Donald Trump/Sia

I've been watching SNL since I was a young kid - I loved the John Belushi, Dan Akryod, Jane Curtin, Garrett Morris, Bill Murray, Laraine Newman era and have been a fan ever since. There have been some great casts, some okay casts and some bad casts but through-out their entire run they have been a bastion of left wing, liberal, views until this episode. It clearly shows SNL has been taken over by right-wingers. Can you say 'sell-out'?

I expected they would have a great time ripping on Trump and that satire and irony would be used to create lots of laughs. I was wrong.

IMHO:

The Trump show would have the cast of the first decade or two rolling in their graves (at least all the dead ones). They were all anti-establishment, anti-rich, anti-bigots and anti-racists. This show made light of all those things.

Basically its point was to minimize the outrage that its viewers should rightly feel about Trump's views and convince them that Trump really isn't a bad guy. He's not a clown, or a buffoon, he's a genuine good guy.

It was designed to make Trump look good in order to garner support for his run for President from an audience who should be 100% against him. He is against everything the show stood for and the core values of its regular viewers.

Plus... it wasn't funny.

The most horrible human being on the Planet. Everything he says and does is trash and he should never be allowed on camera again. Horrible horrible person

One of the worse episodes but still better than 4402 with Awkwafina. I didn't reflect it in the rating but way more interesting due to him becoming president even though I'm far from a supporter personally. Donald Trump, quite frankly, is a terrible actor, which is not surprising, and the skits felt like they were forced to be dumbed doubt and slightly manipulated to his liking, which is common knowledge that he request that for things like this. Still worth seeing since he's the 45th President now.

Yikes. What else do I have to say.

This is the most uncomfortable thing I've probably ever had to sit through. It's bad, it's not funny, it's just a mess.

I have enjoyed this show since it came out 41 years ago. However, every political season it seems to not only favor the Democratic Party but in some cases they have in my view, substantially helped sway people's opinions of candidates. The fact that they had Trymp host showed they are actually a bit flexible. Plus the way they didn't let protesters tell them who to have as a host showed some real grit on their part. Some of the sketches were excellent and some were just okay, which is typical of the show. I would have given the episode a 7, but since the only other review was just a closed minded review that gave the episode an unfair 1 star, I felt I had to give it an extra couple to compensate for that. No episode deserves a 1 star. Like Trump or not...the cast and writers worked hard and deserve a better review. The review isn't on Trump, it's on the show. I can only guess the previous reviewer would have given an episode with President Obama a solid 10 stars regardless of the actual quality of the sketches. If you can't be objective you probably should leave reviews.