SNL takes a swipe at Donald Trump 's***hole' remark
US President received a furious backlash for comments he allegedly made during a meeting with lawmakers about immigration
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Your support makes all the difference.Host Sam Rockwell may have dropped the F-bomb, but other cast members on Saturday Night Live also got to throw a few expletives around.
Colin Jost addressed Donald Trump's infamous "s***hole" remark on the show, which have seen the US President face a furious backlash from world leaders, Republicans, and his own diplomats.
“The book Fire and Fury, a salacious expose of the Trump White House, was released last week, and this week the sequel wrote itself,” Jost joked to open the 'Weekend Update' segment of the show.
“During an Oval Office meeting, Trump attacked protections for immigrants from African countries that he called 's-holes,'” Jost explained. “That's what NBC asked us to say, by the way, 's-hole' even though the president can say 's***hole.' Oops.”
He continued: “I feel bad for parents with young children — every word you tell them not to say, they can say [back], 'But the president gets to say it!'”
Jost also pointed out that Trump made the comment right before Martin Luther King, Jr. Day: “It's like pounding a case of beer before rehab. Now I'm just worried about what he's going to say the day before Passover.”
Jost's fellow host Michael Che added his view: “Can I be honest? When someone asks me 'Did you hear what Donald Trump called Haiti and Africa?' I was like, 'Oh boy, did it start with an 'n?' But then I heard what he said, and I was like, 'That's it?' I've said that about countries for not having a CVS. Here's the thing. My job is to make jokes about the news, but Trump saying something racist isn't exactly news anymore.”
Che also pointed out how the countries Trump was criticising had been robbed of their resources by western powers for centuries, hence why they are in "bad shape".
"The President of the United States calling Africa a s***hole is like telling the kid you molested, 'boy did you grow up to be weird!'" he joked.
During a meeting with lawmakers last week about a proposed bipartisan deal on immigration, Trump reportedly questioned why the United States would want to admit more people from “s***hole countries.” The deal would have changed rules affecting immigrants from Africa, El Salvador and Haiti.
While the President initially sought to claim that while he had used “tough language”, he insisted had not used that phrase. However, White House has made little attempt to deny the remarks, which many leading figures have described as racist.
The Associated Press said while the Mr Trump offered a partial denial in public, he privately defended his remarks disparaging Haitians and African countries.
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