MAGA melts down at Tom Hanks playing Trump fan on SNL50 - eviltoast

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Tom Hanks reprised his 2016 “MAGA” character, Doug, on Saturday Night Live’s 50th anniversary episode, sparking backlash from Trump supporters.

The sketch, Black Jeopardy!, featured Doug again hesitating to shake hands with a Black host.

Conservative commentators criticized the portrayal as outdated and offensive, calling it an unfair caricature of Trump voters.

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    4 days ago

    Conservative commentators criticized the portrayal as outdated and offensive, calling it an unfair caricature of Trump voters.

    Apparently this passes for “melts down”?

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      3 days ago

      When your news report the dismantling of democracy and constintution as “administrative changes”, concentration camps and genocide as “relocation” and invasion of sovereign nations as “the 5xth state” then “melts down” might as well mean death threats, violence and burning crosses.

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        I’m pretty sure these publications would if it weren’t for the fact that conservatives are litigious little snowflakes. So much so, that I’d be surprised if they didn’t have the word “defamation” on retainer.