Saturday Night Live mocked Donald Trump with a joke about “gay dementia” as Tom Hanks returned as David Pumpkins for the show’s Halloween episode.
James Austin Johnson once again portrayed the president, interrupting the fan-favorite David Pumpkins sketch shortly after Hanks appeared alongside returning cast members Bobby Moynihan and Mikey Day.
When David Pumpkins was asked why he had returned, Johnson’s Trump barged in and shouted: “Midterms! Boo!”
“It’s me, Donald Trump, your one true god, pausing SNL skit yet again,” he joked before turning his attention to the revival of the Halloween sketch.
“You know, I actually have a lot in common with Mr Pumpkins: we both appeared in 2016, we’re both very loud, very orange and very, frankly, annoying!”
Johnson then poked fun at Trump’s campaign-trail behavior, including his recent focus on the backsides of several Republican candidates.
“That’s something I’ve been doing lately, admiring men’s a**es. Not that there’s anything wrong with it, just that I might be gay.”
“They’re calling it gay dementia. Dementia, short for ‘the men should show me their butts,’” he added in character.
Saturday Night Live mocked Donald Trump with a joke about “gay dementia” as Tom Hanks returned as David Pumpkins for the show’s Halloween episode
James Austin Johnson portrayed Trump and interrupted the cult-favorite David Pumpkins sketch shortly after Hanks appeared with returning favorites Bobby Moynihan and Mikey Day
The sketch also revisited Trump’s habit of making unusual noises during his speeches.
“Remember that? What the hell was that? Probably soul trying to leave body,” Johnson said, adding that the noises were acceptable “if you were cool with the Epstein stuff.”
Trump’s fictional counterpart then complained about the midterm polling before making a joke about bruises on Trump’s hands.
“They’re saying Texas is turning purple, just like my hand. If it goes blue, then just like my hand, I will leave it for dead.”
The segment concluded with parodies of Nicki Minaj—who recently served as a Trump campaign surrogate and has been suggested by some as a possible White House press secretary—and recent Press Secretary Katie Zacharia.
The Trump character noted that he had also admired Minaj’s backside before joking: “She’s got quite an a**, if only it were on a man, perhaps then I could admire it.”
As he exited, he urged viewers to vote Republican, warning that Democrats would otherwise do “absolutely nothing, just like the last time.”
Trump has drawn attention in recent weeks for making suggestive comments about the appearance of Republican candidates while campaigning ahead of the midterm elections.
Before leaving, he urged viewers to vote Republican, warning that Democrats would do “absolutely nothing, just like the last time”
Trump has raised eyebrows with suggestive remarks about Republican candidates and their physiques, including complimenting Ohio Senator Jon Husted on his “great a**” at two campaign events
Trump first went on a bizarre rant about Ohio Senator Jon Husted’s body, where the president said he had been ‘studying’ his behind.
In Trump’s complimentary rants about Husted, the president told an Ohio rally last week that he was dazzled by the former college football player’s physique.
‘I’m standing over here, and I don’t do this with men very often… I started examining his body because I didn’t know he was a great athlete,’ Trump said.
‘And I looked, and I watched up and down. I looked at his a** and I looked at the whole, and then I looked at his hands. Look at his hands. He’s got these, like, claws. And I got it. You are a great athlete.’
Trump then followed that again on Tuesday with another speech about Husted’s looks, this time at an event in North Carolina.
He told a crowd that he had been ‘studying (Husted’s) body,’ and described it as ‘like a piece of steel.’
‘I looked at his a**, and then I looked at his legs. I said, “His a**, sh*t, it’s like, it’s like a pile of muscle,”‘ Trump said. ‘I tapped him on the shoulder, and it actually hurt my hand. He’s like a piece of steel. I said, “This guy’s a monster!”‘
Although Trump told the crowd that it was ‘not my thing’ to compliment other men, Trump has gushed over men’s looks frequently on the trail.
‘By the way, I looked at one hell of a beautiful a** before: Nicki Minaj. That’s hard to miss. Stand up. That’s hard to miss,’ Trump said at a Michigan rally with Minaj in attendance
‘Well, maybe I should be upset he didn’t talk about my asset,’ Republican Senator Ashley Moody said of Trump at his Friday rally in Florida
This included branding GOP gubernatorial candidate in Georgia Rick Jackson a ‘very handsome, distinguished, beautiful-looking guy.’
He also described Republican Senator Tim Sheehy as a ‘handsome guy,’ Kentucky Republican congressional nominee Ed Gallrein as ‘beautiful,’ and Kansas City Chiefs kicker Harrison Butker as a ‘good-looking sucker.’
For some gender balance, he later complimented Minaj for the same thing.
‘By the way, I looked at one hell of a beautiful a** before: Nicki Minaj. That’s hard to miss. Stand up. That’s hard to miss,’ Trump said at a Michigan rally with Minaj in attendance.
She stood up, waved and went along with the president’s commentary about her rear-end.
It spread so far, Republican Senator Ashley Moody of Florida wonders why President Donald Trump didn’t praise her ‘asset’ like he did with Minaj.
Speaking Friday evening at the president’s rally in Daytona Beach, Florida, the lawmaker recounted questions she got about Trump recently complimenting the rapper’s ‘beautiful a**.’
‘What do you think about the president talking about Nicki Minaj’s asset? Really? I mean, Byron and I don’t even know what to say,’ Moody told the crowd, naming GOP gubernatorial candidate Congressman Byron Donalds, who was also at the rally.
‘Byron’s probably like, I’m just glad he didn’t ask about my asset. I mean, we were the only two on the stage with the president.’
She continued: ‘Well, maybe I should be upset he didn’t talk about my asset.’
The commentary has stirred controversy online, with Democratic lawmakers attacking the president’s behavior as unbecoming of the office.
The president has repeatedly opted to travel to Republican strongholds this midterm cycle while snubbing battleground areas less densely populated by MAGA supporters.
The president spent most of his Saturday morning at his golf club near his Florida home before scheduled appearances at five tele-rallies.
He will travel to Iowa and Kansas on Sunday for what are expected to be his last in-person rallies.
Trump is scheduled to hold tele-rallies on Monday and Election Day, where he is expected to be in Washington.