Summary
Tom Hanks reprised his 2016 “MAGA” character, Doug, on Saturday Night Live’s 50th anniversary episode, sparking backlash from Trump supporters.
The sketch, Black Jeopardy!, featured Doug again hesitating to shake hands with a Black host.
Conservative commentators criticized the portrayal as outdated and offensive, calling it an unfair caricature of Trump voters.
just watched it, that was so milquetoast I can’t believe anyone was actually offended. Shit, they just reused a couple jokes from the last time. That was it. He’s scared of black people, that’s the joke. magats are scared of anyone with more melanin than milli vanilli, so, uh, rings true to me
Milquetoast political satire on SNL? This is unprecedented!
Hey, you know how funny it is that Gerald Ford is clumsy? Let’s not talk about the whole pardoning Nixon thing. “Live from New York…”
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