Actor Tom Hanks played a racist Trump supporter in a Saturday Night Live bit for the sketch show’s 50th anniversary on Sunday.
The sketch resurrected the character Doug, who first made an appearance in 2016 for the Black Jeopardy! sketch. Per USA Today:
Hosted as usual by Kenan Thompson’s Darnell, this version of “Black Jeopardy!” featured Leslie Jones, Tracy Morgan and Eddie Murphy, who was showing off a Tracy Morgan impression that was almost better than the real thing. Or actually one of the best bits Murphy’s done in the last decade.
Tom Hanks made an appearance as Doug, the MAGA-hat wearing white guy whose first “Black Jeopardy!” appearance found him agreeing with his fellow contestants about everything, except “lives that matter.” This time he suggests that he make his own show, “White Jeopardy!”, so Darnell can join him. No, “we don’t need it. We don’t need it,” Thompson’s Darnell said.
At one point in the sketch, the Hanks character appeared on uncomfortable with shaking a black man’s hand. Clips of the segment were shared online and received less-than-stellar reviews.
Tom Hanks just came out on SNL in a MAGA hat for a bit where he acted like he didn’t want to shake a black man’s hand.
— Link Lauren (@itslinklauren) February 17, 2025
This show wonders why their ratings are in the gutter. Trump won the popular vote. This tired trope that MAGA is racist is disgusting. SNL is an unfunny show… pic.twitter.com/PlSc7gmiJ0
Tom Hanks in a MAGA hat, horrified at the idea of shaking a black man’s hand, tells you everything you need to know about what the left has learned since November and why they will thankfully continue to lose landslide election after landslide election for the foreseeable future pic.twitter.com/igcPmKhKTM
— Kevin Dalton (@TheKevinDalton) February 17, 2025
Tom Hanks went on SNL dressed like a slob mocking millions of Trump supporters - portraying them as dumb, racist, rednecks.
— Sara Rose 🇺🇸🌹 (@saras76) February 17, 2025
Keep it up libs. You'll never win another election again. pic.twitter.com/MigX4rE0Sa
The full sketch:
Black Jeopardy! #SNL50 pic.twitter.com/QFKKTRWeer
— Saturday Night Live - SNL (@nbcsnl) February 17, 2025
Tom Hanks previously said during the 2024 election he was only worried about a Trump presidency in the short-term.
“I think there’s always a reason to be worried about the short-term, but I look at the longer-term of what this — what happened. I think there is an ongoing — look, our Constitution says, we, the people of the United States, in order to form a more perfect union, that journey to a more perfect union has missteps in it,” he told CNN.
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