Trump Joke Lands Unevenly at Event With Schwarzman, Rubenstein
- Joke kicks off event for Catholic schools scholarship fund
- Elsewhere: Paul Taubman on volunteers, Rushdie on Thomas Mannn
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Things got awkward Monday night at a benefit for the Inner-City Scholarship Fund when Mo Rocca, a correspondent for "CBS Sunday Morning," attempted some humor at the president’s expense.
Rocca joked that honoree David Rubenstein, a known collector of rare documents, had just purchased the Ark of the Covenant -- the original tablets with the Ten Commandments, as Indiana Jones fans may recall -- which the financier would be donating to the charity’s live auction.