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The Saturday Night Live cold open tonight marked Donald Trump’s overwhelming victory in the South Carolina primary by skewering Republican senators humiliating devotion to him, even though he’s hurled insults at them, jeopardized their key causes and shown no loyalty back at them.
The skit had Lindsey Graham (James Austin Johnson), Tim Scott (Devon Walker), James Risch (Mikey Day) and Marco Rubio (Marcello Hernández) sharing a table at a hotel restaurant, munching on tater tots and pigs in a blanket.
“You know he once doxxed me, back in 2015,” Graham said. “They gave out my personal cell phone number in a speech to all his supporters. Had thousands of people call me up to yell at me. They threatened my life. Had to get a new phone. Switched to Verizon.”
Then, Graham said, “But you know what? I still think he’s the greatest president since Reagan.”
Others then chime in that Trump is “greater than Reagan.” “He’s greater than Lincoln,” Scott says.
The skit came just hours after the real Graham was booed at Trump’s South Carolina victory event. It came after Trump, calling on Graham to give remarks at the rally, said that the senator was “a little bit further left than some people on this stage.” Graham went on to praise Trump, calling him the “most qualified man to be president of the United States.”
Scott has delivered speeches for Trump as if at a perpetual pep rally, to the point where the former president has said that he’s been a better candidate for him than his own presidential campaign. Scott dropped out of the presidential race before the first votes were cast, but now seems determined to be high on the list of Trump’s vice presidential prospects.
In the skit, Scott is reminded of one humiliating moment, from
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The White House has released some early excerpt of President Joe Biden‘s State of the Union address tonight, in which he says that he will restore “Roe v. Wade as the law of the land again.”
Donald Trump looks set to become the main Republican candidate for the upcoming US elections after alternative candidate Nikki Haley pulled out of the race, according to reports.
Sen. Kyrsten Sinema (I-AZ) said that she won’t run for reelection to the Senate.
Sinéad O’Connor’s estate is demanding that former President Donald Trump stops playing the late singer’s music during his political rallies.“Throughout her life, it is well known that Sinéad O’Connor lived by a fierce moral code defined by honesty, kindness, fairness and decency towards her fellow human beings,” the late singer’s estate and Chrysalis Records said in a joint statement to the Associated Press. “It was with outrage therefore that we learned that Donald Trump has been using her iconic performance of ‘Nothing Compares 2 U’ at his political rallies.“It is no exaggeration to say that Sinéad would have been disgusted, hurt and insulted to have her work misrepresented in this way by someone whom she herself referred to as a ‘biblical devil,'” the statement continued.
Sinéad O’Connor‘s estate has called out Donald Trump for using her music during his political rallies.A joint statement was created between the Irish music legend’s estate and record label Chrysalis, demanding Trump to stop using her music immediately. The estate shared that O’Connor would have been “disgusted, hurt, and insulted” over the use of ‘Nothing Compares 2 U’ being used during the former US president’s rallies.“Throughout her life, it is well known that Sinéad O’Connor lived by a fierce moral code defined by honesty, kindness, fairness, and decency towards her fellow human beings,” read the statement (per The Guardian).“It was with outrage therefore that we learned that Donald Trump has been using her iconic performance of ‘Nothing Compares 2 U’ at his political rallies,” it continued.
Viggo Mortensen, the star of Lord Of The Rings, showed his support for Ukraine at the Glasgow Film Festival. He wore the Ukrainian trident symbol, their national emblem, on his shirt as he walked the red carpet.
Amazon Prime Video’s latest twisty thriller will intrigue viewers – and have them scratching their heads, according to star Peter Serafinowicz. “I don’t know how to explain the show. It’s pretty nuts!” exclaims Peter, who plays Detective Chief Inspector Danny in the series.
Adam Sandler fully believes “Saturday Night Live” creator and producer Lorne Michaels isn’t quite ready to leave the NBC variety show despite rumors circulating about his retirement.“I don’t see that happening,” Sandler, 57, told “Entertainment Tonight” at the premiere of his new film, “Spaceman.” “I don’t, maybe somebody said he might, but I talked to Lorne, I don’t think he’s saying enough. He’s rocking. He loves it.” According to the “50 First Dates” actor, Michaels, 79, still enjoys putting every single episode together.
Fox News again topped the February ratings, while MSNBC saw double digit growth in total day and primetime.
We’ve heard before how upset Melania Trump was at the Stormy Daniels scandal. We never heard anything else Donald Trump did — dog whistles to white supremacists, sucking up to authoritarian leaders, attempts to overturn the 2020 election, fraud, charity self-dealing, the sexual abuse of E. Jean Carroll, cheating on his other wives — none of that bothered her. But this one, cheating with a porn star? This was a crime against her! She was the one at home with newborn Barron!
The victories of Donald Trump and Joe Biden in the Michigan primary were not in doubt tonight, but networks focused on the votes they didn’t get.
Tom Sandoval of Vanderpump Rules was name-dropped on Saturday Night Live during the “Weekend Update” segment with Marcello Hernández making a reference to the Bravo star.
Saturday Night Live is back in full swing, and Shane Gillis just hosted this weekend!
Shane Gillis and James Austin Johnson went mono-a-mono as Donald Trump on “Saturday Night Live” this weekend, mocking the former president’s new sneaker line in a parody movie trailer called “White Men Can Trump.”In the skit — which aired amid Gillis’ sheepish return to Studio 8H after getting hired, then immediately fired from the sketch show in 2019 — the 36-year-old guest host plays an average guy named Gordon Dwyer who “can’t catch a break” in anything whether it be in love or basketball. However, things seem to change when Gillis is gifted a pair of the 45th president’s branded sneakers.
Colin Jost and Michael Che poked fun at pop culture and the news on Saturday Night Live‘s “Weekend Update” segment, where Paramount+ was dinged, and Donald Trump continued to be a target of jokes.
William Earl administrator A politically-charged segment during the Feb. 24 episode of “Saturday Night Live” contained some brutal jokes about Tom Sandoval, the “Vanderpump Rules” cad who cheated on his longtime girlfriend with her best friend and fellow cast member, the fallout of which elevated his profile to pop culture supervillain. The barbs came during a sketch taking aim at the controversial decision by the Alabama Supreme Court this week that now considers frozen embryos created during in vitro fertilization to be children.
Donald Trump was projected to handily win the South Carolina primary tonight, defeating his last remaining rival in the race for the Republican nomination, Nikki Haley.
Donald Trump hasn’t stepped on stage once this election season to debate his Republican rivals, but the ex-president today challenged Joe Biden to show up for multiple face-to-face match-ups.
The next set of hosts and musical guests for Saturday Night Live have been revealed!