WASHINGTON (Reuters) – Kamala Harris’ look on “Saturday Night Live,” a late shock by the Democratic presidential candidate in her race in opposition to Republican Donald Trump, follows within the footsteps of previous candidates, together with Trump himself.
In October 2015, then-Secretary of State Hillary Clinton appeared on the NBC-TV comedy and political satire present as she was making ready to have interaction in a string of Democratic primaries early the next yr.
Clinton, taking part in a bartender, was instructed by an SNL solid member that she was “really easy to talk to.” Clinton, in character, responded, “That’s the first time I’ve ever heard that” – a dig at her status for showing icy in public.
The next month, the long-running late-night present gave equal time to Trump, who would beat Clinton within the 2016 election, showing in a sketch wanting forward two years right into a White Home time period.
“I don’t have to get specific” about coverage, the long run Trump stated in a riff about his lack of expertise in politics and governance.
Trump’s daughter, Ivanka Trump, who in actual life later landed a high-level White Home job throughout her father’s presidency, performed his secretary of the inside, saying the Washington Monument was now blanketed in gold-mirrored glass, mocking her father’s penchant for opulence.
Whereas the sketch obtained some laughs, it prompted outrage from Latino activists who protested what they referred to as Trump’s racist views on immigration.
After which there was former Republican vice presidential candidate Sarah Palin, who appeared on a fortieth anniversary SNL present in 2015 at a time when there was hypothesis that she was mulling a White Home run – solely to say on the present that she would take into account Trump as her vice presidential operating mate.
The fiction didn’t turn out to be truth, as Palin by no means joined the presidential race.
SNL individually hosted each Democratic candidate Barack Obama and Republican candidate John McCain in 2008.
