Oh, and Jr., about racism - It’s not about how you treat people you know personally, it’s about how you treat people you don’t know personally.
I am convinced that SNL does more to support the Trump presidency than to undermine it. It takes the ramblings of an evil man and makes them out to be comedic in a way that appears less threatening than it really ought to. It humanizes the monster. In this vein, their characterization of Don Jr. as “not so bad” makes perfect sense.
Donald Trump is a rambling fool, yes, but he is also the greatest threat to American Democracy of our age.
She’s missing a key organ.
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Looks like Twitter has lit up with suggested alternate titles for Donny’s book. ‘Children of a Lesser Man’, ‘I Eat Paste’, ‘The Brat in the Hat’, and ‘The Son Never Rises’ are a few. He also got booed off the stage at the book launch.
IIRC, didn’t they let Trump host after he had declared his candidacy? That should never have happened.
I don’t see how you get that. The audience is smart enough to understand satire. Don Jr. is being portrayed as smart compared to the totally clueless Eric, but still an idiot.
SNL portrayed Nixon in a sympathetic light too, like having him do a Hamlet-style prayer scene with Henry Kissinger, and nobody came away with a more favorable opinion of him. At least not enough to keep him from leaving office.
How could you watch that and say it was sympathetic?! He was praying to a painting, ranting paranoid stuff, and talking about the Jews, IIRC.
Also SNL debuted in October 1975, a little late for Nixon.
I really don’t think SNL makes any difference one way or another, and they were pretty openly in the tank for Hillary Clinton, after all.
It’s their job to make people laugh. Not everything in life has to be a dead serious defense of liberal democracy.
Since The Apprentice was a NBC property, they have always considered Trump to be “one of their own”. Hence the SNL hosting, and Jimmy Fallon’s infamous hair-mussing. They don’t go too hard on one of their own. After all, post White House they think they might still make money off of him.
IIRC, having viewed the early seasons on DVD, there were sketches centered around his post-presidency, including his memoirs, which for some reason I recall as being mocked as huge. Not sure who played him, but my guess would be Dan Dan Aykroyd since Chevy Chase did Ford.
What a pissy little bitch. Fuck him.
Well he can STAY there.
Were you ever at Fort Devens Mass, or Fort Clayton in the CZ?
I don’t get this. Are you not supposed to salute lieutenants?
Never got to Germany.
I have to agree.
What lines or business convey that Don Jr. is an idiot? I don’t recall anything like that.
In the sketches I’ve seen, he’s basically being kind and patient with Eric. Eric’s being like a four-year-old (with Don Jr. the caring brother who watches out for him) is the entire joke.
I suspect that Icarus is right: NBC still sees making money off Trump as a possibility.