Donald Trump and Hillary Clinton prayed together. It was a campaign-season miracle.
It was October 2016, at the famous Alfred E. Smith Memorial Foundation Dinner, a fundraiser for charities named after the first Catholic to run for president of the United States. But the event, honestly, was painful. The remarks of political candidates in presidential-election years are supposed to be light roasts. The idea is to be self-deprecating and have a little fun. You try to show that you appreciate that there is more to life than politics (something many of us have lost sight of in recent years). And that you also appreciate that you might not be God’s gift to the nation. Trump’s speech, unsurprisingly, was mean-spirited and made the whole event awkward.
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