Kamala Harris' 'SNL' sketch leads to new accusation of copying Donald Trump

Social media users criticized Vice President Kamala Harris for copying Donald Trump, this time for a Saturday Night Live (SNL) sketch that appeared to be entirely consistent with a 2015 sketch of the former president.

Meanwhile, Harris, the Democratic candidate, made a surprise appearance SNL“Cold Open” is the reflection of actress Maya Rudolph, who has appeared on and off as Harris on the long-running comedy sketch show “Cold Open” for years.

The two-minute exchange included the two rhyming with Kamala and talking about her famous laugh and whether she “really laughs like that.”

The crowd erupted in applause and cheers after Harris appeared and after she shouted the famous catchphrase “Live from New York,” but some social media users were quick to point out that the skit mirrored exactly what Trump said in 2015 during an appearance on “ The Tonight Show Starring Jimmy Fallon.

Appearing opposite Jimmy Fallon and doing his best Trump impression, the then-Republican candidate appeared as a mirror image of the talk show host and had a conversation with “himself” about his campaign, poking fun at plans to vote for Mexico to pay for a border wall and refuses to admit defeat.

When reached for comment on Sunday, Trump's campaign communications director, Steven Cheung, gave the instruction Newsweek to his message

Internet personality Nick Sortor, who regularly appears on right-wing news channels and podcasts, wrote down

Kevork Almassian, a Syrian journalist and independent political commentator, berated Harris for skipping “the Al Smith dinner” because she was way too busy but somehow found time for an SNL cameo – where she even copied Trump's 2015 sketch. Priorities, right?”

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Tara Reade, who accused President Joe Biden of sexual assault in 1993, also commented on the skit, calling it “appalling” and “so transparent and pathetic.”

Newsweek asked NBC Universal and the Harris campaign for comment via email Sunday afternoon.

However, Trump's sketch wasn't entirely original either. Fallon first implemented the idea of ​​the mirror talk when Mick Jagger from the Rolling Stones came by SNL In 2001, only Jagger was the one who stepped in and initiated the skit, and Fallon, who was on the show at the time, was the one in the mirror.

Fallon recycled the sketch for an appearance by Mitt Romney The Tonight Show Starring Jimmy Fallon In 2015, he appeared again on the other side of a mirror to give a pep talk. Both SNL And The Tonight Show (since 2014) are produced by Lorne Michaels.

SNL has also done two different “Meet Myself”-themed skits starring Hillary Clinton, first in 2008 alongside Amy Poehler when she first ran for the Democratic presidential nomination, and again in 2015 as a bartender appeared to help Kate McKinnon as Clinton with her election cycle problems.

In the 2008 sketch, Clinton even asked her doppelganger, “Am I really laughing like that?”

As for policy theft, Trump first leveled the accusation against Harris in August when she spoke about eliminating taxes on tips for service and hospitality workers, writing on Truth Social: “The difference is she doesn’t do it, she wants it just.” Political intentions! That was a TRUMP idea – she has no ideas, she can only steal from me.”

In September, Trump supporters claimed Harris “stole” the idea of ​​eliminating graduation requirements for federal jobs.

A Newsweek A fact check in September found that Harris had not “stolen” the jobs policy but was likely building on what Trump had started as president. The Biden administration had announced plans to change college degree requirements, and the Harris campaign appears to be going a step further by eliminating four-year degrees “for half a million federal jobs.”

The idea of ​​eliminating federal taxes on tips first emerged in 2012, when Texas Rep. Ron Paul was running for president and seeking the Republican nomination. Paul wrote a comment for the Las Vegas Sun At the time, he called for help for the “sector of American workers that is often overlooked by both sides in the endless tax debate.”