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Saturday Night Live/Donald Trump
| Donald Trump Saturday Night Live | |
| Actor(s) | Phil Hartman (4 appearances; 1988-1990) Darrell Hammond (15 appearances; 1999-2007) |
| Creator(s) | |
| First Appearance | 14x08 - Kevin Kline/Bobby McFerrin |
| Last Appearance | 33x05 - Tina Fey/Carrie Underwood |
| Episode Count | 19 |
Donald Trump is a billionaire business man who became a major public figure with his book The Art of the Deal, his high-profile marriages to beautiful blondes and his tendency to name his buildings after himself. Phil Hartman lampooned him on SNL, but after Hartman's departure, he was eventually replaced by Darrell Hammond, who was present during Trump's failed presidential bid for the Reform Party in 2004 and the success of his NBC series The Apprentice.
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Basic Information
Donald Trump rose to prominence in the 1980s with the success of his company Trump Enterprises, a real estate development company which owned several casinos. Supporting this pop consciousness was the fact that Trump himself is quite the colorful figure with his thick New York accent, high-profile marriages to beautiful blondes (often much younger than himself), wild hair which appears to be a hairpiece and apparent megalomania as evidenced by his tendency to name buildings after himself. This personality naturally lent itself to SNL sketches and impressions. Phil Hartman made light of these quirks several times in his run on the series.
After Hartman left, Trump experienced a fall from grace throughout most of the 1990s, and no impersonators stepped in to replace Hartman. However, in 1995, Darrell Hammond joined the cast and became its resident impressionist. When Trump returned to the national spotlight in 1999 with his involvement in Ross Perot's Reform Party, Hammond added Trump to his arsenal of impressions. In 2004, Trump debuted his immensely popular NBC reality series The Apprentice. A slew of Trump impressions by Hammond followed on SNL, and it became one of his most popular and recurring roles.
Appearances
- 14x08 - Kevin Kline/Bobby McFerrin: (Hartman) "A Trump Christmas."
- 15x02 - Rick Moranis/Rickie Lee Jones: (Hartman) "Merv Griffin's Casino Show."
- 15x13 - Tom Hanks/Aerosmith: (Hartman) "Trump Prenuptial Agreements."
- 15x14 - Fred Savage/Technotronic: (Hartman) "Church Chat" and "Shuttle Launch."
- 25x01 - Jerry Seinfeld/David Bowie: (Hammond) "Reform Party Tryouts." Trump and other hopefuls audition for a chance to replace Ross Perot as the Reform Party candidate for the presidency.
- 25x06 - Jennifer Aniston/Sting: (Hammond) "Donald Trump for President." Trump announces his intention to run for President of the United States and introduces his running mate, Who Wants to Be a Millionaire? winner John Carpenter.
- 29x09 - Jennifer Aniston/Black Eyed Peas: (Hammond) "Donald Trump's Address."
- 29x10 - Jessica Simpson and Nick Lachey/G-Unit with 50 Cent: (Hammond) "Weekend Update."
- 29x16 - Donald Trump/Toots and the Maytals with Bootsy Collins and the Roots: (Hammond) "The Prince and the Pauper."
- 30x03 - Jude Law/Ashlee Simpson: (Hammond) "Trump Promo Shoot." Trump shoots a Halloween themed commercial for The Apprentice in which he is dressed as a vampire and insists that the commercial will get the highest ratings ever.
- 30x08 - Robert DeNiro/Destiny's Child: (Hammond) "Trump Promo Shoot."
- 30x11 - Paris Hilton/Keane: (Hammond) "The New Trump Family."
- 30x18 - Johnny Knoxville/System of a Down: (Hammond) "Domino's Ad Shoot."
- 31x04 - Lance Armstrong/Sheryl Crow: (Hammond) "Trump's Cameo."
- 31x07 - Dane Cook/James Blunt: (Hammond) "The Tree Re-Lighting."
- 31x13 - Natalie Portman/Fall Out Boy: (Hammond) "Weekend Update."
- 32x10 - Jake Gyllenhaal/The Shins: (Hammond) "Apprentice Press Conference."
- 32x19 - Molly Shannon/Linkin Park: (Hammond) "Trump Steaks." Trump markets a brand of steaks carrying his name through Sharper Image, but he keeps saying they're made from "black anus" instead of "black angus."
- 33x05 - Tina Fey/Carrie Underwood: (Hammond) "NBC Thursday Nights." NBC's Thursday night schedule is filled with different versions of The Celebrity Apprentice, all featuring Trump firing random celebrities for not doing their jobs well enough.
