One of the highlights of Donald Trump's highly anticipated appearance
on "Saturday Night Live" was seeing Larry David heckle the real estate
mogul during the opening monologue.
"You're a racist!" David yelled, as Trump stood onstage with two of his "SNL" doppelgängers. "Trump's a racist!"
When Trump asked David -- who was on set to reprise his Bernie
Sanders impression -- why he was heckling, he responded, "I heard if I
yelled that, they’d give me $5,000." He was right.
"They" referred to Deport Racism, a PAC that earlier in the week
offered a cash reward to anyone who called Trump a racist on live
television. David's bit was scripted, though the identity of the heckler
was clearly a pleasant surprise to the cheering studio audience.
And now, Deport Racism is making good on its pledge. In a press
release, Deport Racism's campaign director announced that the group
would reward David for "standing up" to Trump's incendiary rhetoric:
"There’s nothing funny about calling Mexican immigrants rapists,
murderers and drug dealers," the statement reads. "You could never get
away with saying that about African-Americans, so why is it OK to say it
about Latinos? Trump’s attacks on the rights of U.S.-born American
citizens calling them ‘anchor babies’ and threatening to tear up the
U.S. constitution to strip them of their rights is un-American and
offensive. We need to deport racism, not people.”
Trump shrugged off the heckling, and used it as an opportunity to
remind the audience of his mogul status: "As a businessman," he said of
David's motivation for interrupting, "I can fully respect that." see more
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