Republican presidential candidate former U.N. Ambassador Nikki Haley delivers remarks at her major night time rally on the Grappone Convention Middle on January 23, 2024 in Harmony, New Hampshire.
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Nikki Haley made a shock — and humorous — look on “Saturday Night Live,” the place she requested a forged member taking part in her Republican presidential major opponent Donald Trump a sequence of zingers within the chilly open.
A beaming Haley additionally delivered the NBC present’s signature line, “Live from New York, it’s Saturday night!” on the finish of the skit after the present’s visitor host, actor Ayo Edeberi, delivered a pointy joke that referenced Haley’s famously flubbed reply when she was not too long ago requested about the reason for the Civil Battle.
“Had a blast tonight on SNL,” Haley tweeted after her look “Know it was past Donald’s bedtime so looking forward to the stream of unhinged tweets in the a.m.”
The stay viewers let loose a whoop when Haley stood up on stage and started asking “Trump,” performed by James Austin Johnson, questions at a fake CNN city corridor in South Carolina after different folks within the viewers had their flip.
When “Trump” advised Haley he was going to beat her in her residence state of South Carolina in its upcoming major, the previous United Nations ambassador shot again, “And did you win your home state in the last election?”
“Trump” replied, “I won Staten Island!”
“And the parts of Long Island where they get into fist fights,” stated Trump, who misplaced his residence state of New York in each the 2016 and 2020 elections.
Haley additionally cracked that “Trump” had spent $50 million in authorized charges on his varied prison and civil instances.
“Do you need to borrow money?” she requested.
However then it was Haley’s flip to be the goal of a pointed jibe when Edeberi, a star of the FX on Hulu sequence “The Bear,” stood up and requested her a query.
I used to be simply curious, what would you say was the principle reason behind the Civil Battle, um, and do you assume it begins with an ‘s’ and ends with a ‘lavery?’ ” Edeberi asked.
Haley replied, “Yep, I most likely ought to have stated that the primary time.”
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