Saturday Night Live UKzinged PresidentDonald Trumpwith a joke about his age while reacting to theWhite House Correspondents' Dinner shooting.
“For all those in attendance it was an undeniably terrifying event,” Weekend Update cohostAnia Maglianobegan on Saturday, May 2 (viaDeadline). “President Trump s*** himself. Minutes later the shots rang out.”
Us Weeklyhas reached out to the White House for comment.
The latestSNL UK episode— hosted byThe White Lotus’Aimee Lou Woodand featuring music fromMEEK— opened withanother Trump jokeas part of a sketch whereKing Charles III(Larry Dean) andQueen Camilla(Emma Sidi) congratulated themselves on a successful state visit to the U.S.
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“There’s no way Donald Trump will do anything weird or bad ever again,” the Queen quipped.
SNL UK’s Weekend Update joke about Trump’s age follows on the heels ofJimmy Kimmelfacing controversyfor a joke he told onJimmy Kimmel Live!on April 23. As part of a faux-White House Correspondents' Dinner roast, Kimmel said that first ladyMelania Trumphad a “glow like an expectant widow.”
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Two days later,Cole Tomas Allenallegedly opened fire at the Washington Hilton’s security checkpoint while the Trumps, Vice PresidentJD Vanceand other officials were attending the White House Correspondents' Dinner inside the main ballroom. A Secret Service officer was struck in his protective vest and transported to a local hospital for treatment.
Allen, 31, was apprehended during the incident andsubsequently chargedwith one count of attempting to assassinate the President of the United States, transportation of a firearm and ammunition in interstate commerce with intent to commit a felony, and discharge of a firearm during a crime of violence, per the Justice Department. He has not yet entered a plea.
On Monday, April 27, bothMelania, 56, andDonald, 79, released separate statements calling for Kimmel to be fired by ABC for the “expectant widow” joke he told two days before the shooting.
“Kimmel’s hateful and violent rhetoric is intended to divide our country,” Melania tweeted. “His monologue about my family isn’t comedy — his words are corrosive and deepens the political sickness within America. People like Kimmel shouldn’t have the opportunity to enter our homes each evening to spread hate.”
Kimmel addressed the calls for his firingonJimmy Kimmel Live!that same night, insisting that he’d been joking about Donald’s age, not making “a call to assassination.”
“This [joke] was Thursday. There was no big reaction to it, until this morning, when I greeted the day facing yet another Twitter vomit storm and a call to fire me from our first lady, Melania Trump, saying I should be fired because of a joke I made, again, five nights ago. It was a pretend roast,” he told viewers on Monday.
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The comedian went on, “It obviously was a joke about their age difference and the look of joy we see on her face every time they’re together. It was a very light roast joke about the fact that he’s almost 80 and she’s younger than I am. It was not, by any stretch of the definition, a call to assassination, and they know that. I’ve been very vocal for many years, speaking out against gun violence, but I understand that the first lady had a stressful experience over the weekend, and probably every weekend is pretty stressful in that house.”
The president has kept up his calls for ABC to cancelJimmy Kimmel Live!while the late-night host has received unlikely support from Republican SenatorTed Cruzand conservative commentatorCandace Owens. Kimmel has since pointed out thatTrump made a joke about his old ageduring the royal state visit this week.
Saturday Night Live UKcontinues on Sky 1 in the U.K. Saturday, May 9, with hostHannah Waddinghamand music fromMyles Smith. New episodes can be streamed on Peacock in the U.S.
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