Even offering $5,000, they couldn’t get anyone to do their bidding, apart from Larry David as part of a joke on SNL.
NEW YORK — Around two hundred protesters marched from Trump Towers to Rockefeller Center outside of the NBC studios Saturday evening hours before show time at “Saturday Night Live.” The protesters, upset with SNL’s selection of Donald Trump as the evening’s host, accused the Republican presidential front-runner of racism while shaming SNL and its executive producer Lorne Michaels for booking Trump.
“When I say ‘Lorne,’ you say, ‘Michaels’!” and “Hey hey, ho ho, racism has got to go!” were among the chants the protesters yelled. (RELATED: Larry David Calls Deport Racism’s Bluff And Interrupts Donald Trump’s SNL Monologue [VIDEO])
“We gained unity. We gained strength. We gained experience. We get to work together more. We were in the streets together—all of those experiences. This is bigger than one protest. This is bigger than Donald Trump. We’re really trying to save the world and the way we do that is by building a mass peoples movement,” protest organizer Karina Garcia told The Daily Caller.
The protest, according to Garcia, was composed of several organizations including Black Lives Matter, ANSWER, women’s groups, labor organizations, and students. Prior to the airing of the show, pressure groups attempted to urge SNL to disinvite Trump. When SNL refused to do so, a $5,000 reward was put out to anyone who heckled Trump during the show. However, the program, which began at 11:30 pm, went off without interruption. Additionally, protesters had a permit only until 9 pm.