SNL blasts Trump for saying something ‘too stupid’ for the University of Alabama
President Donald Trump warned graduates at the University of Alabama he was about to say something that would get him in trouble with the First Lady.
It also got the attention of ‘Saturday Night Live’ Weekend Update co-host Michael Che.
In his more than hour-long speech Thursday night in Tuscaloosa, Trump commented on transgender women athletes he said shatter records set by biological women.
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“The greatest is, like, weightlifting. You ever see the weightlifting? Where they have a record that wasn’t broken in 18 years?” Trump said.
“Should I imitate?” the president asked the crowd. “You know, my wife gets very upset when I do this. She said, ‘darling, it’s not presidential.’ Yeah, but people like it. Should I do it, or not?”
As the crowd cheered, Trump imitated a woman struggling to push a barbell over her head.
“Mom, I’m gonna do it. Mom,” the president said before giving up.
“Cant do it,” he said. “And then a guy comes along – or a gal, or whatever – a transitions person comes along.” Trump then pantomimed a lifting weights with ease.
Che mentioned the speech in what will be one of SNL’s last two Weekend Updates of its 50th season.
“President Trump impersonated a transgender weightlifter in a speech to graduates at the University of Alabama which is a sentence so stupid it couldn’t even get into the University of Alabama,” Che said.