SNL Had a Brilliant Take on the Trump-Christie-Hostage Press Conference

Back in November, Scowling Wet Diaper Donald Trump hosted Saturday Night Live. It's hard to say what the showrunners were thinking at the time. Maybe they thought he would make a fool of himself. Maybe they thought he was a joke and they were in on it. But critics hammered Lorne Michaels and Co. for not being hard enough on the guy. Not even Larry David calling Trump a racist on live TV was enough of a burn. And since then—as Trump has definitively become the Republican frontrunner—any comedian will tell you that it's hard to take the guy down a peg. Trump is his own greatest satirist. The best commentary on Trump in the last few months have been John Oliver's obsessively researched 22 minute takedown, and Louis C.K.'s devastatingly blunt letter to conservatives. 

Last night, SNL got the closest it could to digging into Trump—by comparing him to Hitler. (And be sure to watch this brilliant parody ad that went a few steps further with his supporters.) "The media is saying they haven't seen anything like this, not since Germany in the 1930s," Darrell Hammond as Trump said. At any other point in SNL's 41-year history, comparing a presidential candidate to Hitler would be taking it too far. But, sadly, it's almost necessary here.

They hit the other candidates, too. Chris Christie is a "fat piece of crap," and a "sad desperate potato." And Macklemore fan Mitt Romney is back: "We in the GOP, the party of the great Ronald Regan, we don't say racist things. We imply them." Which brings us to what should be Hillary Clinton's new campaign slogan: "To all of those voters who have thought for years 'I hate Hillary, I could never vote for her,' I say, 'Welcome.' Because I've got klans to the left of me, jokers to my right, and here you are, stuck in the middle with me." Speaking of political commentary, someone on Reddit yesterday realized that Ralph Wiggum had Trump's campaign slogan first.