Colin Jost’s Trump pedophile joke provokes groans on “Saturday Evening Reside”

Saturday Evening Reside continues to skate on skinny ice, the place President Donald Trump is anxious, given his current hostility towards late-night TV.

On Saturday's "Weekend Replace" section, cohost Colin Jost teed up a seemingly harmless joke in regards to the President and his spouse, Melania Trump, strolling out to the White Home's Halloween festivities to Michael Jackson's "Thriller" — solely to ship a brutal punchline.

"My favourite half is when Trump and Melania made a grand entrance to this tune: Michael Jackson's 'Thriller,'" Jost famous, laughing on the subsequent clip of POTUS and FLOTUS's trumpet-aided arrival. "Simply the proper soundtrack to lure youngsters to a well-known mansion."

The viewers clapped and laughed on the newest spectacle from the White Home — then Jost's joke clearly sank in. Groans overrode the laughs because the studio viewers linked the dots between the previous Apprentice host and the late pop legend.

Jackson was on the top of his fame in 1993 when the primary allegations of kid sexual abuse first fell upon him. Dentist Evan Chandler accused the "Unhealthy" singer of sexually abusing his 13-year-old son, allegations amplified (after which retracted) by Jackson's sister LaToya. Although Jackson and the Chandlers settled the next 12 months, a decade later, Jackson could be hit with seven extra counts of kid sexual abuse and stand trial for his alleged crimes.

Although Trump has not been personally accused of kid sexual abuse, his long-standing affiliation with the late baby intercourse trafficker Jeffrey Epstein continues to canine his second time period in workplace. Following allegations of rape, sexual assault, and harassment from at the least 25 girls over the previous 50 years, and shedding a sexual abuse civil case introduced by the author E. Jean Carroll in 2019, Trump has now repeatedly been requested to elucidate his public, decades-long, well-documented friendship to Epstein, who was charged with intercourse trafficking of minors earlier than hie died in jail in 2019.

'SNL' alums Tina Fey, Seth Meyers join Amy Poehler for joke-off with 'Weekend Update' anchors Roseanne Barr blasts Trump for reversing position on Epstein files: 'Read the damn room'

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Trump lately filed a $10 billion defamation go well with in opposition to The Wall Avenue Journal for revealing the contents of a birthday card he allegedly despatched Epstein in 2003. A duplicate of the cardboard ultimately launched by Congress reveals a kind of poem contained inside a drawing of a silhouette of a lady's bare physique.

"Enigmas by no means age, have you ever seen that?" the cardboard's message reads, earlier than concluding, "Glad Birthday — and will day by day be one other fantastic secret."

The president denied the cardboard existed earlier than it was launched, then denied he authored the cardboard, telling the Journal, "I by no means wrote an image in my life. I don't draw footage of ladies."

Nov. 1's "Weekend Replace" additionally contained some edgy Trump jokes from Jost's cohost Michael Che.

"Critics of President Trump are calling him tone deaf for posting footage of his newly renovated White Home toilet throughout the federal government shutdown," Che quipped. "However I'm completely satisfied that the ground appears slippery!"

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