# How does Trump get to host SNL? Equal Time Rules not applicable? **URL:** \ **Category:** Politics & Elections\ **Created:** [November 3, 2015, 5:58am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-does-trump-get-to-host-snl-equal-time-rules-not-applicable/736500 "2015-11-03T05:58:56Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 5\ **Page:** 2
**Author:** ![Leaper](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/4bbf92/32.png) [@Leaper](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Leaper)\ **Post date:** [November 4, 2015, 12:21am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-does-trump-get-to-host-snl-equal-time-rules-not-applicable/736500/21 "2015-11-04T00:21:39Z")
What happened when John McCain made an appearance (not hosting, I don’t think) on SNL in late October/early November '08? ---
**Author:** ![John\_Mace](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/john_mace/32/185_2.png) [@John\_Mace](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/John_Mace)\ **Post date:** [November 4, 2015, 12:26am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-does-trump-get-to-host-snl-equal-time-rules-not-applicable/736500/22 "2015-11-04T00:26:42Z")
> [@Leaper](#): > > What happened when John McCain made an appearance (not hosting, I don’t think) on SNL in late October/early November '08? Well, Hillary has already been on this year. Just a few weeks ago, in fact. She was in a skit that made fun of trump. And then shortly after that, Bernie Sanders was on doing an imitation of Larry David. 🙂 ---
**Author:** ![wolfpup](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/wolfpup/32/10618_2.png) [@wolfpup](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/wolfpup)\ **Post date:** [November 4, 2015, 1:39am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-does-trump-get-to-host-snl-equal-time-rules-not-applicable/736500/23 "2015-11-04T01:39:36Z")
> [@Dr.Drake](#): > > So: I think your prediction is wrong. I think he will keep a low public profile except on those specific occasions where his stature is a political asset, primarily international diplomacy. I am basing that partly on his age (not old, but not where he was 20 years ago, either), but primarily on her own ambition. As the first female president, she will be aware of the sexism that assumes she is somehow inferior or subservient to her husband. She will allow nothing that suggests to contemporaries or to posterity that she needed Bill Clinton for any aspect of the job. I think that’s mostly true but it doesn’t really contradict what **Elvis** is saying, at least as I read it. Unlike GWB, Bill has been publicly and politically active in his post-presidency career, boosted in part by the legacy of a very successful presidency. He may not perform many official duties in a Hillary presidency, but this larger than life political heavyweight is going to be _ **right there** _ in the White House and I think it would be foolish to rule out the likelihood that his influence will run far and deep. ---
**Author:** ![digs](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/digs/32/14889_2.png) [@digs](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/digs)\ **Post date:** [November 4, 2015, 2:06pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-does-trump-get-to-host-snl-equal-time-rules-not-applicable/736500/24 "2015-11-04T14:06:12Z")
> [@ElvisL1ves](#): > > …It’s who he _is_, that’s what. > > It’s who \*she \*is. Together, it’s who they are. > > Were you alive and conscious during the last Clinton Administration? If you were, you wouldn’t be asking. > [@ElvisL1ves](#): > > Only the evidence of experience. What other kind could there be? Wow, I just never thought I’d see “You want evidence? I got all you need, and it’s… my experience.” on this board. I’m going to try that: “And to all of you who are yelling ‘CITE?’, I say: ‘Wake up and look around, sheeple, that’s all the cite I need!’” ---
**Author:** ![TriPolar](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/tripolar/32/3008_2.png) [@TriPolar](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/TriPolar)\ **Post date:** [November 4, 2015, 2:32pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-does-trump-get-to-host-snl-equal-time-rules-not-applicable/736500/25 "2015-11-04T14:32:56Z")
> [@John\_Mace](#): > > And I’ve heard a lot of euphemisms for the nether parts, but “can of worms” is a new one! You should hear her nickname for Little Bill. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-does-trump-get-to-host-snl-equal-time-rules-not-applicable/736500.md?page=1)