Donald Trump Reacts to Impersonations of Him on “Saturday Night Live”
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Dana Edelson/NBC(NEW YORK) — Donald Trump weighed in on a couple of impersonations of him that appeared on the season-41 premiere of Saturday Night Live, and the outspoken billionaire gave them mixed reviews.
Trump had praise for SNL cast member Taran Killam, who spoofed the 69-year-old real estate mogul and Republican presidential candidate in the show’s opening sketch, along with Cecily Strong, who played Trump’s wife Melania.
Killam spoofed Trump’s policies by joking, “It’s very simple, I get in there, taxes go down, everybody gets a job, salaries go way up, we build a wall, it’s huge. Over in China, they’re going to say, ‘Now, that’s a wall!’”
“Trump is just like everybody else,” added Strong, “He puts his hair on one strand at a time.”
Trump wasn’t so pleased later in Saturday’s show, when Hillary Clinton joined Kate McKinnon, who played the Democratic presidential candidate, as a sympathetic bartender named Val, who consoled McKinnon’s Clinton as she rattled off her problems.
During the sketch, Clinton, as Val, poked fun at Trump, noting, “Isn’t he the one that’s like, ‘Ugh, you’re all losers?’”
Shortly after the Clinton skit aired on the East Coast, Trump tweeted, “@TaranKillam plays a way better fake @realDonaldTrump than a real @HillaryClinton plays herself.”
Trump didn’t have any comment about a “Weekend Update” segment in which the show’s Pete Davidson, compared him to American Idol season-six finalist Sanjaya, who made it into the top 10 based on viewer votes, despite being poorly received by the show’s judges.
“America needs to stop doing things because it’s funny,” noted Davidson.“Now that he’s winning, I have to go out and vote. A Trump presidency is so terrifying. You know who he reminds me of? Sanjaya fromAmerican Idol. Same hair, same garbage.”
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