{"id":59913,"date":"2025-05-20T09:29:17","date_gmt":"2025-05-20T09:29:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/pulsperry.com\/?p=59913"},"modified":"2025-05-20T09:29:18","modified_gmt":"2025-05-20T09:29:18","slug":"tom-hanks","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/pulsperry.com\/?p=59913","title":{"rendered":"Tom Hanks"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"853\" height=\"1024\" src=\"https:\/\/pulsperry.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/05\/image-395-853x1024.png\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-59914\" srcset=\"https:\/\/pulsperry.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/05\/image-395-853x1024.png 853w, https:\/\/pulsperry.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/05\/image-395-250x300.png 250w, https:\/\/pulsperry.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/05\/image-395-768x922.png 768w, https:\/\/pulsperry.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/05\/image-395.png 1000w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 853px) 100vw, 853px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>Tom Hanks sparked backlash from Trump supporters after his appearance on the 50th anniversary special of&nbsp;<em>Saturday Night Live<\/em>. In a skit, Hanks wore a \u201cMake America Great Again\u201d cap and played a character named Doug on the parody game show&nbsp;<em>Black Jeopardy<\/em>. During the skit, Doug initially refused to shake hands with the host, a Black man, and joked about starting a \u201cWhite Jeopardy\u201d show instead.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/currentnews-foryou.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/04\/image-174.png\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-11708\"\/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>This portrayal upset many Trump supporters, who took to Twitter to criticize Hanks for mocking them as \u201cdumb, racist, rednecks.\u201d Some felt the skit perpetuated the stereotype that MAGA supporters are racist, with one post saying the show was \u201cunfunny\u201d and \u201cfor snobbish liberal elites.\u201d The controversy highlights the division between conservative and liberal audiences, particularly regarding portrayals of Trump supporters in the media.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/pulsperry.com\/?p=59871\">also read&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Tom Hanks sparked backlash from Trump supporters after his appearance on the 50th anniversary special of&nbsp;Saturday Night Live. In a skit, Hanks wore a \u201cMake America Great&#8230; <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":59914,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/pulsperry.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/59913"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/pulsperry.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/pulsperry.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pulsperry.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pulsperry.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=59913"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/pulsperry.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/59913\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":59915,"href":"https:\/\/pulsperry.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/59913\/revisions\/59915"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pulsperry.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/59914"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/pulsperry.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=59913"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pulsperry.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=59913"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pulsperry.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=59913"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}