Live From New York…It’s Donald Trump

After Trump took the stage to roll his eyes at Taran Killam and Darrell Hammond, both dressed as the Republican presidential candidate and doing their best fish face, he segued into a speech about what a nice guy he is.

But the off-stage boo-boy turned out to be comedian Larry David, who moments earlier had performed his own impersonation of Democrat Bernie Sanders, who is also bidding to be his party’s choice to run for the White House.

Chants rang out saying, “Racist Trump has got to go”, while the protesters made their way across Manhattan from Trump Tower to NBC Studios in Rockefeller Center.

A lobby group, DeportRacism.com, had actually promised $US5,000 to any SNL audience member who disrupted the show by yelling that Trump is a racist.

Tonight’s episode, however, may be the season’s most talked-about (and controversial) one yet, as it will see GOP presidential candidate Donald Trump returning to host the show for the first time his he made his debut on SNL back in 2004. “Why?'” Trump said, as he opened the show.

He began his attempt via a monologue, one in which he continually mixed up Aidy Bryant for long-time nemesis Rosie O’Donnell. “I didn’t have anything better to do”. In another sketch, his daughter Ivanka Trump posed as a member of his cabinet and said the Washington Monument had been covered in gold-mirrored glass, mocking Trump’s opulent taste. Not to mention a likely gratis boon for his candidacy. “They don’t have my talent, my money, and especially my good looks”.

Larry David admitted he did it for the $5000.

Trump also appeared in a sketch goofing on Drake’s “Hotline Bling”, demonstrating his mastery of Drake’s dance moves.

The whole thing just makes me sad.

“I heard if I yelled that they’d give me $5,000”, David said.

“I knew this was going to happen, who is that?”

But if you’re Trump or SNL, it’s an absolute no brainer to do this show from an attention and ratings perspective.