There is also a self-deprecating gag related to the ‘slavery statement controversy’
52-year-old Haley continues Trump Biden offensive
Aiming for a leap forward in South Carolina on the 24th
Former UN Ambassador Nikki Haley, who is running in the US Republican presidential primary, made a surprise appearance on the US NBC comedy show ‘SNL’. He mentioned ‘mental testing’ targeting former President Donald Trump.
This week’s SNL, which aired on the 3rd (local time), was based on the concept of former President Trump’s CNN town hall meeting in South Carolina. South Carolina is the region where the Republican primary will be held on the 24th, and is where former Ambassador Haley is aiming to make a leap forward.
At the beginning of the show, an actor dressed as former President Trump appeared and talked to auto union workers and single mothers. In addition, the actor who played Senator Tim Scott, who dropped out of the primary, was seen flattering him by saying, “He is the most handsome of the presidential candidates.”
Afterwards, a questioner who calls himself a ‘concerned South Carolina voter’ is introduced, and former Ambassador Haley appears in this role. Former Ambassador Haley, who asked a question from the audience, asked the actor playing Trump, “Why don’t you debate with Nikki Haley?”
This question is aimed at former President Trump’s absence from the Republican Party’s TV debates. Former President Trump did not participate in the TV debate between his party’s candidates because he was the overwhelming first-place candidate, and instead showed an eccentricity by airing an exclusive interview in time for the debate.
The actor playing Trump responded, “How can this be! “That woman is Nancy Pelosi, who was responsible for security on January 6th!” Previously, former President Trump mentioned the storming of Congress on January 6 during a campaign rally and mistakenly referred to former House Speaker Nancy Pelosi as former Ambassador Haley.
The actor who played the role of town hall host immediately responded, “I’m telling you for the 100th time, that person is not Nancy Pelosi. “It’s Nikki Hailey,” he points out. Former Ambassador Haley then asked, “Donald, are you okay?” and added, “You may need to take a mental ability test.”
The Trump role actor responded to this point by saying, “I got tested and I am aging well. “It was a perfect score and they said my mind was 100% good,” he said. “I am confident. Because he is a man. “That’s why women shouldn’t lead our economy,” he counters.
Former Ambassador Haley, now 52 years old, has been making ‘age attacks’ by mentioning mental ability tests targeting President Joe Biden, 81, and former President Trump, 77. The performance he performed on SNL that day was also in the same context.
Meanwhile, on SNL that day, there was also former Ambassador Haley’s ‘self-torture gag’. An audience member asked former Ambassador Haley, “What do you think was the main cause of the Civil War? Could it be a word that starts with ‘S’ and ends with ‘lavery’ (slavery)?”
This is a mockery of the controversial situation in the past when former Ambassador Haley did not mention slavery when asked about the cause of the Civil War. Former Ambassador Haley laughed and said, “That’s right. “Maybe I should have answered that way from the beginning,” he admits.
Former Ambassador Haley is the only one running against former President Trump, as all of the party’s major candidates have withdrawn. However, he was defeated by former President Trump, who received a majority of the votes in both the first and second primaries held in Iowa and New Hampshire, and is under pressure to resign.
He is aiming to make a leap forward in the South Carolina primary, where he served as governor, on the 24th, but many analysts say that if he fails to show remarkable results here as well, his campaign will virtually come to an end.
Source: Donga
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