Donald Trump called a racist on ‘Saturday Night Live’

The highlight of Trump’s appearance came early when Trump impersonators Taran Killam and Darrell Hammond appeared next to him after the Republican presidential candidate was introduced. “After Al Sharpton hosted the NBC variety show in 2003, the campaign of Joseph Lieberman, a rival for the Democratic nomination, requested equal time”, Variety notes. Trump said that “as history shows us, nothing brings two countries together like a wall.” SNL has launched the careers of numerous actors, including Chevy Chase, Tina Fey, Eddie Murphy, Bill Murray and the late John Belushi.

During Donald Trump’s “Saturday Night Live” monologue, Larry David stood up and shouted “You’re a racist“.

The skit also featured Trump congratulating the Mexican president for changing Telemundo to an all-English network.

This time, while Trump demonstrated once again that he could take a joke, he was running for president.

This was also the general consensus of those watching at home on social media with many tweeting out that Trump on “SNL” was an easygoing affair.

Dozens of demonstrators had marched through NY City with signs saying “Dump Trump” and “Racism is not a joke” hours before the live “SNL” show started.

“As a businessman”, Trump responded, “I can fully respect that”.

NBC faced mounting pressure from a coalition of advocacy groups calling for Trump to be dropped from “SNL” for what one spokesman termed his “racist demagoguery”.

Love him or hate him there is one certitude that the ever controversial Donald Trump yields and that’s TV ratings. “Who was that?” The cameras turned to a expertly lit David, who shrugged and said, “I heard if I yelled that they’d give me $5,000”. The narrative “SNL” pursued – that the braggadocious Donald Trump had enough self-awareness to poke fun at himself – has already been told, both in his appearance on Stephen Colbert in September and in 2004 when Trump hosted “SNL” for the first time. “Nor can we undermine the fact that Donald Trump’s words are incredibly powerful, and that they do in fact have an impact on, you know, perceptions here in the United States around immigration, and around racism”, says Michelle Rosas, a protester.