{"id":22178,"date":"2025-02-19T21:23:36","date_gmt":"2025-02-19T21:23:36","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/usdailys.com\/?p=22178"},"modified":"2025-02-19T21:23:36","modified_gmt":"2025-02-19T21:23:36","slug":"megyn-kelly-slams-tom-hanks-for-racist-portrayal-of-maga-voters-during-snl-special","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/usdailys.com\/?p=22178","title":{"rendered":"Megyn Kelly slams Tom Hanks for \u2018racist\u2019 portrayal of MAGA voters during \u2018SNL\u2019 special"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Megyn Kelly led the charge in\u00a0criticizing Tom Hanks for his participation in a controversial<\/a>\u00a0\u201cSaturday Night Live\u201d sketch in which he portrayed President Trump\u2019s MAGA supporters as \u201cworth-nothing racists.\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cShame on him,\u201d she said of Hanks during Tuesday\u2019s episode of the\u00a0SiriusXM podcast \u201cThe Megyn Kelly Show.\u201d<\/a><\/p>\n

The former Fox News host said that the Hanks skit during the show\u2019s 50th anniversary special on Sunday was a betrayal of the very audience that helped make him a Hollywood icon.<\/p>\n

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\u201cI\u2019m sure Tom Hanks is worth a billion dollars,\u201d Kelly said.<\/p>\n

\u201cAnd you know who got it for him? All of us\u2026 who went to see \u2018Forrest Gump,\u2019 \u2018Big,\u2019 and all the fun Tom Hanks movies and never once thought that he was judging them as stupid, rural, worth-nothing racists.\u201d<\/p>\n

Kelly added that Hanks had carefully avoided divisive roles throughout his career, making his turn on \u201cSNL\u201d all the more surprising.<\/p>\n

\u201cIt was shocking to see somebody who tries so carefully not to be too divisive in his choices to come right out and suggest he thinks Trump supporters are racists. Shame on him.\u201d<\/p>\n

Hanks reprised his role as Doug, a MAGA-supporting character from the recurring \u201cBlack Jeopardy\u201d skit.<\/p>\n

Originally introduced in 2016, Doug was a caricature of a rural, Trump-voting American who found unexpected common ground with black contestants on the fictional game show.<\/p>\n