Summary
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Conservative commentators criticized the portrayal as outdated and offensive, calling it an unfair caricature of Trump voters.
Honestly, his portrayal is more human than any interaction I’ve personally had with any Trumper (family coworker, stranger included).
Tom Hanks’s whole brand is around getting you to emphasize with the cast.
If Tom Hanks is playing your character, it’s an implicit compliment. An insult would be if they’d gone with Steve Bushemy.
I would be stoked if either one of them impersonated me.
But Hanks was not complimenting them.
He was humanizing them. An act they see as insulting.
I have to admit, you had me going there for a second lol
Empathy not emphasis. Prolly an autocorrect but just pointing it out.
I haven’t seen the recent sketch–In the original though, his character was racist out of ignorance, but sorta open-minded and empathetic when actually facing black folks.
That latter part is probably what the trumpers actually find offensive.