Former President Donald Trump says that his 2024 opponent, Vice President Kamala Harris, recently made a "terrible" campaign decision. 

The decision that Trump is referring to, according to Fox News, is Harris's decision to not attend the recently-held Alfred E. Smith Memorial Foundation Dinner.

Newsweek explains:

Every four years, the annual white-tie gala, which raises money for Catholic charities, traditionally brings together the presidential candidates from both parties for a night of lighthearted roasting and a brief interlude of bipartisan camaraderie . . . [Harris's] absence will make her the second major-party candidate to decline an invitation in over six decades, and the first since Walter Mondale no-showed at the 1984 event.

Harris's ostensible reason for not going was that she was busy campaigning. Instead, she submitted a pre-recorded message that was played at the dinner.

Trump capitalizes

A consensus seems to have emerged that the charity dinner was a success for Trump. Even many Democrats are admitting as much.

Trump, at the event, told many jokes, including some at Harris's expense.

There, Trump said:

If you really wanted Vice President Harris to accept your invitation, I guess you should have told her the funds were going to bail out the looters and rioters in Minneapolis and she would have been here, guaranteed. You better remember that I’m here and she’s not.

The former president called Harris's decision to skip the event and to instead submit a pre-recorded message "deeply disrespectful."

Many would agree.

The latest

Trump provided his latest thoughts on the dinner during a recent interview with the Fox News Channel's Fox & Friends. 

There, Trump said, "I thought it was great, you know, it was for the Catholic Church… a lot of good people, a lot of good causes and unusually she didn’t show up. You would have thought she would have showed up last night. We were all surprised."

The former president went on to argue that this was a "terrible" decision by Harris.

"I think it was terrible that she missed it because... only one person missed it in many years and that’s Walter Mondale and he lost 49-1," he said.

Trump also weighed in on why he believes that Harris skipped the event. He said:

I think that she’s not competent. I don’t want to say this kind of stuff, but we can’t live with this. I don’t think she’s funny. We can’t have her as a president. She’s a Marxist. We’re not ready for a Marxist.