NBC is also a network that cut ties with the candidate in June after Trump disparaged many Mexican immigrants as criminals and rapists.
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While people are talking about the PAC-funded video featuring kids calling Donald Trump a “racist dick,” one Latino artist is turning his outrage not to Trump, but Saturday Night Live. When Trump was asked at a recent press conference about the planned protests, he said, “I think they should demonstrate”. With Trump on board, we imagine that they may be a little more hard-hitting towards Democrats than they sometimes are. “Latino voters have a few of the worst voter turnout numbers in the United States”.
“I knew Donald Trump, I was at his wedding”.
CNN then picked up on it as Steve Brusk posted Carson’s rebuttal: “Carson on Trump calling him loser in SNL promo: ‘I discovered when I was in grade school that those tactics really are for grade school'”.
“They have to make their decisions and live with their decisions”, Christie said of NBC.
GOP presidential candidate and sometimes-frontrunner Donald Trump is no doubt practicing his punchlines right about now, even as protests around the country are urging NBC to ditch their host for this weekend’s “Saturday Night Live”. I mean, I’m all for freedom of speech, don’t get me wrong.
The New York real estate mogul’s scheduled appearance on the 41-year-old NBC variety show has been hotly contested, especially by Latino groups still angry with his comments about Mexico.
A Hispanic advocacy group is offering $5,000 to any one with enough Chutzpah to do just that.
Trump’s hosting gig hasn’t been without controversy.
The group, Deport Racism, is asking the public to shout “deport Trump” or “Trump is a racist”, and will pay out to anyone who does.
Trump last hosted the show in 2004 during the first season of The Apprentice. The show still remains among the highest-rated on NBC, averaging a 2.0 rating among adults 18 to 49.
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Next week, the show will welcome actress/director Elizabeth Banks, who stops by to host and promote the release of Mockingjay Part 2.
