OAN Staff Brooke Mallory
6:20pm – Monday, September 30, 2024
The Trump campaign's official Twitter page responded on social media to a recent “Saturday Night Live” (SNL) skit over the weekend, calling out the show's season debut for the July 13 attacks. In response to the fact that it included a skit aboutth Assassination attempt on former President Donald Trump.
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In the sketch, actor and comedian James Austin Johnson, 35, depicts Donald Trump mocking the former president during the rally, referencing the July 13 rally.th An attempted murder case in Butler, Pennsylvania.
“Where the hell are you all going? Where are you going?” Johnson said in the skit, wearing Trump's makeup, hair and costume. “You look like you're about to leave, but the door's locked. Please come back — we're having fun. Someone says to me, 'Bing, bong, bing, bing, bing.' Except when we love my rally. Did you know that it happened because of the rhetoric of the radical left? They say accusing Democrats of me inciting violence is like turning the kettle black. ”
However, many conservatives on social media platforms were perplexed by Comte's “pot calling the kettle black” message. Because unlike President Trump, who has now come close to assassinating two people, no conservative has tried to assassinate Democratic Presidents Joe Biden or Kamala Harris. his life.
“You know one man died and two others were seriously injured, right? But keep up your pathetic little show,” one X user said in response to the skit.
Liberal SNL star and author Colin Jost also made bold statements about President Trump's assassination attempt on the show's recent “Weekend Update” segment.
“Speaking of which, Melania Trump gave a rare TV interview this week in which she accused the Democratic Party of creating the conditions that led to the Trump assassination attempt, which is ridiculous. When Democrats want to eliminate a presidential candidate, Get the job done,” Jost said, noting that many Democrats strangely believe the 20-year-old shooter was a Republican who supported Trump.
This latest Trump skit comes after SNL creator and producer Lorne Michaels previously spoke to SNL reporters. new york magazine Republicans tend to have a better sense of humor than Democrats.
“It's easier for us to be Republicans than Democrats.” Lorne Michaels told New York Magazine In a previous interview. “Democrats tend to take it personally. Republicans think it's crazy,” he added.
Since it began airing in 1975, NBC's “Saturday Night Live” has always featured political satire, usually with a wealth of material derived from scandals, missteps and elections.
Michaels hinted at the need to replicate Trump's imitation in a recent SNL cover story. hollywood reportersimilar to how it was recreated when cast member James Austin Johnson, who played him in this latest skit, replaced SNL's former Trump impersonator Alec Baldwin.
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