Republican presidential candidate former U.N. Ambassador Nikki Haley delivers remarks at her main 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 solid member enjoying her Republican presidential main 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 proper 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 Conflict.
“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.”
Haley’s cameo got here in the course of the primary skit at a CNN city corridor the place “Trump,” performed by James Austin Johnson, was being requested a sequence of questions by viewers members.
City corridor host “Charles Barkley,” performed by Kenan Thompson, stated, “Our next question comes from someone who describes herself as a concerned South Carolina voter.”
The dwell viewers let loose a whoop when Haley stood up.
“My question is, why won’t you debate Nikki Haley?” Haley requested “Trump.”
“Trump” exclaimed, “Oh, my god, it’s her! The woman who was in charge of security on Jan. 6. It’s Nancy Pelosi!”
When “Barkley” identified that was not Pelosi.
“Are you doing OK, Donald? You might need a mental competency test,” Haley stated.
“Trump” shortly assured her that he “aced” that check, and, “they told me I’m a 100% mental and I’m competent because I’m a man.”
He added that ladies “should never run our economy. Women are terrible with money.”
“In fact, a woman I know recently asked me for $83 million,” he stated, referencing the quantity of financial damages a New York civil jury not too long ago awarded author E. Jean Carroll for the actual Trump defaming her after she alleged he had raped her.
Haley cracked, “And you spent $50 million in your own legal fees. Do you need to borrow some money?”
“Trump” then went right into a Trump-like seek for nicknames for Haley — “Nikki-Tikki-Tavi,” “Nikki Don’t Lose that Number” — earlier than touchdown on a mashup of her identify with the star of “The Sixth Sense.”
“Nikki Haley Joel Osman, we call her,” he stated. ” ‘Sixth Sense,’ remember that one: ‘I see dead people.’ “
Haley then stated, “Yeah, that’s what voters will say if they see you and Joe [Biden] on the ballot.”
“Trump” moaned “that;s not nice,” and insisted he was at all times good to Haley besides when he implied that she was not born in the US.
“Even though you were born in South Carolina, and I’m gonna beat you in your state,” he stated.
“And did you win your home state in the last election?” Haley requested.
“Trump” replied, “I won Staten Island!”
“And the parts of Long Island where the fist fights happen, where they get out of the cars if you honk your horn at them,” stated Trump, who misplaced his house state of New York in each the 2016 and 2020 elections.
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 was just curious, what would you say was the main cause of the Civil War, um, and do you think it starts with an ‘s’ and ends with a ‘lavery?’ ” Edeberi requested.
Haley replied, “Yep, I probably should have said that the first time.”
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