MAGA supporters have been throwing a match over Tom Hanks’ latest look on “Saturday Evening Dwell,” the place the “Forrest Gump” actor reprised his character as Doug. The comedy present not too long ago celebrated its fiftieth anniversary and introduced again a few of its most well-known sketches together with “Black Jeopardy!” through which Hanks appeared. “SNL” alums Leslie Jones, Tracy Morgan, Eddie Murphy additionally appeared within the section.
The character donned a MAGA hat and an American Eagle shirt — and refused to shake palms with Kenan Thompson’s character, Darnell Hayes, earlier than ultimately agreeing.
“Thanks, my brother,” Doug stated in the course of the awkward trade. “Now possibly I’ll begin a present so that you can come on and we’ll name it ‘White Jeopardy.’”
“The View” host, Pleasure Behar, sympathized with Trump supporters — together with former co-host Meghan McCain — who felt dissatisfied with the sketch.
“Tom Hanks all the time needs to faux he’s the likable everyman however he’s as hate mongering of normal Individuals as any host on msnbc,” McCain said on X. Behar echoed this sentiment on the Tuesday episode of the favored daytime present.
“The very fact stays that they’re making anybody who voted for Trump appear like a racist, and that’s why they’re mad,” Behar stated, as reported by Selection. “I personally would by no means do this, as a result of I don’t imagine that any group is one factor. A number of these individuals [who voted for Trump], for my part, have been misled…it’s not solely racism that prompted Trump to be in workplace. We’ve got to keep in mind that.”
Nonetheless, co-host Sunny Hostin reminded that Hanks first performed the Doug function in 2016 and it was extraordinarily fashionable on the time.
“I believe it’s a really subversive sketch,” Hostin defined. “The truth is, it’s about Black tradition being American tradition.”
Hostin additionally in contrast Hanks hesitating to shake Thompson’s hand to Republican Sen. Deb Fischer’s husband refusing to shake Vice President Kamala Harris’ hand earlier this 12 months.
Behar’s “The View” co-host Alyssa Farah Griffin — who as soon as labored in Trump’s administration — agreed with Hostin and stated she “personally thinks the outrage over it’s a little overblown.”