past Democratic presidents, then I'd say: Bang-up job!
Truthfully, everyone knew how bad this looked but the fancy-pants Manhattanite money was just too good to pass up.
Biden lamely tried to cover his dangly bits with a fig leaf, tweeting Thursday afternoon, 'Folks, [Barack Obama], [Bill Clinton], and I are hours away from hitting the stage at our grassroots fundraiser in New York City.'
What grass is he smoking? The only 'grassroots' event I saw was hundreds of 'Flood Manhattan for Gaza' pro-Palestine idiots protesting outside Radio City on Thursday night.
While they were waving flags, snarling traffic, and scuffling with police, I was watching from across the street at the Fox News Channel's headquarters.
The chants of 'F*** JOE BIDEN!' were so loud I thought I was at a
