While Trump was talking, a voiced shouted out of camera range, “You’re a racist!”
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Larry David, who played Bernie Sanders in the show’s cold open, called attention to the potential heckling that a few expected from spectators.
“Larry, what are you doing?” “This is going to be something special”, he said.
The show also brought back Darrell Hammond, who revisited his Trump impression (along with Taran Killam) during Trump’s opening monologue. “I heard if I yelled that they’d give me $5,000”, David told Trump during the show.
Out of concern for TV’s so-called “equal time” rule, which could afford comparable air time on NBC stations for any of Trump’s political opponents who request it over the next week, “SNL” kept the GOP front-runner’s screen time to a minimum.
“As a businessman I can fully respect that”, The Apprentice star said in reply before the show continued. Because these are the early ratings, we dont know exactly how many millions of viewers tuned in for the episode, but we do know that the show was up 47% from the season premiere in the ratings starring Miley Cyrus and that episode drew 6.7 million total viewers.
Donald Trump was the punchline in his own monologue on “Saturday Night” Live last night.
But as the whole Trump Show demonstrates, there’s really no need to bother much with the facts. “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.
Hours before the show, dozens of protesters marched from Trump Tower to NBC’s studio in New York’s Rockefeller Plaza, chanting in both English and Spanish and carrying signs.
A mocking depiction of the second year of the Trump presidency imagined Mexico’s president handing over a check to pay for the border wall, while First Daughter Ivanka Trump, the new secretary of the Interior, is redoing the Washington Monument in gold mirrored glass. While Mr Trump’s battle authorities have not remarked on the dissent, he said in June that he was on great terms with his Hispanic representatives and that “Latinos adoration Trump and I cherish them”.
Before Trump even took the stage, people were talking about his upcoming performance.
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Based on the overnight ratings, the number for Trump’s appearance was 53 percent higher than the program’s average for original episodes in November 2014.
