SNL writer Bryan Tucker on the sketch Trump didn't want to do

[Miles Archer]

Bryan Tucker, an “SNL” writer during the 2008, 2012 and 2016 presidential elections:

We did do a dress-rehearsal sketch where he was the Giving Tree, and the Giving Tree was giving fruit to a boy. And eventually the Giving Tree got completely chopped down and was a stump, and Trump was a neighboring tree saying, “You’re a sucker, you’re getting played, you should not be giving things to these people.” And Trump had to stand in a tree with his face looking out of the hole of this tree, and he did not like that. I don’t think he enjoyed looking like a tree. He was not into it and it showed, and it did not get a lot of laughs.

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/entry/saturday-night-live-political-comedy_us_593007dee4b09ec37c3203ec

[Marie Marie]

1. Real Trump looks more foolish than Tree Trump - any day of the week.

[lpbk2713]

2. It hit too close to home.

He didn't know how he could talk himself out of that one.