【Dear Utol (2025): Chick! Episode 47】

Today in "the media helped propel Donald Trump's rise to power,Dear Utol (2025): Chick! Episode 47" an anecdote from the Saturday Night Livestage.

Series creator Lorne Michaels apparently pressed SNLwriters to soften their handling of then-candidate Trump during his presidential run. The revelation comes from Taran Killam, a six-season veteran of the show who left in 2016.

"Lorne was being so specific about what we could and couldn’t say about him," Killam said during a recent appearance on the I Was There Too podcast.

"Lorne’s like, ‘It’ll be too old news by then, and you know, you don’t want to vilify him… I know him, I’ve seen him around at parties for years and years, and he just says whatever it is he’s thinking, and that’s his thing. But… you have to find a way in that makes him likable.'"

According to Killam, Michaels exerted pressure because he wanted to book the future U.S. president as a guest host. That did end up happening, in November 2015, just a few months after Trump formally announced his candidacy.

That's all changed in the years since, of course. SNL(in)famously skewers Trump and his administration/the entire broken GOP establishment for their boneheadedness. The series is an on-again/off-again favorite target of Trump's bully pulpit on Twitter.

So there's a fun anecdote to chew on as the countdown to 2018's midterm elections ticks below the one-month mark! GET REGISTERED AND GO VOTE.

[h/t TV Line]

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