Saturday Evening Reside hosts branded Donald Trump “the weirdest” after his rally in Coachella this weekend.
SNL host Colin Jost took aim at the Republican presidential nominee throughout the Weekend Replace section of the present. Earlier on Saturday, former President Trump hosted a marketing campaign rally at Calhoun Ranch, on the outskirts of Coachella and Indio.
“Trump held a rally at the site of the Coachella music festival as a result of, identical to Trump, Coachella brings out the worst in white individuals,” Jost stated within the opening moments of the Weekend Replace. “And possibly it was the 100 diploma warmth, but it surely additionally introduced out the weirdest in Trump.”
Coachella Valley Music and Arts Pageant is held yearly in California, and attracts among the largest names in music over two weekends.
The present then reduce to a clip of the rally during which Trump asks the gang, “What is going on to our cities?” earlier than pointing on the crowd and saying, “Look, it is Abraham Lincoln. Rise up.”
Referring to the 1865 assassination of Lincoln whereas he was attending a play in Washington D.C. and the tried assassination try on Trump in Pennsylvania in July, Jost then stated: “Given your current historical past at rallies, do you actually need each you and Abraham Lincoln to face up?”
Jost additionally took purpose at Democratic nominee and current Vice President Kamala Harris after it was reported that her marketing campaign gathered greater than $1 billion in fundraising since she took over the blue ticket from incumbent President Joe Biden, who introduced he wouldn’t run for a second time period in July this 12 months.
“It was additionally reported that throughout the first three months of her marketing campaign Kamala Harris raised over $1 billion, which I hope is lastly sufficient cash for her to cease texting me,” Jost stated, with an inset exhibiting mocked up photographs of the Harris marketing campaign asking for cash.
In accordance with an NBC report on October 9, the $1 billion consists of funds raised by Harris’ marketing campaign committee and by a campaign-affiliated joint fundraising committee that additionally takes donations for the Democratic National Committee and state events.
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Jost additionally addressed how Trump’s running mate JD Vance repeatedly refused to say that Trump misplaced the 2020 election throughout an interview with The New York Times this week.
“And I’ve answered your query with one other query,” Vance stated in reply to interviewer Lulu Garcia-Navarro’s fifth try to get a direct reply.
“Vance provided to maneuver the interview beneath a bridge so he may reply it within the type of a riddle,” Jost stated. “You may’t reply questions with questions. If a cop asks, ‘Have you ever been ingesting?’ you’ll be able to’t ask him, ‘Have you been ingesting officer?'”
