The MAGA meltdown after Tom Hanks played a racist Trump fan on Saturday Night Live’s 50th anniversary show now includes a former member of the show’s cast.
Victoria Jackson, a Trump supporter who appeared on the show between 1986-1992, told TMZ the sketch was “stupid” and that she was offended by the show’s sexual jokes.
Jackson, who walked the red carpet ahead of the weekend’s anniversary show, also asked: “Did anyone make fun of the Kamala supporters?”
She said a post on X by Link Lauren—a former campaign aide to Robert F. Kennedy Jr.—captured her feelings about the show.
“This show wonders why their ratings are in the gutter. Trump won the popular vote. This tired trope that MAGA is racist is disgusting,” Lauren’s post said.
Conservatives lashed out after Hanks’ appearance on Saturday Night Live’s popular Black Jeopardy! sketch which first appeared in 2014, with the premise of asking questions that are favorable to the Black community.
The sketch—which begins with Eddie Murphy playing Tracy Morgan saying he refuses to eat three cheese lasagna because he is rich enough to eat four cheeses—features a reappearance of Hank’s Trump-supporting character Doug.
Wearing a goatee, a red MAGA cap and a t-shirt with a bird of prey print, Doug initially recoils but then relents when show host Darnell, played by Kenan Thompson, approaches him to shake his hand.
Doug also invites Darnell on his own show, White Jeopardy!
“We don’t need it,” Darnell replies.
The MAGAland reaction to the sketch was swift and vicious.
“Donald Trump just won a landslide election and has never been more popular with Americans,” conservative commentator Benny Johnson claimed. “They have learned nothing.”
The Libs of TikTok X account posted a similar take in response to the sketch, adding: “This propaganda is dumb and isn’t funny.” Other users on the platform agreed while one Trump fan claimed it’s not “surprising no one watches SNL or NBC anymore,” calling the sketch a “desperate attempt to cope with Democrats crushing defeat in November.”
The reaction from Victoria Jackson is perhaps unsurprising given her political background and views.
Jackson joined one of the first Tea Party rallies in Los Angeles in 2009 and quickly became a self-described “conservative journalist” known for attacking perceived socialists, according to a 2012 profile in the River Front Times. More recently, she described herself as a “big Trump supporter” during an interview with the president’s daughter-in-law, Lara Trump, in January 2024.
“I love Trump so much,” Jackson said at the time. “He’s the best president we’ve ever had.”
