Saturday evening live hosts called Donald Trump “the weirdest” after his rally at Coachella this weekend.
SNL host Colin Jost took aim at the Republican presidential candidate during the show’s Weekend Update segment. Earlier Saturday, former President Trump held a campaign rally at Calhoun Ranch, on the outskirts of Coachella and Indio.
“Trump held a rally at the Coachella music festival site because, just like Trump, Coachella brings out the worst in white people,” Jost said in the opening moments of Weekend Update. “And maybe it was the 40-degree heat, but it also brought out the weirdest thing about Trump.”
The Coachella Valley Music and Arts Festival takes place annually in California and attracts some of the biggest names in music over two weekends.
The broadcast then cuts to a clip from the rally in which Trump asks the crowd, “What is happening to our cities?” before pointing to the crowd and saying, “Look, it’s Abraham Lincoln. Stand up.”
Referring to Lincoln’s assassination in 1865 while attending a play in Washington, D.C., and the attempted assassination of Trump in Pennsylvania in July, Jost then said, “Given your recent history in rallies, do you really want you and Abraham Lincoln to stand up?”
Jost also took aim at Democratic candidate and current Vice President Kamala Harris after it was reported that her campaign had raised more than $1 billion since taking over from outgoing President Joe Biden, who announced that he would not run for a second term. in July this year.
“It has also been reported that in the first three months of her campaign, Kamala Harris has raised over $1 billion, which I hope will ultimately be enough money for her to stop text me,” Jost said, with an insert showing simulated images of the Harris campaign. ask for money.
According to an Oct. 9 NBC report, the $1 billion includes funds raised by Harris’ campaign committee and a joint campaign-affiliated fundraising committee that also receives donations for the Democratic National Committee and states. gone.
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Jost also explained how Trump’s running mate JD Vance repeatedly refused to say that Trump lost the 2020 election during an interview with THE New York Times this week.
“And I answered your question with another question,” Vance said in response to interviewer Lulu Garcia-Navarro’s fifth attempt to get a direct answer.
“Vance offered to move the interview under a bridge so he could answer it in the form of a riddle,” Jost said. “You can’t answer questions with questions. If a cop asks you, ‘Have you been drinking?’ you can’t ask him, ‘Have you You have you been drinking, officer? »
