‘A new low’: SNL gloats about Trump’s Covid-19 diagnosis, gets not so warm welcome on Twitter – By Russia Today Newsroom (Russia Today) / Oct 4 2020
The latest installment of Saturday Night Live contained numerous jokes about Donald Trump testing positive for coronavirus, but many on social media argued that the comedy show went too far by practically applauding the diagnosis.
The SNL cast used nearly every opportunity to take shots at the US president’s health status. Host Chris Rock began the program by noting that Trump has been hospitalized with coronavirus, adding: “I just want to say my heart goes out to Covid.”
Chris Rock on SNL:
“President Trump is in the hospital from COVID and I just wanna say my heart goes out to COVID”
I’m not surprised. pic.twitter.com/0vhMXQrOId
— Benny Johnson (@bennyjohnson) October 4, 2020
The quip was followed by a skit in which actor Jim Carrey, portraying Democratic nominee Joe Biden, gave a ‘stump speech’ in which he suggested that Trump deserved to be infected with the “dangerous” virus.
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