Donald Trump Is Hosting ‘SNL’ Next Month; Embracing The Fact His Entire Campaign Is A Joke
The last time he hosted the show in 2004, he danced to 'Jump (For My Love)' with some giant chickens.
Having starred on The Apprentice for over a decade, it makes sense that Donald Trump has been involved with Saturday Night Live in the past. The show was a huge ratings success for NBC and having its well-known star goof around with some of the world’s best comedians is easy cross-promotional gold. Also, as his public persona has long been that of a constipated labradoodle, the jokes essentially write themselves.
But you’d assume he’d think twice about it when running for President of the United States. Continuing on in what’s been an absurd, abhorrent (and largely successful) campaign for the Republican Presidential nomination, Donald Trump has just been confirmed as the host of the November 7 episode of Saturday Night Live — a show which gleefully derides his personality and political beliefs and is broadcast live to tens of millions of people.
Over the past few years, Trump’s been regularly impersonated on the show by Darrell Hammond, Jason Sudeikis, and — as of last week — Taran Killam and Hillary Clinton.
In fact, that last one provoked a response out of the man himself and may well have put this whole hideous mess into action.
"@scottferson: .@TaranKillam plays a way better fake @realDonaldTrump than a real @HillaryClinton plays herself @nbcsnl"
— Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) October 4, 2015
The appearance — due to air almost exactly one year prior to the 2016 election — will also be his second time hosting. Just a few months after The Apprentice went to air in 2004, Trump was invited on to talk himself up and lurk awkwardly around skits making everyone uncomfortable. His monologue included the phrases “nobody’s bigger than me” and “nobody’s better than me” peppered amidst endless bragging about how much money he makes.
Aside from the fact people are now entrusting him with the livelihood of an entire nation, it seems nothing has changed since. Hopefully this means we’ll get a repeat of the time he pretended to be the manager of a wings shack and danced with some giant chickens while singing ‘Jump (For My Love)’.
Because, yeah. That happened.