The explanation that President-elect Donald Trump refused to participate in a “Saturday Night Live” sketch when he hosted the present in 2015 has lastly been revealed.
Trump was imagined to put on a tree costume and stand “next to the Giving Tree, the Shel Silverstein character who gives and gives of herself until she’s reduced to a stump,” The New Yorker’s Susan Morrison wrote in a profile of “SNL” creator Lorne Michaels that printed Monday.
Trump would have ended the bit mocking the Giving Tree as “a sucker,” mentioned Morrison.
However the then-presidential hopeful nixed the section “not because it portrayed him as heartless but because he worried that the tree costume made him look fat,” she defined in a prolonged piece on Michaels, the 50 years of the present and the mechanics of how the weekly program comes collectively.
Trump hosted the present in November of 2015, a yr earlier than he defeated Democratic rival Hillary Clinton within the 2016 presidential election.
In his monologue, above, he bombastically declared his apperance could be “something special,” teased his “a lot of people schtick” and took intention at Rosie O’Donnell, with whom he has had a yearslong feud. Trump additionally mocked then-Mexican President Enrique Peña Nieto and danced to Drake’s “Hotline Bling.”
For Trump’s 2004 internet hosting, he danced with solid members dressed as chickens.
When the present marked its fifteenth anniversary in 1998, he appeared within the viewers and had popcorn dumped on him by Chevy Chase.
“SNL” alum Seth Meyers, who now hosts NBC’s “Late Night,” in 2019 recalled working alongside Trump for his internet hosting debut.
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“It was fascinating to be around him,” Meyers, a longtime critic of the returning president, advised radio host Howard Stern. Trump “was everything you would think, he didn’t have any sense of humor but if things worked, he liked them.”
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