Civil rights petition prods SNL to scrap Trump

One Hispanic advocacy group is offering $5,000 to anyone willing to yell “Trump is a racist” when Donald Trump hosts “Saturday Night Live” this week.

Trump said the show should make for “a great evening”.

Trump has dismissed the criticism and argued that controversy would produce record ratings during his appearance Saturday night.

Asked about reports that ISIS blew up a Russian passenger plane, killing everyone on board, Trump said, “Well first of all, I’m very happy that Russia is bombing the hell out of them and it was a Russian plane”.

GOP presidential candidate and sometimes-frontrunner Donald Trump is no doubt practicing his punchlines right about now, even as protests around the country are urging NBC to ditch their host for this weekend’s “Saturday Night Live”. “I’m going to win the Hispanics because they know I’m going to bring back jobs from lots of places, including India and China”. In another spot, Trump is shown belittling his main political rival Ben Carson, calling him a “total loser”.

Fox Business host Charles Payne tried to stick up for Donald Trump on Thursday by arguing that his anti-immigrant remarks have not been exclusively against Mexicans, Media Matters reported.

And a few in the Latino community worry that this appearance on the iconic comedy show will not only increase his platform but also his popularity among voters.

Trump has drawn considerable criticism from Latinos for his inflammatory rhetoric about immigrants, including referring to most Mexican immigrants as rapists and drug dealers.

What is puzzling about NBC’s decision to feature real estate tycoon and politician is that Trump was sacked from the network for his racist comments.

The activists circulated petitions and collected more than 500,000 signatures asking NBCUniversal to replace Trump with another guest host for Saturday’s show.

One other issue NBC will likely have to deal with is the FCC and FEC Equal Time law, which basically states an amount of time on a network or broadcasting company given to one candidate must also be offered to the opponents.