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The appearance of actor Tom Hanks on Saturday Night Live (SNL) for 50 Special Anniversary He caused online controversy after Hanks portrayed a White Trump defender with a magic hat and looked a rural accent.
In the Sketch, Hanks’s character appears in a parody games program called Black Jeopardy. After obtaining a correct answer and is congratulated, Hanks initially refuses to shake the hand of the black host, played by Kenan Thompson.
“For his 50 -year -old anniversary special, SNL made Tom Hanks play a Trump racist supporter feared to shake the hand of a black man,” Outkick’s founder, Clay Travis wrote on X Monday. “Funny data: Trump’s 2024 electoral victory was the least racially divisive American election since 1964.”
Hanks played same character in a 2016 SNL parody That was issued a few days before President Donald Trump was elected for his first term in office.
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Former political advisor of Robert F. Kennedy Jr., Link Lauren, also responded to parody in xcalling it a “tired trope”, and suggesting that it is the reason for the SNL grades tank.
“Tom Hanks has just left SNL with a magic hat for a moment where he acted as if he did not want to shake the hand of a black man,” Lauren wrote. “This show wonders why his qualifications are in the gutter. Trump won the popular vote. This tired trope that Maga is racist is disgusting. Snl is a fun show for the SNOB liberal elites. Former Democrats.
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Actor Tom Hanks appeared in SNL for his 50th anniversary special, portraying a White Trump defender with a magic hat and wearing a rural accent. (Getty images)
Other reactions included conservative influencer Kevin Dalton, who also noticed Trump’s victory on election day.
“Tom Hanks with a magician hat, horrified by the idea of shaking the hand of a black man, tells you everything you need to know about what the left has learned since November and why fortunately they will continue to lose elections of landslides later later future,” Dalton wrote.
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Three former members of the SNL cast, Jon Lovitz, Kevin NealonAnd Siobhan Fallon Hogan, told Fox News Digital in recent interviews that the comedy panorama, particularly the foot comedy scene, has become more acute and sarcastic in recent years.
