America’s sweetheart Tom Hanks was crucified by conservatives over his “disgusting” portrayal of a easy, Trump-supporting racist on Saturday Night time Dwell’s fiftieth anniversary particular.
The 2-time Academy Award winner returned to the stage Sunday evening as “Doug” — a dumb, MAGA hat-wearing contestant on the recurring bit “Black Jeopardy,” the place the butt of the joke is Hanks’ character and the black contestants discovering their similarities.
Throughout the sketch, Doug, who first appeared on the comedy present in 2016, refuses to shake arms with the gameshow host, Darnell Hayes, performed by SNL longtimer Kenan Thompson.
“Don’t like that, whoa, whoa, whoa,” Doug blurts, earlier than finally shaking Hayes’ hand.
“Maybe I’ll start a show for you to come on and we’ll call it ‘White Jeopardy,’” Doug later quips.
The skit outraged Trump supporters, who rapidly bashed it as a “tired” and “disgusting” trope.
“This show wonders why their ratings are in the gutter,” former Robert F. Kennedy Jr. aide Hyperlink Lauren posted on X.
“Trump won the popular vote. This tired trope that MAGA is racist is disgusting. SNL is an unfunny show for snobbish liberal elites.”
Conservative commentator Benny Johnson raged that the writers at Saturday Night time Dwell “have realized nothing.
“SNL decided it was a good idea to depict Tom Hanks as a ‘Racist Trump Supporter’ in a MAGA Hat afraid to shake a black man’s hand,” he wrote.
“Donald Trump just won a landslide election and has never been more popular with Americans,” he added.
Well-liked conservative social media account Libs of TikTok labeled it “propaganda” and lambasted it as “dumb.”
The three-and-a-half-hour particular was chock-full of jabs on the sitting president and his daring insurance policies.
Throughout the opening monologue, SNL alum Steve Martin joked that he’d simply been on a ship within the “Gulf of Steve Martin” — a dig at Trump’s determination to rename the Gulf of Mexico the “Gulf of America.”
Fellow Canadian comedian and considered one of Martin’s oldest buddies, Martin Quick, then joined him on stage with Martin ribbing him about his immigration standing.
“Do you have your passport on you? ICE, get him!” Martin yelled as actors in ICE uniforms yanked Quick off the stage.
“No! I’ll name names! Mike Myers! Jim Carrey!” Quick yelled, naming fellow Canadians as he was hauled away.
