Candidate Donald Trump on Saturday satirized his imaginary presidency with a Washington Monument covered in gold mirrors and policy agenda made of magic as host of comedy show “Saturday Night Live”. The group, Deport Racism 2016, publicly offered to give $5000 to anyone willing to call Trump a racist on the air. David then explained the joke by saying he was told saying it would earn him $5,000.
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“As a businessman”, Trump responded, “I can fully respect that”.
“Trump told Fox Business News that our video was awful and a disgrace, so we’re going to reward him with two more“, Montgomery said.
According to stats from NBC, Trump’s SNL got the show its highest ratings since January 2012, and 47% higher than the season’s previous high of the Miley Cyrus episode where Hillary Clinton made an appearance.
Meanwhile, the Hollywood Reporter review notes that the Trump episode was “rarely amusing”, “toothless” and “uncomfortable”. Carrying placards declaring “We are the people” and “Shut it down” to the beat of drums, they also brandished large papier-mache masks depicting Trump and held aloft such other messages as “Trump: La Cara del Racismo” and “SNL: This is how you fix your diversity problem?”
Trump appears halfway through SNL’s version of Drake’s recent hit, dancing awkwardly in a grey suit as the words “Tax Guys” appear on the screen. “He can take credit for the high ratings – adding that he delivered for a network that recently had cut ties with him over his comments about Mexican immigrants – and lay any criticism on the writing staff”, Poniewozik said.
“Having a politician in the midst of an active presidential campaign was always a dismal idea for ‘Saturday Night Live, ‘ particularly a candidate with as much negative baggage as Donald Trump”, wrote The Hollywood Reporter’s TV critic Daniel Fienberg. Joke or not, it was true.
But the off-stage boo-boy turned out to be comedian Larry David, who moments earlier had performed his own impersonation of Democrat Bernie Sanders, who is also bidding to be his party’s choice to run for the White House.
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Despite his characteristic braggadocio, the history of the “SNL” stage wasn’t lost on Trump.
