Saturday Night Live (SNL) took aim at Donald Trump in its weekend update, mocking his garbage truck appearance.
Garbage has become a major topic in the election, with both campaigns reeling from the fallout of people associated with them likening others to garbage.
SNL hosts Colin Jost and Michael Che took aim at Trump capitalizing on the backlash President Joe Biden, and consequentially the Kamala Harris campaign, are facing with Trump holding a press conference from a garbage truck at a Wisconsin airport last Wednesday.
Jost started out by showing a photo of Trump wearing a bright orange high-visibility vest he wore during the stunt and saying: “Former President Donald Trump seen here after being rescued after 30 days in a lifeboat.”
He then went on to laugh through telling the audience how he gave a “press conference from inside a garbage truck with his name on it.”
“And my favorite part,” Jost continued, “was when he tried to open the door of the truck, but missed.”
The show then played a clip of Trump seemingly struggling to grab the handle of the truck’s door twice.
“He looks as drunk as I’m gonna be Tuesday night (November 5),” Jost quipped.
Donald Trump talks to reporters as he sits in a garbage truck on October 30, 2024, in Green Bay, Wisconsin. The photo op was mocked in “Saturday Night Lives” latest episode.
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It comes after Biden purportedly called Trump supporters “garbage” last Tuesday, in response to comedian Tony Hinchcliffe labeling Puerto Rico a “floating island of garbage” at the Republican’s Madison Square Garden rally last Sunday.
Donald Trump Jr. set the Halloween dress code for MAGA supporters with a trashy garbage bag look that took off online.
As both his father and Kamala Harris grappled with who had branded who as “garbage” in the aftermath of the Republican Madison Square Garden rally, Trump Jr. posted a family photo of him in a black garbage bag, with plastic bottles, see-through plastic bags and scrunched-up brown paper duct taped to his body. The look was further accessorized with a Make America Great Again red cap.
He wrote on X, formerly Twitter: “Happy Halloween. Embrace their hate and own it. Then VOTE! I’m fine being garbage like the rest of you deplorable and irredeemables @patriots!!! Love you all hope you have a blast tonight!!!”
White House spokesman Andrew Bates told Newsweek that Biden was referring to the “hateful rhetoric coming out of the Madison Square Garden rally” and not supporters of Trump. Meanwhile, the former president has denied knowing Hinchcliffe, and Trump’s senior adviser, Danielle Alvarez, has told Newsweek that the “joke does not reflect the views of President Trump or the campaign.”
SNL went on to tell how, a few hours after Trump’s garbage truck stunt, he said at a rally in Green Bay, Wisconsin, that he would “protect women whether women liked it or not.”
“For example, he’s gonna make everyone who’s a danger to women wear an orange vest,” Jost joked while showing the photo of Trump in a high-vis vest again.
Che then joined in on mocking Trump when they played a clip of him appearing to jokingly mime performing oral sex on a microphone he was having trouble with, at a Friday rally in Milwaukee.
As Jost put it, Trump “appeared to mime doing something very specific to (the microphone),” before asking the audience to “see if (they) can guess.”
After several other digs at Trump, Jost briefly took aim at the Democrats, showing a fake photo of Biden tied up and gagged inside the White House—supposedly while Harris was delivering the closing arguments for her campaign.
He also brought up last week’s photo of Biden biting a baby dressed as a chicken at a Halloween at the White House.
Newsweek has contacted Trump’s team, via email outside of normal working hours, for comment.
This weekend’s episode also saw Harris make a surprise appearance on SNL, appearing alongside actor Maya Rudolph, who has portrayed the vice president on the show since 2019.
The scene featured a mirror sequence where Rudolph and Harris engaged in the vice president’s characteristic wordplay, incorporating variations of her name including “Dramala” and “Palmala.”
