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Saturday Night Live Recap: Dave Chappelle Welcomes SNL to Trump’s Second Term
Who else would SNL ask to host the final episode of the Biden era but Dave Chappelle?
Chappelle made a special project of stoking anti-trans hostility during years in which that sentiment galvanized throughout America, to the point where the newly elected president vowed in December to “stop the transgender lunacy” in his upcoming term. However, for a cultural icon of Chappelle’s caliber, with his demonstrated capacity to advocate for marginalized groups, for someone like that to consistently reduce the trans community to icky, screechy scolds right as their very existence is being legislated away is a waste and a disgrace. (His plan to defeat the California wildfires involves “filling the Up house with water balloons.”) The true target here, though, is the symbiotic relationship between Trump and all liberal-leaning media — each side opposing the other while obsessed with the content they can wring out of it.
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