Coms 307 Blog 8

My pop culture item within the political race for the presidency I chose the Saturday Night live sketch of the first presidential debate between Hillary Clinton and Donald Trump. Now both candidates in this sketch were portrayed by mostly their faults in order to create humor and who doesn’t love a good laugh right? However, Trumps image in which he worked so hard to build and then worked hard to rebuild after a few mistakes along the way was completely wrecked by the SNL crew.

            First off Trump took great pride in looking the part physically all the way through the campaign. He was well groomed and wore the black suite with the red power tie to all of his events portraying a real sense of leadership and dominance. Alec Baldwin did portray Trump with the same suite yet the wig he used to make the hair was an awful resemblance. Even though Trumps hair is somewhat of an enigma it is not that bad. Second of all the make-up they use on Alec Baldwin to give him the carrot orange tint is absolutely awful. Trumps skin at times did seem to have an orange tint but not so much as to look like a freshly peeled carrot. From the beginning of the sketch it was clear that SNL had their sights on Trump and they were determined to be relentless.

            It began with the attack on his image but then continued with an attack on his overall intelligence and leadership capabilities. They portrayed him calling the country China “Jina” and trying to say things about Hillary that didn’t even make sense. He never referred to the moderator by the correct name he began by calling him Jazzman and later called him Coltrane. They made an effort to portray him as an ignorant man vying for an office he could never win. With Hillary mocking him all the way saying basically she won the debate hands down which is also very misleading. They even went as far as to attack Trumps supporters basically calling them uncivilized with their comments.  

            After this they took a jab at some of Trumps more inappropriate comments on topics such as race. With Baldwin saying things like “All the blacks in Chicago live on one street and its called Hell Street.” Trump has said some inappropriate racial things in the past but nothing was even close to this inconsiderate or untactful. He had recently been trying to build relationships with minority groups when this video came out which didn’t help his image in the least.

            Finally to touch on image again Trump does have some weird facial expressions especially his resting face when he is at the podium. His bottom lip is larger than his almost non-existent top lip and he does have a tendency to squeeze his lips together in a round shape when talking but Baldwin walked around with his lip so far out someone could have tripped on it and compared his mouth to an anus. All the while blaming everything on Hillary. At the end he even brought up Bill Clintons infidelity which by the way he didn’t actually do in the debate. He applauded himself after the debate for having the restraint to not talk about. Clearly the SNL team targeted Trump for some very clear reasons because it made for a great SNL sketch.  

 I mean take a look at the picture to the left, that looks like it hurts, if I tried to do that all the muscles in my face might freeze like that.