MAGA Melts Down at Tom Hanks Playing Trump Fan on SNL50
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Conservatives lashed out online at the appearance of Hanks’ recurring Trump-loving character.

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Conservative commentators criticized the portrayal as outdated and offensive, calling it an unfair caricature of Trump voters.

  • leadore@lemmy.world
    19·
    4 days ago

    It’s so obvious that poor white people would get along with and want to same things as minorities if they could just get over that racism and stop falling for the manipulation by religious and political leaders

    Which is why they killed Martin Luther King, Jr. He was starting to make progress bringing poor people off all backgrounds together and that was a threat to the powers that be.

    • manicdave@feddit.uk
      4·
      3 days ago

      And Malcolm x was killed within months of denouncing the racism of the NoI.

      And Fred Hampton was killed the same year as founding the rainbow coalition.

      • MothmanDelorian@lemmy.world
        1·
        3 days ago

        To be fair Hampton had to be stopped. If permitted to continue AIDS and crack wouldn’t have hurt nearly as many nor could the state ensure a new wave of prison “workers” every few weeks. /s