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Vice President Kamala Harris’s cameo on the final episode of “Saturday Night Live” before Tuesday’s presidential election has led some viewers on social media to point out that the drama mirrors former President Trump’s 2015 performance with Jimmy Fallon.
Harris appeared in a sketch at the end of the cold open with her impersonator Maya Rudolph. In the sketch, Harris appears as a reflection in the mirror for Rudolph to give Harris advice.
“I wish I could talk to someone who’s been in my shoes. You know, a Black, South Asian woman running for president. Preferred from the Bay Area,” Harris of Rudolph said to herself in an empty dressing room. Thought from.
The Vice President, who was then revealed to be on the other side of the dressing room mirror, responded, “You and I both, sister.”
Kamala Harris to appear on ‘SNL’ in final episode before the election
Vice President Kamala Harris made a cameo on the final episode of “Saturday Night Live” before Tuesday’s presidential election. (Gina Moon/Getty Images)
While some people took to social media to praise the sketch, others claimed that the skit was a copy of the skit that former President Trump performed with Jimmy Fallon on “The Tonight Show” in September 2015 when Trump was running for president.
“I knew that SNL sketch with Kamala Harris sounded familiar…,” KIVI Seattle radio host Ari Hoffman Written on X. “Kamala continues her challenge to Trump.”
“The Tonight Show” host Jimmy Fallon performed a similar sketch with Donald Trump on September 11, 2015, when Trump was running for president. (Douglas Gorenstein/NBCU Photo Bank/NBCUniversal via Getty Images)
Trump and his running mate, Senator J.D. Vance, have previously accused Harris of plagiarizing Trump’s policies, such as imposing no tax on tips, increasing the child tax credit, while flipping other policies to take a position consistent with Trump. to do. Even more than what he had before.
Another social media user argued that the sketch was “embarrassing” to Harris.
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Others claimed on social media that the sketch “directly copied” the story between Trump and Fallon nine years earlier.
Despite the criticism, the sketches of both Harris and Trump have followed other “in the mirror” sketches Fallon has also performed with famous collaborators.
Fallon performed the “In the Mirror” sketch with rocker Mick Jagger of The Rolling Stones on “Saturday Night Live” in 2001.
Fallon performed the sketch with The Rolling Stones front man Mick Jagger on “SNL” on December 8, 2001. (Mary Ellen Matthews/NBCU Photo Bank/NBCUniversal via Getty Images)
In March 2015, Fallon performed again with former Massachusetts Governor, presidential candidate and current Utah Senator Mitt Romney, before interviewing the politician on “The Tonight Show”.
Fallon also performed a sketch with politician Mitt Romney on “The Tonight Show” on March 25, 2015. (Douglas Gorenstein/NBCU Photo Bank/NBCUniversal via Getty Images)
However, the Trump campaign condemned Harris’ appearance on the show after news of her “surprise” cameo broke on Saturday.
“Kamala Harris has nothing to offer the American people, so she’s living out her twisted fantasy by teaming up with her elitist friends on the Saturday Night Leftists as her campaign slides into oblivion. For the last four years, Kamala’s destructive policies continue to cause untold suffering and hurt to all Americans, she broke it, and President Trump will fix it,”.
