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SNL‘s Trump Awards Show Skewers Former President
Saturday Night Live recently aired a sketch lampooning former President Donald Trump‘s penchant for self-aggrandizement, framing it as a fake awards show celebrating his “love of meaningless awards and unearned hardware.” The sketch, featuring James Austin Johnson as Trump, also took aim at current political figures and events.
Johnson, as Trump, opened the sketch referencing a widely reported, but unverified, claim about receiving a Nobel Prize. “After that lady whose name I already forget gave me her Nobel Prize, I thought, ‘I need more awards,'” he said. He then connected the need for accolades to diverting attention from controversies surrounding Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE). “And after what all my little freaks and psychos in ICE have been doing, I need more distractions.”
The sketch depicted Trump toasting a ”crowd of cronies” (“So many awful, terrible people in
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