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As you will have heard, Saturday Night time Reside celebrated its fiftieth anniversary on Sunday evening.
The present was usually nicely obtained, too, with Ryan Reynolds and Blake Energetic making their first public look since It Ends With Us Gate and with Pete Davidson reuniting with ex-lover Kim Kardashian.
However a bunch of individuals on social media are shaking their heads over one specific phase on the particular.
And it featured Tom Hanks … of all, non-normally-controversial folks.
Tom Hanks on the Saturday Night time Reside fiftieth anniversary particular. (NBC)
The multiple-time Oscar winner made a cameo on the Black Jeopardy sketch, showing because the character of a Donald Trump voter named Doug.
Sporting a Make America Nice Once more pink baseball cap, Hanks jokingly refused to shake palms with Kenan Thompson (presumably on account of his pores and skin shade) and acted on the whole like a dumb and racist doofus.
Similar to the typical Donald Trump supporter?
This appeared to be what Saturday Night time Reside was getting at, wouldn’t you agree?
Tom Hanks and Rita Wilson attend SNL50: The Anniversary Particular on February 16, 2025 in New York Metropolis. (Photograph by Dimitrios Kambouris/Getty Pictures)
Trump, after all, simply gained the Presidency for the second time in November and was sworn in to the oval workplace on January 20.
He even gained the favored vote this time round.
Like him, hate him or assume he’s a wannabe dictator who hates poor folks and minorities and has no idea of coverage in any method, form or kind… one can not argue that Trump has many followers on the market.
Which is why a lot of them jumped on Instagram and Twitter within the wake of Hanks’ SNL cameo and made their opinions on the sketch well-known.
(Instagram)
Here’s a sampling of a number of the harshest critiques:
This present wonders why their rankings are within the gutter. Trump gained the favored vote. This drained trope that MAGA is racist is disgusting.
SNL acts like they get payouts from USAID too. DOGE ought to audit them.
SNL simply went off my radar.
Hanks did have some people in his nook, nevertheless. To wit:
Tom Hanks is a superb actor. He actually captured the look and vacant eyes of MAGA cult people.
Bless Tom Hanks. There’s not sufficient cash on the planet for me to put on that silly ass cap.
I noticed somebody complain in regards to the bit with Tom hanks as a result of it politicized the sketch…….. precisely what present do you assume you’re watching.
